Ep. 508: When Misadventure Leads to Solutions - Ombraz Founders Nikolai Paloni & Jensen Brehm
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when you have an idea to make something better? You can sit on the idea and never tell anyone or you can take action. Today's story featured two friends, Nikolai and Jensen, who decided to do something about an issue they saw in sunglasses and adventure sports. We hope you enjoy this conversation full of insight, experience, and adventure!
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| 0:00.0 | If you don't know where to start, just start writing it down in a structure that makes sense |
| 0:08.1 | so you can think about things and you can make progress. You're not always like mulling the same |
| 0:13.2 | idea. You're getting that idea on paper. This is the adventure sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:27.8 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that |
| 0:38.5 | next adventure. |
| 0:40.0 | The Adventure Sports podcast is brought to you by Camp Crate, the leaders in fully planned |
| 0:45.2 | self-guided backpacking adventures, as well as backpacking gear rental. |
| 0:49.9 | You can check them out at campcrate.net. |
| 0:53.3 | Thank you. You can check them out at campcrate.net. |
| 1:08.1 | Hey folks, today is a life outside the box episode. |
| 1:10.4 | And, you know, I just want to reiterate what that is. |
| 1:12.1 | That is basically anyone living life differently differently whether that's through trying to start a business or through you know living |
| 1:18.0 | full time and an RV with a family just people that are doing life very differently and one of the |
| 1:24.1 | most common things i hear is is people that have ideas but never act on them. |
| 1:29.3 | So today we have a story of some guys who were on an adventure, saw a need, and decided to act on it. |
| 1:36.4 | And that action turns into its own adventure to say the least. |
| 1:41.9 | You know, I co-own and co-founded Camp Crate, which was who this |
| 1:47.2 | brings you this show. And that company, you know, it's been a crazy adventure starting it from |
| 1:53.5 | the ground up. Like it's just been, it's taken over my life in a lot of ways, kind of like an |
| 1:59.4 | adventure would when you're out there biking or running or |
| 2:02.8 | hiking or overlanding for months on end, it's, it becomes your life. And there's so many good |
| 2:09.7 | things in this episode that we'll touch on. But the company that we're talking about is called |
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