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Aaron Lutze of Second Nature & Super Rider: Creating Content That Adds Value & Builds Community
This episode features a deep dive into the evolving world of outdoor content creation, brand partnerships, and community building with Aaron Lutze, former Red Bull fie...
Cassie Abel of Wild Rye: Building a Women-First Outdoor Brand
In this episode, Cassie Abel, founder and CEO of Wild Rye, joins the podcast to share the real story behind building a women-first outdoor apparel brand rooted in the ...
Kelli Jones of Noso Patches: Patching Up the Outdoor Industry
The one and only Kelli Jones joins host Christian Rawles to talk about how she's grown Noso Patches from creating a patch to repair her beloved puffy jacket to a thriv...
Andy Bethune of Black Ram Consulting: Brand Strategy For Outdoor Entrepreneurs
Andy Bethune has spent his career developing brand and marketing strategies for the biggest names in the outdoor industry and founder-led startups just getting started...
Rob Owens of OnwardUp: The Essential Role of Independent Sales Reps
In this episode of the KORE Outdoors podcast, host Christian Rawles talks with Rob Owens, the founder and president of Onward Up Sales and Marketing, an outdoor sales ...
Dan Durston of Durston Gear: Driving Innovation and Building Community
In this episode of the KORE Outdoors Podcast, host Christian Rawles talks with Dan Durston, founder of Durston Gear. Based in Golden, British Columbia, Durston Gear is...
Jen Loofbourrow of Alpine Fit: Alaskan-made Apparel
Jen Loofbourrow is the founder of Alpine Fit, an Anchorage-based brand focused on making functional outdoor apparel. As the name suggests, Alpine Fit has created multi...
Rumpl's Wylie Robinson: Creating a Brand and Building a Business
Wylie Robinson is the co-founder and Chairman of Rumpl. Up until November of 2024, Wylie was the CEO of Rumpl. In 2024, Wylie stepped down as CEO and brought in Josh S...
Bill Amos of NW Alpine: From Alpinist to Entrepreneur
Bill Amos is the Founder & CEO of NW Alpine based in Salem, Oregon. NW Alpine has been producing technical outdoor apparel in the US since 2010. For many of those year...
Making Specialty Retail Truly Special: Lloyd Vogel of Garage Grown Gear
Lloyd Vogel is the CEO of Garage Grown Gear, the online retailer that has become the go-to site for ultralight backpacking gear as well as the place to discover new br...
Building Community Through Business with Brendan Madigan
Brendan Madigan is best known for his role as the owner of Alpenglow Sports, an independent outdoor retail shop in Tahoe approaching its 50th year of business. But Bre...
NEMO Equipment's Cam Brensinger on Building a Company With $0 Ad Spend
Cam Brensinger is the founder and CEO of NEMO Equipment, the outdoor equipment company renowned for its innovative tents, sleeping pads and sleeping bags. In this epis...
Product Designer Casey Shaw on the Theory of Comfort
Casey Shaw is a product designer who has played an important role in outdoor apparel design and fabrication through his work at Cloudveil, Arcteryx and Patagonia. Ther...
Eoin Comerford, former CEO of Moosejaw Mountaineering on Your Plan To Profitability
Eoin Comerford was the CEO of Moosejaw Mountaineering for 12 years, from 2012 to 2024. During his time at the Michigan-based outdoor retailer, he launched many new ini...
Raquel Vélez of Alpine Parrot on the Importance of Mentors & Peers
Raquel Vélez is the founder and CEO of Alpine Parrot, a company that makes technical outdoor apparel for sizes 14-30, which, until now, has been a category that the ou...
Georgia Grace Edwards on the Power of Pitch Competitions
Georgia Grace Edwards is the co-founder and CEO of outdoor apparel brand Gnara. She is a driven business person who has raised millions of dollars for her company by w...
Alex Lauver of Outdoor Research on "The Future of Innovation"
Alex Lauver is the Senior Director of Materials, Innovation and Sustainability at Outdoor Research. As his title implies, he operates at the intersection of multiple d...
James Friedrich of MEC – How To Price Your Product
James Friedrich is a senior merchant at Mountain Equipment Company and a consultant at his firm Venturing Up. James has experience on the brand side as well as on the ...
Ep. 8: Robin Hall of Town Hall Outdoor Co. on How To Gain Traction as a New Brand
Robin Hall is the co-founder of Town Hall Outdoor Co, based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, which produces high-quality, sustainable outdoor apparel for kids.In this e...
Ep. 7: Wes Allen of Sunlight Sports on How To Grow Your Brand
Wes Allen owns Sunlight Sports in Cody, Wyoming with his wife, Melissa and both are advocates for strengthening the outdoor industry through independently owned retail...
Ep. 6: Mallory Ottariano on How to Build a Clothing Factory in America
Mallory Ottariano is the founder and Chief Everything Officer at Youer Apparel. She started her brand as a creative side project making one-of-a-kind apparel and has g...
Ep. 5: Reinventing Gear Storage With Jamie Bond at Rux
Jamie Bond is one of the founders of RUX, the Squamish, BC-based innovative gear storage brand. In this conversation, we learn about how he and his team took RUX from ...
Ep. 4: Deep-Dive Into the Bike Industry With Greg McDonald of Ridley Cycles
Greg McDonald is the General Manager of Ridley’s Cycle, an independent bike retailer with three locations in Calgary and a very successful online store. Greg is also a...
Ep. 3: The E-Commerce Secrets of Popov Leather
Eleven years ago Ryan Popov began Popov Leather as a passion project, hand-crafting wallets on his dining room table during nights and weekends. Since then, his compan...
Ep. 2: Relational Selling with Louis-Julien Roy
Louis-Julien Roy is the Founder & President of Mountain Exposure, a sales agency in Western Canada serving both the outdoor and cycling industries. Mountain Exposure i...
Ep. 1: The Founders of Bivo - Carina Hamel and Robby Ringer
Carina Hamel and Robby Ringer are the wife and husband partners behind Bivo, the performance hydration company that hit the market in 2020 with the first-of-its-kind s...
