Hello again, As Emily’s producer we hope that you are all doing as well as possible given all the challenges the world is facing right now.

So, here we are with episode 18. It follows a summer break from Emily’s position as a para-educator assistant. It also follows some much needed time at home with her family.

First, I want to tell you that I am loving how Emily is playing around with the intro to her podcast.

The combination of the race start sounds and some strong rap music sounds really good.

She shares about how the end of the school year always brings on lots of craziness because the kids are experiencing the eagerness for the year to be over so they can go on vacation.

She pondered how this happens every year but is still a surprise.

She talked about how she also trained hard while working hard with her school kids.

And then Emily mentions about her vacation.

She shared about spending some of her time visiting relatives in Calgary that she hadn’t seen for a while. And then she gushes over her first visit to the Calgary Stamped.

Which as a Texan it pains me to admit that based on the number of days the Stamped is the biggest event of its kind in the world.

She apologized for being gone and promised y’all lots of great new podcast content soon.

She doesn’t have anything to apologize for as it was my fault that you didn’t receive more posts.

She recorded interviews on other people’s shows, and she sent me this audio about three weeks ago.

I’m so looking forward to being able to continue helping Emily grow her audience and get closer to those Paralympic Gold Medals.

Emily shared about the financial challenges of covering the ever increasing costs of training as an athlete.

She wanted to give thanks to the local companies and organizations who sponsored her in the early days.

Including her second home during the training season Boler Mountain.

She credits their support in the form of access to the mountain as being critical to her development as a snowboarder.

Another one of her early sponsors was the Purple Moose Sock Co.

They provided here with cool socks to try on. And warm socks are pretty important to winter sport athletes. They also provided Emily with compression socks which help an athlete recover from strenuous training more quickly.

Emily continues to wear their socks, and since she has known them; they started producing socks made exclusively in Canada.

And there was All Bout Cheese.

They provided financial support to Emily. According to their website they are they are London Ontario’s premier artisan cheese shop.

Emily teased the sponsor review again mentioning that this will be a game changer.

The sponsor will be providing snowboards, clothes, travel costs, and even help with her social media accounts.

Since she sent this recording to me, she has announced the name of the company and posted the photo shoot.

But I have decided not to review that here. Instead I will write a post very soon with all the details.

She then shared some of her future training plans. Including long board skateboarding, stand-up paddle boarding, solo kayaking, and more.

I love how she realizes that her fans might be concerned for her, so she mentioned the list of safety equipment she has purchased to allow her to train safely.

She has also promised us some more interviews very soon. I can’t wait because I always learn just as much as y’all do.

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Until next time me, Emily, and Darling want to thank you for your continued support.

Adventure Ahead!