TPM Episode 436: Janelle Yip, Pro Skier

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Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Janelle Yip's path to becoming a pro skier was more unexpected than unconventional. She grew up as a skier on the slopestyle path, and while she loved it, being a comp skier wasn’t in the cards for Janelle. So, after a gap year led her to Revelstoke, Janelle never gave up on her pro skier dreams, giving herself a 5-year window to make it happen. In year one, Janelle met the crew that would become “The Blondes," altering the trajectory of her life. In what started as a play for free beer, “The Blondes” took the ski world by storm and, in turn, launched three ski careers. On the podcast, Janelle and I talk about the influence of Windell’s, starting an all-girls ski crew, Intersection, MSP, and so much more. One of Janelle’s partners in crime, Emily Childs, asks the Inappropriate Questions.

Janelle Yip Show Notes:

4:00: Parking, front teeth, sponsors, Ringettes, Windell’s, Canada Olympic Park, her gap year, and the dream of becoming a pro skier

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22:00: Revelstoke, meeting Tonje, meeting Emily, making ends meet in Revy, starting a ski crew, sharing a sled, WSI’s Intersection fiascos, and MSP

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42:00: Movie tours, TGR, personal projects, “The Blondes” identity, and women

50:00: Inappropriate Questions with Emily Childs

Transcript

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0:00.0	Have a seat on your porcelain throne.
0:02.3	It's time to talk some shit on the Powell movement.
0:13.5	Welcome to the Powell movement.
0:16.9	I'm your host Mike Powell, and I feel like I'm starting to sound like a broken record on these
0:21.4	intros. I update you on my wife's stage 4 cancer, and then I tell you how terrible her life and
0:26.9	ours is. And well, this week, I'm just going to say thank you to all the people who have donated
0:31.5	to our GoFundMe or shared or thought about us. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We're feeling the
0:36.3	love along with the pain and
0:37.9	sadness that dominates life. And over the past three years of this, my saving grace has been
0:43.0	skiing. I go to the mountains, I forget for a few hours, and that feels healthy to me. But I didn't
0:48.4	have much of that this year. And while I should have just replaced skiing with therapy,
0:52.1	there's really just no time. Life is busy and I'll put myself back together at some other time.
0:57.2	But now it's time for a podcast and I'm not going to go into details about my personal life
1:01.4	or any other shit for that matter.
1:03.5	I'm just going to talk about my guest.
1:05.5	And this week, my guest didn't have a clear path to pro skierdom until she and her crew,
1:10.4	known as the Blonds,
1:11.6	got themselves a beer sponsorship and took the internet over. From there, Janelle Yip and her
1:16.6	crew were off to the races, not blazing a path just for women, but blazing a path for fun.
1:22.2	And you could feel that in everything that Janelle and the blondes have done.
1:25.8	Before we get into the podcast and talk about
1:27.8	Janelle's life and times, I want to thank you for listening each week. I want to ask you to tell
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