Waterpeople Podcast
124 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 296 ratingsStories about the aquatic experiences that shape who we become back on land.
Listen with Lauren L. Hill and Dave Rastovich as they dive into essential conversations of our global ocean culture through storytelling with some of the most adept waterfolk on the planet. Waterpeople is a gathering place for our ocean community to dive into the common themes of watery lives lived well: ecology, adventure, community, activism, science, egalitarianism, inclusivity, meaningful play, a sense of humour. And, surfing, of course.
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Watershed Chats: LOUIE PSIHOYOS, director of The Cove on how to change minds and make good trouble
October 25, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBLouie Psyhoiyos is an Academy- Award winning filmmaker and Executive Director of the Oceanic Preservation Society. He makes movies that ignite and galvanise movements to protect the planet , including The Cove, Racing Extinction, and Game Changers. The Oceanic Preservation Society uses film, photography, and social media – one “exposure” at a time – to inspire, empower, and connect a global community of activists fighting to protect our fragile planet. Louie's most recent film is Missi...
Watershed Chats: LOUIE PSIHOYOS, director of The Cove on how to change minds and make good trouble
October 25, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBLouie Psyhoiyos is an Academy- Award winning filmmaker and Executive Director of the Oceanic Preservation Society. He makes movies that ignite and galvanise movements to protect the planet , including The Cove, Racing Extinction, and Game Changers. The Oceanic Preservation Society uses film, photography, and social media – one “exposure” at a time – to inspire, empower, and connect a global community of activists fighting to protect our fragile planet. Louie's most recent film is Missi...
Daize & Aamion Goodwin: A Holy Pause
October 11, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBThe living world moves in pulses, defined equally by motion and pause. As waterpeople, we know this. Daize & Aamion Goodwin are a couple of exceptional surfers who have taken to applying the philosophy of the pause to daily life as a family. Daize is a two time world longboard champion and Aamion made a successful career as a multi-faceted waterman renowned for his casual approach to Pipeline and other waves of consequence. Now in their 17th year of marriage, with three wildlings, Daiz...
Watershed Chats: Surfers for Climate Action Now with BELINDA BAGGS
September 30, 2021 23:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBCo-founder of Surfers for Climate and iconic waterwoman Belinda Baggs shares her story of taking action on what she sees as the greatest threat to her son's health and wellbeing: climate change. Belinda shares a cornucopia of solutions for getting involved today; from everyday changes we can all make, to applying systemic pressure for legislative change. We talk through the critical importance of the dual and intertwined challenges of ecological and social justice, while acknowledging the...
Watershed Chats: Surfers for Climate Action Now with BELINDA BAGGS
September 30, 2021 23:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBCo-founder of Surfers for Climate and iconic waterwoman Belinda Baggs shares her story of taking action on what she sees as the greatest threat to her son's health and wellbeing: climate change. Belinda shares a cornucopia of solutions for getting involved today; from everyday changes we can all make, to applying systemic pressure for legislative change. We talk through the critical importance of the dual and intertwined challenges of ecological and social justice, while acknowledging the...
Taki Gold: Scar Gazing
September 21, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBHe fled from civil war on foot as a six year old, physically unscathed, but forever changed by the unthinkable violence, rhythms, and energy of Liberia's internal conflict. After making his home in California, Taki Gold set out to transform the dark relationship he’d once had with the ocean by taking up surfing. Along the way, he's grown into a multi-faceted artist and musician. Taki's latest album Girl God is a testament to the women who carried him through the horrors of war. Content w...
Watershed Chats: Nature as the Third Parent with psychologist ROBIN GRILLE
September 03, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBWhat does the way we treat children say about who we are as individuals, and as a culture? Our guest, psychologist and father Robin Grille, believes that parents and teachers are amongst the most powerful agents for social change. We meander through stories about finding flow in parenting, moving away from the power-over paradigm, how colonialism has historically guided parenting norms, and the inherited trauma that most of us are called to unravel as adults or parents. Robin Grille h...
Jack McCoy: Life & Breath
August 26, 2021 02:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBSeven years ago, an episode of breathlessness after bodysurfing -- and subsequent health challenges (including a 15% chance of survival) -- shook up Jack McCoy's single-minded focus on filmmaking. Jack has crafted 25 feature films. From his 1976 debut Tubular Swells, to the contrasting narratives of Blue Horizon, and the historical themes of A Deeper Shade of Blue, Jack’s films have documented shifting surf cultures and bolstered many young men’s surfing careers. In his attempt to make...
