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FEBRUARY 2017 BCBUSINESS 57 COURTESY OF DEBBIE BUTT WEEKEND WARRIOR I've been skate skiing since 2001. Skate ski is an amazing o-season complement to swimming, biking, running, which is what we do a lot of in the fall, spring and summer. It is great for your cardio. It's really good upper-body work— your quads, your glutes—and it's a very rhythmic kind of pace. It takes a lot of practice to be good at it—I'm still a work-in-progress. It's a great winter workout. It's raining in the city, but it's snowing in the mountains, so you go up to Cypress or the Callaghan Valley in Whistler, and it's beautiful and it's snowing and you're out in the woods. My girlfriend Cristina Linden told me about this race called the Boulder Mountain Tour. The …rst one I did was in 2013. The race is a 34-kilometre skate ski race the …rst Saturday in February. It's in Sun Valley, which is about 1,800 metres above sea level—the village of Whistler is 670 metres above sea level—so you're up there. You de…nitely feel your chest right away, like, "Oh my gosh, how come I'm so short of breath?" There are about 1,000 participants in the race. There are quite a few Canadians that go down, so there's people from Whistler; you see some Vancouverites down there. The whole town comes out to volunteer, there's the beautiful scenery of the Sawtooth mountain range, and there's a big community festival going on every day. That community feel is why I like where I work at Canuck Place Children's Hospice. We provide medical care to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families, but we do it with a community of support, and that's what that race is like. Pediatric palliative care doesn't happen without physicians, nurses, counsel- lors, recreation therapists and donors all coming together to make that support happen. It's a very similar kind of environ- ment down there. —as told to Jenny Peng Brian Scudamore keeps on hitting people up where they live. With his latest venture, Shack Shine, the founder and CEO of 1-800-Got-Junk has moved into house detailing. It's another unsexy, service-based play, but Scudamore's franchise has turned out to be popular with millen- nials looking to run their own businesses. Shack Shine is O2E Brands' (O2E stands for "ordinary to extraordinary") fourth franchise brand, along with Wow 1 Day Painting, You Move Me and the junk removal flagship. Using a model much like 1-800-Got-Junk's, it provides gutter cleaning, win- dow washing and power washing in a single visit. Fifteen months after launch- ing in May 2015, Shack Shine had generated $1 million in revenue from 12 franchises across Canada and the U.S. That's 16 times the growth that 1-800-Got-Junk— which now has 159 franchises worldwide —saw during its first year in 1989, Scudamore explains. "The similarities are in the structure," he says of Shack Shine. "We do the bookings and dispatch for our franchise partners so they can really get out there and drive the customer experience." In addition, every franchisee receives support from O2E's financial, public relations and legal experts. Scudamore, winner of the 2015 EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in the business-to- consumer category, now employs more than 4,000 people, including 300 at O2E's head office in Vancouver. –J.P. Shack Shine, Brian Scudamore's newest franchise, hits a home run in its rst year Powder Power Canuck Place Children's Hospice director of communications Debbie Butt on skate skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho—this year, to celebrate her 50th birthday ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH Debbie Butt at the finish line of the 2015 Boulder Mountain Tour, a 34-kilometre skate ski race she does every February Before joining Canuck Place Children's Hospice in 2012, Debbie Butt was executive director of the Canucks for Kids Fund, which has contributed more than $28 million to the hospice since it opened in 1995. NEW + IMPROVED WARRIOR SPOTLIGHT

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