Snowboarding Pioneer, Kimmy Fasani
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Kimmy Fasani is a pioneer of women’s snowboarding, mother of two, partner of Chris Benchetler, author, and (among other things) someone who has been dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis. So we checked in with Kimmy to talk about how she’s doing, what she’s been learning, and what we can learn from her.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Being diagnosed with breast cancer (1:10)
- Paying attention to signals (5:17)
- Growing up, getting into snowboarding (12:03)
- Meeting Chris Benchetler (14:48)
- Current state of snowboarding (15:47)
- Self care (19:05)
- How has this diagnosis affected your priorities? (23:00)
- Dealing with anger & curveballs (28:39)
- How do you feel today?? (32:47)
- Body Transformations (38:18)
- What else should we know?? (47:36)
- What can we do to help? (49:48)
- The Benchetler Fasani Foundation (50:46)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:16.8 | Our guest today is Kimi Fasani, who is a pioneer in women's snowboarding, the mother of two, |
| 0:24.9 | the wife and partner of Chris Ben Chetler, she is an author, and among many other things, |
| 0:32.1 | someone who has been dealing with and documenting a breast cancer diagnosis. So we wanted to check in with Kimmy to |
| 0:40.5 | talk about how she's doing today, what she has been learning, and what her story can teach us. |
| 0:48.5 | Kimmy is amazing, and her honesty and openness and willing to share with the rest of us, her experience, I think is a real gift. |
| 0:58.9 | And so I am very happy to share with you now this conversation with Kimi Fasani. |
| 1:04.9 | Here we go. |
| 1:10.3 | Well, Kimmy, first question for you, where are you today? |
| 1:15.7 | I am currently down in Oceanside, California. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm down here just about to start my radiation treatment. |
| 1:22.9 | Okay. |
| 1:23.7 | Yeah, normally every time I start a podcast conversation, I start with the question, |
| 1:29.7 | how are you today and where are you today? But I kind of think that a sustained topic of this |
| 1:37.9 | conversation is going to be the how are you today part. So I figured let's get your location |
| 1:43.9 | out of the way first, Oceanside. |
| 1:46.8 | And yeah, you know, a part of what I wanted to do here was actually really learn more about |
| 1:52.3 | how you were doing. |
| 1:54.3 | So you just said you are about to undergo radiation. |
| 2:04.9 | Can you tell us a little bit about where you are in this process? |
| 2:12.6 | I was diagnosed with breast cancer in late November last year, so 2021. |
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