{"podcast":{"title":"The Ski Podcast","slug":"the-ski-podcast-1125806","podcast_index_feed_id":1125806,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4995750.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4995750","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/42727437/s=1400x1400/el=1/rt=fill.png","author":"The Ski Podcast","episode_count":317,"summary":"Want to know more about the world of skiing and snowsports? The Ski Podcast is an award-winning podcast with over 300 episodes covering all aspects of the world of skiing and snowboarding, from resorts to racing, Ski Sunday to slush. Host Iain Martin is joined by guests from the world of snow in episode to chat about wintery stuff and probe around the avalanche of ski news. Listen to our back catalog at www.theskipodcast.com The Ski Podcast was voted 'Best Wintersports Podcast' in the 2021 Sports Podcast Awards and nominated for 'Best Broadcast Programme' in the 2023 Travel Media Awards. Iain is a freelance journalist specialising in snowsports. He is also the founder of Ski Flight Free - a campaign to encourage skiers to take the train or drive to their ski holiday. If you want to get in touch or take part you can email us: theskipodcast@gmail.com Music: www.purple-planet.com Logo: www.vexels.com","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T14:29:21.730121+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ski-podcast-1125806"},"episode":{"title":"312: Rachael Oakes-Ash, Founder Snowsbest.com","slug":"312-rachael-oakes-ash-founder-snowsbest-com","published_at":"2026-05-22T03:53:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ski-podcast-1125806/312-rachael-oakes-ash-founder-snowsbest-com","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ski-podcast-1125806","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8906396","audio_url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8906396.mp3?modified=1779375407&sid=4995750&source=rss","summary":"Today’s special episode is an interview with Rachael Oakes-Ash – founder of the Southern Hemisphere’s leading snowsports website, Snowsbest.com . Rachael – aka Miss Snow It All – is also a best-selling author, publicist, documentary producer, social media guru and podcaster. In this interview, we speak about her experiences reporting from the Winter Olympics in Italy, raising $200,000 for Snow Aid Australia, her work to promote women in the snow industry and her journey from novice to ski expert. This episode is the latest in an ongoing series of interviews with high-achieving women in the world of snowsports. Previous episodes in this series have included conversations with Vicky Gosling, CEO of GB Snowsport, BBC Ski Sunday’s Chemmy Alcott, the first person to ski the seven summits, Kit DesLauriers, founder of YSE Ski, Fiona Easdale, as well as the Team GB freestyle skiers Zoe Atkin and Kirsty Muir. SHOW NOTES Winter Olympics mention-itis (2:30) Comparing Livigno with Pyeongchang in 2018 (4:30) Empty slopes in Livigno (7:30) Working alongside Team Australia (10:00) Why were Australia so successful at the Winter Olympics? (14:00) Working with Dame Edna Everage (17:00) In 2000 Rachael wrote the book ‘Good Girls Do Swallow’ (19:00) Rachael’s second book was ‘ Anything she can do, I can do better (19:00) Skiing with the prime minister of New Zealand (24:00) Becoming Miss Snow It All (26:00) Starting Snowsbest.com (26:45) Running consumer webinars (30:00) ‘ Women of Winter Snow Australia’ working group (30:30) Advice for anyone wanting to get into ski journalism (32:30) ‘ Snow Aid Australia’ (34:00) Selwyn Snowfield burnt down during the 2020 bushfires (34:30) Snow Travel Expo (37:00) The threat of climate change (38:30) Thredbo and Coronet Peak have added ‘ Snowfactory ’…","meta_description":"Today’s special episode is an interview with Rachael Oakes-Ash – founder of the Southern Hemisphere’s leading snowsports website, Snowsbest.com . Rachael…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2883,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ski-podcast-1125806/episodes/312-rachael-oakes-ash-founder-snowsbest-com/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ski-podcast-1125806/312-rachael-oakes-ash-founder-snowsbest-com.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}