The Joy of SUP - The Paddleboarding Sunshine Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

I am so thrilled to welcome our first international guest to The Joy of SUP today! 

Vikki is a British-born adventurer  and founder of She SUPs, her paddleboarding business in Sydney, Australia.

She SUPS is an all women's community focussed on empowering women + girls through SUP adventures. 

Vikki moved to Sydney in 2015 + within a few months was hooked on paddling. First, it was kayaking, but then came SUP. 

Being on the water helped her process working in a toxic corporate environment, visa struggles, loneliness, being away from family + living with anxiety. Through kayak and SUP she gained strength, learnt new skills and found her identity. It helped her create a stronger connection to Country, build friendships and connect with and learn from Mother Nature. 

Conducting research, during the initial brainstorming stages of the She SUPs concept, Vikki was shocked (but at the same time not surprised due to personal experience) by the statistics around barriers to participation in adventure-sports for women, which were preventing so many women across Australia from gaining these benefits. 

As she read these studies she could definitely relate. Unfortunately, she had found that sometimes being a female adventurer/paddler could be tough, and yet, it really shouldn’t be. 

Therefore fuelled by her own experiences, and determined to provide a better, more supportive outlook for women Vikki decided to: 

1. Take on an adventure challenge to raise publicity and awareness of deeply-rooted discriminatory social norms and stereotypes that often prevent women from pursuing adventurous activities/outdoor sports and get the She SUPs mission out into the world!! This was the She SUPs Sydney Expedition where she paddle boarded 30 waterways of Sydney in 30 days during September 2019. 
2. Build an all women’s SUP community focused on creating a safe environment for women to try something new, learn, grow, connect with others and the planet and ultimately feel empowered through adventure. 

We also talk about:

• Her Connect to country adventures and retreats
• Lockdown challenges to support her community + raise money for women in Afghanistan
• Setting her clients up for success and the power of community and support
• Her favourite piece of Overboard kit
• Advice for someone who wants to SUP but feels unsure
• Her SUP online course
• Training with ASI in England 
• Winning a prestigious award  New South Wales (NSW) Office of Sport 'Her Sport, Her Way' Local Champion Award in recognition of her achievements in 2021 for increasing female participation in sport. 

Instagram: @shesups_
Website: www.shesups.com.au
Vikki is an Ambassador for Red Paddleboards.

Thank you so much to Bluefin SUP for sponsoring Season 3 of the podcast.

Any questions, please get in touch healthyhappyfifty@yahoo.com.

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I am thrilled to welcome Holly Pye to The Joy of SUP Podcast.

I first met Holly when I asked in SUP Sisterhood for a sleep specialist. What I didn't realise that as well as working in the NHS as a sleep physiologist and running her own specialist sleep clinic - Stars Sleep Clinic - Holly is a very successful SUP racer and downwinder!

Holly is a SUP racer living in South Devon. She enjoys the competitive side of the sport and has raced in the GBSUP National Series since 2017. In 2021, Holly travelled to Hungary with her SUP for the ICF World Championships where she came 13th in the long distance race - an 18 kilometre race against some of the world's best!

Holly loves being in or on the ocean and takes any chance she can to get out there. She grew up around the water and now does lots of different watersports. When the weather turns she can often be found downwinding along the Devon or Cornwall coast, riding the bumps on her SUP from one point to another and enjoying every minute of it.

When Holly is not on the water, she loves to help others. She trained as a sleep physiologist and runs Stars Sleep Clinic where she offers cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia and supports people with a variety of different sleeping difficulties.

Holly is now a team rider for Starboard SUP, SUP North Devon and Paddle Logger. All organisations which care for the oceans and environment and allow us all the opportunity to protect what we love.

We talk about:

• Growing up by the sea and her water loving family - everyone SUPS!
• Downwinding - what it is, how to start safely, the safety aspects that Holly takes into consideration every time she goes out, joining a SUP downwinding group
• Starting a SUP club at university
• The power of community in paddleboarding and especially Anna Little's incredible help
• The superstar Marie Buchanan
• SUP racing - Read Holly's report for Paddlelogger about Hungary ICF World  Championship races 
• The importance of sleep and how it impacts our wellbeing and performance 
• Tips on how to get a better night's sleep and tips if you aren't sleeping well
• The importance of good nutrition as well as recovery when you are training hard
• Being relaxed around food when travelling 
• The joy of Carbis Bay
• Her dream race Molokai

An article Holly wrote about sleep: https://www.stars-sleepclinic.co.uk/post/sleep-and-sports-performance

You can find Holly here:

Instagram: @hollypye and @starssleepclinic
Website: www.stars-sleepclinic.co.uk

Thank you so much to Bluefin SUP for sponsoring Season 3 of the podcast.

