Blister Speaker Series 2.2: Honnold Foundation ED, Dory Trimble
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
When world-renowned climber, Alex Honnold, was looking for a new executive director for his Honnold Foundation, he tapped Dory Trimble. And with the massive success of the film, Free Solo, Dory has guided what started as Alex's small, personal passion project into a rapidly growing nonprofit working on global projects.
The aim of the Honnold Foundation is to reduce environmental impact and address inequality by supporting solar energy initiatives worldwide. And in this conversation, Dory unpacks for us what that means, what it’s like working with Alex, how she’s managed the explosive growth of the Honnold Foundation, and she offers excellent advice for anyone interested in getting involved with an organization committed to doing social good.
We opened our time at Western by showing this brief film of a project that the Honnold Foundation is currently involved with in Puerto Rico:
TOPICS & TIMES:
- How did you first get involved with the Honnold Foundation? (4:30)
- How has HF changed? (11:50)
- Dory’s formative experience with the Peace Core (16:15)
- The impact of ‘Free Solo’ (18:50)
- How is working with Alex? (26:55)
- How do you choose projects to work on? (28:05)
- Why solar? (33:07)
- What will HF look like in ten years? (37:55)
- Advice for those who want to do good in the world? (39:49)
- Western vs. Proust (45:55)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Blister Podcast, a program dedicated to interesting people, the great outdoors, and a bunch of other stuff we like. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:20.0 | Last month, we kicked off season two of our monthly Blister speaker series at Western |
| 0:25.6 | Colorado University, where we host influential figures of the outdoor industry right |
| 0:31.1 | here in the beautiful Gunnison Valley of Colorado. |
| 0:34.9 | And next month, on Tuesday, November 5th, our guest will be the CEO of Moment |
| 0:40.5 | Skies, Luke Jacobson. So you should all come out on Tuesday, November 5th, for that one. |
| 0:47.1 | And this past Tuesday at Western, our speaker was Dory Trimble, because when world-renowned |
| 0:52.2 | climber Alex Honnold was looking for a new executive |
| 0:55.3 | director for his Honnold Foundation, he chose Dory. |
| 0:59.7 | And with the massive success of the film Free Solo, Dori has guided what started as Alex's |
| 1:05.6 | small personal passion project into a rapidly growing nonprofit that works on global projects. |
| 1:13.2 | The mission of the Honnold Foundation is to reduce environmental impact and address |
| 1:18.5 | inequality by supporting solar energy initiatives worldwide. And in this conversation, Dory |
| 1:26.0 | unpacks for us what that means, what it's like working |
| 1:29.6 | with Alex, and what it's been like to be at the helm and managing the explosive growth |
| 1:35.8 | of the Honnold Foundation. |
| 1:38.3 | This is a terrific conversation, and I guarantee that you will appreciate learning more |
| 1:43.4 | about Dory's work with Alex, |
| 1:45.6 | her direction of the Honnold Foundation, |
| 1:48.0 | and the really good advice she has to offer to anyone who would like to get involved with, |
| 1:53.2 | or start, an organization that is committed to doing social good. |
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