Dig deep into the issues facing outdoor brands and retailers, from domestic vs. international manufacturing to brick-and-mortar vs. online commerce. Conversations with CEOs, VPs, supply chain reps, retail clerks, marketing gurus and an occasional celebrity outdoorist offer valuable insights and entertainment about the business of playing outdoors.
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In this podcast, we'll share people’s experiences with the end of life. We have reached out to experts in the field, front-line workers, as well as friends, neighbors, and the community, to have conversations about their experiences with death and dying. We have invited wonderful people to sit with us and listen to each other’s stories. Our goal is to provide you with information and resources that can help all of us navigate and better understand this important subject. You can find us on F ...
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Have You ever wished people were more transparent about what it took for them to overcome adversity in life, build successful businesses and Ministries? Have you ever wondered how people accomplishing their goals when their lives are hectic? Have you wanted to know someone's story of redemption and come back and What it took for them to achieve success again? Then you want to tune in each week as week looks through glass into the lives of some fantastic people That are leading in ministry, b ...
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Providing Resources and Support for the LGBTQ+ Community - with Grief Specialist Gary Sturgis
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Send us a Text Message. Gary Sturgis, a grief specialist, speaker, and bereavement facilitator, shares his personal experience with loss and his journey to support others through grief. He discusses the importance of providing resources and support for the LGBTQ+ community, who often face unique challenges in their grief. Gary emphasizes the need f…
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Death Is the Coronation of Life with Professor Dr. Harald Walach
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Send us a Text Message. For this unique episode, we will be interviewing Professor Harald Walach PhD. Professor Walach is a clinical psychologist, philosopher of science, and researcher at the interface between medicine, psychology, and consciousness studies. He is a professorial research fellow with the Next Society Institute at Kazimierash Simona…
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Supporting Children and Teens in Grief with Julie Lockhart
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we talk with Julie Lockhart, a retired academic. During the last years of her career, she led a grief support nonprofit called WinterSpring, where she discovered the beauty and depth of personal stories. There she shared her own experience, which helped grieving people feel less alone. Julie loves an adventu…
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The Importance of Gathering and Saying Goodbye - with Arlene Hoag
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Send us a Text Message. Arlene Hoag, a hospice volunteer and co-chairman of the Mountains of Courage conference, shares her experiences and insights on death and dying. She discusses her early encounters with death, the grief she experienced when a friend passed away, and the importance of communicating with loved ones who have passed. Arlene also …
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we speak to Laura Davis, author of The Burning Light of Two Stars, The Courage to Heal, and four other books. In addition to writing books that inspire, the work of Laura’s heart is to teach. For over twenty years, she’s helped people find their voices, tell their stories, and hone their craft. She teaches o…
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Educating About the Realities of Death and Dying and Grief - with Jill McClennen
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Send us a Text Message. We were honored to meet and talk with Jill McClennen in this episode. She is a certified death doula, a non-medical professional specially trained to provide holistic care for individuals in their final stages of life. She offers comprehensive support, preparation, and deep soul healing to her clients and their families, whe…
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Bringing Kindness Through Song to Those Facing Life's Thresholds with Kate Schuyler
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Send us a Text Message. Please note this content warning for the following episode. In this episode our friend Kate speaks about her experience with putting down a beloved horse. Please take care of yourselves. Today we are excited to have a conversation with Kate Schuyler. She is an active student of life, self, and the heart, a mother, grandmothe…
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Grief is Where Your Love Goes with Rev Judith Laxer
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we are blessed to spend time with the Rev. Judith Laxer. She is a modern-day mystic who believes that beauty, humor, and the wonders of nature make life worth living. The founding Priestess of Gaia’s Temple, Judith is a keynote and TEDx speaker, teacher of the magickal arts and mysteries, and author of Along…
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Grief is Grief, Loss of Pets, or Loss in a Small African Village - with Stephanie and Jeffrey
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we had the honor of sharing a conversation with Jeffrey and Stephanie, a married couple who live on an island near Seattle. Jeffrey has his master's and a Ph.D. in agriculture and has been working in food security in Sub-Saharan Africa for over 20 years. He has found that our humanity comes before our agenda…
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Send us a Text Message. In this special episode, we bring you memorials to beloveds who have crossed over the veil ahead of us. Wakil and Annalouiza share memorial tributes to Wakil's Grandpa Herbert and Annalouiza's sister Vivian. We'll also hear from Jane Ellen Nickell whom we interviewed in our last episode who shares the story of her mother's e…