Watershed Chats: Black Girls Surf, Changing the Visuals & Imagining The African Triple Crown with RHONDA HARPER
August 12, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBRhonda Harper is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, and founder of the NGO Black Girls Surf, which creates access opportunities for black and brown women and girls to experience surfing. Black Girls Surf is fostering a new generation of recreational and professional surfers through international training camps, while pushing back on exclusive surf media. Parallel to Black Girls Surf, Rhonda is working to further develop professional surfing in Africa , by dreaming up an African Triple Crown: a...
Watershed Chats: Black Girls Surf, Changing the Visuals & Imagining The African Triple Crown with RHONDA HARPER
August 12, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBRhonda Harper is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, and founder of the NGO Black Girls Surf, which creates access opportunities for black and brown women and girls to experience surfing. Black Girls Surf is fostering a new generation of recreational and professional surfers through international training camps, while pushing back on exclusive surf media. Parallel to Black Girls Surf, Rhonda is working to further develop professional surfing in Africa , by dreaming up an African Triple Crown: a...
Taylor Steele: The Observer Effect
August 02, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBIf the act of looking at something changes it – an effect that holds true for people, animals, even atoms -- then what further impact does documenting have? Over the course of the last 30 years, Taylor Steele's observations and interpretations have helped to define and redefine surf filmmaking -- and to shape the modern, California-centric culture of surfing. In the 1990s Taylor documented a new era of approaches to wave riding through films like Momentum and Loose Change. Later, his cin...
Taylor Steele: The Observer Effect
August 02, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBIf the act of looking at something changes it – an effect that holds true for people, animals, even atoms -- then what further impact does documenting have? Over the course of the last 30 years, Taylor Steele's observations and interpretations have helped to define and redefine surf filmmaking -- and to shape the modern, California-centric culture of surfing. In the 1990s Taylor documented a new era of approaches to wave riding through films like Momentum and Loose Change. Later, his cin...
Valerie Taylor: Sixty Years with Sharks
July 27, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBDo you have a memory about the movie JAWS? Australian icon Valerie Taylor was commissioned by Steven Spielberg, along with her partner Ron Taylor, to shoot the live action scenes for his unforgettable classic -- a film that ultimately drummed up irrational fears about sharks. Valerie spent much of the rest of her career trying to dispel those myths. Valerie's life’s work has become the basis for much of what we know about sharks today. She is best known for featuring on the cover of Nation...
Lynne Boyer: All These Secrets
July 14, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBOur cultural heros, and especially our sheros, seem to always glimmer with a steely façade of smiling heteronormative perfection. The soft underbelly of this manufactured reality is often left unspoken. Parallel to her time at the top, two time World Champion Lynne Boyer ( '78 and '79 ), struggled with addiction and stifling her sexual orientation. Still, she managed to define radical surfing amongst her cohort, and kept four time World Champ Margo Oberg on her toes with ongoing competitiv...
Lynne Boyer: All These Secrets
July 14, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBOur cultural heros, and especially our sheros, seem to always glimmer with a steely façade of smiling heteronormative perfection. The soft underbelly of this manufactured reality is often left unspoken. Parallel to her time at the top, two time World Champion Lynne Boyer ( '78 and '79 ), struggled with addiction and stifling her sexual orientation. Still, she managed to define radical surfing amongst her cohort, and kept four time World Champ Margo Oberg on her toes with ongoing competitiv...
Isaiah Helekunihi Walker: Claiming Kuleana
July 05, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBHow far are you willing to go to protect the place where you live, love and belong? Native Hawaiians have had to face this question regularly over the last century or so, as colonialism threatened, and continues to threaten, indigenous ways of being, playing and thriving in their islands. Professor/Surfer Isaiah Helekunihi Walker contextualises Hawaiian localism within the historical framework of waves of colonialism -- from the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom to the annual onslaught of...
