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Delivering Adventure

Chris Kaipio & Jordy Shepherd

This is the podcast for people who want to share adventure like a pro – with their friends, family, or as a profession. Each episode explores a different aspect of adventure delivery with top experts to get their best stories, insights, and trade secrets. Learn what it takes to deliver epic experiences to yourself and others, from the mountains to the office, and beyond. Go farther, become better and achieve more. Chris Kaipio and Jordy Shepherd explore the essential skills and techniques that

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25:32

Case Study: Keeping Control with Madeleine Martin-Preney

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/10/30

When it comes to delivering adventure, the difference between control and chaos can be as little as one small mistake. A situation can seem to be under complete control one moment and the next it can be spiralling away.The worst-case scenario for leaders often starts with something small. It can be a trip, a fall, a moment of butter fingers, or some other unforeseeable fumble or mistake.In this episode, Madeleine Martin-Penney shares a situation where a small misstep from one of her guests put her

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56:24

Improving Decision Making in Others with Bruce Wilson

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/10/08

How can we improve the decision making in others? When we are delivering adventure to others, it isn’t just the leader that needs to have good judgment. In every activity, there is a degree of decision-making skills that participants are going to need to be able to have, and if they don’t, the odds of achieving a good outcome start to go down.There is of course another dimension to this in that many guides and instructors aren’t just leading guests, friends or family. They may also be supervising or

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01:02:11

Self-Reflection as a Development Tool with Bill Mark

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/09/23

How can leaders use self-reflection as a development tool with others? Self-reflection is one of the most effective learning and development tools that a leader can use with themselves and their team members.Self-reflection can help everyone to learn from any mistakes that were made, flaws in systems that were uses, and to analyze actions that were taken.When guides and instructors use reflection with their guests, they create an opportunity to become aware of and to address problems. It also

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46:25

How to self-reflect with Tracey Fraser

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/09/09

How can we use self-reflection to improve our decision making, performance and experience delivery?One of the best ways to undertake personal growth as an individual, a risk-taker and leader is to build self-reflection into our day.Self-reflection can help us to improve our performance, decision making, our delivery of information, and our relationships. While experience can be an essential tool for a guide, instructor and coach to have, experience itself is only good if we learn from it.In this

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51:48

Establishing Boundaries & Control with Madeleine...

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/08/26

How can you keep control over a group without creating conflict? This is somethingthat even the most experienced leader can find challenging.When people trust their leader’s decision making and are content to follow the leader’s directions, being the leader of the group can be easy.However, most people are not willing to blindly follow their leader’s direction. An important human need is to retain a sense of control. This need for control can often be driven by our ego. It can also manifest itself

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45:37

Removing Obstacles to Self-Care with Sarah Janin

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/08/12

What stops us from practising good self-care even when we know we should? What can we do about it? We all know that practicing good self-care is important. Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy.In this episode of Delivering Adventure, Sarah Janin returns to share a story of a time where she inadvertently neglected her self-care which led to some fairly serious consequences. This leads into a great discussion around some of the obstacles around practicing good self-care for us and the people that we

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01:03:23

The Secret to Building Trust with Brenna Kelleher

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/07/29

How do you build trust? The ability to build trust is an important skill for anyone who wants to build and maintain relationships. It is also essential tool for a coach, instructor and guide to have if they want to help the people they are leading to achieve adventure.When people do not trust their leader, they are more likely to challenge decisions, question intentions and second guess direction. People are also far less likely to believe in themselves if they do not believe in their leader.In this

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56:43

How Needs Affect Decision Making with Bruce Wilson

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/07/15

How do our human needs affect our judgement? What happens fro our decision making if our needs are not being met?Using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Bruce Wilson joins Chris and Jordy to discuss the relationship between needs and judgment.Bruce Wilson is an ACMG Hiking Guide, a sea kayak guide and guide trainer for the Association of Sea Kayak Guides. He is an avalanche educator for the Canadian Avalanche Association.Bruce is a certified instructor in the Wim Hof Method, he has a master’s degree in

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53:35

Improving our Ability to Read People with Lee Povey

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/07/10

How can we improve our ability to read people? Being able to accurately interpret the people we are leading so that we can see things from their perspective helps us with decision making and problem solving. It can also help us to build trust and to recognize when their needs are not being met.In this episode, Lee Povey joins Chris and Jordyto discuss how we can al improve our emotional intelligence so that we can better empathize and understand others.Lee Povey is a high-performance leadership

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51:47

How to be a Great Instructor with Cyril Shokoples

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/07/08

How do you become a great instructor? No instructor or guide wants to be mediocre. Few students or guests want their instructor to deliver an average performance. This would hardly improve learning, create great stories or build positive memories. So how can instructors, coaches and guides be great?One person who has worked extremely hard to become consistently great at instructing and guiding is Cyril Shokoples. Cyril is an ACMG / IFMGA Mountain Guide and a past president of the Association of

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53:29

Delivering Adventure to Challenging People with Colby...

