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Delivering Adventure
by Chris Kaipio & Jordy Shepherd
This is the podcast for people who want to share adventure like a pro – with their friends, family, or as a profession. Each episode explores a different aspect of adventure delivery with top experts to get their best stories, insights, and trade secrets. Learn what it takes to deliver epic experiences to yourself and others, from the mountains to the office, and beyond. Go farther, become better and achieve more. Chris Kaipio and Jordy Shepherd explore the essential skills and techniques that adventure industry experts use to delivery personal growth. Listen as adventure guides, managers, and promoters share their best advice on leadership, managing risk, coaching, and how to achieve experiences worth remembering. Topics include risk assessment, decision making, leadership, emergency response, crisis management, trip planning, memory building, marketing, capturing experiences, teaching new skills, improving performance, overcoming challenge, resiliency, communicating risk, and experie
Episodes
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Managing Risk on Snow with Chris Kaipio & Jordy Shepherd
As an occupation, working in the snow sports industry as a guide, instructor, coach and patroller has one of the highest non-fatal workplace injury rates in North America. Recreationally, skiing and snowboarding are often thought of as extreme sports, although I think we can all agree there is a...
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Common Mistakes Behind Accidents with Colin Zacharius
Why do backcountry accidents happen? What can we reduce the chance of them happening to us? In this episode, Chris and Jordy are joined again by Colin Zacharius to hear his take on some of the common mistakes that peoplåe can make that lead to accidents. Colin is a well-known ACMG / IFMGA…
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Decision-Making Priorities & Risk with André-Jean Maheu
Improving Decision Making – How We Think - with André-Jean Maheu One of the human factors that is common in adventure decision making is motivation. Motivation can cause us to prioritize choices that offer rewards ahead of safety. It can influence us to prioritize meeting our needs ahead of the...
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Improving Decision Making – How We Think - with André-Jean Maheu
How does our thinking affect our decision-making? The Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman first shared the idea of system 1 and system 2 thinking in his groundbreaking book Thinking Fast and Slow. In this episode, Andre-Jean Maheu joins Chris and Jordy to discus System 1 and 2…
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Giving Feedback Effectively with Tami Lyon
Giving Feedback Effectively with Tami Lyon How can we deliver feedback in a way that makes it effective? One thing that can cause a lot of damage to people’s confidence and relationships with each other is giving and receiving feedback. Being able to deliver performance related feedback in a way...
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The Art of Capturing Adventure with Mike Crane
People have been recording their adventures for tens of thousands of years. From cave drawings, to songs, to cell phone selfies and GoPro videos. Wanting to have a record of our achievements has always been a very human need. Capturing our adventures is an integral part of the experience that…
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Adapting to Different Cultures with Patrick Barrow
How can we adapt to new cultures when we are travelling or working aboard? In this episode we look at culture from the perspective of being an international visitor or someone working in another culture. Being immersed in another culture gives us a unique opportunity to see how other people live....
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Understanding Culture as a Leader with Patrick Barrow
What do leaders need to be aware of when they are leading people from different cultures? People from different cultures may use different language, and have different customs, behaviours, values and even risk tolerances than you are used to. They may also have different expectations and tastes…
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Imagining the Worst-Case Scenario with Chris Kaipio & Jordy Shepherd
Why is it so important to imagine the worst-case scenario? What happens when we don’t? In this episode of Delivering Adventure, Chris and Jordy share a few examples from their adventure industry careers to illustrate the importance of considering the worst-case scenario. They also talk about some...
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Decision Making in High-Risk Situations with Colin Zacharius
Why is it so hard to make good decisions in higher risk situations? High risk situations are ones where a mistake, a miscalculation or a mishap can lead to serious or unmanageable consequences. These situations are the ones where uncertainty and the threat of experiencing serious consequences can...
