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| Hanneke Boon: At the Helm | 23 Sep 2024 | 01:07:55 | |
Did sailing have more to do with early human locomotion than the wheel? Hanneke Boon, head of James Wharram Designs, suggests that may be so. Born in the Netherlands, Hanneke grew up in a sailing family. She was building and sailing Polynesian Catamarans at the age of fourteen and joined the James Wharram team at the age of 20. Of the Polynesian double canoe inspired designs - once called ‘dangerous and eccentric,’ James Wharram said: Hanneke has built, or taken part in building, more than sixteen Wharram designs, including developing many prototypes and the 63ft Spirit of Gaia - and is an expert epoxy worker. She talked us through the simple joys of life at sea, the central role that sailing has played in human evolution and the near death revelation that set her a new course. ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Bob McTavish: Trim & Wonder | 30 Aug 2024 | 00:57:56 | |
Over the last half century, Bob McTavish has shaped thousands of custom surfboards. Always an innovator in surfboard design and technology, Bob pioneered cutting edge changes to the basic concept of a surfboard. Now in his eighth decade, Bob continues to push the limits of surfboard design across the full range of wave-riding vehicles, including the shape that we focus on in this conversation – the 10 foot plus glider. After 5 years dormant, Bob brought his objective surf contest concept - The McTavish Trim - to our local surf festival with three rules: Rule #1 - Board must be 10ft+ Surfing is full of old men who calcify and only speak of the good 'ole days. Bob is not one of those guys -- he's still full of wonder and has made a career out of his wave riding curiosity. ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Torren Martyn & Aiyana Powell: Solo, Together | 08 Jun 2024 | 01:36:15 | |
Ever want to pack up normalcy and set sail over the horizon? What’s it really like to live at sea for a year and rarely be further than 35 feet from your new significant other? Torren Martyn and Aiyana Powell talk us through the peaks and troughs of life aboard Calypte, a borrowed 35-foot sailing boat that they spent 12 months sailing 9,000-kilometres - from Pattaya in the Gulf of Thailand to Lombok, an Indonesian island east of Bali - a journey chronicled in their new independent film Calypte. With little practical sailing experience, Torren and Aiyana learned as they went – how to be fisherfolk, navigators, meteorologists, and mechanics to take care of running repairs — and still found plenty of surf along the way. Torren and Aiyana talk us through the happenstance of meeting, their time aboard Calypte – the trials of trust and communication at sea— and their newest adventure – starting a family together. ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Mark Healey: Confronting Discomfort | 31 Jul 2019 | 00:47:36 | |
Legendary waterman Mark Healey lost three friends to heavy water situations through the course of the early 2000s. He speaks candidly about the ways these experiences rewired his process of risk assessment, while maintaining his relationship with the water and his career as a professional risk taker: chasing big waves, free diving, spearfishing, shark tagging, bow hunting, and working as a Hollywood stuntman. Mark also shares about relying on instincts in heavy situations, the importance of being able to override the fear response through preparation, and asking the tough questions of yourself about the 'whys' of decision-making. Mark’s yogic approach to confronting discomfort inspires us to keep facing our self-built boundaries. He reminds us that without challenge, there is no growth. … The Waterpeople Podcast is a gathering for our global ocean community to dive into the critical conversations of our culture through storytelling. We sit with some of the most adept waterpeople on the planet to explore common themes of aquatic lives lived well: ecology, adventure, community, activism, science, egalitarianism, inclusivity, meaningful play. And surfing, of course. Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich Sound Engineer: Shannon Sol Carroll Music by Band of Frequencies. Available via www.lowpressureproductions.com and on Spotify. Join the conversation: Waterpeoplepodcast.com @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Kimi Werner: Flipping Your Instincts | 19 Jul 2019 | 01:01:28 | |
