Climbing, Business, and Chasing Big Dreams with Sasha DiGiulian

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Sasha DiGiulian is one of the best female rock climbers in the world. She's spent over a decade competing internationally, she’s a three-time US National Champion, a World Champion, and she’s had over 30 first female ascents. Sasha is also the founder and CEO of the superfood protein bar company, Send Bars.

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0:00.0	Exciting news you guys, wild ideas worth living is now available on YouTube.
0:07.0	You can find our latest episodes uploaded their weekly, plus video clips with some of our guests that give you a peek behind the scenes.
0:14.1	Check out all the content at YouTube.com slash REI. professional athlete Sasha DeJulian is one of the best female rock climbers in the world.
0:33.2	She's spent over a decade competing internationally.
0:36.2	She's a three-time US national champion,
0:38.8	and she's had over 31st female ascents.
0:42.2	When she began competitive climbing as a 12-year-old in the early 2000s,
0:46.2	climbing gyms in the United States were few and far between. As her career has developed,
0:51.9	the sport has become more mainstream.
0:54.0	Today, there's even a rock climbing emoji on your phone, and Sasha helped design it.
0:59.0	In the past few years, Sasha's career has grown even bigger.
1:04.0	She wrote a memoir called Take the Lead and she recently developed the Snack Company, Send Bars. I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI co-op studios production brought to you by Capital One.
1:21.6	Sasha D. Julian,
1:23.0	welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:25.0	You are a woman who has had so many beautiful wild ideas that you've accomplished.
1:29.0	So I'm excited to have you on.
1:30.0	Thanks so much for having me, Shelby.
1:32.0	It's a true honor to be on your podcast.
1:35.0	But I thought we'd go back to the beginning because you're an extremely athletic woman
1:39.0	and there's a lot of things you could have done in life. You could have been like a professional ice skater, maybe a
1:43.3	professional gymnast, but you chose rock climbing at a time where like wasn't super well known. What hooked you in about rock climbing?
1:52.9	I kind of feel like climbing chose me.
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