The Nugget Climbing Podcast PREMIUM

Neely talks about what to eat before climbing, the hardest and easiest parts of building TrainingBeta, her plans to pivot her business, and her stoicism experiment. We also talk about the many climbing podcasts entering the space, and how we each hope to stand out.

Nuggets:
(00:00:00) – Eating before training
(00:02:25) – Challenges with entrepreneurship
(00:04:40) – Climbing podcasts, and doubling down on our strengths
(00:08:17) – Pivoting the Training Beta business
(00:12:16) – Subscriptions and stoicism

Neely Quinn returns to the podcast! We talked about how doing mindset work with Hazel Findlay changed her life, why she decided to become a life coach herself, simple tactics for working through negative emotions and banishing shame, why working on your mindset will make you climb harder, and much more! Neely also gives Steven a life coaching session and helps him find more contentment with his climbing.

Simon answers questions from my Patrons about media attention and whether he thinks he deserves more fame, working as a coach and how coaching affects his climbing, his strengths and weaknesses, when we can expect his films of Burden and Soudain Seul, his thoughts on keeping training fun, his favorite and least favorite training sessions, his proudest climbing moment, Chris Sharma movie trailers, and more!

Nuggets:
(00:00:00) – Media attention
(00:01:51) – Working as a coach
(00:05:08) – Strengths and weaknesses
(00:06:41) – Competition style
(00:10:04) – Films of his 9As
(00:12:00) – Comparing the difficulty of his hardest boulders
(00:19:33) – Keeping training fun
(00:26:31) – Favorite and least favorite training sessions
(00:30:21) – Proudest moment
(00:32:29) – Chris Sharma movie trailers

Simon Lorenzi is a world-class climber from Belgium and the first person to climb three boulders graded 9A/V17. We talked about lessons from his three hardest boulders, tactics for trying ‘Burden of Dreams’ in -13°C, the projecting bubble, the goal of struggling, dealing with bad weather on ‘Alphane’, facing frustration with optimism, using a book under his kneepad on the FA of ‘Soudain Seul’, dream V18 projects, and much more!

Carlos Mason is a filmmaker and the creator of SENDING, a new film featuring Ethan Pringle, Anna Hazelnutt, and Dan Beall. We talked about how a car commercial inspired this unique film, why he chose Bishop as the primary location, writing the poem that became the narrative for the film, the connections we form through climbing, how the in-between moments make up our experience, what it took to make the film, future film projects, and much more!

Davis answers questions from my Patrons about finding balance between work, climbing, and social media, how to build stronger knees for heal hooks, the concept of proper load management when rehabbing any injury, favorite climbs in Bishop at each grade, manatees, putting himself out there and being unapologetically himself, and more!

Nuggets:
(00:00:00) – Balance
(00:04:00) – Stronger knees for heal hooks
(00:10:55) – Proper load management
(00:12:00) – More knee advice
(00:16:57) – Favorite climbs in Bishop at each grade
(00:22:55) – Manatees
(00:23:47) – “How dare you…”
(00:31:45) – It’s ok to make mistakes
(00:34:18) – Self-censorship
(00:35:22) – Wrap up