Episode 036: Alexa Hohenberg- Professional Snowboarder, Mountain Guide, Explorer, Award-Winning Content Creator & Producer

The Oceanriders Podcast

Alexa can surely offer so much to the corporate world with her great skills and exceptional talents. But nature bugs sure bites hard and she keeps being pulled back to where her heart belongs. She often jokes that her life is “ruined” in that there’s no escaping its enchanting beauty. One thing is clear: a constrained life just wouldn’t work for this free-spirited woman.

Alexa has lived a very exciting life and she shares these encouraging experiences in this podcast. She takes us back to her first love- the mountains, and the amazing rides it offered. She also tells about her pride and joy, Still Stoked and her visions for this growing platform. Born from her passion to help women share their wonderful life, this stage is set to leap over expectations. Alexa also shares some tips for entrepreneurs to scale their biz into something that goes with their dream life. Life is not about the things that shape you. Rather, it’s how you shape it so that you can live the free life. Alexa did it and you can too!

Episode Highlights:

• 03:47 One with the Mountains
• 08:38 Enjoying the Free Rides
• 10:43 Mountain Guide Qualifications
• 12:07 The Still Stoked Evolution
• 16:25 Finding “Home”
• 20:01 More of Still Stoked
• 25:21 Must Have’s Before You Start Your Biz
• 30:10 Towards Vivid Realities

Today, I got to sit down for a chat with Alexa Hohenberg. Alexa is my hero. She is the founder and owner of Still Stoked. It's a platform on a mission to inspire adventurous women through stories, musings, sport, and travel. And beyond being an amazing storyteller, a writer and a filmmaker, she's a girl who's got it all worked out for living life a little differently. Prior to setting up Still Stoked, Alexa was a professional snowboarder, a mountain guide, and spent her life hurtling down the mountains in the most extreme conditions. She was the kind of girl who'd be living in a yurt in the middle of Alaska just to be close to the pristine mountains. Her lifestyle is a true inspiration to many. She's wild, free, and to top that, she has a wonderful sense of humor. In this story, Alexa walks us through her action-packed life from her snowboarding days to moving to Australia, and then spending three months on a boat crossing the Pacific Ocean. Today, Alexa lives in the Northern beaches of Sydney and she's become an accomplished surfer and shares the stories of other inspiring females from around the world with her incredible talents and contagious enthusiasm. She successfully created an online platform that has morphed into a real paid job.

“It's so rewarding to build your own life… and shape it how you want.” –Alexa Hohenberg

I was interested in finding out what it was all about, and in our conversation, Alexa walks us through what it is to run a platform like that. And she also gives us tips that she would have liked to have when she set up shop. And she also shares her wild and free lifestyle that goes with the job. So there's a bit of a catch in the recording though. Halfway through, I realized that I was speaking into the wrong mic, my bad entirely. So with last week's conversation in mind, I decided to try out the Pete Gustin method and listen to my faint voice and re-recorded it on a new track. Anyway, it was a bit of a disaster, but what's important is what Alexa has to say. But you know what, I've decided to own it anyway, and presenting my conversation with Alexa.

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Take care, have fun, and enjoy the waves.

Ciao,

Imi

Connect with Alexa:

• Website
• Facebook
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Pinterest

Resources Links:

Podcast

• Diaries of the Wild Ones by Aaron Shanks

YouTube Channel

• The Journey Junkie by Allie Van Fossen

Quotes:

• 04:45 “I think the mountains for me I just just an endless expanse of space… So I find mountains kind of captivating.” –Alexa Hohenberg
• 17:27 “I think the salty life is in my bones, and once a sailor always a sailor.” –Alexa Hohenberg
• 19:18 “There were definitely moments where you realize just how alone you
• are.” –Alexa Hohenberg
• 19:34 “I highly recommend if anyone ever gets the opportunity to spend time at sea, it gives you the time to take everything out of your brain, put it on the ground, look at it, and then assess what you want to put back in your brain.” –Alexa Hohenberg
• 23:09 “If you don't back yourself in what your dreams are and no one else will.” –Alexa Hohenberg
• 27:53 “It's so rewarding to build your own life… and shape it how you want.” –Alexa Hohenberg

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