Charlie Vercoe

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799 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

Charlie Vercoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And if I could learn how to negotiate that, then I could conquer it in a sense.

And that's what led me to loving the ocean.

I'm definitely not a big wave guy, but some of my best results in Surf Ironman have been in big surf.

And it definitely comes back to that day is that I was terrified in the water.

And that's what stopped me from paddling straight in and being reckless.

That's the word I think you used.

However, it was that management of fear that kept me there.

Yeah, I think...

It comes back to that reducing the risk.

My philosophy is that life is always going to have challenges and it's learning how to overcome those challenges.

One of those could be just managing fears.

There's always going to be fears.

There's all those numbers out there about you're more likely to injure yourself driving to the beach than you are to get attacked by the shark.

And so I think you've definitely got to challenge yourself if you have those fears, but be aware of the risks.

So if you can't swim and you want to go down to the beach and you're scared of sharks and

And scared of swimming.

And you're thinking, oh, I should just go out and do it.

Don't worry about getting scared.

No, you should learn to swim first.

Yeah.

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