Waterpeople Podcast
Episodes
Doing Death Well with Zenith Virago
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zenith Virago is founder of the Natural Death Care Centre, where she guides folks through the process of dying, death and bereavement. As Waterpeople...
Dane Gudauskas: Universal Languages
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Freesurfer Dane Gudauskas is known equally for his sunny demeanour and powerful approach to the world's heaviest lefhanders. Dane is co-founder o...
The KariOi Project with Kristel Van Houte
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kristel 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 Pro...
Ashley Lloyd: Shaping Our Future
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Surfer/Shaper Ashley Lloyd is ambidextrous when it comes to both planer and technical hang tens. Featured in films like Tiffany Campbell's Dear &...
Reframing Relationship: Respect and Reciprocity with Bundjalung Brothers Josh & Kyle Slabb
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Josh 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 eas...
Cliff Kapono: Tomorrow's Ancestors
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Native Hawaiian biochemist Dr. Cliff Kapono talks us through the embodied fusion of modern scientific inquiry and reverent indigeneity. Cliff is among...
Learning to Listen to the Land with Permaculturist Geoff Lawton
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Lawton is a permaculture systems designer who has spent more than thirty years implementing and teaching the holistic mindset and ethical design...
Dr. Easkey Britton: The Playful Edge
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 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...
Everyday Earth Repair with freesurfer HEATH JOSKE
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Heath 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 comm...
Nik Zanella: Decoding Dynasties
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Delve into one of surfing's new, ancient histories with surf explorer and author Nik Zanella's first-hand account of unravelling the ancient...
The Blue Economy & A Rights Based Approach with Beyond the Surface International's EMI KOCH
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emi Koch is a surfer and the 2018 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. More recently, she was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for he...
Starting Over & The Sea: LIVE featuring '93 World Champ Pauline Menczer, Raf Browne, Jonny Dustow & Rosalie Bryant
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Live from the Waterpeople stage at The 2020 Byron Byron Surf Festival, 1993 World Champion Pauline Menczer, switch-foot wizard Raf Browne, Vanlife Dia...
How Water Shapes Us with Blue Mind author Dr. WALLACE 'J' NICHOLS
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Wallace 'J' Nichols is a marine biologist and author of Blue Mind, an interdisciplinary reimagining of the story of water and the vast c...
Gerry Lopez: A Sense of Stillness
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Legend of style, ease and ingenuity, Gerry Lopez, shares stories about growing up in Hawaii, the balance he found in the mountains, tube-riding mystic...
Mitigating Micro-plastics with Marine Biologist ALICE FORREST
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Freshly back from an expedition to Antarctica, Alice shares her experience of the frozen ocean and talks us through the complex conversation, but simp...
Protecting People & The Planet with Intersectional Environmentalist LEAH THOMAS
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the links between social justice and environmentalism? Leah Thomas is at the leading edge of Intersectional Environmentalism, a term she coin...
Mobilizing the Coastal Constituency with SEAN DOHERTY
24 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deconstruct strategies from the successful Fight for the Bight campaign with one of the movement's central voices, Sean Doherty, one of surfing&a...
Getting Solution-Centric with Filmmaker DAMON GAMEAU
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the cultivation of critical thinking, harnessing hope by localising climate change actionables, and the transformative power of the experienti...
Watershed Chats: Introduction
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our new series, Watershed Chats, conversational deep dives with experts and those having a go at building and dreaming new ways into fruiti...
Helena Norberg-Hodge: Our Local Futures
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Helena Norberg-Hodge has experienced radical economic and cultural change before. In 1975, as a student of linguistics amongst the glacial melt of the...
Albe Falzon: Everything Is Surfing
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes loss never really leaves us. We can't stop those waves of emotion, longing or pain, but we can learn to ride them compassionately. Albe...
Liz Clark: Re-inventing Rites of Passage
08 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Clark has sailed and surfed 25,000 nautical miles across and around the Pacific. Mostly solo. She is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year....
Madison Stewart: Shark Girl
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I work to take back what I believe is mine, and that is a future in an ocean that has sharks.” At 14, Madison Stewart had a transformative exp...
Jake Mackenzie: More, more, more
03 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"One is too many and a thousand isn’t enough," says Jake Mackenzie, of his adventurous, but addictive tendencies. Jake is an all-around wa...
Hayley Talbot: Paddling in the Dark
19 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hayley Talbot is the first person to solo kayak the great Clarence River (Boorimbah) from source to sea, a 400 kilometre voyage. She's a former c...
Derek Hynd: Conducting Chaos
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Culture shaper and former world Tour Surfer Derek Hynd has always felt like an outsider looking in. In Episode 8, he talks far field theory, seeing ma...
Zara Noruzi: Surfing in Exile
15 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Zara was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Iranian government for her activism. The ocean helped her find a path toward belonging after fleeing her home...
Peter Whish-Wilson: Senator Surfer
01 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Whish-Wilson walked away from a big shot banking career in NYC to honor a deep responsibility to protect wild spaces and species. He's now ...
Leah Dawson: Discovering Femininity
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Freesurfer Leah Dawson peels back the layers and dares to ask: "What makes me feel most like myself?" and "How is my surfing an extensi...
Mark Healey: Confronting Discomfort
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary waterman Mark Healey lost three friends to heavy water situations through the course of the early 2000s. He speaks candidly about the ways t...
Kimi Werner: Flipping Your Instincts
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of her competitive spearfishing career, Kimi Werner began battling with inner demons that turned the once-solace of the ocean into a cac...
Introduction to The Waterpeople Podcast with Lauren L. Hill & Dave Rastovich
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On The Waterpeople Podcast, we're delving deep into the intricacies of how the world's most adept waterpeople make lives of great meaning th...
'Overcoming:' Live at Byron Bay Surf Festival 2019
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stories of triumph, challenge and the sea, brought to you live from Byron Bay Surf Festival. Listen as five brave waterfolk share their real and raw s...