The Ski Moms Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah host ski mom Lindsay DesLauriers, the President of Bolton Valley Resort in northern Vermont. Lindsay tells us the history of Bolton Valley Resort , founded by her father in the 1960’s and all about what makes it such a special place to many loyal visitors.  Bolton Valley Resort is less than 30 minutes from Burlington and is one of the few resorts i...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah host Mon Balon, the CEO of Plus Snow International.  Plus Snow is a much needed online store that sells quality plus size snow apparel. Mon tell us how she saw a huge gap in the ski apparel market that led to making Plus Snow a reality. Mon explains some of the challenges and opportunities for getting plus size ski gear produced by well known brand...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah host Constance Beverley, the CEO of Share Winter Foundation.  Share Winter is a grantmaking organization working to improve the lives, health, and fitness of youth through winter sports.  Constance explains the Share Winter Foundation business model - and how the organization works closely with carefully selected grantees to build efficient, effect...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah host ski mom Christine Koh.  Christine is a music and brain scientist turned multimedia creative. Christine spent a decade in academia before changing career paths in favor of more flexible and independent ventures. Christine wears many hats including writer, creative director, podcaster, designer and of course ski mom! Christine grew up in an immi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah host ski mom Heather Burke, Travel Editor at FamilySkiTrips.com. She shares how to get the right gear to make the most of your time on snow. Heather Burke learned to ski at 3, her mom says she was more natural skiing than walking! Heather grew up in the ski biz, her parents ran a ski lodge at Smugglers Notch in Vermont. Heather and her husband Greg...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah host ski mom Karma Bryan-Ingle, a ski mom from Ontario Canada and General Manager of Mabels Labels.  Mabels Labels is the best-known brand of durable labels for families, including sport labels, household labels and seasonal items.  When the time came for Karma’s son to decide between ice hockey or skiing, he chose skiing.  This decision led the fa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah join you over Thanksgiving weekend from the World Cup in Killington Vermont!   The event has drawn an increasing number of spectators who converge at Killington to cheer on ski racers from around the world. The event brings millions of dollars in economic impact to the state of Vermont. The Killington World Cup takes place over two days and include...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah host ski mom Christine Wells, a ski and fitness writer and mother of two who shares her story of learning to ski as an adult.  Christine is a self proclaimed “recovering lawyer” and recreational skier living in Park City, Utah. After spending several years working as an attorney on the East Coast, she moved West in 2019 and hasn't looked back....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah host snowboard mom Stephanie Barnhart, founder of Social Minded Media Group and mom to Max, age 9.  Stephanie grew up in Aspen and skiing in Colorado, but found her true love of snowboarding back on the East Coast. As a single mom, Stephanie addresses the unique challenges of finding the time, money and energy to plan ski adventures for her family....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Nicole and Sarah host Alli Widman, ski mom and Founder & CEO of Avant Ski .  Alli has been an avid skier and traveler her entire life.  Following years of frustration with a lack of comprehensive, reliable ski resources for recreational skiers, Alli launched Avant Ski in 2018. We talk to Alli about a wide range of ski-related topics from the economics and perks...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode you will meet your co-hosts Nicole and Sarah as we share our paths to a lifelong love of skiing.  We talk about teaching our girls to ski and why skiing as a family is so much fun.  We share some of our tips about making your first trips to the slopes a success so everyone can’t wait to go back! We hope you’ll join us on the slopes and experience first hand why we...