At the height of her competitive spearfishing career, Kimi Werner began battling with inner demons that turned the once-solace of the ocean into a cacophony of self-criticism. Kimi’s is a story about attaining dreams, losing love, wrestling with dissatisfaction and, ultimately, finding love again in the deep. Our conversation dives into reckoning with fear, flipping your instincts in heavy water situations, and the beauty of knowing where your food comes from. Kimi Werner is a former U.S. National Champion spearfisher, a freediver, and chef. … The Waterpeople Podcast is a gathering for our global ocean community to dive into the critical conversations of our culture through storytelling. We sit with some of the most adept waterpeople on the planet to explore common themes of aquatic lives lived well: ecology, community, activism, science, egalitarianism, inclusivity, meaningful play. Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich Sound Engineer: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: Waterpeoplepodcast.com @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Introduction to The Waterpeople Podcast with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich | 17 Jul 2019 | 00:28:44 | |
On The Waterpeople Podcast, we're delving deep into the intricacies of how the world's most adept waterpeople make lives of great meaning through meaningful play. In this episode Lauren L. Hill and Dave Rastovich elucidate the the 'whys' of making the podcast, reveal about their highlights from Season One, and welcome you to their watery world. Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich Sound Engineer: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: Waterpeoplepodcast.com @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| 'Overcoming:' Live at Byron Bay Surf Festival 2019 | 17 Jul 2019 | 01:06:23 | |
Stories of triumph, challenge and the sea, brought to you live from Byron Bay Surf Festival. Listen as five brave waterfolk share their real and raw stories of overcoming or being overcome: finding surfing later in life, realising purpose after a life changing injury, living with cancer, searching for an unknown family member, wrestling with the death of a parent – and finding the dark humour. The ocean buoyed them amidst some of the most tumultuous experiences of their lives. With live musical performances by Dusty Boots Music & Felipe Baldomir. Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich Sound Engineer: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: Waterpeoplepodcast.com @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Annie Ford: Adventurous Activism | 17 Jan 2024 | 01:42:44 | |
The loudest human-made sounds: Nuclear Bomb (224 dB), Rocket launch (204 dB). And clocking in at 260 underwater decibels is the seismic blast, part of a process for exploring for oil and gas in the ocean. Unlike bombs and rockets, however, seismic blasts "fire approximately every 10 seconds around the clock for months at a time." We caught up with Annie as she completed a 4,000 km bike ride (that about 2,500 miles) to talk about endurance, optimism, changing careers, and her entwined commitment to kindness, climate action and adventure. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander ...
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| Sally Parkin: Sell the House | 02 Jan 2024 | 01:05:11 | |
Are you investing in yourself and your curiosities? At 63, Sally Parkin sold her home to spend the better part of 2023 surfing in Australia with her family.
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| Stu Nettle: Voice & Vertigo | 28 Dec 2023 | 01:13:30 | |
Injuries are mostly out of our control. But recovery offers many choices. Will we allow the scar tissue to stiffen or soften us? We first encountered Stu’s work amongst the lively pages of Kurangabaa, an academic – leaning surf journal he helped to found and run in the early 2000s. It was a trove of thoughtful essays, along with poetry, fiction and interviews – and part of a larger, exciting, indepedent DIY surf culture of that time. …
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| Pacha Lina Luque Light: Learning the Language | 18 Dec 2023 | 01:41:32 | |
Raised on a diet of deep ecology and the DIY spirit of her single mom, Pacha Light earned her first surfboard busking as a tween. She then forged her way into professional surfing as a teenager on Australia’s Gold Coast: signing a big endemic sponsor, training every day, and making a name for herself as a competitor and surf model. Until she couldn’t do it any longer. She felt she was not fully in alignment with her values. Now in her early 20s, Pacha talks us through what led her to say “thanks, but no thanks” to her long-time surfing sponsor. She shares about the search for belonging after her father’s passing, vying for a spot in the Olympics, and “understanding that we are called to be a part of the Earth protecting itself.” Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Tyler C. Wilde: The Missing Piece | 26 Nov 2023 | 01:09:07 | |
