<p>Emily and I are so happy to share the latest happenings with you through the podcast. </p> <p>The episode starts out with her new intro music which I love. </p> <p>It reminds me of the start of ski races I’ve seen on TV during the Olympics and Paralympics. </p> <p>I can just picture Emily flying down the hill with a big smile on her face headed towards that first gold medal. </p> <p>Then she recaps the podcast and shares the <a href=“https://www.teamstarfish.ca”>teamstarfish.ca</a> website. </p> <p>Then about 7:00 minutes in she gets to the good stuff. </p> <p>She explains how moving from Ontario to Vancouver brought her to the attention of Canadian Alpine Snowboarding. </p> <p>She talks about how this has lead to new opportunities including training with coaches from Team Canada. </p> <p>She then explained that these coaches didn’t join her right away due to the fact that Emily is working with a new team of guides of her own. </p> <p>The Team Canada coach would join them after they had worked together fora few weeks. </p> <p>Knowing the new coach was coming made Emily nervous, but she explains how that is a good thing. </p> <p>As she tells the story you can feel the variety of emotions in her voice. Which shows just how much she wants to succeed. </p> <p>She talks about having to have multiple game plans to deal with a variety of snow conditions and levels of visibility. </p> <p>She shared about how having the additional coaches could look at their methods objectively and make suggestions if necessary. </p> <p>The new race coach told Emily that he was really impressed with the way she rides down the mountain. And that obviously made her happy. </p> <p>She talks about discovering the coach was local and how that would lead to more opportunities to learn. </p> <p>And then she talked about how many opportunities for snowboarding, training, racing, etc in the Vancouver area. </p> <p>Which is a validation of what she thought when deciding to move cross country in the first place. </p> <p>She teased some big announcements. And just like Emily I can’t wait until we are able to share the great exciting news with you. </p> <p>That’s it for today’s episode of SFG. </p> <p>Me and Emily would really love to hear from you. Your comments or messages are how we make the show better. </p> <p>We would also love it if you left a rating and review on the podcast. </p> <p>You can connect with Emily through <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blindboarder2007">Face Book, </a> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/starfishrd2018">Twitter, </a> or <a href="https://instagram.com/starfishrd2paralympics">Instagram. </a> </p> <p>You can also <a href="mailto:[email protected]">send her an email. </a></p> <p>If you have questions about the network, please <a href="mailto:[email protected]">email me here. </a></p> <p>We want to thank our generous sponsors at <a href="https://www.blubrry.com">Blubrry. </a></p> <p>We couldn’t do this without their financial and technical support. </p> <p>Until next time me, Emily, and Darling want to thank you for your continued support. </p> <p>Adventure Ahead! </p>