What do you do?
I smile and ride my bike a lot.
As a purveyor of stoke, I use mountain bike skills instruction as my avenue to elevate people's belief in themselves. In other words, I am the owner and head coach for Radical Roots MTB Instruction, here in Bellingham, WA. Most of what I do is centered around bikes, community, and having fun. Running a small local business allows me to mentor all levels of riders, junior girls, and coaches in our community and beyond. I also do some marketing and event work for Transition Bikes which basically means I get to do really cool things with an awesome crew of people.
Advice/words of wisdom that affected your life you’d like to pass on?
One of the biggest insights I've gained over my nearly 20 years of being a mountain bike skills instructor is that people are far more capable of things than they often realize. The riders that come to me with a growth mindset always leave with noticeable improvements and I like to think that the willingness to be vulnerable and learn a new skill, like mountain biking, translates into other areas of life too. We must give ourselves the grace to learn new things, to find ease in risk, and to forget about trying to be perfect because perfectionism is the enemy of learning.