Any questions, please get in touch healthyhappyfifty@yahoo.com.

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It would be great if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboarding SUP sunshine! Please always put safety first and train for your body. 

I'm thrilled to welcome Hayley Browning to The Joy of SUP Podcast today!

Known for her infectious energy and love of the outdoors, Hayley is co-founder of the award-winning Paddle Cabin and British Canoeing SUP Coach, and it’s safe to say paddleboarding has completely transformed her life since her diagnosis of breast cancer in 2017 at the age of 27.

Paddleboarding has allowed her to reconnect to nature, the feeling that had been missing for her since 2010 where she lived in a wooden cabin with no electricity on a Wolf Lake in Minnesota. While having an 11 year career in the charity-corporate partnership world taught her a lot, it’s not the environment that would help her overcome the long-term physical and mental effects of having breast cancer at such a young age, unlike the positive wellbeing effects of the outdoors.

After lockdown’s reflection time, quitting her 9-5 office job without a real plan and risking her life savings to follow her dream of working on the water paid off, with the opportunity of a lifetime soon coming her way. Fast forward six months, alongside her friend Jo Taylor, Hayley opened the Paddle Cabin’s door and brought the paddle life to Kent, winning awards for their paddleboarding business which has water safety and wellbeing on the water at it’s heart.

Combine that love of nature, with her passion for introducing people to adventure, and getting into the nitty gritty of technical SUP coaching, that’s what you can expect from time with Hayley. Hopefully this episode will give you a flavour of paddle life at the cabin and inspire you to take that leap into your unknown, and trust the net will appear, like it did for Hayley.

We talk about:

• The Paddle Cabin - building a partnership with Jo Taylor
• Her experience of Breast Cancer aged 27
• Living in the woods in Minnesota
• The River Medway, paddleboarding in Kent - Bewl Park and and St Andrews
• Being a British Canoeing coach
• SUP Yoga with India Pearson - also a guest on the podcast 
• SUP Meditation
• The SUP Life and why many of their members call it their Happy Place
• Partnering with Red Paddleboards
• Her favourite Tomato + Basil soup

You can find her here:
Paddlecabin Website: www.paddlecabin.co.uk
Instagram: Paddlecabin
Instagram: Hayley personal

I hope you enjoyed meeting Hayley!

Thank you so much to Bluefin SUP for sponsoring Season 3 of the podcast.

Any questions, please get in touch healthyhappyfifty@yahoo.com.

Instagram: @thejoyofsuppodcast_
Follow #thejoyofsuppodcast on Twitter and Instagram
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Website www.jomoseley.com

It would be great if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboarding SUP sunshine! 

Wishing you sunshine, thank you for listening, Jo x 

Please always put safety first +  get the right advice for your training + body. 

I'm thrilled to welcome Steph Barnicoat to The Joy of SUP Podcast today!

Steph lives in Cornwall with her beautiful dog and SUP companion Percy. She works in marine mammal acoustics and also runs a bespoke SUP business called SUP with Steph on The Gannel, Newquay. 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Her 95 km paddleboarding adventure along the Cornish coast raising money for Seaful Charity founded by Cal Major
• Her business SUP with Steph sharing the beauty of sunrise and sunset SUPs in Cornwall
• Paddling with Percy
• Her work in marine mammal acoustics
• Being a Team Rider for Hatha Boards 
• Writing her book on paddleboarding in Cornwall and sharing amazing spots 
• Volunteering with BDMLR and Cornwall Seal Research Group Trust 
• The Cornwall Seal Sanctuary 
• How paddleboarding supports her mental health 
• Protecting the places she loves 
• Being in the Arctic for work and how she would love to SUP there
• Porthpean in St Austell Bay 
• That Steph is a Water Skills Academy qualified instructor 

She is an Ambassador for Change Robe.

Steph also mentions Palm Atomic dry trousers.

