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Outliers Project
by Molly Hawkins
The Outliers Project was started to highlight individuals, outliers, and dreamers who dared to create and to innovate. From artists and musicians, to action sports athletes and entrepreneurs these individuals are the driving force behind the movements that will inspire and change the way we interact with the world around us. The Outliers Project is about seeing what you see in the world that excites all of us, and diving into issues and topics relevant to our lives. The ideas behind the people, the community—it’s all a part of our culture and that’s what this podcast and blog digs into.
Episodes
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Ep. 44: Dad Gang’s Ejay O’Donnell: Fatherhood, Big Ideas and a Better Definition of Success
For Ejay O’Donnell, success isn’t just about building a $35 million brand. It’s about creating a life where ambition, fatherhood and family can coexist. Molly sits down with her longtime friend and Dad Gang co-founder to talk about letting go of traditional work-life balance, turning ideas into...
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Ep. 43: Adaptive Alpinist Kimber Cross | If You Don’t Quit, You Win
Kimber Cross spent much of her childhood hiding the hand she was born without. Today, she's a professional adaptive athlete and alpinist with Mountain Hardwear, climbing rock, ice and some of the most consequential terrain in the world. In this episode, Kimber shares how a breakup in her late 20s...
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Ep. 42- Author Steven Ciaccio on Adventure, Balance, and Why Your Best Days Are Still Ahead
What if you stopped waiting for the right time to build the life you actually want? Steven Ciaccio is a flight attendant, world traveler, snowboard instructor, outdoor adventurer, husband, dad, and now children's book author. In this episode, we talk about how he's built a life around adventure,...
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Ep. 41 - Taylor Rabe, Wolf Researcher Helping Change How We See Wolves
Wolf Technician for the Yellowstone Wolf Project, Taylor Rabe never planned to study wolves. Today, she's one of the leading voices helping people better understand Yellowstone's most misunderstood predator. In this episode, we explore her unlikely journey to the Yellowstone Wolf Project, what...
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Ep. 40 Molly Avrin: Building Better Adventure Dogs (and Better Humans)
What happens when you leave a successful marketing career behind to chase a passion that most people don't even realize exists? In this episode of the Outliers Project, I sit down with dog trainer, entrepreneur, and outdoor adventurer Molly Avrin, founder of Pete's Adventure Pack and the…
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Ep. 39 Action Sports Filmmaking to Building a Creative Agency | Darren Rayner on Reinvention, AI & Human Storytelling
In this episode of The Outliers Project, I sit down with Darren Rayner, founder of Vancouver BC based creative agency Magnifire and a filmmaker whose career grew out of the action sports world long before social media content became a marketing industry obsession. What started with Darren picking...
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Ep. 38 King 5's Kelly Hanson on Reinvention, Ambition, and Creating Her Own Lane
Most people know Kelly Hanson as the familiar face of KING 5’s New Day Northwest and Local Lens Seattle. What they may not see is how much persistence it took to get there. In this episode, Kelly shares the less polished side of building a career in media ...working behind the scenes, hearing…
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Ep 37- Swift Industries CEO Martina Brimmer
In this episode, Molly talks with Martina Brimmer about building Swift Industries into a brand that goes far beyond product. They get into the intersection of creativity and business, what it’s like to lead as a woman in a male-dominated industry, and how Swift carved out a distinct voice in a...
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Ep 36: Shannon Dunn-Downing Women’s Snowboard Pioneer on Writing her Next Chapter...literally!
In this episode of The Outliers Project, Molly sits down with snowboarding pioneer and the first snowboarder to earn an Olympic medal, Shannon Dunn-Downing for a fun conversation. Shannon shares what it was actually like in the early days of snowboarding, when there were no rules, no roadmap, and...
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Ep. 35 Scott Losse - Internet Fame, Standup Comedy, and Being Funny Without Trying Too Hard
Scott Losse might describe himself as “from the internet,” but his story is a lot more layered than a few viral videos. In this episode, Molly sits down with the Pacific Northwest-based comedian to talk about what happens when your life unexpectedly changes online. From going viral in his 30s to...
