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#164: Diving Deep with Kai Cook

#164: Diving Deep with Kai Cook

This week on Learning Life, Jon talked with Kai Cook about Deep End Fitness. Kai Cook is a lifelong swimmer and when she discovered Deep End fitness in California, she felt it was important enough to bring back to Vermont and became one of the founders of the Vermont branch.

Deep End fitness was originally developed by Don Tran and Prime Hall after they started water survival training for marine raiders. Join in and listen to Kai explain how this military survival training, has become a fun but high intensity workout.

Kai shares her story of how she came to be a part of Deep End Fitness, how she brought it to Vermont, and how she is building the community.

Check out:
The Deep End Fitness Website:
https://www.deependfitness.com/
The VT Branch’s Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/deependfitness_vt/?hl=en

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#164: Off the Deep End with Kai Cook


This week, Jon sits down with DeepEndFitness Owner Kai Cook, who also coaches at DEF, heads up snowboard coaching at Cochran’s Ski Area, and is a private snowboard coach and certified nutritionist.

Deep End Fitness has a unique mind and body strength training system, proven to boost mental strength, reduce stress, and build efficient breathing. The training system was designed to help every person build true safety and confidence in the water, no matter how deep. DEF teaches both athletes and every day people to downregulate and control responses with a calm, relaxed behavior.

Listen to Kai’s story, traveling from New Zealand to Vermont to build a fitness business.

www.deependfitness.com

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#163: Hit the Ground Running with Riley Seith


This week Jon sits down with Riley Seith, co-founder of the Laces App, and student entrepreneur. Laces is a platform for runners to find and share safe running routes when traveling or moving to a new city. After you’re done running, you can report incidents or obstacles. Think Waze for runners.

Riley and her co-founder Makenzie started their business from Champlain college. The idea started as a way to help women identifying people, particularly in college, to find a more safe way to run.

As the Laces App gets ready to launch, Riley shares the difficulties they faced in developing this app without the technical skills to build it herself and building a business while in college.

Check out:
The Laces App Website:
https://www.lacesapp.com
The Laces App Instagram:
https://instagram.com/thelacesapp?utm_medium=copy_link
Sign up to Become a Beta Tester:
https://linktr.ee/lacesapp

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#163: Hit the Ground Running with Riley Seith

#163: Hit the Ground Running with Riley Seith


This week Jon sits down with Riley Seith, co-founder of the Laces App, and student entrepreneur. Laces is a platform for runners to find and share safe running routes when traveling or moving to a new city. After you’re done running, you can report incidents or obstacles. Think Waze for runners.

Riley and her co-founder Makenzie started their business from Champlain college. The idea started as a way to help women identifying people, particularly in college, to find a more safe way to run.

As the Laces App gets ready to launch, Riley shares the difficulties they faced in developing this app without the technical skills to build it herself and building a business while in college.

Check out:
The Laces App Website:
https://www.lacesapp.com
The Laces App Instagram:
https://instagram.com/thelacesapp?utm_medium=copy_link
Sign up to Become a Beta Tester:
https://linktr.ee/lacesapp

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#162: Revitalize Rural with Louisa Schibli

Louisa Schibli
Louisa Schibli


This week Jon sits down with Lousia Schibli, co-founder of the Northern New England Women’s Investor network, and co-founder and CEO of Milk Money Vermont. Milk Money is a platform for Vermonters to discover local investment opportunities, get tips on how to evaluate those opportunities, and then make an investment.

Louisa has also recently joined RuralWorks Partners as Chief Engagement Officer. RuralWorks Partners is an impact investment firm that supports growth stage and transitioning rural businesses and the communities in which they operate. RuralWorks is currently raising a $100 Million impact fund for these businesses and communities across the Northeast and Upper Midwest.

Listen in for Louisa’s lessons about raising capital in rural Vermont and being a female entrepreneur in the Green mountain state.

Check out:

Vermont Women’s Investor Network www.nnewin.org
Milk Money Investing www.milkmoneyinvesting.com
RuralWorks Partners www.ruralworkspartners.com

Learn more at https://milkmoneyvt.com/

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