Kristen Ulmer (born September 8, 1966) is a former professional extreme skier who retired in 2003 to study and teach about Fear. Today she facilitates groups and individuals, and is author of the forthcoming book "The Art of Fear: Why Conquering Fear Won't Work and What to do Instead." She is also known for developing a facilitation tool called Shift, The Game of 10,000 Wisdoms, which Ulmer claims can "get a client unstuck from an unconscious pattern in a matter of hours, instead of a decade or more using therapy."
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Early life and education
Born and raised in the small ski town; Henniker, New Hampshire, she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1985 to attend the University of Utah. In 1986 she started competing in mogul skiing and filming extreme ski movies, which led to her almost two decade long career as a professional skier. Since retiring in 2003 she has been studying with Zen Master Genpo Roshi, and credits him as being inspiration behind her teaching style and work on the subject of Fear.
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Professional athletics
Ulmer was on the US Ski Team for moguls in 1991. She also starred in over 20 ski movies, and was called by the ski media the best woman big mountain extreme skier in the world from 1990-2001. In 1997 Ulmer was also voted in a Powder Magazine ski industry survey to be the best overall female skier in the world, beating even Olympic gold medalists. She was known for jumping off up to 70-foot cliffs, throwing flips, and for ski mountaineering feats such as the first female ski decent of Wyoming's Grand Teton in 1997.
An avid rock and ice climber, paraglider pilot, adventure cyclist, and kiteboarder, Ulmer was also voted by the outdoor industry in a 2000 Women's Sports and Fitness Magazine poll to be the most extreme woman athlete in North America, beating women in all sports disciplines not just skiing. She retired from professional athletics in 2003.
Writing
Alongside her ski career, Ulmer was known for writing in magazines such as Skiing, Ski, Powder, Maxim, Details, Outside and more.
Mindset sports coach: 2003- current
Ulmer coaches athletes in a sport disciplines and runs mindset-only ski camps called Ski to Live, at Alta, Utah, which have been featured in multiple media sources such as The Wall Street journal, Forbes, USA Today and Outside Magazine.
Fear specialist: 2003- current
Ulmer is a thought leader on the subject of fear. She makes bold claims, such as "fear is not a problem, it's our habitual way of fighting or trying to conquer Fear that is the problem, causing such troubles as excessive anxiety, depression and PTSD." Her forthcoming book The Art of Fear intends to challenge existing norms, as a path to end these problems. Publication is set for June 2017.
Personal life
Married to Aerospace Engineer Kirk Jellum since 2009, they have two savannah cats as pets. The couple attends the Burning Man festival in Nevada each year and are known for building and bringing the Mantis and Scorpion art cars.
External links
- Official website
- The Princess of Extreme Skiing: That Girl, Powder Magazine
- Forbes magazine interview on skiing the Grand Teton
- Manage your Fear with guest Kristen Ulmer 11/6/2014 radio interview
- On Fear as the Mind Killer
- New Years Destinations: Ski to Live 1/28/13 Outside Magazine
- Kristen Ulmer: From extreme skiing to mindset training, Lifesherpa podcast
- Mind Over Mountain? Wall Street Journal full page article about Ski to Live. 3/19/12
- Mind Over Mountain: Former Extreme skier Kristen Ulmer shows students that whether they think they can or think they can't they're right. Ski Magazine Oct 2010
- Ski to Live, Forbes magazine, 11/16/07
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