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Working as a College Chaplain - with Jane Ellen Nickell
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Send us a Text Message. Jane Ellen Nickell is enjoying retirement, after serving 16 years as Chaplain of Allegheny College, which followed a career in performing arts management and marketing. A native of West Virginia, she currently lives in Meadville, Pennsylvania, with two feline companions. In retirement, she keeps busy gardening, cooking, doin…
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The Privilege of Accompanying People in Their Sacred Time of Dying - with Yanna Hanson
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we speak with Yanna Hanson. Yanna is a death doula and currently specializes as a volunteer with end-of-life Washington. Helping terminal patients navigate the medical aid in dying process. She is often present when they take the life-ending medications. Yana also helps educate clients about another life-endi…
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Always Coming Back Into the Light with Ms. Margaret
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Send us a Text Message. Ms. Margaret Johnson. Ms. Margaret is currently 101 years old. When's your birthday? So she just turned 101. Margaret has lived a very rich and varied life. She has been a homemaker, a wife, and a mother to two children. She lived all over the country due to her husband's career as a geologist. She went back to school at the…
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Awareness of daily losses builds a container for grief
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Send us a Text Message. Patty Bueno is a certified grief counselor, dying consciously teacher, and creator of the Amorté podcast on death and grief education. She's currently training to become a somatic experiencing facilitator. Having accompanied three of her grandparents and later her mother through their dying process as a primary caregiver was…
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Heaven: From Community to Community - with Rev. John Mabry
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Send us a Text Message. “If you cultivate community in this life, you will pass into community.” In this episode we spend time with our dear friend and teacher, Rev. John Mabry. We met him when we were both seminary students in Berkeley, CA and have remained close. Reverend Dr. John Mabry is a United Church of Christ pastor and a spiritual director…
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My Boat is Small, the Ocean is So Vast with Rev Bodhi Be
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Episode 3! Today we welcome Reverend Bodhi Be ‘Warrior of the heart, protector of the sacred’. Reverend Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in the Sufi lineage of Samuel Lewis and Hazrat Inayat Khan. He is the founder and executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Mau…
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Companions on the Path with Rev Ayah Shakur Sevigny
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we are blessed and honored to spend time with our friend Rev Ayah Shakur Sevigny. He is currently working as a palliative care chaplain at a large hospital in Seattle, and spent 20 years as a hospice chaplain. He shares with us his wisdom and insights about the work of an end of life caregiver. He mentioned t…
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Send us a Text Message. In this first episode of our End of Life Conversations podcast, Rev. Annalouiza Armendariz, and Rev. Wakil David Matthews share their own stories and talk about their passion for normalizing the conversations around death and dying. In future podcasts, we'll share people’s experiences with the end of life. We have reached ou…
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Audio Outdoorist: Support for Federal Investments in national, state, and local parks
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Ranking 5th in the nation, Maine’s outdoor industry generates 3.3% of the state’s economy. With numbers like that, Senator Angus King has a sharp eye on policies like those in the Great American Outdoors Act and the Build Back Better Act, which is currently going under debate in Congress. In today’s episode, OIA government affairs director Rich Har…
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Audio Outdoorist: 2021 International Shipping Crisis
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This is the second in our series about international trade and trade policy. In this episode, our director of government affairs Rich Harper and three members of our Trade Advisory Council, discuss the recent precipitous rise in shipping costs, which, on top of punitive tariffs, trade wars and the global pandemic, have made it difficult for our mem…
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Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-2nd) speaks with OIA’s Director of Policy, Rich Harper, to discuss his recently introduced Civilian Climate Corps proposal, which has been included in President Biden’s American Jobs Plan. Neguse also talks about his Parks, Jobs and Equity Act, which would invest millions of dollars into urban parks, creating thousands of…
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Audio Outdoorist: A Conversation with the OIA Trade Advisory Council
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Hear from OIA's Director of Policy, Rich Harper, and members of the OIA Trade Advisory Council (OIATAC) as they discuss the council's important policy role. In this conversation, Rich is joined by Sara Bowersox, Sr. Manager, Global Trade Compliance, KEEN Footwear; Ben Christensen, Vice President, Operations, Simms Fishing Products; and Jeff Tooze, …
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Climate Klatch Episode 2 — REI Impact Standards
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In the second episode of our new series that’s all about climate action, Amy Horton, OIA senior director of sustainable business innovation, and Greg Gausewitz, product sustainability manager for REI, chat about the recent release of REI’s updated Impact Standards and how the retailer hopes the new sustainability and DEI standards will drive meanin…