Have you ever felt like something was wrong, but you weren't quite sure how to name it? @trevorproject is a suicide prevention hotline for the LGBTQ+ community @pinkmantaray Schuyler is a wonderful resource for people who are trying to learn more about trans people and specifically trans athletes @alokvmenon - love their educational work ... Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Tom Carroll: Under the Lip | 18 Nov 2023 | 01:24:54 | |
A little fire can keep you warm; a big fire can burn your house down. Tom excelled competitively on the World Championship Tour for 14 years, finishing in the top 5 nine times, winning 26 events and earning surfing’s first million-dollar sponsorship contract. As a three-time Pipe Masters Champion, Tom is often considered the performance bridge between Gerry Lopez and Kelly Slater. Today, Tom is recognized as a teacher of meditation and wellness. He spoke with us about his sobriety, the "sharing wave" competition format, fathering while on meth, learning to listen and the absurd list of injuries he has endured as an elite athlete. … Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Christian and Ka'ale Sea: Many Beginnings | 21 Oct 2023 | 02:00:25 | |
Many of us dream of laying roots in some balmy, wave-rich location far from where we sprouted - to grow food and let the ocean dictate the day. Few of us do it. Christian started life in the Atlantic, on the 48-foot wooden sailboat his father rebuilt. Launching from their homestead on St. Thomas, Christian chased waves in Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, Hawaii and Australia before settling on the Big Island of Hawai’i, where he earned a degree in Marine Science and eventually worked up the nerve to ask out Ka'ale. Bree Ka'alemalu Sea - Ka'ale for short - is a surfer and dive instructor who was homeschooled on the wild Puna Coast of the Big Island. In her late teens, she took off to explore the wider world spending time elsewhere in Polynesia, Thailand, India, Nepal and Indonesia. She eventually settled back on the Big Island where she studied Hawaiian culture and, together with Christian, nurtured a rustic homestead and put permaculture principles to practice in the jungle. They spent ten years as the in-house waterman and woman at one of the best hotels in the world before packing up their truck to camp on the land that is now Ngalung Kalla Retreat. Over the past decade they’ve established flourishing food gardens to help feed visiting adventurers, and have built a collection of cliff-top Sumbanese guest houses to share. Together, they've had many beginnings, most initiated by their commitment to the water. Listen in to hear about their experiments in systems thinking, remote parenting, and building spaces that keep us present. … Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Flora Christin Butarbutar: Kampung Life | 24 Sep 2023 | 01:07:08 | |
Around 500,000 people were displaced by the 2018 earthquake that rocked the island of Lombok in Indonesia. It was estimated that 80% of all structures were levelled on the North of the island. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast
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| Moana Jones Wong: Awakening | 23 Aug 2023 | 01:09:12 | |
Can a single wave really change your life? For Hawaiian waterwoman Moana Jones Wong, one wave changed everything. She shares about the fated, sparkling bomb at Pipeline that altered both her sense of self, and her surfing career. Moana was also the first to earn a bachelor’s degree in Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing. She co-stars in the Prime Video series Surf Girls Hawai’i, which follows the next generation of Native Hawaiian female surfers as they navigate competitive surfing. Moana also talks us through traditional Hawaiian concepts of health and well-being, wave riding as a healing modality, and outgrowing her dreams of surfing Pipe like a guy. … Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast
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| Ruby Southwell: Natural Action | 14 Aug 2024 | 01:18:38 | |
Did you feel safe in your childhood home? If not, were you able to leave, or did you have to stay? At age 22, Ruby moved to Indonesia’s remote Mentawai Islands, where she surf guided, taught herself how to tube ride, and lived offgrid with a local family for just over two years. Ruby is known as a wildly talented navigator of weighty situations – both on land and in the water. Clips of her have been shared readily on social media – where you’ve probably seen her riding twinnes, pulling into big barrels, and displacing water in a distinctly feminine way. When "Big Surfing" came knocking about sponsorship, Ruby took the deal, but she also took the reins. With her content budget, Ruby defied the norms and made a short film about the Mentawai’s pioneering female surfer Siska. Parallel to wave riding, and now back in Australia, Ruby works to support at risk youth, with her sights on exploring the best of what her big island home has to offer.