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Managing the Hazardous Attitudes with Geoff Powter
How can we manage hazardous attitudes in ourselves and others? The FAA in the US has identified five hazardous attitudes that are present in human caused airline crashes. These five attitudes are anti-authority, impulsivity, invulnerability, macho and resignation. These attitudes can negatively...
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Recognizing Hazardous Attitudes with Geoff Powter
How can our attitude affect our decision-making? The Federal Aviation Agency in the US has identified five specific attitudes that are present in airline accidents when human error is the cause of the crash or mishap. They have labeled these attitudes, the five hazardous attitudes. These…
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Longevity Delivering Adventure with Nadio Hachey
Longevity Delivering Adventure with Nadio Hachey What does it take to enjoy a long career as an adventure guide, instructor or manager? The reality is that there is quite a high rate of attrition in the adventure industry when it comes to guides and instructors. It can be costly to get...
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Smart Risk Taking with Barry Blanchard
Smart Risk Taking with Barry Blanchard How can you know when to actually take a risk on a personal or professional level? What would a good risk, or a smart risk look like before and after? In this episode Chris and Jordy are joined by world renowned Alpinist, ACMG / IFMGA Mountain Guide…
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Case Study: Keeping Control with Madeleine Martin-Preney
When it comes to delivering adventure, the difference between control and chaos can be as little as one small mistake. A situation can seem to be under complete control one moment and the next it can be spiralling away. The worst-case scenario for leaders often starts with something small. It can...
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Improving Decision Making in Others with Bruce Wilson
How can we improve the decision making in others? When we are delivering adventure to others, it isn’t just the leader that needs to have good judgment. In every activity, there is a degree of decision-making skills that participants are going to need to be able to have, and if they don’t, the…
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Self-Reflection as a Development Tool with Bill Mark
How can leaders use self-reflection as a development tool with others? Self-reflection is one of the most effective learning and development tools that a leader can use with themselves and their team members. Self-reflection can help everyone to learn from any mistakes that were made, flaws in...
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How to self-reflect with Tracey Fraser
How can we use self-reflection to improve our decision making, performance and experience delivery? One of the best ways to undertake personal growth as an individual, a risk-taker and leader is to build self-reflection into our day. Self-reflection can help us to improve our performance…
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Establishing Boundaries & Control with Madeleine Martin-Preney
How can you keep control over a group without creating conflict? This is something that even the most experienced leader can find challenging. When people trust their leader’s decision making and are content to follow the leader’s directions, being the leader of the group can be easy. However…
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Removing Obstacles to Self-Care with Sarah Janin
What stops us from practising good self-care even when we know we should? What can we do about it? We all know that practicing good self-care is important. Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy. In this episode of Delivering Adventure, Sarah Janin returns to share a story of a time where she...
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The Secret to Building Trust with Brenna Kelleher
How do you build trust? The ability to build trust is an important skill for anyone who wants to build and maintain relationships. It is also essential tool for a coach, instructor and guide to have if they want to help the people they are leading to achieve adventure. When people do not trust...
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How Needs Affect Decision Making with Bruce Wilson
How do our human needs affect our judgement? What happens fro our decision making if our needs are not being met? Using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Bruce Wilson joins Chris and Jordy to discuss the relationship between needs and judgment. Bruce Wilson is an ACMG Hiking Guide, a sea kayak guide…
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Improving our Ability to Read People with Lee Povey
How can we improve our ability to read people? Being able to accurately interpret the people we are leading so that we can see things from their perspective helps us with decision making and problem solving. It can also help us to build trust and to recognize when their needs are not being met.…
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How to be a Great Instructor with Cyril Shokoples
How do you become a great instructor? No instructor or guide wants to be mediocre. Few students or guests want their instructor to deliver an average performance. This would hardly improve learning, create great stories or build positive memories. So how can instructors, coaches and guides be...
