Bode Miller on Education, Mental Preparation, Technology, Ski Design, & More
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BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Bode Miller is not only one of the greatest ski racers of all time, he’s also working on a number of interesting projects. So we have a very wide-ranging conversation with Bode about his involvement in rethinking education with the Institute for Civic Leadership; the use of technology and data to make skiing easier (SKEO); the crucial lesson his grandmother taught him at a young age; his greatest competitive advantage as a ski racer; his interest in reenvisioning advertising (DTX); what he aims to do in terms of ski design with Crosson Skis; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES
- Rethinking Education: ICL: Institute for Civic Leadership (2:40)
- Tech, Data, & Skiing: SKEO (11:52)
- Benefits & dangers of new technologies (17:46)
- Lesson from Bode’s grandma (24:36)
- Various factors of ski racing (30:12)
- Bode’s greatest competitive advantage (33:43)
- Rethinking Advertising: DTX & Flowcode (43:33)
- Bode on ski design: Crosson Skis (56:45)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome back to the Blister podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:15.2 | Our guest today is Bodie Miller, one of the greatest ski racers of all time, and without question, one of the |
| 0:23.5 | most interesting people to ever do it. Bodie also has a ton of stuff going on these days, |
| 0:30.6 | and so I thought this would be a good time to catch up with him and to ask him about a few of |
| 0:36.1 | those things that I was particularly curious about. |
| 0:40.4 | And what I can tell you is that the result here is a very wide-ranging and very fascinating |
| 0:46.1 | conversation. |
| 0:47.9 | Among other things, Bodie and I talk about his interest and involvement in the project of |
| 0:53.9 | rethinking education. We talk about the project of rethinking education. |
| 0:56.0 | We talk about the use of technology and data in making skiing easier and to help people |
| 1:02.7 | ski better. |
| 1:04.1 | Bodie also shares the crucial lesson that his grandmother taught him at a young age. |
| 1:09.8 | And after that, I asked Bodie about what he thought his greatest competitive advantage was as a ski racer, |
| 1:17.2 | and his answer to that is fascinating. |
| 1:20.8 | But we weren't even done there. |
| 1:23.5 | We also got into what he hopes to do in terms of ski design with cross and skis. |
| 1:29.2 | And we also talk more about technology and social media and the time he spent with Donald |
| 1:36.2 | Trump and more. |
| 1:38.6 | And so we will include links in the show notes to this episode to a number of the initiatives and companies that |
| 1:45.7 | Bodie and I talk about here. So be sure to check those out. And now let's just go ahead and get |
| 1:51.7 | to my conversation with Bodie Miller. Well, Bodie Miller, how are you today and where are you |
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