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| Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson: Neoprene is Toxic | 09 Aug 2023 | 01:17:49 | |
What do neoprene wetsuits have to do with Cancer Alley ? There is only one chloroprene plant in the US. It is owned by Japanese chemical company Denka and lies in the predominantly black, low income town of Reserve, Louisiana – in the heart of an area known as Cancer Alley. Rising from the site of a former plantation, the Denka chloroprene plant casts a long shadow over St John’s Parish. No home in the community around the plant has been untouched by cancer. It has the highest cancer risk in the USA – 50 TIMES the national average. The EPA acknowledges the high cancer risk is due to chloroprene emissions from the plant." Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Felicity Palmateer: Nature’s Course | 24 Jul 2023 | 00:58:13 | |
If you only had 10 healthy years left of life, would you choose to know it ? Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Elizabeth Nguyen: Ancestral Stream | 06 Jul 2023 | 01:16:26 | |
“Each of us occupies a singular ecological niche in the web of life that is uniquely ours, and when we restore ourselves to health and vitality, we contribute to the health and vitality of our entire planet.” Such is the philosophy of psychiatrist and surfer Dr. Elizabeth Nguyen. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Chris Del Moro: Lead with Deeds | 21 Jun 2023 | 01:40:01 | |
With gender norms up in the air, what does it mean to be a dad today? For Chris Del Moro, it means showing up for it all - good, bad, and messy - and maintaining stability for his family. Chris spent more than a decade as a professional freesurfer, featured in movies including "Sliding Liberia, "The Present” and the biographical Bella Vita by Jason Baffa, which explores his Italian heritage and the blossoming culture of Italian surfing. Chris has also worked closely with environmental organisations, like Surfers for Cetaceans, combining art and activism to help protect wild species and spaces. Chris is now the co-owner of Baghsu Jewels, with his wife Madgi, and is the Creative Director for Drifter Surf in Bali. At the time of recording, they’ve been traveling the Southern Hemisphere for nearly a year with their two boys Marley and Bodhi, aged 7 and 4. We caught up with Chris during the 3-month leg of their Australian adventure. Chris talks us through why he said ‘no’ to professional surfing, growing up amongst LA’s South Bay legacy of watermen, the rite of passage of life guarding, the deeper purpose that activism brought to his surfing and art, and cultivating the under appreciated virtues of service, responsibility and staying centered - so that we can bring our best selves to our families. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Belen Alvarez Kimble: Watch Me | 08 Jun 2023 | 01:33:18 | |
When was the last time you refused to take 'no' for an answer ? Belen Alvarez Kimble shares about the life-changing instance when she pushed against cultural norms and expectations to lay down her life's path. Belen occupied one of the very few positions as a professional freesurfer through the early 2000s and worked with surf brands as an ambassador for unifying women’s surfing around the globe. She stands amongst the longboarding icons of the Blue Crush era that saw the resurgence of women to the line-up. Belen grew up in a traditional Mexican household in southern California, her mother a first-generation immigrant from Mexico. Belen now resides in Northern NSW, where she is the owner and operator of Salty Girls Surf School. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Rusty Miller: Surfing Through Life | 08 Jun 2023 | 01:36:03 | |
What's possible in the eighth decade of life? Rusty Miller will be 80 this year - and he's still rocking off at Lennox Point and taking off on the best set waves. Rusty was amongst the first surf travellers to venture to Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt and Portugal in the mid-1960s. In 1971, he was featured in Albe Falzon’s iconic film Morning of the Earth. In 1973 Rusty started the North Coast region’s first alternative newspaper, The Byron Express, and has been printing an annual magazine - Rusty’s Byron Guide– since 1984. It offers a practical and philosophical introduction to the Byron area. In 2012, Rusty co-wrote his first book Turning Point: Surf Portraits and Stories From Bells to Byron 1970-1971. Then came Turning Point II: Surf Portraits and Stories Hawaii: Oahu-Kauai-Maui 1968-1972. Both of which were collaborations with his partner, social geographer Trisha Shantz. They have two daughters, Taylor and Courtney. Rusty continues to share his ample surfing wisdom through his school – Rusty Miller Surf. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Season 5 Trailer | 07 Jun 2023 | 00:13:07 | |
Welcome back for the 5th Season of The Waterpeople Podcast. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| James Nestor: Shut Your Mouth | 06 Mar 2023 | 01:10:49 | |
Is your mouth open or closed right now ? There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: we take air in, let it out, and repeat 25,000 times a day. But most of us have forgotten how to do it properly. Access Buteyko breathing exercises for kids here. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast Get monthly musings and behind the scenes morsels from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Laola Lake Aea: Maka'ala | 20 Feb 2023 | 00:55:01 | |
Lore of the Waikiki Beach Boys is well known – those legendary Hawaiian watermen like Duke Kahanamoku and Rabbit Kekai who regulated the turf of one surfing’s most fabled beaches. But where were the wahine ? Today we’re in conversation with original Waikiki Wahine Beach Boy Laola Lake, champion outrigger paddler, surfer and ocean safety advocate. Laola grew up in the ocean front cottages of the Royal Hawaiian hotel, where her mother worked, and received her Waikiki Beach Boy license in 1970. She helped found the Hawaii women’s Surfing Hui, which was part of opening the door to the formation of women’s professional surfing. Laola lives and plays on the island of Kauai with her family. In 2020, on the eve of turning 70, she became the first female president of the Kauai Lifeguard Association. Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Rick Ridgeway: Wild Life | 07 Feb 2023 | 01:08:39 | |
How will we choose to spend this one wild and precious life? Rick Ridgeway has devoted his seven decades to adventuring Earth's widest seas and tallest peaks -- and working to protect the wildness that remains.
