Episode 49: Meet Natalie Fox- Founder Of YogaRama and Surf & Yoga Instructor

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05/11/20 • 41 min

Natalie Fox was born where freedom is abundant. Rather than taking that for granted, she spent it to experience life full of worthwhile educational adventures. That moment her eyes saw the beauty of this world she knew what she wanted in life: Nature, Yoga, and Surf. Hence, the foundation of YogaRama and Eco Yoga Surf. However, what comes with this, is the painful truth that this lovely paradise is facing a relentless threat. Therefore, adding to her goals is to find her voice as a professional in a scientific arena. Natalie is currently taking up a Masters Degree focused on sustainability. Today, she’s living her dream life pursuing her goals, traveling in her van between Portugal and Morzine.

In this episode, we get to hear of Natalie’s amazing adventures, campaigns, and expeditions. She also tells their struggles to save whales amidst political prejudice and why this program and similar wildlife protection activities should continue to be enhanced. One of Natalie’s interdisciplinary research is about microplastics and how vast their range has come. We can contribute to defeating this wicked enemy through systems thinking and Natalie expounds on this further along with some deep thoughts on how we can utilize our resources wisely. As we learn from Natalie’s story, surfing is indeed a great teacher. Without words, it teaches the heart lessons that even intelligent humans, with all their advanced wisdom, fail to understand.

Episode Highlights:

02:04 Freedom Well Spent
05:08 The Sea Shepherd
10:47 A Day In The Life Of A Sea Shepherd
14:37 Experiential Learning
17:44 Microplastic Pollution- A Wicked Problem
22:08 How To Reduce Plastic Pollution
27:02 Surfing Into Flow State
31:39 Online Home

How are you? How is your lockdown going? Have you been allowed back in the ocean? Actually, at the moment this podcast drops it's the first day we'll be officially allowed out and I can't wait to see the sea and possibly dip my toes into it. I've missed it so much. I don't know about you.

“Two things that are really important in life is to appreciate nature and to appreciate your community and your family.” -Natalie Fox

Today, I'm very excited to introduce you to my guest. Her name is Natalie Fox and she's a fascinating surfer who's had an incredible journey. In this episode, she shares her story of joining Sea Shepherd, campaigning in Antarctica, embarking on a life-changing voyage from Plymouth to the Azores islands, collecting microplastics and analyzing data, and how her passion for surfing and nature and the oceans has led her to refocus her studies on sustainability from a scientific point of view. Natalie has created a lifestyle that will inspire many. She's a yoga teacher and a surf instructor and spends the summer months living in her very own reconditioned van. So I hope you enjoy her story.

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Take care, have fun, and enjoy the waves.

Ciao,

Imi

Connect with Natalie:

Resources Links:

Book

Think!Eat!Act!: A Sea Shepherd Chef’s Vegan Recipes (Vegan Cookbooks Book 151) by Raffaella Tolicetti

Films

Quotes:

03:34 “Spending a lot of time in nature and having the freedom to do so was my biggest childhood memories.” -Natalie Fox
13:15 “Two things that are really important in life is to appreciate nature and to appreciate your community and your family.” -Natalie Fox
22:46 “There are lots of different approaches that need to be applied in different ways to different levels of the problem.” -Natalie Fox
27:27 “Surfing is like this perfect opportunity to go into the flow state because we're not sure what's going to happen with the wave.” -Natalie Fox
29:30 “Surfers are systems thinkers because we're thinking about things in a lot of many different levels. And things are changing all the time.” -Natalie Fox

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Episode Highlights:

02:04 Freedom Well Spent
05:08 The Sea Shepherd
10:47 A Day In The Life Of A Sea Shepherd
14:37 Experiential Learning
17:44 Microplastic Pollution- A Wicked Problem
22:08 How To Reduce Plastic Pollution
27:02 Surfing Into Flow State
31:39 Online Home

“Two things that are really important in life is to appreciate nature and to appreciate your community and your family.” -Natalie Fox

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Take care, have fun, and enjoy the waves.

Ciao,

Imi

Connect with Natalie:

Resources Links:

Book

Think!Eat!Act!: A Sea Shepherd Chef’s Vegan Recipes (Vegan Cookbooks Book 151) by Raffaella Tolicetti

Films

Quotes:

03:34 “Spending a lot of time in nature and having the freedom to do so was my biggest childhood memories.” -Natalie Fox
13:15 “Two things that are really important in life is to appreciate nature and to appreciate your community and your family.” -Natalie Fox
22:46 “There are lots of different approaches that need to be applied in different ways to different levels of the problem.” -Natalie Fox
27:27 “Surfing is like this perfect opportunity to go into the flow state because we're not sure what's going to happen with the wave.” -Natalie Fox
29:30 “Surfers are systems thinkers because we're thinking about things in a lot of many different levels. And things are changing all the time.” -Natalie Fox

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Episode 48: Meet Maree Beare - Founder and CEO of Wanngi, Savvy Entrepreneur, and a Driven Surfer

For Maree Beare, her whys came in connection to health information discontinuity. The rate by how passive people are with regards to their own health information and how they settle with believing whatever it is that the doctor tells them is tremendously alarming. Hence, she created an app that addresses this very problem. Maree founded Wanngi, a secure compliant application used to monitor health status, keep track of appointments, and set reminders for medications. Her passion is to help individuals become their own health champions.

During their conversation, Maree gets to relate her entrepreneurial journey- from the conception of her start-up to its actual implementation. She also shares the joys and struggles of an entrepreneur in conquering this male-dominated space. On top of that, she lets us in on some tips and advice on how to successfully create and launch an app and incorporate it into the business. Of course, as busy as she can be, surfing is not something that Maree can leave out in her schedule. She recounts her first encounter with a wave and how serene and simple everything becomes in the water. Don’t miss out on today’s episode and get stoked with another amazing surf story!

