Sep 28, 2026 · 2 hr 36 min · 18 segments
Jennifer Welk almost let being shy keep her from signing up for her first tree climbing competition. In 2019, she clicked the button anyway. Showing up introduced her to a community that helped her…
Paul BiesterHost
Brick ReillyHost
Jennifer WelkGuest
these yeah my whole company i love it that's my whole like our whole model is that way i'm just curious to go and and i'm pulling at this string a little bit for for any ladies out there that might may be listening or whatever it's kind of like um i found that interesting dichotomy about the the one person grabbing your bicep but then the the crew kind of advocating for you so when you were out with the guys on the crew What was that dynamic like? You know, supportive, you know, instructional, like just walk us through that a little bit, like what that was like that you show up one day.
I mean, well, I think before we even went on a job, they found me, like, kind of a practice tree.
And they just kind of put me up, you know, put spikes on me and just kind of had me shimmy up just to kind of see, like, okay, how, in a sense, brave is she? Right, right, yeah, yeah.
But honestly, I feel like it took coming to the second company to really just, like – for my
just to really just take hold but that first company i was still just kind of like
and um what was i gonna ask about um like kind of like technique wise so you So they had you doing like Blake stuff? Were you body thrusting over at the first place to get in the tree? Like they set a line for you and were like, this is how you tie in, go ahead kind of thing? No,
these yeah my whole company i love it that's my whole like our whole model is that way i'm just curious to go and and i'm pulling at this string a little bit for for any ladies out there that might may be listening or whatever it's kind of like um i found that interesting dichotomy about the the one person grabbing your bicep but then the the crew kind of advocating for you so when you were out with the guys on the crew What was that dynamic like? You know, supportive, you know, instructional, like just walk us through that a little bit, like what that was like that you show up one day.
I mean, well, I think before we even went on a job, they found me, like, kind of a practice tree.
And they just kind of put me up, you know, put spikes on me and just kind of had me shimmy up just to kind of see, like, okay, how, in a sense, brave is she? Right, right, yeah, yeah.
But honestly, I feel like it took coming to the second company to really just, like – for my
just to really just take hold but that first company i was still just kind of like
and um what was i gonna ask about um like kind of like technique wise so you So they had you doing like Blake stuff? Were you body thrusting over at the first place to get in the tree? Like they set a line for you and were like, this is how you tie in, go ahead kind of thing? No,
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