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| Brett Burcher: Deep Breaths | 26 Jul 2024 | 01:08:32 | |
What's the most challenging experience you've faced? Did it ultimately hinder or heighten your self-clarity?
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| Peggy Oki: Artful Activism | 21 Dec 2022 | 01:29:51 | |
As a member of the Zephyr skateboard team in the 1970’s -- made famous by the documentary Dogtown and Z Boys -- Peggy Oki was at the top of the women’s skateboarding world while pioneering the vertical skating movement alongside the DogTown crew of Jay Adams, Tony Alva and Stacey Peralta, as the lone Z-Girl. We caught up with Peggy as she made her way down the Australian coast to chat about adapting surfing for concrete, the inspiration of Sadako Sasaki's paper cranes, the importance of mindset in injury, and the projects currently capturing her imagination. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Jock Sutherland: Muscle Memory | 14 Dec 2022 | 01:08:31 | |
In early 1970, Jock Sutherland enlisted in the U.S. Army to fight in Vietnam. At that time, he was considered amongst the most visible and versatile surfers on the planet. The surfing world was shocked; and so was his mother. In 1989, Jock was busted for running cocaine and spent two years in prison. In his complexity and cleverness, Jock Sutherland has held an iconic position in the surfing community – a kind of hero’s hero – for his pioneering approach to tuberiding and switchoot surfing in waves of consequence. He claimed the cover of SURFER MAG in 1966, won the 1967 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational, and was featured in nearly a dozen surf movies, including Pacific Vibrations. "We used to call him 'the Extraterrestrial,'" fellow surfer Jeff Hakman later said, "because he was so good at everything. He could beat anyone at chess or Scrabble; he could smoke more hash than anyone, take more acid, and still go out there and surf better than anyone." … Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast
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| Bonus: Guided Meditation with Nathan Oldfield | 23 Nov 2022 | 00:15:00 | |
Following on from our full length episode, Nathan Oldfield shares about his decade-long relationship with practicing and teaching meditation, and talks us through a short guided meditation that he offers to school children. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Nathan Oldfield: Breathing Room | 23 Nov 2022 | 01:11:53 | |
Nathan Oldfield has journeyed into the depths of grief, and back, to make surf films brimming with reverence for the extraordinary beauty of life. Nathan is also a poet and meditation teacher, and parallel to his creative life, has spent 25 years as a school teacher. … Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Andy Ridley: Crowd Power | 09 Nov 2022 | 00:50:00 | |
Most conservation organisations mirror corporations in structure, operation, and strategy. But has that been effective? Andy’s newest platform is Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef, which serves as a way to engage people all around the world in the future of the reef through citizen science. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Karina Petroni: Gumption | 03 Nov 2022 | 01:28:52 | |
What happens when you lose it all? After a successful, 14 year professional surfing career, Karina Petroni discovered that all of her earnings and assets had suspiciously vaporised. Karina’s promise for professional surfing, combined with her family’s investment in managing her career, was so great that she was earning a living from surfing as a ten year old. Karina went on to compete on the World Championship Tour for more than a decade, holding the top spot on the leaderboard for a spell in 2008, and in 2009 Karina featured in the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove. Karina now happily resides in the Caribbean with her husband Dave, where she sails, surfs, freedives, and assists with marine salvage operations.
