Episode 020: Easkey Britton - How To Be Like Water

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For the third and final part of my Irish omnibus, recorded on my trip to the west coast at the end of September 2017, I headed to Galway to meet Easkey Britton.

Easkey is a surfer, XXL nominee, swimmer, academic, artist, thinker, activist, environmentalist and explorer from Donegal. Part of the legendary Britton clan, she grew up surfing the great waves around Bundoran and Rossnowlagh, and is today famed for surfing some of the scariest waves around, like Mullaghmore and Aileens.

Yet as I discovered, there's much more to Easkey than a penchant for taking on big waves. We covered a lot of ground during during our wide-ranging and captivating chat - obviously her background as a surfer, but also her academic work, her family's role as pioneers of the Irish surf scene and the way she is linking these threads together through the many different projects she's involved in, like Waves of Freedom and the new Ocean Collectiv, of which she's a founding partner.

Ultimately this one is about connecting threads, and how through curiosity, openness, generosity and striving you can create links between the things that interest you for the greater good. Thanks Easkey! It was great to talk to you.

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