The Art of Fear with Kristen Ulmer

Kristen is thought leader, master facilitator and fear specialist who radically challenges existing norms around the subject of fear. Starting out as a mogul specialist on the US Ski team, Kristen more notoriously became recognized as being the best female big mountain extreme skier in the world, a status she kept for 12 years. Known for enormous cliff jumps and you-fall-you die descents, she became sponsored by the likes of Red Bull, Ralph Lauren, and Nikon. Her mastery of other danger sports including paragliding, ice and rock climbing, kiteboarding, adventure mountain biking, and flying trapeze also gained her the outdoor industry vote as most extreme woman athlete in North America, beating all danger-sports stars, not just skiers. Retired as an athlete since 2003, she then spent the next 15 years going to the next level — studying intently with a Zen Master, which led to facilitating thousands of clients, addressing numerous subjects such as the mindset of optimal sports performance, flow states, whole mind thinking, how to embrace change, emotional intelligence and more. She developed a highly effective teaching tool called Shift: The Game of 10,000 Wisdoms. This is a facilitated dialog which helps groups or individuals access the resources of their own minds to solve problems in a matter of hours that would otherwise take decades of therapy to achieve. Her revolutionary work has been featured in such media as NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, Outside Magazine, Sports Illustrated and many more. Kristen's transition to thought leader on Fear came in 2012, the day she realized that most of her client's problems –such as underperforming, insomnia, PTSD, panic attacks, excessive anxiety, depression, excessive anger, excessive fear, indecisiveness and more, were quickly and permanently resolved once she helped them address their avoidance of fear. In this episode we touch on what the big name athletes know about fear that you don't, Kristen's process of facilitation, her life experience in skiing and beyond. You can find out all about Kristen on her website at Her book can be found here:

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The Art of Fear with Kristen Ulmer is an episode from The Human First Show with Jonah Larkin by Jonah Larkin.

This episode is 52:57 long.

This episode was published on Feb 14, 2018.

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