Isaiah Helekunihi Walker: Claiming Kuleana
July 05, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBHow far are you willing to go to protect the place where you live, love and belong? Native Hawaiians have had to face this question regularly over the last century or so, as colonialism threatened, and continues to threaten, indigenous ways of being, playing and thriving in their islands. Professor/Surfer Isaiah Helekunihi Walker contextualises Hawaiian localism within the historical framework of waves of colonialism -- from the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom to the annual onslaught of...
Susan Casey: Fathoming
June 28, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBWhat do you do with sparks of curiosity? Susan Casey follows many of them into full immersion: jet skiing down the face of a Pe'ahi set wave with Laird Hamilton, into the lightless innerspace of the deep marine biosphere via submersible, and straight to the ruins of forgotten ancient cultures to ascertain truth and significance for herself --- while taking readers along for the ride. Susan Casey, a self-proclaimed 'stealth activist,' is the author of three New York Times bestselling books ...
Susan Casey: Fathoming
June 28, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBWhat do you do with sparks of curiosity? Susan Casey follows many of them into full immersion: jet skiing down the face of a Pe'ahi set wave with Laird Hamilton, into the lightless innerspace of the deep marine biosphere via submersible, and straight to the ruins of forgotten ancient cultures to ascertain truth and significance for herself --- while taking readers along for the ride. Susan Casey, a self-proclaimed 'stealth activist,' is the author of three New York Times bestselling books ...
Cyrus Sutton: Perceiving Pattern
June 21, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBHow do we apply pattern literacy learned from ocean life to the land? What have we learned from our historically colonial approach to surf culture? How do we move ourselves and our culture forward in regenerative ways that favour meaningful relationship within our own community and the living world? Homesteading surfer, filmmaker and entrepreneur Cyrus Sutton invites us to engage with these questions, and more, in our omnivorous conversation about leaving pro surfing and Southern Californ...
Welcome to Season Three
June 21, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBListen with Lauren L. Hill, Dave Rastovich and Waterpeople's sound engineer/ in-house musician Shannon Sol Carroll as they sit down to recalibrate for another 21 episodes of conversation with some of the world's most adept waterpeople -- and those stretching the culture in imperative ways. ..... Hosts: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich Sound Engineer & Music By: Shannon Sol Carroll Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast Waterpeoplepodcast.com Get monthly musings and behind the sc...
Cyrus Sutton: Perceiving Pattern
June 21, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBHow do we apply pattern literacy learned from ocean life to the land? What have we learned from our historically colonial approach to surf culture? How do we move ourselves and our culture forward in regenerative ways that favour meaningful relationship within our own community and the living world? Homesteading surfer, filmmaker and entrepreneur Cyrus Sutton invites us to engage with these questions, and more, in our omnivorous conversation about leaving pro surfing and Southern Californ...
Mary Setterholm: So Then I Prayed
December 08, 2020 11:00 - 2 hours - 87 MBOne year after founding the Women's International Surfing Association in 1975, Mary Setterholm bought a bus ticket and left surfing behind -- her community and the culture she was helping to shape. Mary is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School has gone on teach hundreds of women and at risk youth the art of riding waves. She shares the painful story of why she left and how she found her way back to the ocean. ..... Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich More about Mary Sound Eng...
Thomas Campbell: Chasing Sensation
November 24, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBArtists take us to other worlds; they reflect or refract the beauty in ours, or not. They transport us and stretch us and dream for those of us who have forgotten. We are the artful animal -- and perhaps we need art more now than ever. For more than two decades, Thomas Campbell has shown us a quirkier and more open minded culture of surfing via sculpture, painting, photography and film. In watery circles, he's best known for his trio of analog surf films, including the seedling sprout, an...
Jaimal Yogis: Inner Ocean
November 10, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBHow do we navigate our own inner ocean -- the fear and anxiety and unhelpful fixations ? Student of Zen Buddhism, and surfer, Jaimal Yogis shares some of his learnings from a life committed to riding waves and cultivating peace through varying practices of meditation and mindfulness. Jaimal has become one of the leading literary voices in fleshing out the metaphorical depth, richness and spirituality of a surfing life. His books include Saltwater Buddha, All Our Waves are Water, The Fear P...