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Delivering Adventure to Challenging People with Colby Brokvist
How do you deal with challenging people on an adventure? This is a challenge that can test even the most experienced and prepared leader. When it comes to delivering adventure, people can be grumpy. They can have unrealistic expectations. They can show up to an adventure with personal issues.…
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Delivering Adventure with Carv with Morgan Engel and Alex Jackson
How can technology enhance our adventure experiences on skis? Is it possible that ski coaches, instructors and guides can be replaced by technology all together? In this episode we touch on these questions as we explore Carv with Morgan Engel and Alex Jackson. Carv is a small device that skiers…
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How to Stay Positive Under Duress with Cyril Derreumaux
How do you stay positive under duress? It doesn’t matter how adventurous, fit, risk tolerant or determined you are. At some point, you will find yourself in a situation where it becomes hard to stay positive or even to find the will to keep going. It could be as simple as sitting on a cold wet...
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How to help people through adversity with Jill Wheatley
How can we help others when they are experiencing distress? We have all been in situations with friends, family or clients who are experiencing distress due to adversity. These challenging moments can come when people have suffered an injury, illness, or are working through physical or mental...
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How to be More Adaptable with Wells Jones
An essential adventure and life skill is the ability to be adaptable. Being adaptable allows us to adjust to change and to keep our cool when we find ourselves in adverse or stressful situations. In 2005, Wells Jones set out to retrace the path of the famous soldier and adventurer TE Lawrence -...
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How to Increase Physical Durability with Dr. Leslie Desrosiers
When it comes to adventure sports, one of the best ways to manage risk is to ensure that you are as physically durable as possible. Being physically durable allows you to withstand physical challenges, mistakes and mishaps like falls. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Leslie Desrosiers. Dr....
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How to Prepare for Big Adventures with Cyril Derreumaux
How to Prepare for Big Adventures with Cyril Derreumaux What does it take to prepare for a really big adventure? One of the main reasons people get themselves into trouble and have a misadventure is a lack of preparation. You can have all the skills in the world, the best equipment and the best...
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Building Expedition Teams with Colby Brokvist
What does it take to build an effective expedition team? In this episode, we are joined by master guide, guide trainer and author Colby Brokvist to discuss what goes into building successful expedition teams and how we can apply some of these lessons to any group of people we may find ourselves...
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Building Resilient Teams Through Adventure with Brenna Kelleher
How can you build a resilient team? Building effective teams is an art in itself. Building teams that are resilient enough to withstand the challenges that come with adventure, takes this art to another level. When it comes to adventure, teams can come in many forms. They can be a group of guided...
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Designing Adventure Experiences with Chris Winter
How do you design adventure experiences for success? It is easy to plan big adventures but getting them to be epic for the right reasons isn’t always as easy as it looks. This is especially true when we are building experiences to deliver to paying clients, our friends or family. Designing...
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Case Study: Planning for Mishap with Will Gadd
Adventures have risks. It doesn’t matter how much you plan, or how well you manage situations, if you are having an adventure, something can go wrong. It is impossible to make adventures 100% safe. If they really are safe, then there isn’t any risk which means they aren’t going to be adventures!...
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Mastering Physical Self Care with Sarah Janin
When it comes to delivering adventure, you will only go as far as your body allows. The challenge for many of us is that in our quest for adventure we can neglect our own self care. When this happens our performance can decline, our decision-making abilities can be compromised, and we are more...
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Understanding & Managing Risk Tolerance with Robin Barnes
One of the essential elements to managing risk when we are delivering adventure to others, is understanding and managing people’s risk tolerance. Our risk tolerance is the level of comfort that we have with loss or injury. Being able to determine a person’s risk tolerance in a given moment is a…
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How to Coach People Through Danger with Derek Foose
What does it take to coach someone through danger? When it comes to taking risks, danger can come in the form of real and perceived threats to our safety and well being. Regardless of whether the danger is real or imagined, when people feel threatened, even on a sub conscious level, they can...
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Increasing Situational Awareness with Jerome David
Increasing Situational Awareness with Jerome David How can we improve our situational awareness so that we don’t miss important information? Situational awareness is the ability to perceive, understand, and effectively respond to one’s situation. This includes being able to recognize the hazards...