You can find Steph here:

Website: SUP with Steph
Personal Instagram: @Steph_paddler_adventurer
SUP with Steph Instagram: @SUPwithsteph

I hope you enjoy the podcast and meeting Steph as much as I did. She truly is a such a gorgeous soul and Percy is a top paddleboarding pup!

If you have any questions, please get in touch on thejoyofsuppodcast@gmail.com.

Instagram is @thejoyofsuppodcast_
Follow #thejoyofsuppodcast on Twitter and Instagram
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Website www.jomoseley.com

It would be fantastic if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboarding SUP sunshine! 

Wishing you sunshine, thank you for listening, Jo x 

Please always put safety first +  get the right advice for your training + body. 

I'm thrilled to welcome Cath Knight to The Joy of SUP Podcast today!

Cath is a very inspiring woman whose recent river paddleboarding and fundraising adventure on the River Wye  with her friend Ginny Cooper really moved me. 

Cath lives in a village called Taplow close to the River Thames and Maidenhead. She has a busy life with two sons Jack 15 and is a Forest School Leader as well as being part of and volunteering at a plastic free Refill Shop.

In May 2021 Cath and a childhood friend, Ginny embarked upon a 100 miles, 5 day adventure on the River Wye to raise money for a charity - The Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group in memory of Ruby Fuller and her fund. They were supported by Ginny's partner Fillip.

If you wish to make a donation to help them reach their £10,000.00 goal you can find their fundraising page here. How wonderful it would be if we could help them as a community!

Here are some links to places and people we talk about in the podcast:

A link to Ruby's Fund.

Ruby's message to the world that Cath talks about is Live Kindly, Live Loudly.

Cath's local friends at Paddleboarding Maidenhead

Cath is part of Maidenhead Sailing Club

Beautiful Taplow Lakeside

Cath talks about Jamie at YOFI Paddlesports who generously guided Ginny and Cath through Symonds Yat when the river was so high.

You can find Wye SUP - the page she shares with Ginny here. It is @wyesup.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do. I found Cath
If you have any questions, please get in touch on thejoyofsuppodcast@gmail.com.

Instagram is @thejoyofsuppodcast_
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It would be fantastic if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboarding SUP sunshine! 

Wishing you sunshine, thank you for listening, Jo x 

Please always put safety first +  get the right advice for your training + body. 

I am so thrilled to welcome Anni Ridsdill Smith to the podcast today!

Anni is the owner of Frangipani SUP Limited, a long established and very popular British Stand Up Paddle Association (BSUPA) approved SUP school in Essex, with an experienced team of qualified instructors offering courses and certification for beginners, tourers and racers.  

She is a Director of BSUPA and trains Instructors in Essex and around the UK, supported by a Masters Degree in Training and Performance Management and many years experience training airline and airport staff. 

Anni is a passionate and successful SUP racer who competed at the UK's first ever women's invitational SUP race at the Southampton Boat Show in 2013 and she has competed regularly ever since.  

She is a committee member of GBSUP and with members of her beloved Frangipani SUP Race team just loves travelling the county to race hard.  She is an Ambassador for Mistral SUP in the UK and for #ThisGirlCan, for SUP in Essex.

In her non SUP time Anni is a Board Trustee at the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust and wife and mum to her super, fun family of tall men and pesky cats.

In this episode we talk about:

Anni's business:
www.FrangipaniSUP.com
www.Facebook.com/FrangipaniSUP
www.Twitter.com/FrangipaniSUP

• SUP racing 
• GBSUP series
• How to start and build a SUP business - things you need to know first!
• BSUPA - who they are, what they do and why Anni loves their work and is on the Board
• Mistral SUP and why she loves them
• The friendships she has made and how wonderful the SUP racing community is in particular
• Paddleboarding responsibly as a community
• How to get SUP fit
• Writing for SUP Mag UK 

There is so much wisdom and experience in this podcast about paddleboarding technique and knowledge, running a business, the SUP community, friendship and being SUP fit. I really hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Do follow Anni to keep up to date with what she is doing! 

If you have any questions, please get in touch on thejoyofsuppodcast@gmail.com.

Instagram is @thejoyofsuppodcast_
Follow #thejoyofsuppodcast on Twitter and Instagram
Facebook The Joy of SUP Podcast
Website www.jomoseley.com

It would be fantastic if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboarding SUP sunshine! 

