Ep. 869: Managing Outdoor Companies While Biking Across Africa - Revisited - Jen Gurecki
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Bikepacking, Skiing: Jen Gurecki Bikes Across Africa – CEO Coalition Snow All-Women's Ski/Snowboard Brand, Juicy Bits Podcast Co-Host, Zawadisha Founder, Sisu Magazine Editor.
Originally aired - August 02, 2019
Jen Gurecki is an avid adventurer (recently biked across Africa) and serial entrepreneur. She is the CEO of the all-women’s ski and snowboard company Coalition Snow, co-host of the podcast Juicy Bits, founder of the social enterprise Zawadisha, and editor of the magazine Sisu, among other things, I'm sure.
How in the world did she get her hands into so many things and how does she manage to keep it all together? Listen in to hear her amazing story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure Sports podcast, long time no see. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:26.1 | I wanted to apologize. |
| 0:27.3 | I wasn't able to get an episode up last week. |
| 0:29.9 | If you don't know, I live in Florida, the state of Florida here in the U.S. |
| 0:33.4 | And if you don't know, we got hit by a pretty major hurricane last week. |
| 0:37.3 | And right around Tuesday, I'll just tell you all the quick story. |
| 0:40.2 | On Tuesday, it was very clear it was coming right for us. |
| 0:45.4 | And it just developed over just a couple days. |
| 0:48.0 | It was like not even on our radar, didn't know anything about it. |
| 0:50.9 | Then all of a sudden, you need to evacuate. |
| 0:53.8 | And there were police officers |
| 0:55.2 | going around town, knocking on doors, making sure people were getting out of there. I live very |
| 0:59.9 | close to the water, and it was tracking right for us. I'm talking like the middle of the storm was |
| 1:06.4 | going to go right over my house. And it was a worst case scenario. There was huge storm surges, which is basically |
| 1:12.9 | just the sea level rising a dozen feet or more in places. And there was no way we were going to get |
| 1:21.7 | out of this without some serious damage to our home. So I spent all of Tuesday and part of Wednesday |
| 1:26.7 | like getting everything ready and getting the heck part of Wednesday, like, getting everything |
| 1:27.7 | ready and getting the heck out of there, getting my family out of there. And it went over the |
| 1:33.7 | course of Tuesday night from worst case scenario for us, like our house is going to get demolished |
| 1:40.1 | all the way to best case scenario considering the storm, you know, |
| 1:45.7 | was still going to hit us. |
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