Navigating Life's Biggest Mountains with Kimmy Fasani

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Kimmy Fasani is a groundbreaking figure in women’s snowboarding, known for her fearless innovation and inspiring journey. She began competing nationally at just 15 and made history as the first woman to land a double backflip in a terrain park. Since becoming a mom six years ago, Kimmy has continued to break barriers for women in sports while navigating profound challenges, including a breast cancer diagnosis. Through it all, Kimmy has shared her story with remarkable courage, empowering others along the way.

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0:00.0	Snowboarding has always taught me to be present.
0:05.0	You have to be so calculated and so aware.
0:09.0	It's like this hyper focus.
0:11.0	And I think that is why jumping into motherhood shifted my mental state so much
0:17.0	was because now my child was at hyper state, and yet I needed snowboarding because that was my
0:24.5	medicine, you know, or my meditation. And so trying to find that balance between the both was
0:32.0	maybe the most complicated part.
0:43.7	Kimmy Fassani is one of the most influential female snowboarders of our time.
0:48.5	She started competing nationally at age 15, and she hasn't stopped since.
0:54.3	In 2011, she made history as the first woman to land a double backflip in a terrain park.
1:01.2	She's won multiple industry awards like Trans World Snowboarding's Writer of the Year and the X-Games Real Women Award.
1:06.8	I've admired Kimmy for a long time. She's a resilient person and a talented athlete.
1:12.5	Since becoming a mom six years ago, Kimmy has continued to blaze a trail for women in sports,
1:16.9	overcome multiple challenges, and share it all bravely with the world.
1:20.6	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI Co-op Studios production presented by Capital One in the REI Co-op MasterCard.
1:35.0	Thank you. presented by Capital One and the REI Co-op MasterCard. When I first interviewed Kimmy Vassani back in 2018, we talked about her impressive snowboarding career.
1:41.5	Shortly after our interview, Kimmy gave birth to her first child.
1:46.1	Becoming a parent had a huge impact on her, both physically and mentally. She had to figure out
1:52.3	how to balance motherhood with her desire to be in the mountains. Three years later, after giving
1:57.4	birth to her second son, Kimmy was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she made the
2:02.0	courageous decision to go public about it. Throughout all of this, Kimmy's been documenting her
2:07.8	journey, and in March of this year, she's coming out with a film called Butterfly in a Blizzard.
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