Rad Season Action Sports Podcast

Paris Norriss is a producer, entrepreneur and TV show host on a mission to hunt down the most extreme and fun adventures in Dubai. Paris otherwise known as the Guy in Dubai is the producer and presenter of the on-demand TV show seeking out the best experiences Dubai has to offer. From learning to be a F1 driving, shark diving, racing the world’s fastest powerboat and ziplining between mountains. ...

David Hellard is an adventurer, ultra marathon runner, obstacle race enthusiast, running journalist, founder of Caffeine Bullet and presenter on The Bad Boy Running Podcast. Londoner David has taken part in marathons, ultras, unique and quirky running events all over the world. He is the founder of Caffeine Bullet a concentrated caffeine sweet, packed with electrolytes, organises the Great British...

Circe Wallace is a former pro snowboarder, pioneering action sports agent, entrepreneur, producer, mother and ceiling smasher.  Circe started her career as a pro snowboarder in the 90's and then went on to represent athletes as an action sports agent for the past two decades and today as the Executive Vice President at Wasserman.  She manages and mentors some of the biggest names in action sp...

Josh Stinton is a Charity Adventurer on a mission to take on some of the world's hardest adventure challenges to raise awareness and money for small charities. 5 years ago Josh set out on a 90km cross country skiing adventure in Vasaloppet, Sweden despite never having skied before. This was the first charity challenge that would change the course of his life forever. He has represented Austra...

Ian Taylor is an adventurer, Everest summiteer, expedition leader, entrepreneur and founder of Ian Taylor Trekking.  In 2008 Ian Taylor became the youngest Irishman to climb to the top of the world and upon doing so raised €100,000 to build the Mt. Everest primary school in Uganda with Irish charity Fields of Life. Ian found his purpose and set out on building his own trekking company helping peop...

Jamie 'MoCrazy' Crane-Mauzy is a former pro skier, motivational speaker, ambassador, ski guide and talk show host.  At 22 years old on April 11, 2015, Jamie MoCrazy's life changed forever. She crashed at the skiing world tour finals in Whistler and fell into a coma for 10 days. She went from being one of the best skiers in the world to relearning how to walk and talk. After her unex...

Ian Cairns is the original power surfer, surf coach, entrepreneur and co-founder of World of Waves TV Show and Surfing.com. Growing up surfing in Western Australia provided Ian 'Kanga' Cairns as a 13 year old with the perfect training ground for the huge waves in Hawaii where he moved in the early 70's.  Ian formed the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP), the first ever rule...

Dan Wedgwood is the Marketing Director of Adventure Travel Company, The Adventurists. They create what can only be described as the most insane events on the planet such as the Ricksaw Run across India, Mongol Rally and Monkey Run through Morocco on a tiny motorbike to name a few.  In 2005 Dan took part in the Mongol Rally. A year later he packed in his sensible job and helped launch The Adventuri...

Frederick Schuett is an ice climber, extreme expedition leader, professional volcano zipliner and the founder of ONE AXE Pursuits and ONE AXE Extreme. Frederick was part of a National Geographic documentary ziplining the ‘Door to Hell’ crater in Turkmenistan. He’s done world first stunts like lowering VIP clients into a volcano crater and led ziplining expeditions over an active lava lake in Ethio...

Crystal Hilsley is the founder of Crystal Clear Nutrition Group and Crystal Clear Kids which provides the step-by-step guide on how to transition families to incorporate mindfulness practices and improve nutritional choices for performance, recovery and to strengthen family bonds. She also sits on the board of the Global Action Sports Federation and is a Mentor at San Diego Sports Innovators.   Cr...

Friends Bob Carlson and Chris Jensen launched Arbor Snowboards in 1995 with the focus on sustainability. They were the first snowboard company to replace the plastic top snowboards with responsibly sourced Koa wood, sustainably harvested from Hawaii veneer and pioneered the use of renewable alternatives changing the industry forever. Then came along Arbor Skateboards initially built from old snowb...

Ben Baker is the Managing Director of EXTREME's International Sports and Leisure Destinations. Growing up Ben had a fascination with travel and adventure having lived all over the world from the Middle East to South East Asia the Americas and Africa. He graduated with a degree in Hotel and Tourism and started his career in tourism as a tour operator in the UK.  Ben has 20 years experience in...

