Explore Washington State
Jordan Boldt of the Vancouver Farmers Market is our guest for this episode. Jordan has been the Executive Director for the market since 2010. The Vancouver Farmers Market is a non-profit organization with the focus of being a business incubator, providing an open safe community space, and serving the at-need population in the Vancouver Washington...
Erika Klimecky is our guest for this episode. Erika is a photographer, hiker, climber, writer, and much, much more. Most importantly Erika is NOT A COG! Erika has had an interesting career. Originally moving to the Seattle area for a job in the tech industry. Erika has fallen for the beauty of the region and...
Bekah Zietz Flynn from Sub Pop Records is our guest for this episode. Bekah is a Publicity and International Promotions Manager for the Sub Pop and Hardly Art music labels. Sub Pop was founded in 1988 and is often called the label that brought us the Grunge Movement. Some of the well known names that...
Ilias Mastrogiannis on ouzo, mastiha, rakomelo and the Greek heritage behind Mastrogiannis Distillery. On the Exploring Washington State Podcast.
Crystal Bailar is the artist who runs Mosstangle Arts. On this episode we talk creativity, hiking, and of course pyrography. Crystal found wood burning as a creative outlet several years ago. She shares her story and offers some insight into the techniques used in creating handmade items. Kula Academy approached Crystal about offering wood burning...
Brian Naron, co-author of Building an Empire: The Story of Queensrÿche, is our guest for this episode. Building An Empire: The Story of Queensrÿche examines how the five original members of the band came together in the eastern suburbs of Seattle to create some of the most influential heavy metal albums of the 1980s, including...
Andrew Hughes, Seattle area high altitude athlete, is our guest for this episode. Growing up in Poulsbo Andrew grew up playing outside and enjoying nature. He also grew up with Mount Rainier visible to him on a regular (remember we have clouds here) basis. Life has a way of happening and it was not until Andrew...
Erica Kutz is a freelance graphic designer, art director, and producer as Mountainmind. She represents outdoor brands as an ambassador including Kona Bike and Arc’teryx. She tells us about snowboarding and splitboarding in the North Cascades. Erica talks about growing up snowboarding and skiing, and more recently split boarding. She explains how she approaches testing the...
Seattle based Scott Adams, a songwriter and music teacher, is our guest for this episode. Scott grew up in Spokane, earned a psychology degree at Washington State, and moved to Seattle in 1991. After teaching English in Korea, he started at Cornish College of the Arts in 1997 as a composition student, even though he...
The founder of The Needling, Lex Vaughn, is our guest for this episode. The Needling is Seattle’s only Real Fake News Site. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Lex started a career as a newspaper reporter, winning a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Oso Mudslide. After a few years of reporting Lex started The Needling...
Sidney Wayne is our guest for this episode of the Exploring Washington State Podcast. Sidney is a Seattle area DJ, artist, and soon to be club owner in the Sodo District. Sidney grew up in Tacoma and we start our conversation off sharing some overlapping history of our youth. Sidney shares a great story about...
Shawn Niles otherwise known as The Fat Pastor joins the show for this episode. Growing up in the Yakima area, Shawn was drawn to food at an early age. Spending Thanksgiving Day helping his dad in the kitchen is one of his most cherished memories. After moving away and living on the east coast and...