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Building an Adventure Company with Chris Winter
What does it take to build and operate a successful adventure company? In this episode, Chris Winter joins Chris and Jordy to discuss how he has built Big Mountain Adventures, from the ground up. Chris shares some of his successes and challenges and the mindset that goes into running a successful...
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How to Work Through Adversity with Jill Wheatley
What does it take to work through adversity? What happens when that adversity is coming from an injury that has transformed our life? These are two of the questions that Jill Wheatley helps us to explore thanks to her extensive personal experience. Jill shares how she handled her recovery from a...
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Case Study: Communicating Under Stress with Erin Tierney
How should a leader communicate to people when they are under stress? One of the hardest situations that a leader can find themselves in, is managing a group that isn’t doing what the leader wants. It could be kids who forgot what their instructor told them, teenagers who are ignoring their…
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Knowing When to go for it with Mike Adolph
How can we ever know when we should turn back or keep going? On paper, the safest decision to make is often to turn around or choose the route that takes on less risk. However, in reality, delivering adventure isn’t always about picking the safest choice. At the core of every adventure is an...
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Managing Plan Continuation Bias with Mike Adolph
Have you ever pushed forward with something even when it became clear that you should probably change your plan or abort? If so, you may have succumbed to plan continuation bias. When this happens, we can become predisposed to continue towards completing our original plan, even when conditions...
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Managing Misadventure with Moose Mutlow
Managing Misadventure with Moose Mutlow Can misadventure be turned into a positive experience? In this episode we are joined by Moose Mutlow who helps us to better understand what misadventure is, and how we can find value in it. Moose has nearly forty years of experience as a guide, outdoor...
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Case Study: Selling People on What They Need with Ken Bélanger
In this episode, Ken Bélanger shares a funny Heli skiing story that highlights the challenges of trying to talk people out of doing something that will probably not meet their needs in the long run. We look at some of the lessons learned from Ken’s story and offer some strategies to manage these...
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How to Communicate Risk with Will Gadd
At the heart of every adventure, is a degree of risk taking. Being able to communicate the level of risk that people can expect to be exposed to is an important component of delivering adventure to others recreationally and professionally. There is nothing worse than exposing someone to a…
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Improving Performance in a Crisis with André-Jean Maheu
How can we improve our performance in a crisis? We spend a lot of time talking on Delivering Adventure about how we can avoid finding ourselves in crisis. However, despite our best efforts, we can all end up finding ourselves in situations where either ourselves or the people we are with end up…
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Understanding Performance in a Crisis with André-Jean Maheu
When it comes to adventure, a crisis can come in many forms ranging from getting lost, getting injured, pushing well past our capabilities and being faced with the prospect of disaster. It’s fair to say that being able to navigate through a crisis if one happens, is an essential skill for...
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Understanding Human Factors & Judgment with Mike Adolph
Why is it so hard to make good decisions? One of the factors has to do with what are called the human factors. These include cognitive biases, heuristics, personal motivations, and preferences. One person who sees the human factors in high consequence environments is Mike Adolph. Mike is an ACMG…
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This is the podcast for people who want to share adventure like a pro – with their friends, family, or as a profession. Each episode explores a different aspect of adventure delivery with top experts to get their best stories, insights, and trade secrets. Learn what it takes to deliver epic experiences to yourself and others, from the mountains to the office, and beyond. Go farther, become better and achieve more. Chris Kaipio and Jordy Shepherd explore the essential skills and techniques that adventure industry experts use to delivery personal growth. Listen as adventure guides, managers, and promoters share their best advice on leadership, managing risk, coaching, and how to achieve experiences worth remembering. Topics include risk assessment, decision making, leadership, emergency response, crisis management, trip planning, memory building, marketing, capturing experiences, teaching new skills, improving performance, overcoming challenge, resiliency, communicating risk, and experie
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