Wishing you sunshine, thank you for listening, Jo x 

Please always put safety first +  get the right advice for your training + body. 

I am so thrilled to welcome Evie to the podcast today!

Evie is a mental health nurse from Devon and co tribe leader of OneWave Sidmouth where she combines her love of the sea and paddle boarding with her passion for making blue therapy accessible to all. 

She believes that everyone should have the chance to feel the benefits of the sea, talk openly about mental health and be part of a supportive community. 

@OneWaveisallittakes is a non-profit surf community raising awareness of mental health with a simple recipe: salt water, surfing and wearing fluro to make an invisible issue visible.

Started in 2013 by Grant Trebilco in Australia, OneWave has spread all over the world with around 200 groups now taking part. 

In 2019 Sidmouth joined the initiative and tribe leaders Evie and Charlotte now run frequent Fluro Friday sessions on the beach.  

With thanks to the incredible guys at @FatStickBoards and very generous donations, OneWave Sidmouth provides opportunities for people to experience Paddleboarding and other water based activities depending on the sea conditions.

With thanks to a previous guest Becky Dickinson for introducing Evie to me! You can listen to Becky's podcast episode here.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do! I'd love to hear your thoughts and do follow Evie and Charlotte at One Wave Sidmouth.  

If you have any questions, please get in touch on thejoyofsuppodcast@gmail.com.

Instagram is @thejoyofsuppodcast_
Follow #thejoyofsuppodcast on Twitter and Instagram
Facebook The Joy of SUP Podcast
Website www.jomoseley.com

It would be fantastic if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboarding SUP sunshine! 

Wishing you sunshine, thank you for listening, Jo x 

Please always put safety first +  get the right advice for your training + body. 

I am so thrilled to welcome Nicky Green to the podcast today!

Nicky is Chief Operating Officer at The 2 Minute Foundation. 

She is 42 and lives in Croyde, North Devon with her 2 girls, husband Graham and her dog Pixie. 

In 2019 I fundraised for The 2 Minute Foundation with my C2C SUP adventure from Liverpool to Goole, creating 4 beach clean stations. I am a very proud Ambassador. 

After graduating with a BA degree in 2000, Nicky travelled to Mexico + New Zealand. She worked in Australia with one job overlooking Sydney Harbour bridge and the blue mountains and loved every minute!

On her return, she worked in financial PR, then project management but jumped at the opportunity to join Graham in India for 6 months where she travelled and volunteered for a Women’s empowerment charity. 

After working in London, the pull back to North Devon and the Atlantic coast was magnetic.

At the end of her maternity leave for her firstborn, she started working with Martin Dorey, founder of The 2 Minute Foundation for his writing business 1 day a week. 

As traction on the 2 minute beach clean hashtag grew, she listened intently into the conversations between Martin and Dolly, the social media manager and wanted ‘in’! Starting out with the bookkeeping, online shop and station sales, she soon picked up more hours to work with corporate relations, new campaigns, recruiting the wider 2 minute team and being instrumental to transition into charity status. 

She now helps to drive The 2 Minute Foundation forwards with the growing and awe inspiring team and adores working for a charity that aligns with her values. She is 2 Minute through and through, always on the look out for new 2 Minute opportunities and litter (!), continually learning and seeking out new adventures.

In addition to the love of SUP, her hobbies include running, Pilates, singing and dipping in the sea!

In this episode we also hear how Nicky's Grandfather was enjoying paddleboarding in the 1940s!

Nicky talks about:

www.facebook.com/2minutecharityshop

The App:

‘BEACHCLEAN’

You can donate here:

https://www.justgiving.com/2minute

Find out about stations from: stations@2minute.org 

Learn about being a Guardian Angel from claire@2minute.org

2 Minute Supporters : Surfdome and Fjallraven

Martin Dorey's books: http://martindorey.com/

The #s: #2minutebeachclean, #2minutesolution, #2minutestreetclean #2minutelitterpick

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do! I'd love to hear your thoughts and do follow Nicky on Instagram. 

If you have any questions, please get in touch on thejoyofsuppodcast@gmail.com.

Instagram is @thejoyofsuppodcast_
Follow #thejoyofsuppodcast on Twitter and Instagram
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Website www.jomoseley.com

It would be fantastic if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboarding SUP sunshine! 

Wishing you sunshine, thank you for listening, Jo x 

Please always put safety first +  get the right advice for your training + body. 

