Hey everybody and welcome back to the Blister podcast. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister,

and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Our guest today is Elena Height, who is an X-Games gold medalist, a two-time Olympian, and somebody who, everybody

in my world, describes first and foremost, as a badass.

Now, Elena is currently going through a pretty big transition in her life, and so I wanted

to talk to her about that and about her new film project called

Blank Canvas, which you all should definitely check out. And we'll include a link to the film

Blank Canvas in the show notes to this episode. And so in this conversation, Elena and I talk

about competitive drive. We talk about the importance for all of

us to get better at dealing with the changes and transitions that are an inevitable part of

every human life. And Elena shares some of the specific practices and disciplines that she

employs to handle said transitions.

We also talk about how similar or different Elena thinks it is in preparing to ride big backcountry

lines versus getting ready to drop into a half-pipe contest.

We talk about her time in the mountains with the likes of

Hannah Beeman and Travis Rice and Danny Davis and more. This episode is presented by Survivor

and their Survivor Endurance phone case for the new iPhone 12.

As I've said, I always have my phone on me when I'm mountain biking or skiing, since we use them to shoot a lot of bike and ski photos and videos.

And the Survivor Endurance case is a lightweight and pretty slim case that still offers

solid protection for those inevitable crashes or phone drops

that we all eventually have.

And speaking of inevitable crashes, I had my first crash of the year this past weekend.

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