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| Gwyn Haslock: First Lady | 03 Nov 2022 | 00:37:22 | |
Gwyn Haslock has nearly 6 decades of surfing under her belt. She was born in Cornwall in 1945, and is renowned as one of the UK’s original surfers. Gwyn holds many competitive surfing accolades, including multiple British National Champion titles. We first heard about – and wrote about -- Gwyn’s story in 2015 after connecting with English bellyboarding enthusiast Sally Parkin, who said: “I am not sure who you would say started Men’s competitive surfing – but there is no doubt in my mind that Gwyn Haslock started women’s stand up surfing in England – she entered the first ever British National Championships in 1966 – she was the only female competitor and it was because of her that the surfing organisers started a Ladies National Championship in 1969 – there were six competitors and Gwyn won. She went on to win the first ever GB Ladies surfing championships in 1970, 1971, 1972 1973 and 1974 – came 2nd in 1975 and won again in 1976 – she also won the English Surfing Championships in 1990.” Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Chelsea Woody: Cultivating Kinship | 26 Aug 2022 | 01:21:27 | |
For many, 2020 was the worst. Chelsea Woody, a neuroscience nurse who moonlights as a Vans surf ambassador, is clear that it was “the worst year of her life.” Sound Engineer: Tiffany Richmond Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Jack Johnson: Time, Dreams & The Heart | 09 Aug 2022 | 00:56:45 | |
In Greek myth, staring at the monster Medusa would turn mortals to stone; one needed a mirror to take the edge off. Surfer, filmmaker and musician Jack Johnson reckons music and art can play a similar role in reflecting more digestible, less paralysing iterations of the ills and obstacles facing us all. Jack studied film at UCSB, and went on to make culture shaping movies like Thicker Than Water and A Broke down Melody. More recently, he’s a Grammy nominated artist, and founder of two charitable foundations with his wife and business partner Kim, including the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation, which supports and funds environmental, art, and music education, and the Kokua Hawaii Foundation, which provides experiential environmental education in the schools and communities of Hawaiʻi. We caught up with Jack as he prepped to release his eighth studio album Meet the Moonlight in June 2022 about Greek mythology, watching dragonflies, balancing family and work, the function of the artist today and where style comes from — in both music and surfing. ... Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Kshisya Tachanskaya: Gifting Good Days | 29 Jul 2022 | 00:40:40 | |
What if your homeland was suddenly the target of foreign attacks ? What would you do? Kshisya is part of Ukraine’s tight knit surfing community who enjoy the couple of windswells that the Black Sea delivers each year. Before she found surfing, Kshisya was a water skier, and later opened Kyiv’s CitySwell Club, and worked as a wake surf instructor. Shortly after her arrival in Portugal, Kshisya got to work doing what she could to contribute: hosting GOOD DAYS Surf Camps for refugee families, now without community, homes or support. More than 12 million people have been displaced from their Ukrainian homes, forced out by Russian attacks. Kshisya has received hundreds of applications for her Good Days Surf Camp sessions, and is seeking financial support to help cover the costs of providing free access to the week-long camps that include surf and skate lessons, but also ocean safety and literacy, food, psychological counselling, as well as yoga and meditation classes. Her mission: to share the ocean’s healing with as many as possible. Head here to learn more or to gift access to ocean play to Ukranian families seeking refuge. Sound Engineer: Tiffany Richmond Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Levelling Breath Practice with Brett Burcher | 26 Jul 2024 | 00:07:25 | |
As a follow up to our episode with heavy water specialist Brett Burcher we wanted to share a couple of breathwork practices that Brett found most practical in his own life - whether he’s dealing with insomnia, or about to drop into a bomb set wave. This is a levelling breath practice— not an upper or downer -- just a way to reconnect with a gentle balanced breath state. ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Tom Wegener: The Artisan's Way | 07 Jul 2022 | 01:23:06 | |
Unlike golf clubs and tennis racquets, surfboards are still largely made by local artisans. But, what sets the surfboard making industry apart from parallel industries? Why do local shapers still make boards? What sets Tom apart as a shaper is his surfing prowess. Tom played an integral role in keeping the traditional logging approach alive when it fell out of fad, embarking in self-funded films like Ten Toes Over and Siestas & Olas, which Steve Pezman, of the Surfers Journal, reviewed as the “best surf travel movie since Endless Summer.” With more than four decades of building boards under his belt, including homegrown timber crafts which exemplify a more sustainable approach, Tom shares with us about the responsibility he feels charged with -- to pass along the knowledge he has acquired and share his journey as a relentless artisan. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Tom Wegener: Part 2 | 07 Jul 2022 | 00:33:30 | |
