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Skiing

Mermer started skiing at the age of three at Windham Mountain, New York and then went on to Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont where she ski-raced on a national level. She started teaching skiing in 1979, and in 1987, became an examiner for the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) to train and certify ski teachers throughout the east.

Season 2, Episode 16: Mermer Blakeslee, PSIA-E Ed.

In 1996, Mermer won Skiing magazine’s Instructor of the Year Award. That spring, she earned a spot on the PSIA National Demonstration Team, an elite team which spearheads the development and direction of ski teaching in America and represents American skiing internationally. (She was one of the few women and the only mother to do so.) She has lectured at PSIA’s National Academies and National Women’s Seminars, and the National Ski Patrol’s annual conventions.

Dubbed “the ski industry’s fear specialist” by the late Stu Campbell, Mermer uses skiing as a metaphor to elucidate the philosophy and strategies she’s developed about fear, l