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Ep. 34 Maria Lovely Daggett, 6th Generation Montanan
In this episode of The Outliers Project, I sit down with Maria Lovely Daggett, a sixth-generation Montanan, skier featured in Warren Miller, hunter, and founder of Lovely Outdoor Co. Maria grew up in a family of hunters and outfitters, where life revolved around horses, wild places, and a deep...
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Ep. 33: Ben Carson from Seattle band Hot Bodies in Motion
In this episode, Molly catches up with Ben Carson of Seattle band Hot Bodies in Motion for a conversation about creativity, reinvention, and the tension of being both a musician and a tech mover and shaker in Seattle. They talk about how he got into music, the band’s hiatus, return to music, the...
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Ep. 32 Chief Brand Officer of Outside Interactive Chris Jerard
Chris Jerard, Chief Brand Officer at Outside interactive, joins Molly to talk about what it really means to “get outside” in an age of algorithms and polarizing debates about access, ai, the future of public lands and more. From his early days at Freeskier to helping unify 30+ brands under the...
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Ep. 31 April Cornell on Tattooing, Intuition, and What Time Teaches Us If You Let it
In this episode, Molly sits down with her longtime friend April Cornell, owner of Hidden Hand Tattoo in Seattle. April has been a staple in the tattoo community for so many and has lived through illness, grief, reinvention, and loss. She’s run businesses through turmoil, lost her husband, raised...
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Ep. 30 Wolves and the Politics of Public Land with Dr Francisco Santiago-Avila
In this episode, Molly dives headfirst into a topic she’s wanted an excuse to explore for a long time: wolves. Sparked by reading American Wolf and going deep on the history of wolf eradication and reintroduction in the U.S., this conversation looks at how we got here and why the debate around...
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Episode 29: Author Leslie Johansen Nack Unpacks Her latest book "Nineteen" & Writing As a Healing Practice
There are ages that pass. And there are ages that stay lodged inside of you. Everyone has them. In this episode of The Outliers Project, Molly sits with Leslie Johansen Nack, author of Fourteen and Nineteen, to talk about what happens on how writing helped heal her. Leslie's life was shaped early...
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Episode 28: Dropping In Three - Priscilla (Levac) Cannon on Freedom, Fear, and the art of Personal Reinvention
Dropping in three. In this episode of The Outliers Project, Molly sits down with Priscilla Cannon (formerly Levac), a pioneering professional snowboarder from the golden era of the sport who’s gone on to live multiple creative lives: founder of a women’s apparel brand, vegan chef, photographer,...
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Episode 27: Musicology Co's Rachel Gardner - When Belonging Doesn’t Exist, You Create It
In this episode, Molly sits down with Rachel — someone she’s known for over twenty years — to explore what actually drives people like her. The wiring. The risk tolerance. The audacity. The weirdo energy that most of us tried to bury when we were young. They talk about why outliers do what they…
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Episode 26: Building the Future Without Burning It Down, Johannes Ariens on Sustainable Innovation
In this episode of The Outliers Project, Molly Hawkins sits down with entrepreneur and systems thinker Johannes Ariens, whose career spans military contracting, hospitality, and now zero-emissions transportation. From transforming forgotten motels into outdoor community hubs with Loge Camps, to...
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Episode 25: CEO of Burton Snowboards Donna Carpenter
Role model to all women, mentor and CEO of Burton Snowboards, i have always admired Donna Carpenter and finally got a chance to sit down with her for a conversation to dissect the industry and discuss how we get more women into action sports.
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Episode 24: Kim Woozy on Representation and the Power of Women’s Stories
In this episode of The Outliers Project, Molly Hawkins talks with Kim Woozy, founder of MAHFIA, about reshaping the action sports industry through visibility, equity, and storytelling. From early skate videos to leading diversity initiatives, Kim has championed women’s voices in spaces that long...