Watershed Chats: Scientific Subjectivities and Dolphin Culture with Dr. Liz Hawkins
November 03, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBDr. Liz Hawkins is a marine ecologist who has spent more than 20 years researching cetaceans. Liz is the founder and CEO of Dolphin Research Australia, where she heads up research and education about the social systems, communication, population dynamics, and health of dolphins in Northern New South Wales and South East Queensland. ... Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich Sound Engineer & Music by: Shannon Sol Carroll Artist in Residence: Chris Miyashiro Join the conversation:...
Tory Strange: A Place to Stay
October 26, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MBAt least once a day for 36 years, Tory Strange has provided a surf report for waterfolk in his hometown of St. Augustine, Fl. Waking most days to see the sunrise for the dawn patrol report, Tory has developed an especially intimate understanding of his local beach. Tory is also an entrepreneur and owner of one of the world's most community-centric surf shops, The Surf Station. He has shaped US East Coast surf culture by nurturing the careers of talented surfers, filmmakers and writers, an...
Tory Strange: A Place to Stay
October 26, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MBAt least once a day for 36 years, Tory Strange has provided a surf report for waterfolk in his hometown of St. Augustine, Fl. Waking most days to see the sunrise for the dawn patrol report, Tory has developed an especially intimate understanding of his local beach. Tory is also an entrepreneur and owner of one of the world's most community-centric surf shops, The Surf Station. He has shaped US East Coast surf culture by nurturing the careers of talented surfers, filmmakers and writers, an...
Watershed Chats: Seaweedy Solutions with marine ecologist Dr. Pia Winberg
October 20, 2020 00:00 - 48 minutes - 66 MBDr. Pia Winberg is marine ecologist and entrepreneur. A fascination with the scientific properties of seaweed led her to a decades long career in both researching and implementing sustainable marine food production systems – specifically the human and eco-systemic health impacts of growing, consuming and nurturing our relationship with seaweed. Seaweed is recognized as a potentially major ally in drawing down the carbon that fuels climate change – and for its ability to create rich marine ...
Paige Alms: Unfurling Fate
October 13, 2020 01:00 - 54 minutes - 75.3 MBTwo Time Big Wave World Champion Paige Alms was born in Canada. At age 7, a life-altering trip completely changed the course for her family and set Paige on the path toward shaping modern big wave surfing. Paige is a co-founder of the Committee for Equity in Women’s Surfing (CEWS), established in 2016, with her peers in professional big wave surfing: Keala Kennelly, Andrea Moller, and Bianca Valenti. Their vision and persistence in challenging the World Surf League’s history of pay inequit...
Watershed Chats: Doing Death Well with Zenith Virago
October 05, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBZenith Virago is founder of the Natural Death Care Centre, where she guides folks through the process of dying, death and bereavement. As Waterpeople, most of us dance the line with risk regularly, and we know how alive we feel in spaces that we can’t control – like the ocean. Choosing to be a part of a wild space can offer us a healthy respect for death – and an active appreciation for life. As a deathwalker, Zen challenges us all to consider death as an inherent part of the process of ...
Dane Gudauskas: Universal Languages
September 29, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBFreesurfer Dane Gudauskas is known equally for his sunny demeanour and powerful approach to the world's heaviest lefhanders. Dane is co-founder of Positive Vibe Warriors, a foundation that assists communities with youth water safety programs and ocean education. In our meandering mid-lockdown conversation, Dane muses on the depression that opened him up to deep compassion, the value of listening, the parenting philosophies that shaped the Gudauskas brothers, saying I Love You for the first ...
Dane Gudauskas: Universal Languages
September 29, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBFreesurfer Dane Gudauskas is known equally for his sunny demeanour and powerful approach to the world's heaviest lefhanders. Dane is co-founder of Positive Vibe Warriors, a foundation that assists communities with youth water safety programs and ocean education. In our meandering mid-lockdown conversation, Dane muses on the depression that opened him up to deep compassion, the value of listening, the parenting philosophies that shaped the Gudauskas brothers, saying I Love You for the first ...
Watershed Chats: Restoring Biodiversity via Practical Community Conservation Strategies with Kristel van Houte
September 18, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBKristel Van Houte is a surfer and marine ecologist based in the coastal town of Raglan, on the north island of New Zealand. She started the KariOi Project just over 10 years ago with a vision to restore biodiversity from local mountain to sea. The KariOi Project does some of the dirtier work of protecting biodiversity: trapping and removing invasive predators that threaten endemic migrating sea birds. Their extensive invasive predator control programme enlists the local community to remo...
