Nick Hounsfield is a British surfer and social entrepreneur, Founder of the first inland surfing destination in Bristol The Wave, the Chairman of Surfing England and a member of the UK Sport International Leadership Programme. Nick talks about how he got into surfing and what lead to the idea of bringing an artificial wave to Bristol and the ups and downs of creating the facility from funding the project to construction and all the lessons learnt along the way. Nick has a strong interest ...
Nov 8, 2021
47 min
Caroline Buchanan is a 5 x Mountain Bike World Champion and 3 x BMX World Champion. Caroline has been competing at the highest level of BMX racing and mountain biking for over two decades. She represented her country in BMX at two Olympic Games and is considered one of Australia's most popular female action sports athletes, winning accolades such as the Australian Athlete of the Year. Buchanan discusses growing up in Canberra getting into BMX at 5 years old. Why she moved to the action...
Nov 1, 2021
53 min
Scott Martin is the Founder of Groundswell Origins, a Serial Entrepreneur and content creator. Scott has built numerous communities within the action sports space and has run his company Groundswell Origins for the past 5 years which mentors and teaches entrepreneurs to scale business rapidly, sustainably and exponentially. Scott discusses how his passion for wind surfing and action sports lead him from Canada to Hawaii. How he started off his entrepreneurial journey selling we...
Oct 25, 2021
45 min
David Meltzer is the Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and former CEO of renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency. David discusses how he started his entrepreneurial journey after graduating from Law School. With the aim of making money he got a job in sales selling legal research on the internet in 1992. He then went on to Silicon Valley and ran Samsung's first phone convergence device division and became a multimillionaire by the time he was 30. David talks about ho...
Oct 18, 2021
21 min
Linley Lewis is the Co-Founder of Ticket to Ride, Wavelength Media and the Blue Earth Summit. Linley discusses how he came up with the idea of starting an action sports travel business with his best mate Will Hayler whilst studying at University. How they grew their travel company after their original launch with a 1000 mile road trip across South Africa combining surf coaching, community work and adventure. He talks about why they acquired Wavelength Surfing Magazine and how it became...
Oct 11, 2021
47 min
Shelby Stanger is an action sports journalist and founder of REI's Wild Ideas Worth Living and Vitamin Joy Podcast. Shelby discusses growing up in San Diego and how she got into surfing. Her career path starting as a journalist having one of the coolest first jobs out of college ever as a writer for the Vans Warped Tour to getting a corporate job inside Vans, a VF Company as the Women's Marketing Manager and then Vans International Business & Marketing Manager. Shelby opens up about ment...
Sep 27, 2021
51 min
Shaun Tomson is a legendary South-African surfer, 1977 World Champion, considered one of the 10 Greatest Surfers of All Time, an entrepreneur and a best-selling author. Shaun talks about how his father got him into surfing growing up in Durban, South Africa. He discusses competing around the world and being part of the free ride generation in Hawaii in the 70's. After his successful surfing career he then went into the surf industry and started two surfing brands Instinct and Solitude...
Aug 19, 2021
51 min
Nicholi Rogatkin is an American pro freeride mountain biker, 2016 FMB World Champion and 2018 Triple Crown Winner as well as the winningest FMB World Tour athlete ever. With over 25 wins to his credit. Rogatkin reflects on his meteoric ascension and discusses how he switched from BMX to mountain biking, competing in MTB slopestyle, Crankworx, one of the most brutal crashes at Red Bull Rampage ever and loads more! Enjoy and get rad! You can follow what Nicholi is up to on his instagr...
Aug 13, 2021
46 min
Bec Gange is a 2x wakeboarding World Champion and reality TV star from Mildura, Victoria, Australia. Gange discusses how she started wakeboarding in Australia, winning the Australian Nationals and two World Wakeboarding Championships, training, injury and the changes in professional wakeboarding and what projects she has coming up. Enjoy and get rad! You can follow what Bec is up to on her instagram page Bec Gange. If you miss the Rad Season Show episode you can catch up on FUEL...
Aug 6, 2021
44 min
Joe Carr is the CEO of Thrill One Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the Street League Skateboarding, Nitro Circus, and Superjacket Productions. Previously, Joe also served as President of the World Surf League and a Senior VP of Content and International at the UFC. Carr discuss his career at UFC and the WSL and how the action sports media landscape has changed. He goes in depth about how Thrill One was created and what projects Nitro Rallycross, SLS, Nitro Circus and Thrill ...
Jul 30, 2021
47 min
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