Episode 120
A Jingle and a Job Interview Gone Wrong
Meet Nancy Broen. She shares advice on marriage, earning degrees (she has three), and pushing through fear. Along the way we learn about crashing cars, accidentally and on purpose, the importance of an inch and memorable job interviews.
Nancy talks about a jingle and a job interview with fingerprints.
Episode 119
From Sideways to Handsome
Meet Nancy Broen. She shares advice on marriage, earning degrees (she has three), and pushing through fear. Along the way we learn about crashing cars, accidentally and on purpose, the importance of an inch and memorable job interviews.
Nancy talks of a couple of trips that went sideways and traveling with a plethora of handsome men.
Episode 118
Africa to Wood Chipper
Meet Nancy Broen. She shares advice on marriage, earning degrees (she has three), and pushing through fear. Along the way we learn about crashing cars, accidentally and on purpose, the importance of an inch and memorable job interviews.
Nancy talks about it upcoming trips to the East Coast and Africa and also a wood chipper.
Episode 117
The Art of a Woman-Specific Motorcycle
Meet Nancy Broen. She shares advice on marriage, earning degrees (she has three), and pushing through fear. Along the way we learn about crashing cars, accidentally and on purpose, the importance of an inch and memorable job interviews.
Nancy talks about developing a woman-specific Harley-Davidson motorcycle and traveling a month in Baja.
Episode 107
Freedom from Stockholm
Join us for a rollicking conversation with Robert Morgan. We’ll talk about a recent trip to India that involved motorcycles, confiscated items and mudslides. Robert builds water parks for a living and was inspired by some of the riding they did during a monsoon for his next designs. Food, accommodations, culture and the ability to stay positive when torrential rains and topographical features work against a group of mostly strangers.
Robert talks of group dynamics under pressure, and finally being free to ride.
Episode 104
Sails and Spirit
Ski bumming, building chairlifts and falling upstairs with Herman the German and Polka Dan. Meet Larry Daniels. Larry worked and skied in the West as a young man before learning a bit about building ski lifts. He jumped on a job offer to come to Alaska in the early 1970’s. Larry takes us on a journey through the early years at Alyeska Resort to skiing in Japan in the 80’s and beyond. We touch on bar tabs, chairlifts as babysitters and renting sailboats.
Larry wraps up this interview with thoughts about sailing, the Alaska Spirit, and one last good ‘ol days Girdwood anecdote.
Episode 103
The Bum of the Ski
Ski bumming, building chairlifts and falling upstairs with Herman the German and Polka Dan. Meet Larry Daniels. Larry worked and skied in the West as a young man before learning a bit about building ski lifts. He jumped on a job offer to come to Alaska in the early 1970’s. Larry takes us on a journey through the early years at Alyeska Resort to skiing in Japan in the 80’s and beyond. We touch on bar tabs, chairlifts as babysitters and renting sailboats.
In this episode, Larry talks of ski bumming, traveling to ski, and advice to the potential ski bum.
Episode 90
From Guatemala to Katmai
We invite a long-time friend to talk about a range of subjects that includes hand-drawn maps, scammers, pyramids, caving, local buses and fly-fishing waiters in Central America. Then we’ll head back to Alaska, where Kevin has lots of back country experience doing remote construction work. He’s lived on windy mountaintops building cell towers and experienced a National Park where for months at a time, the only humans were those in his work crew.
Kevin regales about a pedestrian bridge at Brooks Camp and a foray to the Land of Ten Thousand Smokes in Katmai.
Episode 89
From Guatemala to Katmai
We invite a long-time friend to talk about a range of subjects that includes hand-drawn maps, scammers, pyramids, caving, local buses and fly-fishing waiters in Central America. Then we’ll head back to Alaska, where Kevin has lots of back country experience doing remote construction work. He’s lived on windy mountaintops building cell towers and experienced a National Park where for months at a time, the only humans were those in his work crew.
Kevin talks of working in the the Alaska bush, and the future of downtown Kivalina.
Episode 88
From Guatemala to Katmai
We invite a long-time friend to talk about a range of subjects that includes hand-drawn maps, scammers, pyramids, caving, local buses and fly-fishing waiters in Central America. Then we’ll head back to Alaska, where Kevin has lots of back country experience doing remote construction work. He’s lived on windy mountaintops building cell towers and experienced a National Park where for months at a time, the only humans were those in his work crew.
In this episode, Kevin talks of last minute fishing plan on a jungle river.