Part Two of our meandering conversation with master shaper Tom Wegener talking the nitty gritty of board construction, how he almost got the call to be in The Endless Summer II, experimenting with ancient techniques in the shaping bay and which mode of wave riding is stoking him out the most right now. What sets Tom apart as a shaper is his surfing prowess. Tom played an integral role in keeping the traditional logging approach alive when it fell out of fad, embarking in self-funded films like Ten Toes Over and Siestas & Olas, which Steve Pezman, of the Surfers Journal, reviewed as the “best surf travel movie since Endless Summer.” With more than four decades of building boards under his belt, including homegrown timber crafts which exemplify a more sustainable approach, Tom shares with us about the responsibility he feels charged with -- to pass along the knowledge he has acquired and share his journey as a relentless artisan. Sound Engineer: Ben Alexander Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Welcome to Season Four | 21 Jun 2022 | 00:55:40 | |
Waterpeople is back with a fourth season of stories about the aquatic experiences that shape us, change us, and call us into this quirky community of water folk across the globe. Sound Engineer: Tiffany Richmond Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Sam Bloom: Gravity & Buoyancy | 20 Jun 2022 | 01:08:00 | |
What happens when life calls you to face your fears? Surfer, adventurer and mother of three Sam Bloom had to face that call after a 2013 family holiday went tragically wrong. Sam is a two-time world para surfing champion. She is the bestselling author of two books, and the subject of the 2020 film Penguin Bloom, starring Naomi Watts. Those three works detail the tragic accident that left Sam paralysed from the chest down, and the unexpected guest – an injured magpie in need of care -- who helped Sam rehabilitate and regain a deeper sense of herself again. .... Sound Engineer: Tiffany Richmond Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast
... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Committed to Questions | 27 Feb 2022 | 01:27:22 | |
To wrap up the third season, Lauren and Dave turn the mic on one another for a meandering chat through surf adventure stories, common questions from listeners, and their own answers to the central Waterpeople question about a time or experience after which you were never the same. Sound Engineer & Music By: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Fergal Smith: Grounded | 19 Jan 2022 | 01:23:52 | |
What is enough to move you to action? For heavy water specialist Fergal Smith, nuclear meltdown became the impetus for a radical shift in life and livelihood. Sound Engineer & Music By: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Acknowledging Pain & A Living Legacy with Gumbayngirr / Yaegl artist Mick Laurie | 08 Dec 2021 | 01:08:26 | |
What is lost when a language perishes? What becomes of a language on the edge of extinction ? Artist Mick Laurie is a man of story and culture, who is revitalising the language of his forefathers by making the first ever modern music in Gumbayngirr, using words spoken by his ancestors for tens of thousands of years. You may have heard Mick’s music if you’ve seen Torren Martyn and Ishka Folkwell's 'Lost Track’ adventure/ surf series. This episode closes with Mick’s collaborative piece with Headland, NGUURA, named by Australia’s Triple J as “a moving, significant work in language by an extremely talented emerging indigenous artist… shares the importance of us all taking on the responsibility to care for country and each other. Nguura will stay with you and inspire welcome reflection as you travel through these times.” Learn more about Mick @Maanyung_Music Sound Engineer & Music by: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: Waterpeoplepodcast.com ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| John Florence: Navigating Edges | 25 Nov 2021 | 01:17:01 | |
Olympian and two-time surfing World Champion John John Florence masterfully navigates the edges of flying and falling. Riding big waves and sailing at high speed around the Hawaiian Islands are amongst his most instructive and inspiring moments. Sound Engineer & Music By: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Regenerating Reefs with Gator Halpern of CORAL VITA | 17 Nov 2021 | 00:47:16 | |
We’ve already lost 50% of Earth’s coral reefs. It's estimated that 90% will be gone by 2050 at the current pace of destruction. Coral Vita just built the world’s first commercial land-based coral farm for reef restoration in The Bahamas. They are regenerating reef systems with innovative methods that expedite the growth rate of corals, and allow for self-selection of the most resilient species to warming and acidifying conditions. Sound Engineer & Music by: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: Waterpeoplepodcast.com ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Sachi Cunningham: Thriving On Chaos | 08 Nov 2021 | 01:25:21 | |
In 2011, Sachi Cunningham quit her dream job and her psychiatric medication ( for Bipolar 1 ) in search of a deeper sense of wellbeing in daily relationship with the ocean. She and her partner hit the road for what became a 14-month-long road trip across the Americas along the Pacific from LA to Chile. Parallel to her films and teaching obligations, Sachi maintains a career as one of the very few photographers who brave the heavy water of Northern California, where she is known for documenting big waves and the women who ride them. Sachi's forthcoming film is She Change. Sound Engineer & Music By: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||
| Energising Breath Practice with Brett Burcher | 26 Jul 2024 | 00:02:39 | |
In this bonus episode slab hunter Brett Burcher takes us through an energising breath practice that he’s found useful when you need a little extra pep in your step. ... Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander ... Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox. | |||