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Listen with Lauren L. Hill and Dave Rastovich as they gather stories, insights and useful skills from some of the most outstanding waterfolk on the planet.
Waterpeople is where our global ocean community dives into the facets 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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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.
We'll be back with a stacked fourth season in May or June, full of fresh stories, inspiring ideas, and plenty of laughs.
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Sound Engineer & Music By: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music: ‘Evergreen’ by Band of Frequencies: Men of Wood & Foam album
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander
Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
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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.
As the founder of Moy Hill farm, Fergal and his team aim to “grow worthy food, build soil, regenerate systems, plant flowers and trees, and work to leave what is in their care healthier than they found it," while also nurturing community.
Fergal talks us beyond the romanticisation of farming, and into the muddy complexity of what it means to grow food for one's community, --- and why it's still so difficult to make a living as a farmer. Also, why surfers are (mostly) airheads, and probably more farmers should ride waves.
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Sound Engineer & Music By: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music: ‘Evergreen’ by Band of Frequencies: Men of Wood & Foam album
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander
Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast
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Thanks to our generous sponsors this season:
Patagonia Australia: in business to save our home planet
Ngalung Kalla Eco Retreat: surf adventure paradise
The Sunglass Fix: give your favourite sunglasses new life
Sodii: hydration for salty humans
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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.
Mick, a Gumbayngirr / Yaegl musician and storyteller, is based near the mouth of the Clarence River in Northern NSW, Australia, where his forefathers have lived and cared for country since time immemorial. Mick carries on this ancient and living tradition of obligations and responsibility for land, sea and culture as a beacon of hope and creative inspiration.
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
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander
Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast
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Thanks to our generous sponsors this season:
Patagonia Australia: in business to save our home planet
Ngalung Kalla Eco Retreat: surf adventure paradise
The Sunglass Fix: give your favourite sunglasses new life
Sodii: hydration for salty humans
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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.
Seen as the most technically gifted surfer on the planet right now, John has the eyes of the surfing world focused on everything he does. His broad ranging interests -- from beekeeping to photography to science fiction -- are cracking the mold of what it looks like to be a competitive surfer. In the tradition of Hawaiian watermen, John has embraced all kinds of ocean activity, and also the wisdom of surfers from the timeline of surfing.
In our meandering chat, John talks us through high speed sailing with eighty-year-old surfing legend Joey Cabell, the value of taking breaks from the singular focus of competitive surfing, the ambiguity of the impacts of social media, his favourite surf film, and how he navigates being an introvert in a culture of extroverts.
John also speaks to his absolute love of surfing that leaves him speechless, even after decades of marathon surf sessions.
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Sound Engineer & Music By: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music: ‘Evergreen’ by Band of Frequencies: Men of Wood & Foam album
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Photo Credit: Hurley
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander
Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
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Thanks to our generous sponsors this season:
Patagonia Australia: in business to save our home planet
Ngalung Kalla Eco Retreat: surf adventure paradise
The Sunglass Fix: give your favourite sunglasses new life
Sodii: hydration for salty humans
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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.
Gator Halpern co-founded Coral Vita as a way to take practical steps toward protecting the otherworldly underwater-scapes he experienced as a young diver.
His team recently won the Earthshot Prize, a new global prize for the environment funded by The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Five recipients are awarded the £1 Million prize each year, over the course of the next ten years,
providing at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030.
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander
Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast
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Thanks to our generous sponsors this season:
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Ngalung Kalla Eco Retreat: surf adventure paradise
The Sunglass Fix: give your favourite sunglasses new life
Sodii: hydration for salty humans
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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.
Today, Sachi is an award winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, journalist, and Professor at San Francisco State University. She recently released the film CRUTCH, which chronicles the gravity defying life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, breakdancer and skate punk—on crutches.
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 isShe Change.
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Photo Credit: Sachi Cunningham
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander
Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
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Thanks to our generous sponsors this season:
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Ngalung Kalla Eco Retreat: surf adventure paradise
The Sunglass Fix: give your favourite sunglasses new life
Sodii: hydration for salty humans
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Louie 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 Mission: Joy -- finding happiness in troubled times, which explores the remarkable friendship between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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Photo Credit: Louie Psyhoiyos
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander
Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
Join the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast
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Thanks to our generous sponsors this season:
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Ngalung Kalla Eco Retreat: surf adventure paradise
The Sunglass Fix: give your favourite sunglasses new life
Sodii: hydration for salty humans
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The 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, Daize and Aamion have become known for their freerange approach to parenting while maintaining surfing lives of their own. In 2016, they delivered the film Given into the world, named after their first born, -- a documentary that follows their family from their island home of Kauai through 15 countries in the quest for surf and to fulfill a calling handed down through generations.
Theirs is a surfing love story, defined by the crests and troughs many know well: finding work/life balance, learning how to communicate, adapting to the seasons of parenting, falling in and out of love. "That's what marriage is," Daize says. As perpetual students of surfing, life and love, The Goodwins talk us through a little of what they've learned along the way.
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Additional music: ‘Evergreen’ by Band of Frequencies: Men of Wood & Foam album
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander
Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
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Ngalung Kalla Eco Retreat: surf adventure paradise
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Sodii: hydration for salty humans
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Co-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 "surf addiction" that shapes and guides daily life.
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
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Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
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Thanks to our generous sponsors this season:
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Ngalung Kalla Eco Retreat: surf adventure paradise
The Sunglass Fix: give your favourite sunglasses new life
Sodii: hydration for salty humans
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He 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 warning: please make sure that you’re in the right headspace to listen to this episode and that there aren’t any young ears around.
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Taki Gold
'Liberian Boy'
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Co-Hosts + Production: Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
Sound + Video Engineer: Ben J Alexander
Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll
Additional music by Kai Mcgilvray + Ben J Alexander
Closing track: 'Sunseekers' by Andysixstring
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Thanks to our generous sponsors this season:
Patagonia Australia: in business to save our home planet
Ngalung Kalla Eco Retreat: surf adventure paradise
The Sunglass Fix: give your favourite sunglasses new life
Sodii: hydration for salty humans
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