Episode Highlights:

03:24 The Tech Guru
08:43 Health Information Discontinuity
11:01 Wanngi- How It Works
16:34 Conquering A Male-Dominated Entrepreneurial Space
18:34 How To Make Your Start-Up Financially Viable
22:30 Your First Sale
23:36 How To Incorporate An App
28:40 Surfing Helps Keep Things Together

How are you doing? How are you managing? Have you been stuck in lockdown? Have the beaches near you been closed? I’ve been having a tough time juggling with our new life and the fact that I can see the sea but not go anywhere near it, and that has left me a bit speechless vis à vis most of my projects, including this podcast. I haven’t been that active on social media and I have been procrastinating a lot. That said, I guess I have learned to digest and process the information, get over the grief of the « nothing’s going to be the same again », express gratitude, and now it’s time to get on with it! So here I am today, launching episode 48 of the Oceanriders Podcast.

“I love what I do in that I can see the future of it.” -Maree Beare

In this episode, I got to sit down for a chat with Maree Beare who is based in Brisbane Australia. She is passionate about using innovative technology. My conversation with Maree was quite serendipitous but at the present moment is so relevant with the news that it’s uncanny. Maree is the founder and CEO of Wanngi, a startup that is solving the problem where people have little access to their health information. In these trying times, it could help to have all our health records centralized in an app that we could share with doctors and nurses: things like symptoms, injuries, medication, chronic illnesses, and much more. Maree and I discuss her HealthTech app and the challenges she faces building a startup, finding funding, and finding balance in a pretty full-on environment. Maree’s work has been recognized by Forbes in the top 50 women-led startups disrupting health tech so I was very honored she cared to drop in for a chat and that she shared her knowledge of building a startup, and health issues she solves with her app.

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Take care, have fun, and enjoy the waves.

Ciao,

Imi

Connect with Maree:

Resources Links:

Download the Wanngi App

Quotes:

08:48 “Everything's connected because we're familiar with that in every other aspect of our lives. But with health, most people are very passive. They just trust what the doctor says.” -Maree Beare
20:51 “I love what I do in that I can see the future of it.” -Maree Beare
24:18 “Do a proof of concept first to be able to visualize whether it's something that people also think is a problem.” -Maree Beare
29:19 “Surfing is the absolute best way to unstress.” -Maree Beare
29:59 “Surfing is a journey... It's unpredictable.” -Maree Beare

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Episode 50: Meet Julia Colangelo- Educator, Speaker, Flow Researcher, and Surfer

Julia Colangelo researches primarily about flow and mindfulness and how it can create a positive impact on different levels. For years, she has been teaching many on how to find flow in both in their personal and professional life. She serves as an inspirational speaker, educator, therapist, and consultant. Julia is also an award-winning Professor of Mindfulness at Columbia University. She hosts the Flow Surfers Podcast, which aims to provide practical strategies to live with more ease and intentionality in life. Her personal life includes being a mom, a writer, and a surfer. She believes that we can all make the world a better, cleaner, and kinder place to live.

In this episode, Julia brings us deep into the concept of flow- what it is, when does it happen, how to achieve it, and how to integrate it into our life so we can release all the burnout and anxiety. She also inspires us to stretch our capacity as far as we can. There’s no time limit to the possibilities we can have and flow is the path to get us empowered. Outside the boundary of flow lurks its alternative: anxiety, depression, self-doubt, feelings of worthlessness, and all the negative feelings that make us unhappy and unfulfilled. Julia also shares how we can make an assessment of our values as opposed to just passively knowing. Getting into flow should be intentional if we are to see and feel its action. Find your flow and wake up every day lovin’ life! Don’t miss out on this week’s podcast!

Episode Highlights:

03:47 The Right Time To Stretch Your Capacity
08:26 The Right Way To Learn
15:19 What Is The Flow State
20:01 The Flow Consciousness
25:04 How To Get Into Flow State
30:10 Surfing and Flow
35:49 Get Into A Unified Flow
38:33 Flow In Intention

Today, I got to sit down for a conversation with Julia Colangelo. Julia is a surfer from New York and she's also a Professor at Columbia University. She's a therapist and a consultant for people and organizations wishing to tap into flow states for better relationships and generally appreciating life more.

“There's no wrong way to surf if you're having fun and you're smiling and connecting again with who you are in whatever that is.” -Julia Colangelo

In this episode, we get to know Julia a bit better and find out what it is to be in the flow and how to get into that flow state on demand. As surfers, we can often actually get into flow state naturally when we're in the ocean and riding that perfect wave. But in fact, this is one of our privileges, but what if we could replicate this feeling out of the water? As part of her dissertation, Julia modelize these concepts and shares her tips to live a more mindful life and tap into the flow state more often and avoid burnout. In stressful times like now, Julia delivers just the sort of things we need to hear.

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Take care, have fun, and enjoy the waves.

Ciao,

Imi

Connect with Julia:

Website
Email
Podcast
Facebook
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LinkedIn
Telephone: 212 377 8944
Connect with Find Flow Today with Julia Colangelo
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Resources Links:

Book

Quotes:

05:55 “It's not too late. Let me stretch my capacity." -Julia Colangelo
06:40 “There's never a right time; there's never a wrong time... if it's of interest or if it's something that is pulling at your heartstrings.” -Julia Colangelo
09:33 “There's no wrong way to surf if you're having fun and you're smiling and connecting again with who you are in whatever that is.” -Julia Colangelo
14:17 “Surfing is creating right a cleaner and a healthier nation...