Watershed Chats: Restoring Biodiversity via Practical Community Conservation Strategies with Kristen van Houte
September 18, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBKristel Van Houte is a surfer and marine ecologist based in the coastal town of Raglan, on the north island of New Zealand. She started the KariOi Project just over 10 years ago with a vision to restore biodiversity from local mountain to sea. The KariOi Project does some of the dirtier work of protecting biodiversity: trapping and removing invasive predators that threaten endemic migrating sea birds. Their extensive invasive predator control programme enlists the local community to remo...
Watershed Chats: Restoring Biodiversity via Practical Community Conservation Strategies with Kristel van Houte
September 18, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBKristel Van Houte is a surfer and marine ecologist based in the coastal town of Raglan, on the north island of New Zealand. She started the KariOi Project just over 10 years ago with a vision to restore biodiversity from local mountain to sea. The KariOi Project does some of the dirtier work of protecting biodiversity: trapping and removing invasive predators that threaten endemic migrating sea birds. Their extensive invasive predator control programme enlists the local community to remo...
Ashley Lloyd: Shaping Our Future
September 15, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBSurfer/Shaper Ashley Lloyd is ambidextrous when it comes to both planer and technical hang tens. Featured in films like Tiffany Campbell's Dear & Yonder, her surfing is both precise and powerful. Ashley talks us through the technical aspects of experimenting with innovative, plant-based materials in her ECOboard verified shapes, embodying the changes of pregnancy and motherhood, switch-stance as a practice of self expansion, and the way new boards can open us up to new sensations. ..... ...
Watershed Chats: Reframing Relationship in Community & Country with Bundjalung Brothers Josh & Kyle Slabb
September 08, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBJosh and Kyle Slabb are Bundjalung men who live, fish, surf and raise their families near the fabled sand bottom point break of Fingal Head on the east coast of Australia – where their ancestors have thrived for tens of thousands of years. The Slabbs are a renowned and respected family among coastal communities all over Australia, for their water prowess, cultural integrity and willingness to share indigenous ways of thinking and relating through their cultural education organization Bana...
Cliff Kapono: Tomorrow's Ancestors
September 01, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBNative Hawaiian biochemist Dr. Cliff Kapono talks us through the embodied fusion of modern scientific inquiry and reverent indigeneity. Cliff is amongst the most versatile surfers on the planet. He shares some of his most vulnerable moments, brimming with frustration and self-doubt, and humbly reflects on the ways a surfing life has kept him here. In our meandering conversation, Cliff also covers the conflict of biotech, environmental activism, traditional Hawaiian lore & surf crafts, and r...
Watershed Chats: On Being a Beneficial Human & Learning to Listen to the Land with Permaculturist Geoff Lawton
August 25, 2020 02:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBGeoff Lawton is a permaculture systems designer who has spent more than thirty years implementing and teaching the holistic mindset and ethical design science of permaculture. He has educated more than 15,000 students and consulted on projects in 52 countries around the world. If you’re curious to learn more about permaculture design or philosophy, Geoff has generously provided Waterpeople listeners with free access to his Permaculture Greenroom, where you’ll find inspiring, free video con...
Dr. Easkey Britton: The Playful Edge
August 18, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBIn 2010, Easkey Britton was drawn to Iran and the possibility of surf in the Arabian Sea. She became the first woman in known history to surf Iran’s Baluchistan Coast and found not only surf, but a hospitable culture eager to grow a surfing community of its own. At home in Ireland, Easkey was the first woman to charge the premier big wave peaks of Aileens and Mullaghmore. She was crowned Irish National Champion five times over. Now a marine social scientist, Easkey holds a PhD in Environ...
Dr. Easkey Britton: The Playful Edge
August 18, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBIn 2010, Easkey Britton was drawn to Iran and the possibility of surf in the Arabian Sea. She became the first woman in known history to surf Iran’s Baluchistan Coast and found not only surf, but a hospitable culture eager to grow a surfing community of its own. At home in Ireland, Easkey was the first woman to charge the premier big wave peaks of Aileens and Mullaghmore. She was crowned Irish National Champion five times over. Now a marine social scientist, Easkey holds a PhD in Environ...
