Chasing A Mirage - Pro surfer and journalist Jamie Brisick on finding meaning in a life amongst the waves
03/22/22 • 20 min
In today's episode, I speak with former pro surfer, surf journalist, and Fullbright scholar Jamie Brisick.
I originally met Jamie as he grew up in Southern California with a close friend of mine, who thought he might be a great guest for the show. And he was, both contemplative and fun to talk to.
Jamie told me how he discovered his lifelong passion for surfing at an early age in Malibu, and before long he was traveling the world on the pro surf tour. After years of surfing on the tour, he then began writing about the tour, which lead to the next stage of being a surf journalist and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Surfer's Journal.
And in our discussion, Jamie talked about the amazing times of what it was like to be a pro surfer and the demands that it made, how surfing the ocean helped him through a tragic time in his life, and an incredible insight he had one night while chasing waves in the Maldives.
Scuba Diving, Free Diving, Ocean Environmentalism, Surfing, and Marine Science.
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In today's episode, I speak with former pro surfer, surf journalist, and Fullbright scholar Jamie Brisick.
I originally met Jamie as he grew up in Southern California with a close friend of mine, who thought he might be a great guest for the show. And he was, both contemplative and fun to talk to.
Jamie told me how he discovered his lifelong passion for surfing at an early age in Malibu, and before long he was traveling the world on the pro surf tour. After years of surfing on the tour, he then began writing about the tour, which lead to the next stage of being a surf journalist and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Surfer's Journal.
And in our discussion, Jamie talked about the amazing times of what it was like to be a pro surfer and the demands that it made, how surfing the ocean helped him through a tragic time in his life, and an incredible insight he had one night while chasing waves in the Maldives.
Scuba Diving, Free Diving, Ocean Environmentalism, Surfing, and Marine Science.
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Big Deep - An Ocean Podcast - Chasing A Mirage - Pro surfer and journalist Jamie Brisick on finding meaning in a life amongst the waves
Transcript
Jason Elias: (00:09)
Hi and welcome to the Big Deep podcast. Big Deep is a podcast about people who have a connection to the ocean, people for whom that connection is so strong it defines some aspect of their life. Over the course of the series, we'll talk to all sorts of people. And in each episode, we'll explore the deeper meaning of that connection. Today, I speak with a pro surfer and surf journalist who through his time in the ocean has seen more of the world and himself than he ever i
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