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/05/09

How do you deal with challenging people on an adventure? This is a challenge that can test even the most experienced and prepared leader.When it comes to delivering adventure, people can be grumpy. They can have unrealistic expectations. They can show up to an adventure with personal issues. They may not have the resiliency needed to manage or overcome challenges. Some people are socially awkward, while others are just rude. In some cases, people may have anger management issues. In other cases,

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01:20:52

Delivering Adventure with Carv with Morgan Engel and...

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/03/20

How can technology enhance our adventure experiences on skis? Is it possible that ski coaches, instructors and guides can be replaced by technology all together?In this episode we touch on these questions as we explore Carv with Morgan Engel and Alex Jackson. Carv is a small device that skiers can affix to their ski boots that analyzes their movement patterns as they ski. The data that Carv collects is uploaded to a user-friendly app on a Smart Phone. From here, users can either analyze the data and

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43:57

How to Stay Positive Under Duress with Cyril Derreumaux

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/03/16

How do you stay positive under duress? It doesn’t matter how adventurous, fit, risk tolerant or determined you are. At some point, you will find yourself in a situation where it becomes hard to stay positive or even to find the will to keep going. It could be as simple as sitting on a cold wet chairlift, riding your bike on a long climb thatfeels endless or out on a hike that seems to go on forever.Joining us in this episode to explore how we can effectively manage our mental state in the face of

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43:29

How to help people through adversity with Jill Wheatley

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/01/28

How can we help others when they are experiencing distress? We have all been in situations with friends, family or clients who are experiencing distress due to adversity. These challenging moments can come when people have suffered an injury, illness, or are working through physical or mental discomfort.When we find ourselves in these situations, knowing what to say, what to avoid saying, or how to act can be difficult regardless of how well intentioned we are.In this episode we are joined again by

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01:03:25

How to be More Adaptable with Wells Jones

Delivering Adventure ·

2025/01/02

An essential adventure and life skill is the ability to be adaptable. Being adaptable allows us to adjust to change and to keep our cool when we find ourselves in adverse or stressful situations.In 2005, Wells Jones set out to retrace the path of the famous soldier and adventurer TE Lawrence - also known as Lawrence of Arabia. The goal of this trip was to prepare for an acting role.On that trip, Wells and his friend Miles went through 39 border check points, trekked through the desert by camel and

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46:19

How to Increase Physical Durability with Dr. Leslie...

Delivering Adventure ·

2024/12/10

When it comes to adventure sports, one of the best ways to manage risk is to ensure that you are as physically durable as possible. Being physically durable allows you to withstand physical challenges, mistakes and mishaps like falls.In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Leslie Desrosiers. Dr. Leslie is the founder of ACL Strong. ACL Strong is a comprehensive online strength training and exercise program. While the focus of ACL Strong is on preventing knee injuries through targeted exercises and

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01:12:58

How to Prepare for Big Adventures with Cyril Derreumaux

Delivering Adventure ·

2024/10/29

How to Prepare for Big Adventures with Cyril DerreumauxWhat does it take to prepare for a really big adventure? One of the main reasons people get themselves into trouble and have a misadventure is a lack of preparation. You can have all the skills in the world, the best equipment and the best intentions, but if you aren’t prepared, you may quickly find that what you thought was a perfect plan has a gaping hole in it.Joining us is Cyril Derreumaux. Cyril is a long-distance solo kayaker, adventurer

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42:45

Building Expedition Teams with Colby Brokvist

Delivering Adventure ·

2024/10/15

What does it take to build an effective expedition team? In this episode, we are joined by master guide, guide trainer and author Colby Brokvist to discuss what goes into building successful expedition teams and how we can apply some of these lessons to any group of people we may find ourselves leading.While groups of people are each made up of a collection of unique individuals, there are commonalities to the way groups themselves develop. Colby shares some of his key strategies for team building

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50:55

Building Resilient Teams Through Adventure with...

Delivering Adventure ·

2024/10/01

How can you build a resilient team? Building effective teams is an art in itself. Building teams that are resilient enough to withstand the challenges that come with adventure, takes this art to another level. When it comes to adventure, teams can come in many forms. They can be a group of guided guests, friends on a trip together, families, or a group of guides or instructors who are working together.In this episode, we are joined by Brenna Kelleher to explore what it takes to build resilient teams

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50:24

Designing Adventure Experiences with Chris Winter

Delivering Adventure ·

2024/08/29

How do you design adventure experiences for success? It is easy to plan big adventures but getting them to be epic for the right reasons isn’t always as easy as it looks. This is especially true when we are building experiences to deliver to paying clients, our friends or family.Designing experiences that have the right pacing of adventure, and the right flow, can be the difference between epic disaster or exceptional experience.Joining us to explore what it takes to design the perfect adventure

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