Ep. 1015: Appalachian Mountain Club President & CEO - Nicole Zussman
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
When Nicole finished climbing to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, she knew something had changed about her. Soon after, she left her corporate career in search of a new trail and challenge, one that had never been done before. She found that path at Appalachian Mountain Club, a 150-year-old organization whose purpose is to foster the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the outdoors…and one that had never had a woman leader.
You may know AMC through its world-class recreational network of professionally maintained trails and best-in-class outdoor program centers, lodges, cabins, camps, and campsites. From backcountry campsites to front country lodges to world-famous high mountain huts, AMC has had an undeniable impact on the understanding of and appreciation of the natural world for over a century.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:10.8 | Today's episode's kind of cool. |
| 0:12.0 | You know, I know we've featured some CEOs in the past and folks who've started brands in the outdoors. |
| 0:18.9 | Well, Nicole here is, this is very unique. |
| 0:22.8 | She is the first full-time woman leader of the Appalachian Mountain Club. |
| 0:29.9 | And if you've ever heard of Appalachian Mountain Club or AMC, it is a huge organization that has been around almost 150 years promoting the exploration and |
| 0:42.3 | understanding and protection of the Appalachian Mountains, kind of in the northern, northeast |
| 0:47.4 | corner of the U.S., and a hugely influential organization. |
| 0:53.1 | And they have a famous series of huts and they help up with a lot |
| 0:57.5 | with the appellation trail itself and the cool things they offered to communities is so great and so |
| 1:04.2 | this was a really cool opportunity to be able to sit down and talk with Nicole here about how |
| 1:09.6 | she got to this position. And, you know, |
| 1:12.2 | life's an adventure, careers in adventure. And her story about how she got to AMC is really awesome. |
| 1:19.2 | So I'm going to save it for the show. And by the way, this interview ends abruptly. It's because |
| 1:23.8 | when we first got Nicole on, I wanted to talk to her, you know, for the Adventure |
| 1:29.4 | Sports podcast. But the more we talked, I actually switched gears and was like, you know what, |
| 1:33.3 | this is a perfect story for Without Compromise, the show I host through my day job at Athletic |
| 1:38.7 | Brewing. And so I first published it there last week and now I'm publishing it here. So I |
| 1:43.5 | kind of asked questions as if I was interviewing her I'm publishing it here. So I kind of asked questions |
| 1:44.8 | as if I was interviewing her for Without Compromise and I clipped some of those for our show. But it's |
| 1:51.1 | just a, it's a perfect interview for both. So all right, let's go ahead and dive in. |
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