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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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57:28

Managing Risk on Snow with Chris Kaipio & Jordy Shepherd

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2026/10/01

As an occupation, working in the snow sports industry as a guide, instructor, coach and patroller has one of the highest non-fatal workplace injury rates in North America.Recreationally, skiing and snowboarding are often thought of as extreme sports, although I think we can all agree there is a range to that. Still, both resort and backcountry skiing and riding come with a much higher level of risk than most sports.In this episode, Jordy and Chris discuss what it takes to manage risk in snow more

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01:15:05

Common Mistakes Behind Accidents with Colin Zacharius

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2026/09/24

Why do backcountry accidents happen? What can we reduce the chance of them happening to us?In this episode, Chris and Jordy are joined again by Colin Zacharius to hear his take on some of the common mistakes that peoplåe can make that lead to accidents.Colin is a well-known ACMG / IFMGA Mountain Guide and Canadian Avalanche Association Avalanche Professional. Colin has worked in the adventure industry since 1980 as a guide, guide trainer, avalanche educator, accident investigator, risk management

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58:18

Decision-Making Priorities & Risk with André-Jean Maheu

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2026/09/15

Improving Decision Making – How We Think - with André-Jean Maheu One of the human factors that is common in adventure decision making is motivation. Motivation can cause us to prioritize choices that offer rewards ahead of safety. It can influence us to prioritize meeting our needs ahead of the needs of others. And it can also cause us to prioritize the safety of others ahead of our own personal safety.One way that we can reduce the chance of our motivation causing errors in our judgement is to

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01:16:23

Improving Decision Making – How We Think - with...

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2026/09/09

How does our thinking affect our decision-making? The Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman first shared the idea of system 1 and system 2 thinking in his groundbreaking book Thinking Fast and Slow.In this episode, Andre-Jean Maheu joins Chris and Jordy to discus System 1 and 2 thinking systems and how that affects our decision making.AJ is an avalanche professional and member of the Canadian Ski Guide Association. He has also worked as a professional ski patroller for the past 20 years

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53:36

Giving Feedback Effectively with Tami Lyon

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2026/09/01

Giving Feedback Effectively with Tami LyonHow can we deliver feedback in a way that makes it effective? One thing that can cause a lot of damage to people’s confidence and relationships with each other is giving and receiving feedback. Being able to deliver performance related feedback in a way that is both effective and welcomed, is an art unto itself.In this episode, Tami Lyon joins Chris and Jordy to discuss strategies that we can all use to deliver feedback more effectively.Tami Lyon, an

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42:02

The Art of Capturing Adventure with Mike Crane

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2026/07/10

People have been recording their adventures for tens of thousands of years. From cave drawings, to songs, to cell phone selfies and GoPro videos. Wanting to have a record of our achievements has always been a very human need.Capturing our adventures is an integral part of the experience that helps us to tell the story of what happened. When done well, it can add value to an experience and depending on how it’s done. It can even redefine our memory of what happened after the fact.In this episode of

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46:09

Adapting to Different Cultures with Patrick Barrow

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2026/06/20

How can we adapt to new cultures when we are travelling or working aboard?In this episode we look at culture from the perspective of being an international visitor or someone working in another culture. Being immersed in another culture gives us a unique opportunity to see how other people live. It also gives us a great opportunity to see what it feels like to be a visitor. You may find yourself leading people from different cultures, putting yourself in the position of being the visitor can be a

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56:19

Understanding Culture as a Leader with Patrick Barrow

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2026/05/07

What do leaders need to be aware of when they are leading people from different cultures? People from different cultures may use different language, and have different customs, behaviours, values and even risk tolerances than you are used to. They may also have different expectations and tastes, as well as a different world view.What may be acceptable to you, may not be acceptable to them and vice versa. This can create challenges for leaders if they do not know how to adapt their leadership

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01:03:45

Imagining the Worst-Case Scenario with Chris Kaipio&...

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2026/02/10

Why is it so important to imagine the worst-case scenario? What happens when we don’t?In this episode of Delivering Adventure, Chris and Jordy share a few examples from their adventure industry careers to illustrate the importance of considering the worst-case scenario. They also talk about some of the factors that can compromise our ability to foresee what can happen if things don’t go to plan and how we can avoid falling into these traps.Chris Kaipio has been working in the adventure guiding

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01:06:32

Decision Making in High-Risk Situations with Colin...

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2026/01/28

Why is it so hard to make good decisions in higher risk situations? High risk situations are ones where a mistake, a miscalculation or a mishap can lead to serious or unmanageable consequences. These situations are the ones where uncertainty and the threat of experiencing serious consequences can apply pressure that can cloud our judgment.In this episode Chris and Jordy are joined by Colin Zacharius to explore how we can make better decisions in high-risk situations.Colin is well renowned ACMG

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01:14:08

Managing the Hazardous Attitudes with Geoff Powter

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2026/01/13

How can we manage hazardous attitudes in ourselves and others?The FAA in the US has identified five hazardous attitudes that are present in human caused airline crashes. These five attitudes are anti-authority, impulsivity, invulnerability, macho and resignation. These attitudes can negatively impact judgment in any risk-taking situation.In this episode Geoff Powter shares how we can manage these hazardous attitudes in ourselves and others.Geoff Powter is a retired psychologist, an experienced

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01:03:39

Recognizing Hazardous Attitudes with Geoff Powter

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2025/12/23

How can our attitude affect our decision-making? The Federal Aviation Agency in the US has identified five specific attitudes that are present in airline accidents when human error is the cause of the crash or mishap. They have labeled these attitudes, the five hazardous attitudes.These attitudes are anti-authority, invulnerability, impulsivity, macho, and resignation. Each of these attitudes can negatively impact our judgement on a sub-conscious level, meaning we may not be aware of their

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01:01:06

Longevity Delivering Adventure with Nadio Hachey

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2025/12/02

Longevity Delivering Adventure with Nadio HacheyWhat does it take to enjoy a long career as an adventure guide, instructor or manager?The reality is that there is quite a high rate of attrition in the adventure industry when it comes to guides and instructors. It can be costly to get certifications and experience in both time and money. It can be physically demanding. It can also be far from financially lucrative. For all of these reasons many people drop out early in their career.That said, there

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01:02:38

Smart Risk Taking with Barry Blanchard

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2025/11/18

Smart Risk Taking with Barry BlanchardHow can you know when to actually take a risk on a personal or professional level? What would a good risk, or a smart risk look like before and after?In this episode Chris and Jordy are joined by world renowned Alpinist, ACMG / IFMGA Mountain Guide, speaker, author and friend of the show, Barry Blanchard to discuss what a Smart Risk looks like.Barry Blanchard taps into his long career of risk taking and guiding to share the essential elements of what good risks

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25:32

Case Study: Keeping Control with Madeleine Martin-Preney

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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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

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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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