Watershed Chats: Everyday Earth Repair with freesurfer HEATH JOSKE
August 11, 2020 02:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBHeath Joske is a waterman committed to regenerating his homelands. In one of the driest parts of one of the driest continents on Earth, Heath has committed to rehabilitating his large coastal acreage that was stripped bare by industrial agriculture. Between riding some of Australia’s most revered and underground waves and raising a young family, Heath is employing the principles of permaculture to bring balance back to his local, coastal ecology. ..... Welcome to our new series, Watershe...
Nik Zanella: Decoding Dynasties
August 04, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBDelve into one of surfing's new, ancient histories with surf explorer and author Nik Zanella's first-hand account of unravelling the ancient story of wave riding in dynastic China. Nik is the author of Children of the Tide and a former coach to the Chinese National Surf Team. ..... Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich More about Nik Sound Engineer: Shannon Sol Carroll Music by: Shannon Sol Carroll & Band of Frequencies Join the conversation: Waterpeoplepodcast.com @Waterpeo...
Watershed Chats: The Blue Economy & A Rights Based Approach with Beyond the Surface International's EMI KOCH
July 27, 2020 23:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBEmi Koch is a surfer and the 2018 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. More recently, she was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for her work that explores social-ecological wellbeing in artisanal, Tropical-Majority fishing villages amidst a changing climate. Emi’s non-profit, Beyond the Surface International, hosts a suite of projects that use surfing as tool for social justice, youth empowerment, and sustainable community development around the world. In this exploratory ch...
Starting Over & The Sea: LIVE featuring '93 World Champ Pauline Menczer, Raf Browne, Jonny Dustow & Rosalie Bryant
July 20, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBLive from the Waterpeople stage at The 2020 Byron Byron Surf Festival, 1993 World Champion Pauline Menczer, switch-foot wizard Raf Browne, Vanlife Diaries founder and musician Jonny Dustow, and writer Rosalie Bryant share personal tales of new beginnings. They explore how the ocean buoyed them through health crises, bizarre ego smashing, fleeting moments of superhuman strength, and unexpected loss. ..... Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich Sound Engineer: Shannon Sol Carroll Mu...
Watershed Chats: How Water Shapes Us with Blue Mind author Dr. WALLACE 'J' NICHOLS
July 13, 2020 23:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBDr. Wallace 'J' Nichols is a marine biologist and author of Blue Mind, an interdisciplinary reimagining of the story of water and the vast cognitive, social, physical and spiritual benefits of being in, around, and under healthy water systems. His integrative approach to research and activism, informed by decades scientific inquiry, begs the question: how can we create a healthier world if we aren't well in our own minds and bodies? ..... Welcome to our new series, Watershed Chats, convers...
Gerry Lopez: A Sense of Stillness
July 07, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBLegend of style, ease and ingenuity, Gerry Lopez, shares stories about growing up in Hawaii, the balance he found in the mountains, tube-riding mysticism, and one of the unsung sheros of surfing. Gerry pioneered deep tube riding at the Pipeline, acted in Hollywood films, and helped to build the early surf industry with his entrepreneurial curiosity. He is an icon of the art of surfing, a masterful boardbuilder, dedicated yogi, and teacher of the great metaphors of ocean life. ..... Lis...
Watershed Chats: Mitigating Micro-plastics with Marine Biologist ALICE FORREST
June 30, 2020 02:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBFreshly back from an expedition to Antarctica, Alice shares her experience of the frozen ocean and talks us through the complex conversation, but simple solutions, found in her new publication, Micro Plastics, Massive Problem. Alice’s field work has taken her to remote islands throughout the Pacific & Indian Oceans to study marine debris on beaches, and that consumed by birds, fish and humans. Alice Forrest is dive master, wildlife guide and marine biologist specializing in marine plastic...
Watershed Chats: Protecting People & The Planet with Intersectional Environmentalist LEAH THOMAS
June 16, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBWhat are the links between social justice and environmentalism? Leah Thomas is at the leading edge of Intersectional Environmentalism, a term she coined as a way to advocate for the protection of people and the planet simultaneously. Leah, a writer and activist, is blooming the efforts of Environmental Justice advocates. After posting a simple, but powerful graphic and pledge on Instagram, Leah’s unifying ideas went viral amidst the rising tide of the Black Lives Matter movement. By focu...