129 | Steven Dimmitt: The Nugget Podcast - What I've Learned After 300 Conversations With the World's Best Climbers

The Climbing Majority

The Climbing Majority
129 | Steven Dimmitt: The Nugget Podcast - What I've Learned After 300 Conversations With the World's Best Climbers
Sep 21, 2026 Episode 129 Kyle Broxterman

Steven Dimmitt is the host of The Nugget Climbing Podcast, labeled as "one of the best long-form interview podcasts in the outdoor space" by Outside Magazine, with over 300 episodes and conversations spanning some of the sport's most accomplished athletes, coaches, and thinkers. He's also a serious climber in his own right — double digit boulderer, onsighting 5.13a, training out of the Tension HQ in Colorado, and building a body of climbing experience that informs how he approaches every conversation on the show. Beyond the podcast, Steven now runs a coaching accelerator, translating years of pattern recognition from his interviews into practical guidance for climbers trying to get better.

When I first started podcasting I looked around me in the space for inspiration. Who was at the top doing exactly what I wanted to be doing? Steven Dimmitt and his podcast The Nugget was one of them. Now having had five years and over 100 episodes of my own podcasting experience I wanted to speak creator to creator about the journey of self growth, development, and lessons learned from producing over 300 podcast episodes with some of the world's most elite climbers. I feel like Steven continues to be one of the more thoughtful voices in climbing media and this conversation is a look inside how he thinks — about the sport, about the work, and about what it actually means to build something meaningful in a noisy digital world.

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