My Skiing Short Film Is Live!
The most personal thing I've ever put on the internet just went live: a short film about how I funded a professional World Cup ski career by fixing up Subarus. Before the real estate license, before the listings and market updates — there was a kid with a wrench, a dream measured in vertical feet, and a driveway full of project cars. The film is on the channel now, and this post is the story behind it.
The hustle, in short
World Cup skiing has a dirty secret: unless you're on the podium, it costs more than it pays. Travel, coaching, entry fees, equipment — the bill for chasing winters across Switzerland, China, and Aspen lands on the athlete. My answer was flipping Subarus: buy them broken, fix them right, sell them to the next ski bum who needed one, and roll every dollar of margin into the next race season. The film follows that loop — garage to start gate and back — through the years it carried me on the slopestyle and big air circuit.
Why it explains everything else
People sometimes assume the athlete-to-realtor path is a pivot. It's the same skill set wearing different boots. The Subaru years taught me to buy undervalued assets, do the unglamorous work that creates value, and sell with a story — which is literally the job description of an investor-agent. The ski years taught me Park City itself: I moved here for the Olympic-caliber training infrastructure, and the athlete community became my community. When I walk a fixer-upper with a client or break down why this town keeps attracting world-class everything, both halves of that film are doing the talking.
Go watch it
It's short, it's honest, and there's period footage in there I can't believe survived. If you've ever funded a dream with grease under your fingernails, it'll land. And if it explains why I get irrationally excited about both powder days and renovation walkthroughs — mystery solved. Link above; the popcorn's on you.
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