Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Holland
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Outdoor lives, told the long way around.
The Stokecast follows athletes, adventurers, creators, and outdoor entrepreneurs through the messy middle of building a life around movement and curiosity. The tone is warm and conversational, with room for outdoor check-ins, career pivots, and honest uncertainty.
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The Stokecast is a conversational outdoor show about people trying to build lives around adventure without pretending that the path is tidy. It has a friendly rhythm. Jonathan Ronzio and Emily Holland talk with athletes, adventurers, creators, and outdoor entrepreneurs about how their work, creative projects, and outdoor ambitions actually fit together. The show likes origin stories, but it rarely stops there. A guest’s first step into a sport can lead into career change, fear, community, or the question of what makes a life feel chosen. Recent episodes lean into the Stoked From Home format, gathering past guests for casual online panels during quarantine. The setting matters. People are calling in from homes, trailers, vans, and outdoor places, and those little check-ins give the conversations a lived-in feel before the bigger themes arrive. The panels include outdoor figures such as Cody Townsend, Shelma Jun, Andrew Muse, Scott Kranz, Michelle Parker, Jason Anton, Keegan Randall, Janine Pesce, Myrna Valerio, Brody Levin, Max Lowe, Lindsay Richter, Hadley Hammer, Renee Honnell, Nick Dio, TJ David, Emily Harrington, Adrian Ballinger, Angel Collinson, and Caroline Gleich. The conversations move from home routines and motivation to climate change, social distancing, creative access, and the tension between individual action and systems that feel too large to move. It can be playful. It can also be reflective. The show’s strongest moments often come when a casual aside turns into something more useful, like Alastair Humphreys explaining the fear built into the first step of an adventure, or Andrew Drummond describing how Ski The Whites grew from passion into community and work. The Stokecast is warm without being glossy. It cares about stoke, but it also leaves room for doubt, awkward starts, practical constraints, and the odd little details that make outdoor people sound human instead of branded. For listeners who like adventure media with conversation, texture, and real-life mess around the edges, it offers a broad, generous window into the culture.
Made for: Best for outdoor-minded listeners who like athletes, creators, and entrepreneurs talking through risk, work, motivation, and community. It especially suits people drawn to outdoor adventure, creative careers, and reflective conversations that still feel casual.
What sets it apart: The Stokecast stands out by letting adventure stories stay loose and human instead of compressing them into achievement arcs. Its panels and interviews make room for homes, gear, nerves, dogs, missed calls, climate worries, and the ordinary logistics around outdoor lives.
Learn how top outdoor athletes, adventurers, and entrepreneurs build their lifestyles and careers while in pursuit of adventure, purpose, and stoke! This show is for you if you're passionate about the outdoors, if you live for adventure, and if you can't help but lean into your wild passions and "what if" creative ideas. Hosted by Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Holland
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Stokecast turns outdoor ambition into practical conversations about work, fear, creative access, and the choices required to change a life.
The Stokecast keeps returning to a practical question: how does an adventurous life fit around work, fear, money, and ordinary obligations? Jonathan Ronzio and Emily Holland approach it through relaxed interviews, drawing concrete habits from guests without sanding away the…
Even Alastair Humphreys wants the sofa at the start line, so your nerves have company.
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A relaxed quarantine panel that moves from routine and motivation into climate action and the pace of collective response.
The episode keeps things relaxed and grounded as former StokeCast guests catch up on what they have been doing and how they keep motivation moving.
A quiet new-year check-in about gratitude, access, and why making things still matters.
The episode opens the year on a reflective note. The hosts look back on the decade, thank longtime listeners, and settle into 2020 with the kind of easy back and forth that comes from people who know each other well.
A steady push for anyone stuck at the edge of a change.
The episode stays with a simple but familiar tension: knowing a different life is possible and still hesitating to take the first step. Jonathan Ronzio and Emily Holland let Alastair Humphreys work through why change feels so heavy, from fear and money to time and the pull of…
A side-hustle story about starting over without the usual gloss.
The episode keeps its footing by treating the guest's shift away from a dream job in San Diego as a practical reset, not a grand rescue story. Starting over at 33, keeping the passion alive as a side hustle, and choosing a path that fit better all land plainly.
Saying yes opens the door to new partners, new skills, and more flexible work.
The episode follows a small but meaningful shift: doing hard things alone gives way to saying yes to people not yet known. Splitboarding, running, mountain biking, and rock climbing come up along the way, and trust is the thread that holds it together.
Stoked From Home brings Adrienne Ballinger, Caroline Gleick, Emily Harrington, and Angel Collinson into a virtual panel during quarantine.
This episode features a panel discussion with outdoor athletes and creators Cody Townsend, Shelma Jun, Andrew Muse, and Scott Kranz, talking about how they're staying motivated and inspired during quarantine.
This episode features a panel discussion from the Stoked From Home virtual event with outdoor athletes and creators sharing how they stay motivated during quarantine.
This episode features a panel replay from the Stoked From Home virtual event, where host Jonathan Ronzio and guests discuss staying motivated and inspired during quarantine with athletes and outdoor entrepreneurs.
This episode features a panel discussion with outdoor athletes and creators sharing how they stay motivated and inspired during quarantine as part of the Stoked From Home virtual event.
The show opens at the start of 2020.
It starts with the problem.
Andrew goes all in on the thing he loves.
Tara Kerzhner, a climbing photographer and filmmaker, describes leaving a marketing job at Ruffwear to move to San Francisco and selling her camera to make rent.
She talks about learning to say yes to harder outings with people she did not already know.
Chris Ronzio, CEO of Trainual in Scottsdale, Arizona, tells The Stokecast that he began as a child entrepreneur, trading a $4 car wash for a Ninja Turtle action figure and later running a lemonade concession stand with 10 flavors.
This episode features an interview with photographer and mountain climber Scott Kranz, exploring his journey from law to photography following his father's advice to pursue happiness.
This episode features an interview with artist and adventurer Jessa Gilbert, exploring her journey of balancing art and athletics while finding joy in both the mountains and creative work.
This episode explores how Kelly Lund built a business around adventuring with his wolfdog Loki, leveraging social media fame to create income opportunities.
This episode features pilot Shanelly discussing the challenges and experiences of being a female pilot in an industry with only 6% women, exploring the gender gap and behind-the-scenes aspects of air travel.
The hosts discuss high-performance habits, emphasizing self-compassion in goal-setting and reflecting on their Q1 progress after a New Year's episode on goal frameworks.