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In the first episode of our new series that's all about climate action, Amy Horton, OIA senior director of sustainable business innovation, and Deborah Williams, OIA director of marketing, communications and storytelling, discuss the most impactful strategies for reducing and reversing global warming by the year 2050 and how the OIA Climate Policy …
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VIRTUAL DISCUSSION: THE 2020 ELECTION AND BEYOND
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The 2020 election will be one of the most consequential contests for the outdoor recreation economy. Following enactment of the Great American Outdoors Act, our top priorities are all on the ballot – from tackling climate change and preserving our public lands and waters to expanding access to the outdoors for all Americans to new investments in gr…
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Glass Table talk with Overseer Talmadge Thomas
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During our quarantine series, Pastor Talmage Thomas and Charles Allen talked through how to maintain ministry even though the gathering was not an option. the need to take this time and enjoy life and effectively pastoring during difficult times. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glass_table_talk /support…
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Campfire Conversation: Climate Action After a Pandemic
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Can companies in the outdoor industry afford to lean into climate action in the midst and immediate aftermath of a pandemic? That's the question being discussed around the campfire today. Jessie Curry, OIA's Sustainable Business Manager; Jenn Swain, Global Senior Sustainability Manager at Burton; JJ Trout, Chief of Staff at People for Bikes; Chris …
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Challenge Caucasian Church leaders Complicity in Racism today
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Throughout history, there have been moments when white American Christians could have interceded on behalf of racial justice but did not. At least, not to the extremes as some other issues they are fighting against. However, this is no longer the case with George Williams, he is committed to learn, grow, and fight for justice. We welcome George Wil…
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Four specialty retail shop owners across the country and an expert in consumer trends and retail strategy gather around the fire to discuss the immediate aftermath of the COVID “shutdown,” the steps they’re taking to reopen or reposition their businesses, the safety precautions they’re using and how they’re recouping their losses. From day-to-day o…
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The Glass Table Talk with Guest Dr. Micheal Carter Jr.
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Have a seat at the table this week as Charles Allen and Michael Carter discuss The impact of COVID-19 on church planting and how it shifted the future strategies of growth and outreach. Pastor Carter had some strong prediction concerning how the church will look and behave post-COVID -19 Was he right is it still to early to tell? Michael Carter is …
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The Glass Table Talk with Shawn Douglass
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In between assignments with no real direction Shawn and His wife received a call that would forever change his life and how they operated as a family. Have a seat at the table with us as we unpack this incredible story. Shawn Douglass is a husband, father, foster parent, and serial entrepreneur. He is passionate about helping individuals discover t…
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Outdoor industry businesses and employees have been overwhelmed by the impacts of the COVID-19 situation for months now, trying to stay safe while keeping themselves afloat. But as we begin to realize that COVID-19 will be part of our lives for some time, how do individuals and businesses in the outdoor industry move from treading water to being ag…
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Leaders of four outdoor industry advocacy organizations — each representing different but overlapping stakeholder groups — gather around the “fire” for an intimate and candid conversation about the public land conservation and access issues that matter to outdoor users and the outdoor economy. Where do the organizations’ policy priorities intersect…
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Glass Table Talk with Pastors, Arlene Huckaby, Shalonda Thurmond, & Marquisa Horton
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Women in Ministry ` Balancing Family, Ministry, and Careers. We don't know they do it all with such grace, but they do, and they do it well. Listen as we find out the secret to there success and what it takes to balance busy lives. Arlene Hodges Huckaby married Bill Huckaby, mother of one son Occupation. Elementary teacher of Math and Science Minis…
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Glass Table talk with Bishop Kevin Ringer
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Thank you for joining Charles Allen and Kevin Ringer at the table this week as they discuss failure, redemption, and the process of restoration. However, coming to trust the process is where we must maintain our faith to believe that there is life after death. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgll... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nlrf…
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Amid COVID-19, states across the country implemented stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders, all with different closure rules and requirements for local, county, state and national public lands, parks and trails. Now, as the country begins to contemplate reopening those outdoor assets, there are many questions and considerations about how to do i…
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Glass Table with Lynn Fruth - The Strategy he used to build a kingdom company, leading through transitions and succession planning.