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Episode 23: Capita Snowboard's Blue Montgomery
Quitting your job at 26, buying a house, and starting a snowboard company all within a couple months might be a recipe for disaster for most people, but Blue Montgomery has managed to make it work. As the founder and owner of Capita Snowboards, Blue has grown the company from a garage in West...
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Episode 22: Shaney Jo Darden The Face Behind the Keep A Breast
As much as controversy can kill a company, it can also shine a positive spotlight on it. That’s what happened to Shaney Jo Darden’s Keep A Breast Foundation™, thanks to their “I Heart Boobies” bracelets. Since 2000, Keep A Breast has worked raise breast cancer awareness for a group who...
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Episode 21: KC Deane Keeping "Social" in a media world
In a world full of professional athletes in all sports, it can be hard to stand out from the rest. Athletes have been constantly moving towards self-promotion on social media as a way to update their fans on their lives, interact with them on a more personal level, as well as reach out to…
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Episode 20: Snowboard Connection's John Logic on "Taking Chances"
John Logic built a life and lifestyle our 14-year-old selves could have only dreamt of. From a career as a radio disc jockey and opening Seattle’s first snowboard shop, Snowboard Connection, to uniting a community, John helped pioneer an industry that many thought and hoped was just a phase. For...
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Episode 19: Boarding for Breast Cancer: Keeping Soul in the Cause with Liza Tagliati
In this episode I sit down with Liza Tagliati of Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC) to trace how a 1996 snowboard and music festival grew into a leading youth nonprofit. Liza shares how B4BC keeps authenticity at its core, making real conversations about health accessible through action sports.…
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Episode 18: Base Jumping with Pioneer Doug Frutos
Friend and Seattle fabricator and metal worker by day, base jumper by night, shares his story about this fringe sport and how he got into it.... and what it's like to own a bridge? Owner of Young's High Bridge Vertigo Bungee in Kentucky River Doug Frutos joins me to share his story!
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Episode 17: Rory Rogan, Be Packs are
It’s a model we are all familiar with by now thanks to Tom Shoes and we continue to see more and more companies that are about MORE than just sales. Rory Rogan started Be Packs as a senior at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Behind the closed door of his dorm room, Rory designed, sewed, and...
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Episode 16: Anurag Gupta – The Difference Engine, more than Redefining Mens Underwear with MyPakage
Anurag Gupta, CEO of MyPackage and founder of The Difference Engine, lays out a simple idea with big consequences: give people permission to play, then build a company that actually helps them do it. We dig into how MyPackage turned technical design into life-changing men’s underwear, and how the...
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Episode 15: Crispin Cannon Taking Snowboard Photography to Magazine Publishing
Crispin Cannon has spent his career chasing light, storms, and stories across the mountains. As a photographer and partner at King Snow Magazine, he’s helped define how snowboarding is seen—and how it sees itself. In this episode, Crispin talks about the creative process behind capturing the...
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Episode 14: DUO XY Blurring the line between athleticism and art
Duo XY isn’t just a trapeze act—they’re a study in balance, vulnerability, and absolute trust. This world-class duo has captivated audiences with their gravity-defying performances that blur the line between athleticism and art. In this episode, we talk about the discipline behind the beauty: how...
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Episode 13: The Service Board Redefining What Outdoor Access Can Do For Youth
The Service Board has been shaping young leaders in Seattle through a simple but powerful formula: mentorship, community, and snowboarding. In this episode, we sit down with the organization’s Executive Director and Program Manager to talk about how they’re redefining what outdoor access and…
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Episode 12: Lynsey Dyer on being a Professional Skier & Radical Self Acceptance
Lynsey Dyer has spent her life chasing big lines and bigger purpose. As one of the most recognized female skiers in the world and the co-founder of SheJumps.org, she’s built a legacy that goes far beyond first descents. Today, Lynsey continues to push boundaries in how women show up in outdoor...
