TPM Episode 208: Kim Reichhelm, Pro Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Before people were talking about women in skiing, Kim Reichhelm was the woman in skiing. From racing on the US Ski Team, to filming with Greg Stump, to creating the K2 women's program, Kim has been ahead of her time and she's done things in a way that only she can pull off. On the podcast, we talk about losing toes, making the US Ski Team, getting kicked off the ski team, and becoming the first woman of extreme skiing….It's another DO NOT MISS Episode with a living legend.
Kim Reichhelm Show Notes:
3:00: Injury, Menopause, Covid and skiwithkim.com
13:00: Losing her big toe, dyslexia, and crushing it on the playground and horseback riding
18:00: Privilege, Skiing, and SMS
22:00: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
Glade Optics: Use the code TMP10 for 10% off
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
24:30: Seeking her dad's approval, winning races, and making the team
30:30: What sucked about the US Team, getting kicked off the team, and not making the Olympics
40:30: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Keeping it real for over 60 years
Elan Skis: 75 Years of Good Times
42:30: Bad attitude with college, turning it around for an NCAA Championship, and classes and internships that made a difference
49:00: The pro tour, behind the mic, and finding a rad crew in Tahoe and proving herself
57:00: The challenges of filming, Extreme skiing contests, Crested Butte and gender
65:00: Inappropriate Questions with HP Featherman
67:00: Weedmaps Question of the Day and Ad
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a show with inappropriate language, the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week, well, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:20.4 | While a lot of us were excited for a 2021 that |
| 0:23.2 | included a vaccine, new leadership, and getting back to how life used to be, that is not happening. |
| 0:29.4 | What is happening is absolute pandemonium. And the country that for a long time was the |
| 0:34.8 | greatest in the world is a complete and utter joke. |
| 0:38.1 | I mean, love them or hate them, it's hard to argue that our sitting president is the |
| 0:42.1 | sourest loser in the history of sore losers. |
| 0:44.9 | And it makes us all look like a bunch of fucking idiots to the rest of the world. |
| 0:49.0 | But that's so vain to say, like I'm worried about what other countries think about us. |
| 0:53.7 | Because, if I'm honest with |
| 0:55.2 | myself, I used to look at news coverage of third world countries and they would have election |
| 0:59.4 | issues and they would end with violence. And I would just think to myself, that's not what you do |
| 1:03.9 | to your own country if you want to fix things. I mean, it all happened when the Black Lives Matter |
| 1:08.3 | movement exploded. There was a ton of violence, a ton of looting. And yeah, they will grab headlines and they will raise awareness, but they |
| 1:15.6 | aren't going to change policy. That happens in a civilized manner. Watching TV yesterday and |
| 1:21.6 | seeing all these symbols being violated, literally symbols that I grew up miles away from, |
| 1:26.6 | being violated on national |
| 1:28.4 | TV for the whole world to see. |
| 1:31.2 | We are that third world country that we have all seen before. |
| 1:34.6 | But we are way worse over here. |
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