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We are excited to have Lynn Fruth on the next Glass Table as we discuss The Strategy he used to build a kingdom company, leading through transitions and succession planning. Lynn Fruth is a Christian Businessman entrusted by God to lead The Danberry Company, Realtors, located in Toledo, Ohio. The Danberry Family consists of 40 employees and over 30…
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Glass Table Talk with Rodney Jackson
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Have a seat at the table and meet our friend, Rodney Jackson. We had a great time talking with RAJ today at The Glass Table discussing casting vision, leading through change, the energy that your faith needs to move.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glass_table_talk /support…
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Come have a seat at the table and meet our friend, Kevin Clay. We had a great time talking with Kevin Clay today at The Glass Table discussing leading through adversity, the entrepreneur's mindset, and turning a crisis into an opportunity for future success. Kevin is an entrepreneur who has a passion for helping men be their best selves and live to…
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In this short episode, we look back on the highlights of Day 2 at OR and preview a few of the can’t miss events on Day 3 at Summer Market. You can view Thursday's full OIA events and education agenda here: outdoorindustry.org/event/oia-outdoor-retailer/ To learn more about the work OIA does year round on behalf of its member companies, click here: …
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Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2019—Day 2
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In this short episode, we look back on the highlights of Day 1 at OR and preview a few of the can’t miss events on Day 2 at Summer Market. You can view Wednesday's full OIA events and education agenda here: outdoorindustry.org/event/oia-outdoor-retailer/ To learn more about the work OIA does year round on behalf of its member companies, click here:…
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Sustainability Series: How NEMO and Showers Pass are Making Sustainability a Priority
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You’ve got sustainability questions; we’ve got answers. Wherever you are on your journey to sustainability, we’re here to help. In 2019, we are helping OIA companies to Walk the Walk by hosting a series of sustainability boot camps. They are designed to help small to mid-sized brands that have limited to no dedicated sustainability staff or experti…
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OIA’s First Big Win of 2019: LWCF Permanent Reauthorization
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Last week, in an overwhelming display of bipartisan support, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Natural Resources Management Act. This comes after it successfully passed through the Senate earlier in February, which means it now goes to the president for his signature. This is an enormous win for the outdoor industry, as the package inc…
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In the past two weeks, America has experienced what can only be described as whiplash as Congressional leadership, the Senate, House and President Trump bicker over funding priorities and principles. The President has flip-flopped on his insistence for border wall funding and his threats of government shutdown. On December 13, the day we recorded p…
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When the calendar turns over to January 2019, we'll welcome many new faces on Capital Hill. Likewise, we'll say goodbye to any legislative measures on Congress's docket that do not get passed before the Senate and House of Representatives adjourn for the year. In this episode, OIA's Jessica Wahl talks to Deborah Williams about the work that OIA is …
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The Many Faces of LWCF | Biking PGH to DC
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This episode is the third in a series about the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), America’s premier federal program that reinvests offshore energy revenue into conservation to ensure that we all have access to the outdoors. Congress created the LWCF almost a half-century ago to guarantee America’s natural, historic and outdoor recreation her…
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Saturday is Day 3 of Outdoor Retailer Winter Market, and it will feature the third of our OIA lunch sessions. Hear from OIA’s new State and Local Policy Director David Weinstein about the lunch panel he’ll moderate to bring attendees up to speed on the growing trend of state outdoor recreation offices. Learn what you can do for them and what they c…
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This is our short preview of what’s coming up on Day 2 of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market. In this episode we again hear from OIA Executive Director Amy Roberts about Friday’s OIA lunch session. The topic: “How Change Happens: Why do some social movements succeed while others don’t?” Roberts explains why she invited author Leslie Crutchfield to …
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In this short episode, we preview a few of the can’t miss events on Day 1 of the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market, which begins Thursday, November 8, in Denver. Beginning with the Industry Breakfast at 7 a.m. and ending with the Outdoor Retailer Innovation Award, the first day is packed with informative and inspiring programming. OIA’s Executive Dire…
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Jimmy Chin on Free Solo and #VoteTheOutdoors
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In this short interview, OIA’s managing content editor Deborah Williams sits down with Jimmy Chin to talk about to talk about the newest film that he and his wife, documentary filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi created about Alex Honnold's free solo climb of El Cap: National Geographic’s Free Solo. Jimmy talks about the ethical questions that arose througho…
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