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Episode 11: Kohl Crecelius of Krochet Kids talks about Creating for a Cause
Kohl Crecelius is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of Krochet Kids, the globally recognized brand that turned handmade hats into a movement for empowerment. In this episode, we talk about building purpose-driven businesses long before “social impact” was a buzzword, what it really takes…
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Episode 10: How Love for Action Sports & Their Talents birthed Electric Coffin
In this episode Duffy De Armas, Stefan Hoffman and Justin Kane Elder share their story on how their passion for skateboarding and snowboarding intersected with their innate talents to evolve into one of the most unique art and creative collectives and businesses of our time. Stefan Hoffman -...
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Episode 9: Jackie Montgomery on how to go from X-Games & Street League Announcer to NFL & MLS
How does one go from studying to be a teacher in college to becoming a host on FuelTv (RIP), announcing for Xgames & Street League....to host and announcer for the Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Sounders? Jackie Montgomery joined me in this episode to tell you how she did it!
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Episode 8: Tapping into Steven Kotler and Flow State
Author and Journalist Steven Kotler shares his research on Flow State and the journey that led him from being immobile and suicidal to creating a body of work that has helped us understand "peak performance", how flow shortens the pathway to mastery and how to harness it. Author of "Abundance",...
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Episode 6 - An In Depth Conversation With Snowboarding Pioneer Donna Carpenter
Role model to all women, mentor and Owner & Chair of the Board, Burton Snowboards, i have always admired Donna Carpenter and finally got a chance to sit down with her for a quick chat about women in action sports. Donna and her husband Jake Burton Carpenter founded Burton Snowboards in 1977.…
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Episode 4 - BASE, Bungee And Other Jumping With Pioneer Doug Frutos
Friend and Seattle fabricator and metal worker by day, base jumper by night, shares his story about this fringe sport and how he got into it. From owning a bridge in Kentucky that he and his friends bungee jump off of (and you can to) to his late night mis-adventures, you won't want to miss this...
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Episode 3 - Action Sports Careers With Legendary Snowboarder Maxx Von Marbod
Join me as i sit down to talk Action Sports Careers With Legendary Snowboarder Maxx Von Marbod
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Episode 7- Co-Founder of Caravan Outpost & Snowboarding Pioneer Brad Steward
This episode unpacks the roots and history of snowboarding, the sport that shaped my life and career. Brad Steward is a living legend, amazing human and entrepreneur. Brad made his mark by helping to bring snowboarding on to the world stage. Inspiring a generation, employee countless dreamers…
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Episode 5 - Women In Action Sport Feat. Kim Woozy of Mahfia.com
Kim Woozy is a legend in action sports, and a game changing contributor for women in skateboarding. She is a skateboarding industry alum, Founder of Mahfia.com, former Director of Partnerships for Skate Like a Girl, TedX panelist and an incredible human. Enjoy this early conversation with her!
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Episode 2 - Youth And Action Sports With The Service Board
This Episode of Outliers Project features Khalil and Ashley Miller, former Executive Director and Program Coordinator of The Service Board as they share how they shape and mold minds and empower youth through snowboarding, skateboarding and art!
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Episode 1 - The Changing Face Of Action Sports Films w/ Bryce Phillips & Jesse Burtner
For our very first episode, we sat down with two industry shapers to take stock of a shifting moment. Bryce Phillips, founder of evo, and Jesse Burtner, creative director behind Think Thank and longtime Mervin Mfg collaborator, unpack how the action sports world has changed: retail moving from…
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The Outliers Project was started to highlight individuals, outliers, and dreamers who dared to create and to innovate. From artists and musicians, to action sports athletes and entrepreneurs these individuals are the driving force behind the movements that will inspire and change the way we interact with the world around us. The Outliers Project is about seeing what you see in the world that excites all of us, and diving into issues and topics relevant to our lives. The ideas behind the people, the community—it’s all a part of our culture and that’s what this podcast and blog digs into.
HOSTED BY
Molly Hawkins
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