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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...