I am  so thrilled to welcome Becky Dickinson to the podcast today!

Becky is a paddle boarder based in the South West of the UK. She took up paddling in 2013 after her friend Guy set up Jurassic Paddle Sports in Sidmouth, Devon.

Although Becky was born in Yorkshire and spent her early years living in Hebden Bridge, her family moved to Devon when she was 6 years old and has been a water baby ever since. She started sailing at the age of 7 and spent many weekends playing in the surf on the North Devon coast.

As surfing became more competitive on the water, she looked for a sport that was more accessible and paddle boarding was perfect! 

Last year Becky set up a WhatsApp group for paddle boarders based in the South West of the UK. It’s allowed women to meet up, make friends, share advice and knowledge of SUP and explore new paddle locations with great company!

Becky is also taking on a paddle boarding challenge with her friend John, to raise money for cancer research which has impacted her life as with many others over recent years. They will be paddling across to the Scilly Isles from Cornwall, planning is still in its early days but will share the details of when they come available.

We will share the links to Becky's fundraising page on social media. 

You can find Becky on Instagram here @beachy_bex.
Her website is: www.supbecks.com
She is an Ambassador for Sealion Boards and BAM Clothing.
She trained with BSUPA to become a SUP Instructor at Edge Watersports.
Becky also shares more about One Wave Sidmouth - which is super as we will be having Evie on the podcast to talk about it more soon!
You can find John Horsfall's podcast here: The Modern Adventurer.
Here is a link to the Red Flotation Device Becky mentions.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do! I'd love to hear your thoughts and do follow Becky.

If you have any questions, please get in touch on thejoyofsuppodcast@gmail.com.

Instagram is @thejoyofsuppodcast_
Follow #thejoyofsuppodcast on Twitter and Instagram
Facebook The Joy of SUP Podcast
Website www.jomoseley.com

It would be fantastic if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboarding SUP sunshine! 

Wishing you sunshine and joy, thank you for listening, Jo x 

Please always put safety first +  get the right advice for your training + body. 

I'm so thrilled to introduce Dr. Sarah Perkins to you on The Joy of SUP Podcast!

Sarah is a wildlife biologist at Cardiff University whose work focuses on wildlife diseases. She works mostly outdoors, in the field, collecting data on everything from small wild mice to (extremely large) polar bears, but no matter the size of the study animal, she’s always got her eyes on the community that lives on, or in, her study species; the parasites. 

When not studying disease transfer in wildlife, Sarah is a keen SUP surfer and racer living on the Pembrokeshire coast. 

In recent years Sarah has combined her love of SUP with that of science, finding that her SUP works well as a floating laboratory for her marine research. Over the last 10 years Sarah has been carrying out research on the health of a small, remote coral reef community in Tobago.

The SUP has become an important part of the research equipment used, with it not only being the form of transport to the study sites, but a platform from which to observe the reef and collect samples.  

Back in the UK, Sarah is an advocate for wildlife conservation, education and responsible engagement. She can frequently be spotted paddling her SUP while wearing a mask and snorkel; ready to jump off and explore the underwater world.

Here is a link to the cleaner fish on Kathryn Ellen Whittey's You Tube that Sarah mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGysteqPDNY&list=UUhXwpcds97F259nXaPI7KWg&index=8

In this episode we talk about the iNaturalist app and how we can all add to the scientific data on wildlife.

Sarah talks about seal haul out sites and mentions Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust and Sue Sayer.

We mention SUP Mag UK writer and SUP super woman Sarah Thornely too: here is here episode: https://thejoyofsuppodcast.buzzsprout.com/1532449/8171727-sarah-thornely-uk-sup-racing-champion-broadcaster-supjunkie-cheerleader-extraordinaire

You can find Sarah on Instagram at @sarahperkinsperky
 
I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do! I'd love to hear your thoughts and do follow Sarah.

If you have any questions, please get in touch on thejoyofsuppodcast@gmail.com.

Instagram is @thejoyofsuppodcast_
Follow #thejoyofsuppodcast on Twitter and Instagram
Facebook The Joy of SUP Podcast
Website www.jomoseley.com

It would be fantastic if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboarding SUP sunshine! 

Wishing you sunshine and joy, thank you for listening, Jo x 

Please always put safety first +  get the right advice for your training + body.