EP 277: Michelle LeBlanc — Project Pride 2025, the Political Pendulum Swing, and Meeting in the Middle

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Steven Dimmitt

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Michelle LeBlanc returns to the podcast to talk about her annual Project Pride event in Squamish, B.C. (August 29-30, 2025). She shared her personal story and why she started Project Pride, and we talked about cultural and political pendulum swings, sensationalism in the media, and what to expect if you attend her upcoming event. You can buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/project-pride-squamish-2025-tickets-1415859827859?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAad_JFGfbgS_SEWNkjXVlG2Me2S_7YVmPskjfFcyihN-BBdKJmCPsrNv0NDu1w_aem_uC2R3rhGN0dtaZ3DICGmSw You can work with Alex at http://innersourceperformancepsychology.com/

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.
0:06.5	Today's episode is a short tweener episode with my friend Michelle LeBlanc to promote Project Pride 2025.
0:14.9	This is Michelle's second appearance on the podcast.
0:17.8	Michelle is the creator of Project Pride Squamish, which is a bouldering event for
0:23.9	2S-L-G-B-T-Q-I-A-plus humans taking place this August. The dates of the event are August 29th
0:32.1	and 30th. I thought Michelle and I were just going to record a short 20 or 30 minute bonus episode to promote the event.
0:38.9	But we ended up having a really lovely and honest and interesting conversation.
0:43.9	We talked about her background and why she created Project Pride.
0:48.2	And then we talked about our political climate right now and how the cultural and political pendulum keeps swinging
0:56.6	back and forth and how everything's become sensationalized in the media and yeah, it was cool.
1:04.1	It was just a really good chat between two friends who respect each other, who come from
1:08.0	very different backgrounds, just talking about what's going on
1:11.7	right now. This is the fourth year of Project Pride. Tickets are available right now. I will link to
1:17.3	the ticket purchase page where you can sign up and buy tickets right there in your podcast app.
1:23.2	Please enjoy Michelle LeBlanc.
1:40.2	Michelle LeBlanc. Michelle, welcome back. It's good to see you again.
1:41.9	Yeah, nice to see you as well.
1:43.6	I want to give a little context for people
1:45.2	because our first conversation was like three years ago. I was just looking at this this morning.
1:49.8	It was July 2022 that that came out. I think that was your first year of Project Pride. So this is,
1:55.9	that was three years ago. Now this is year four. Did we just record once? Have we done this? Have we done this multiple times? I know I've
2:03.8	promoted it, but I think a lot of that was on social media. Yeah, I think we just did the ones.
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