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Waves to Wisdom Interviews

by Maia Dery - Educator, Coach, Surfer

Hosted by coach and educator Maia Dery, the Waves to Wisdom Interviews are series of conversations with surfers who seem to have ocean-centered wisdom practices. In other words, their regular habit of playing in the more-than-human or natural world helps them make meaning and sense in their lives. All of these interviews take place after a shared surf session, when we are both in our Blue Minds. We discuss surfing, work, love, purpose, and how, for us surfers, the ocean is a part of it all. Produced by Ira Sterling. Learn more at wavestowisdom.com

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  1. Waves to Wisdom Interviews: Brad Turner

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Player at the bottom of the page. Learn more about coaching with MaiaI think will be very beneficial for everybody to take a look at the ocean, smell it, listen to if you're brave enough stick your toes in it. It will surprise you. There are some people…

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  2. Waves to Wisdom Interview: Dr. Antonio Puente

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Player at the bottom of the page. Learn more about coaching with Maia" ...it was a very difficult time but then you know it's when things are falling apart is when you really get a chance to make things happen so as I tell somebody when I took over the...

  3. Waves to Wisdom Interview: Surf Sista Mary

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Player at the bottom of the page. Learn more about coaching with Maia"...when I surf I could just sit there, and I know I'm black, and I can tell by some of the stares, people are going, 'Oh, look, a black woman.' But I can just sit there and shut down…

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  4. Waves to Wisdom Interview: Dr. Nathalie Arias

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Player at the bottom of the page. Learn more about coaching with Maia"If you have the chance to get closer to the ocean that’s gonna be life changing. Maybe you’re not living the life you wanted or always expected to be, I think the ocean might help you a...

  5. Waves to Wisdom Interview: Maureen McNamara

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Player at the bottom of the page. Learn more about coaching with Maia"You're always evolving but at some point you have to discover your true essence, who you are. I’m Maureen and I'm a surfer and that's who I have always been.And for most of us as older...

  6. Waves to Wisdom Interview: Kevin Carillo

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Player at the bottom of the page. Learn more about coaching with Maia"As a Tico Nosareño and surfer, I love this place. It’s so good. This place is magical. A lot of things that you can learn. The waves, surfing is so good. Just like taking off like just...

  7. Interview: Michael and Ruth Coleman

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Player at the bottom of the page. Learn more about transformational coaching with Maia UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-207923")); UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-107089"));"... with ALS when you lose muscle that includes…

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  8. Interview: Elsa Rivera

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Player at the bottom of the page. Learn more about our next retreat to Nosara, Costa Rica. UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-180472")); UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-192100"));"... my whole neurological being, body, mind, and...

  9. Interview: Joanna Frye

    To listen to the interview scroll to the media player at the bottom of the page. Learn More About Our Next Retreat in Nosara, Costa Rica SHOW NOTES Links also available in transcript. Joanna Frye’s Website 180 South Trailer on Vimeo Kyle Thiermann 2018 Interview with Filmmaker Chris Malloy...

  10. Interview: Elizabeth Pepin SIlva

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Media Player at the bottom of this page. Reserve space on our next retreat to Nosara, Costa Rica. "I think that increasingly as more and more women take to the water we are demanding that we are looked at differently than we have been in the past that we...

  11. Waves to Wisdom Interview: Ethan Crouch

    Reserve space on our next retreat to Nosara, Costa Rica.To listen to the interview, scroll to the Media Player at the bottom of this page. To live life by the minimum standard and to build all my projects by the minimum standard, one isn’t going be very fulfilling for me as a person but two I…

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  12. Waves to Wisdom Interview: Lena Gabeler

    To listen to the interview, scroll to the Media Player at the bottom of this page. What would give you the courage to quit a good job, one you had worked hard to get, and always thought you wanted but discovered maybe wasn’t very good for you? And what happens when a German structural engineer...

  13. Waves to Wisdom Interviews: Dionne Ybarra

    “… a pod of dolphins come swimming by and these 10 surfers who are all men except for my girlfriend I, are just stunned and still and looking out at these beautiful dolphins and it was just this moment of, “This is amazing!” and it was the moment where I realized, I had a flash of, every door…

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  14. Interview: Jess Ponting Part 2

    “From an educational perspective there’s so many different angles that you can look at through the lens of surfing… it’s such a fun and rewarding thing to do that puts you in touch with so many things. It can be used as a lens to understand all kinds of different things and it breathes life into...

  15. Interview: Jess Ponting Part 1

    “Putting… theory and knowledge from the development world together with surfing, it struck me that there would be ways to make this an industry where everybody could benefit from the spread of surfing around the world…” Dr. Jess Ponting UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-144170"));...

  16. Interview: Andrea Kabwasa

    UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-193204"));“Surfing became my everything… my religion, my peace of mind, my ego checker,… my happiness meter, … it’s really everything for me. But that doesn’t mean that I’m like a surf rat and I’m only hanging at the beach all day, it’s just, the...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Hosted by coach and educator Maia Dery, the Waves to Wisdom Interviews are series of conversations with surfers who seem to have ocean-centered wisdom practices. In other words, their regular habit of playing in the more-than-human or natural world helps them make meaning and sense in their lives. All of these interviews take place after a shared surf session, when we are both in our Blue Minds. We discuss surfing, work, love, purpose, and how, for us surfers, the ocean is a part of it all. Produced by Ira Sterling. Learn more at wavestowisdom.com

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Maia Dery - Educator, Coach, Surfer

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Hosted by coach and educator Maia Dery, the Waves to Wisdom Interviews are series of conversations with surfers who seem to have ocean-centered wisdom practices. In other words, their regular habit of playing in the more-than-human or natural world helps them make meaning and sense in their lives....

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