Conversations with leaders, athletes, professionals and makers of the action sports industry.
Hosted by action sports media expert and founder of the Women in Action Sports Network Alba Pardo, these conversations touch on current, relevant and very important topics about our personal and professional lives tied up around the passion for action sports and its community.
14: Julia Sosnovska on Ukrainian urban culture, action sports events and charity projects
A conversation where the Ukrainian Double Triple Fest Communications manager Julia Sosnovska talks about the action sports community in Ukraine, their job on nurturing and building on that scene and presenting it to the World through the international skate, snowboard and freeski event in downtown Kyiv and the art related charity work they are doing to support the psychological recovery of the Ukrainian defenders.
10 Nov 2022
1: HOW I DID THIS Ep. 1: Lisa Slagle from Wheelie Creative
"How I did This” is a Women in Action Sports podcast about truly inspiring women that have worked hard to carve a company, a project or a career out of their deepest passions.
In this podcast series I like to take the conversations not so much on what they do for a living, but on how they got there: what inspired them and what challenges they had to overcome. Together we distill their learnt lessons and revisit the steps they would absolutely take again.
I hope we can learn and appreciate together the many different meanings of success but also I hope you can all get inspired as much as I do every time I get to interview on of our amazing guests.
24 Oct 2022
13: Kimmy Fasani on advocacy, discomfort and hope
In this conversation we sit down with the legendary professional snowboarder, mother, entrepreneur and breast cancer survivor Kimmy Fasani.
Firstly we talk about her current situation, her journey through the breast cancer fight and her use of social media to share her story and as a survival tool. As October is the Breast Cancer awareness month we dig in the story behind the awareness campaign she has done together with Burton Snowboards, the truth, the hope and the also the less relatable moments.
Kimmy tells us about her coping mechanisms and how her athletic lifestyle has allowed her top be a better patient. She also acknowledges her privileged position and tells us about her and her husband’s intentions and goals with the Benchetler Fasani foundation.
We also dig in the topic of motherhood and the taboos, the missing pieces and the bright future ahead.
It’s a conversation full of fights and struggles with the most intense hope and positivity lens you could imagine.
30 Sept 2022
12: Nikita Ducarroz on the journey from an anxiety victim to an Olympic medalist
A conversation with the BMX Olympic medalist athlete Nikita Ducarroz about her journey through anxiety and to become successful a professional athlete. In this episode we talk about awareness, prevention, authenticity, passion and community. It's a great conversation and a very important one. Welcome!
28 Jun 2022
11: Michaela Schmid on keeping only the things that bring you joy
In this conversations she tells us all about this unconventional path of simplicity and joy as well as her work with the kids and young adults in the Swiss program for the Chill Foundation and how snowboarding becomes a tool for integration and value education.
7 Jun 2022
10: Marina Minetti on how promoting effort pays off
Marina Minetti tells us how she went from growing up as a tomboy in Finland with barely any girlfriends to becoming the leader of Girlie Camps and now the powerhouse behind "Progsession" the Swedish Snowboard Association's initiative to promote girls and women's riding.
4 May 2022
9: Chiara Grisorio on exposing the new meaning of team management
Chiara Grisorio is an energetic and determined woman who was attracted to the snowboarding scene by it's aesthetics and she stayed to help make it better and give hard working riders what they deserve.
28 Feb 2022
8: Bonus Episode: Open Conversation about the progression of female Snowboarding pt. 1
In this first Open conversation about the progression of female snowboarding we talk about wether or not girls only events are necessary, the kind of enviornment women thrive on when it comes to progression on a sport, the importance of grass roots, representation, balance, active professional women in the industry and much, much more.
28 Feb 2022
7: Samantha 'Saskia' Dugon on Bike Stories
Sam's passion to document, tell and enjoy life and biking come out through every word she says. We talk about women on bikes, life, more bikes, work paths and story telling.
24 Feb 2022
6: Mel Cheng on how She Dares
'She Dares' dounder Mel Cheng talks about daring, getting out of the comfort zone, ways to achieve a goal and reflecting on the small wins. We talk burn out and break down and how it is possible to pick up the pieces and continue to shape the life you want.
5 Dec 2021
5: Anne-Flore Marxer on the Risky business of gender equality
From the powerful athlete's insight of what risk taking means to the understanding of why women's action sports is still behind compared to our male counterparts, the role events, media, sponsorship play and why she decided to go after the equal prize money on her first big fight towards equality.
Also, Anne-Flore talks about transitions and whilst stepping into a new phase of her life after having produced the wildly successful film about snowboarding and gender equality 'a land shaped by women' and diving into motherhood.
If somebody know what it means to take a risk, that is Anne-Flore Marxer.
4 Nov 2021
4: Katie Holden on paving the path of the future big mountain MTB riders
From being a very competitive profesional mountain biker who used to see other women as big competition, Katie has become one of the main figures on paving the path for the future of female freeride mountain bikers. She takes us through her journey as an athlete and as an advocate for the sport and the female athletes, the reasons and the thinking behind Formation and an overview of the current status of the women's field.
But she also talks about her lessons learnt through injuries and evolving other pillars in her life taking the conversation to her other project, "Grow Cycling" which is creating the space for communities to flourish in whatever way that they want to flourish by being able to show up as who they are and who they want to be and the kind of cyclist they want to be. Because in Katies words "it doesn't matter what kind of cyclist you are, if you ride a bike, you're a cyclist. And that's all that matters."
19 Oct 2021
3: Gina Cerejo on new beginnings
Loosing a job, a break up, an illness or even a global pandemic are often listed as reasons to take a leap, change your career path and start something new.
Gina Cerejo, the voice behind "That Seasoinare" Podcasts tells us her journey on not only moving abroad and starting fresh but showcasing the stories of all those others that are doing it. The most empowering moment of this conversation comes when Gina explains that you can basically can learn and do anything you want to do.
18 Oct 2021
2: Kim Woozy on becoming part and elevating a community
Drive for change can come from many places, and it's not always from a good one. Kim talks to us about her professional journey and her passion for driving change in the female skateboarding community, from creating one, to representing it, promoting it, creating opportunity and elevating it.
Wether you are an entrepreneur, an intern, an athlete or a CEO of a big brand, Kim's insight on how community based models make such a big difference as well as her vision on change, empowerment, creating and taking opportunities and growth is not only inspiring and educating but it is also refreshing and relatable.
9 Jul 2021
1: Caroline Buchanan on Igniting the next generations
We sit down with Caroline Buchanan whilst at Audi Nines 2021 to discuss the progression of female mountain bike athletes, as well as her career and achievements, the importance of representation and support and her scholarship program for the next generations of women riders.
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