Get After It PDX Wy'east Wolfpack

Hear physical therapist, small business owner and outdoor athlete Damien Jackson-Ricketts talk about growing up in a very rural area in SW Virginia (and how different it was from living in big cities later in his life), the genuine satisfaction of working with your hands and the example his woodworker father instilled in him from a young age, early nature experiences that informed his love of outdoor sports (like hiking, mountain biking, and surfing) later in life, his passion for film/movies and his previous desire to follow that career path, his developing interest in physical therapy and the steps he took to get in to PT school and his residency in LA, life in SoCal and how he and his girlfriend finally made the call to move to Portland and the Pacific Northwest, starting his private practice--Stoke PT--here in PDX, and much more!  



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Hear Jennifer Maxwell--co-founder/creator of PowerBar, THE original energy bar, with her late husband Brian Maxwell--talk about growing up in Bolinas, California and what lead to her passion for running, athletics and food science, how she met Brian in Berkeley and together they created Powerbar, what runners ate before energy bars were a thing, what it was like to start a business in the "old days" before the advent of modern technology and how they grew it to eventually be bought by Nestle for $375 million in 2000, how she managed to keep moving forward and raise 6 children amidst the tragic passing of Brian from a heart condition in 2004, the importance of music to her and how drumming became a major and ongoing part of her life, the creation of JAMBAR and the blending of her passions--music, athletics/wellness, and healthy eating--into an exciting new venture where 50% of profits go to support music and active living, and much more!

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Hear baker and former park ranger turned pandemic entrepreneur Natalie Edwards talk about growing up in the PNW, her relationship to her grandmothers from a young age and how they inspired her baking years later, her father's job and the influence it had on her love of nature and the outdoors and career for many years, how attending college in the south connected her to another part of the country and her family there, what caused her to return to the PNW and pivot to a new career of creating delicious baked goods, what a poundcake really is and why she focused on that, how the business is going and what's to come in 2022, her love of going to the gym, and much more!



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Hear accomplished endurance athlete/ultra runner, business owner, and mother Jamie King talk about growing up in California and migrating north to eventually end up, years later, in Portland, Oregon, the deep rewards that physical movement, and later running, provided in her life and how there came a point that she wanted to help others feel the same benefits, her years living a fast-paced lifestyle and working PR in San Francisco, her journey into running and trail running and now 100 mile ultra marathons in the mountains, starting a business--Flex and Flow--with her cousin Alyse, her journey into motherhood, and much more!



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Hear new author, social worker, and Alcohol/Drug Counselor Mike Grant tell the story of how he came to be in Portland today and his journey of taking control of his addiction to drugs and alcohol along the way.  

Mike currently works for Kaiser Permanente and as an adjunct professor in the Alcohol and Drug Counseling Program at Portland Community College. Mike is also a founding member of the RUN TRG group for runners who identify in recovery. Mike enjoys training for ultra-marathons in his spare time and lives with his son in Portland, Oregon.

His recently published book: "(Re)Making a Sandwich: An Addiction Case Study" is a non-fiction memoir and available for purchase.



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Move Through Darkness

Hear banker-turned-chef and caterer Rashad Frazier talk about growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina and his experiences getting into nature as a child, seeing first hand the ups and downs of the restaurant his father owned, getting a football scholarship to Howard University and--to this day--how much he values the culture and networks of Howard and HBCUs, living in New York City as a banker for years before getting laid off led him to explore other options, how dating his future wife influenced his early years of cooking, the creation and meaning of his high-end niche catering brand Yoshi Jenkins, moving to PDX and the subsequent pandemic that forced him back to the drawing board, his love of the outdoors and camping and some the experiences he's had as a person of color amongst largely white user groups, the creation of Camp Yoshi and why he feels it's important to specifically provide outdoor opportunities and services to Black folks, and much more!



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Vol. 1 - Wealth & Abundance | Film by: Alex Forestier ~ music by: The Milky Way

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