Ep. 1160: Land Speed Records, Mountaineering, Entrepreneurship, Skiing and More with Tom Kubiniec
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Mountaineering, Land Speed Racing: Tom Kubiniec on Heavy Metal Roots, Mountaineering, Skiing, Speed Records, Risk Tolerance, and Turning Adventure into Business Success. In this engaging conversation, Tom Kubiniec shares his unconventional journey from being a heavy metal guitarist to becoming a successful entrepreneur and land speed record setter. We visit not only about speed records, mountaineering, and skiing, we also discuss the importance of quick decision-making, creativity, and risk tolerance in both adventure sports and business. Tom emphasizes how adventure sports provide clarity and focus, allowing individuals to embrace uncertainty and make decisive choices. He also highlights the significance of sales skills for turning passions into profitable ventures, and the value of simplicity in innovation. Through his experiences, Tom illustrates how adventure sports can serve as a catalyst for personal and professional growth.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | We talk with adventures from around the globe to give you the inspiration you need to get |
| 0:14.3 | started in the outdoors or keep moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.7 | Now here's your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 0:21.3 | Hello everyone and happy New Year, happy New Year, happy New Year. It is New Year's Eve. |
| 0:27.4 | And I'm looking forward to sending off 2025 in style and welcoming 2026. What a year. |
| 0:36.8 | 2025 was pretty darn good. You have to admit, could have been a lot |
| 0:41.9 | worse. Could have been much worse. So I appreciate 2025 for what it had to offer. And I wish you |
| 0:49.3 | the happiest new year and have a safe and joyful and fun celebration. |
| 0:58.2 | And now here is today's episode. |
| 1:03.2 | Hey friends, thanks for joining the Adventure Sports podcast again today. |
| 1:07.6 | This is going to be a real kind of a cool one. |
| 1:09.9 | Sometimes we talk to someone about a sport or an adventure, a trip that they did, but we're |
| 1:16.2 | going to have a longer arc to this one. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm talking today to Tom Kubanek, and I want to talk about his life of having an adventurous |
| 1:25.4 | life and maybe a life that is a little unexpected, a little less |
| 1:30.7 | off the beaten path, but it really worked out for him. And Tom Kubanick started out right out of |
| 1:36.4 | high school as a guitarist for heavy metal bands and toured around doing that for a while. And then |
| 1:41.1 | he got into mountaineering and he did that for a while and um he's most |
| 1:45.4 | recently working on setting a land speed record at the bonneville salt flats and we're going to talk |
| 1:52.2 | about that a little bit um he also is an entrepreneur started his own company has been successful |
| 1:57.3 | with that so lots to talk about tom welcome, welcome to the program. Well, thank you |
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