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Siena Christie is an up and coming Folk artist who recently released a a new EP 'run so deep".

Jaime Rivera built the HRVHS state championship state soccer team back to back years and has been involved in youth soccer for almost 20 years. He has recently expanded into providing youth team sport and non-traditional sport opportunities with Hood River Valley Parks & Recreation.

Christopher Van Tilburg is a doctor in the emergency room at Providence Hood River and at Providence Occupational and Travel Medicine. He's a volunteer rescue mountaineer with Crag Rats and author of many books and articles.

Building a mobility coaching business, Matt Penny has shared the value of the joint mobility to over one-hundred-thousand people and is not slowing down. As a kid he was on track to becoming a professional snowboarder with slopestyle and freeride video parts. However, his trajectory got re-routed by repeated injury and has shifted his dreams to helping other people reach the top of their game. Che...

Sensi Graves is a professional kite boarder that competed and traveled the world doing it. She always wanted to be an entrepreneur and found her outlet in bikinis that stay on. Lately her focus has shifted towards helping people achieve their dreams through coaching and public speaking.

Tracy Beck is co-author of 60 Minute CFO. She has started, sold and runs multiple successful businesses in the e-commerce, consulting and consumer products space. She also started a local non-profit called Gorge Women in Business that helps women achieve their professional goals.

Brett Stomps has put the team on his back to make the Hood River fireworks show go-on. Hood River Fireworks is a 100% volunteer run non-profit organization and needs help from its community. To help out please go to http://hoodriverfireworks.com/donate/

Adam Spillman is a breath work expert who went toe-to-toe with stage four cancer. He has boated in the upper echelon of the kayak world. His willingness to dive deep into the most difficult and ugliest realities in life make him a gem of wisdom.

Tood Douglass was co-founder and lead designer at Pistil Designs a company that was born and raised in the gorge and rode the waves of many of the changes in the past 20 years.

McKinley Kitts recently left the band Flor after almost 10 years of touring and producing albums to pursue being a dad, as well as moving on to other business ventures like opening a local wine and beer bar, and starting a digital advertising company in Hood River, OR.

Chuck Simmons is an engineer that has strong opinions about product development and roadmap. He currently works for Cobra Aero, a company that makes propulsion systems for unmanned aircraft.

Dan Bubb was co-owner and CTO of Gorge Net (what is now Blue Mountain Networks). He lead the transition from dial-up internet to wireless and fiber optic as well as focused on cultivating a highly-rewarding work environment for his employees.

Nathan Stranz is co-owner of family run restaurant The Mosier Company (MoCo), and a musician.

Tim Mixon is a leader at Hood Technology Corp. and has been there since day zero. He is the hub of all things Hood River Area Trail Stewards (HRATS).

Head coach and owner of Impact Hood River, school of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Ryan Brock is a machine when it comes to running a business, building things or teaching people Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Find out more about Ryan's current project at https://impacthoodriver.com/

Before and after graduating with an Enology degree from University of California, Davis, Jonathan Lachs worked as a winemaker in the Napa Valley and what would become the Santa Lucia Highlands.  A respite from winemaking led to valuable business experience as a program development manager at a prominent Silicon Valley company.  Together with his U.C. Davis Enology degreed spouse, they ca...

Mike Margotta graduated with a BSME in Electrical Engineering. He went on to have many different careers thereafter and is now the co-owner with his wife of Hood River Coffee Roasters.

On this episode we turned the tables on our host so he can feel what it's like to be in the hot seat. 

Kenzie Carlstrom is an energetic woman that can never have too much on her plate. She is a real estate agent, runs a fitness classes called SweatwithKenzie, owns Venture Swim (a bikini brand) and operates an airbnb under the name DriftersEscape. 

Recently opening Cell Regen in Hood River and exploring franchise options, Adina Call is the head of sales, marketing and back-end development for the business. She has experienced the healing power of biohacking and plans to share it with as many people as possible.

Alex Ing is a Hood River native who got a bachelors degree in marketing at Montana State University. He loves cracking jokes, getting together with friends and enjoying the wonderful outdoors. 

Greg Hool has a Master of Science in Environmental Science and has worked for the US government, the State of Washington and private firms all involved with taking care of forests to preserve their ecological integrity and reduce disastrous events for all involved. 

Patrick Price is an embedded software engineer in the unmanned aerospace industry. He started his own crypto consulting company and is tuned-in to advances in computer technology.

Brian Call is a chiropractic physician who focuses on cutting edge therapies that address the shortcomings of mainstream medicine. This field of medicine has been coined biohacking and pivots around recreating conditions from humans' evolutionarily adapted environment. Brian and his wife Adina are co-owners of Cell Regen which is a cellular regeneration clinic in Hood River that offers a variety o...

Shaun Cochran is a Hood River native. He is a father, hunter and electronics specialist. In this episode he shares his perspective on the state of matters in the Gorge.