Mikey Taylor is a skateboarder, investor, entrepreneur and Founder of Commune Capital a real estate investment fund. Growing up in Thousand Oaks, Southern California, Mikey was hooked on skateboarding and turned pro when he was 17. For two decades his whole world was skating with multiple sponsorship deals, he was part of the original Street League Skateboarding crew and was one of the most recogn...

Gordon McArthur is a professional Canadian ice climber . Ever since being introduced to climbing 24 years ago it has been his passion and obsession to climb whether it’s sport, mixed or ice climbing. He’s won the North American Ice Climbing Championships two years in a row in 2014 and 2015, went to the Olympics as a demonstration sport for ice climbing in Sochi and came 4th in the World Cup on one...

Brett Clarke is the Chief Commercial Officer of newly formed action sports media, events and lifestyle company Thrill One Sports & Entertainment. Brett started his career in the sports industry in Australian Rugby League and then went on to Nitro Circus as Head of Business Development and Marketing which lead to his role as Chief Commercial Officer at Nitro Circus.    Thrill One has combined t...

Stix otherwise known as Steve Nilsen is the Vice President of Lifestyle Marketing at Liquid Death Mountain Water. Stix started his career off in the world of action sports at Airwalk as a Snowboard Boot Developer then Snow Division Manager. He then went on to be Sports Marketing Manager at Red Bull followed by creating the Lifestyle Marketing program for Pabst Brewing Company pushing the limits on...

Jamie Barrow is Britain’s fastest snowboarder and Guinness World Record holder for the fastest speed on a snowboard being towed by a vehicle. Back in 2013 Jamie had a serious accident at a Snowboard Cross event which saw him bow out of the British Snowboard Cross team and dashed his hopes of competing in the Winter Olympics. Doctors told him that he wouldn’t be able to snowboard again and he was s...

Mike Corey is an adventure traveler, YouTuber, BBC TV Host and seeker of crazy experiences. Mike has always had an interest in the more unusual parts of the world. After finishing a Marine Biology Degree in Canada in 2007 Mike took his backpack and volunteered on ocean conservation studies as a research assistant. He brought his camera with him and documented his travels which led to a new career...

Mike Powell is a ski industry veteran, action sports podcast host and producer of the Powell Movement Podcast. Powell grew up in Washington, DC and went to Radford University in Virginia studying speech communications. He moved to Vail, Colorado after college and got hooked on snowboarding. He spent 16 years in marketing, action sports management and working with the world’s best skiers in the wor...

Don Meek is a media, marketing and entertainment executive and the Global Chief Content Officer and GM North America at FUEL TV.   California native Don started his career at Prime Ticket Network managing a number of sports events including the US Open of Surfing. He then went on to Sony Pictures where he launched international television networks and headed up sales and marketing for one of the p...

Courtney Gresik is the Vice President and General Manager of Dew Tour. Coming from a financial background Gresik started her career in the action sports industry in 2005 working at TransWorld Media and the World Surf League. Gresik now oversees the business, partnerships, event operations, marketing and content strategy of Dew Tour's contest series of skateboarding and snow events. Prior to b...

 Alistair Gosling is an investor, entrepreneur and founder of EXTREME. With a passion for extreme and adventure sports Alistair set out on a mission to build a TV distribution company and in 1998 at the age of 27 he had created The Extreme Sports TV Channel which was televised in more than 60 countries worldwide and by doing so The EXTREME brand franchise was born. Today, EXTREME spans across even...

Chris Coté is an action sports events host, musician, broadcaster, writer and podcast host and one of the most recognisable voices in the action sports community. Hailing from Southern California, Chis grew up skating and surfing and had a short stint at competing before moving behind the scenes in the surf industry. In the late 90’s he got his big break as the Editor in Chief at Transworld Surf M...

Andrew Lockhead is a Canadian travel and entertainment entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Stay22. In 2016 native Montrealers, Andrew and co-founder Hamed came up with the concept of Stay22, a location-based and interactive map that helps event-goers and travelers book accommodations and travel experiences near events or destinations. The challenge for event and festival goers is there are so many...

In the next episode Oli Russell-Cowan chats to Risto Kalmre, designer, event producer, founder and organiser of Simple Session one of the world's premier action sports events for skateboarding and BMX. Simple Session had it's 20th Anniversary in February 2020 just before the pandemic hit and the events world changed forever.   Risto, grew up in Tartu, southern Estonia. During the 90&apos...