The Kyle Thiermann Show

Casey and Ryan Higginbotham are twin brothers, California State Lifeguards, endurance athletes, and surfers. In a search to find true adventure, explore, and raise awareness to protect our amazing coastline they set out on a 2,200 mile prone paddle from southern Alaska to the US-Mexico Border in the Spring of 2016.  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Christopher Ryan is an American author best known for co-authoring the book Sex at Dawn. He received a B.A. in English and American literature in 1984 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook University, an accredited hybrid low-residency/online learning program based in San Francisco twenty years later. His masters thesis examined difference in specific personality measures between working fashion models and the general public. Ryan gave a TED talk in February 2013, contributes to Psychology Today and has an interview podcast called Tangentially Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Cyrus Sutton (@cyrus_sutton) is an American director and professional surfer. Growing up in Southern California and dividing his time between the coast and mountains, Sutton's inventive approach to filmmaking became the basis of the outdoor surf website Korduroy.tv Growing up near the ocean and participating in water sports such as body surfing, bodyboarding and surfing, he sought to use cinematography to document the surf culture around him and on his travels. His commercial clients include Adidas, Apple, Corona, Reef, and Patagonia. His career has been well documented by various national publications such as Surfer Magazine and the New York Times. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Paige Alms (@paigealms) is the current Woman's Big Wave World Champion. She has been nominated 4 years in a row at the XXL Awards and won the "Women's Best Overall Performance" for 2014-2015 season.   Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Jaime Snyder is an educator, writer, filmmaker and singer-songwriter; co-Founder of the Buckminster Fuller Institute; and as Fuller's grandson, studied and worked with him until his passing in 1983. Jaime has also developed, produced and facilitated educational programs throughout the US most recently offering a workshop he calls Trimtabbing."   Support The Show Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Nik Strong-Cvetich is the Executive Director of Save The Waves. The non-profit protects coastal ecosystems around the world in partnership with local communities, utilizing a unique combination of protected areas, economics, and direct action.  https://soundcloud.com/bottomfeeder   http://www.savethewaves.org/ Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

David Scales host Surf Splendor a podcast about all things surfing.  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Kai Lenny (@kai_lenny) is 7x SUP world champion. He is also a professional big wave surfer, tow-in surfer, windsurfer, kitesurfer and celebrity watersports enthusiast. Lenny lives in Maui.   https://soundcloud.com/bottomfeeder   http://www.savethewaves.org/ Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher At one point, Gerry Powell owned the largest plastic surgery company in the world. He has since founded Rythmia, the first medically-licensed ayahuasca treatment center in the world.  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Nicole Rager is a breath work facilitator at Rythmia in Costa Rica.  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Dr. Jeff McNairy has worked in the health care field for over 25 years in a variety of medical environments.  As former director of Passages Malibu, a world-renowned drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, McNairy was always seeking newer and better ways to help his patients achieve true, lasting recovery from their addictions. He now works as the head doctor at Rythmia.  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Gail McNulty is the Executive Director of The Great Santa Cruz Trail Group (http://www.greatsantacruztrail.com/)  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Zane Schweitzer (@zaniac1) is 3X Master of The Ocean Winner and 2X Ultimate Waterman Winner Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Ethan Roland is a founder of Terra Genesis International and the Regenerative Enterprise Institute. With on-the-ground experience in 34 countries, he has designed more than 3000 acres of Regenerative Agriculture landscapes in every major climate zone in the world.  Ethan is the Executive Vice President of Research at HowGood and the co-author of Regenerative Enterprise and the Levels of Regenerative Agriculture. He designs, writes, and farms on his permaculture orchard in upstate New York. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Trevor Carlson (@TrevorSvenCarlson) is a professional big wave surfer and 3x Performance of The Year Nominee. He also enjoys playing frisbee.  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Lawrence Koh is the founder and CEO of International Diversified Products (IDP). Established in 1987, IDP is built on Lawrence’s commitment to a relationship-centered approach to business and is a natural legacy of his decades of work as a motivational speaker and personal development facilitator.  He also founded the Students for a Better Tomorrow Foundation (SBT), which mentors youth in relationship-building and entrepreneurial business skills. In 2003 he received the America’s Promise–Marketable Skills Award for his work in empowering teens. In addition to IDP, Koh is the founder of The UTOPIA Project, which seeks to relieve the effects of poverty by creating jobs opportunities to manufacture and distribute UTOPIA-branded products worldwide. Profits from the Project are used to provide food, clothing, shelter, clean water, education, personal development programs, and skill training to those in need. Description From: Thinkbig.com  Get full access to Writing by

i tunes Siticher Tom Lowe (@tomloweyo) is a professional big wave surfer from England. Sundaran Gillespie (@sendheron) is an accomplished boogie boarder who enjoys riding shallow, dangerous, cold-water waves.  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Big Island native Brandon Lee is raising organic Berkshire pigs sustainably, and his goal is to create the optimal pig for Hawaiian cooking. To create a healthy environment, Lee uses an open pasture system and rotational grazing. After the pigs graze in a field, chickens run through and eat all the fleas and maggots that have developed in the dirt, creating a clean pasture: There’s no stench, and the pigs are free of pests. Goats are the next animals up in the rotation; they come through to eat the weeds. Description taken from: Eater.com  Video: http://www.eater.com/video/2017/2/6/14505112/raising-pigs-hawaii Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Born to a blue-collar family, Ben Wilkinson (@pitmove) was raised in a caravan at North Narrabeen. At 16, after outgrowing both the caravan and the Sydney beachbreaks, his quest for more challenging surf began. These days, settled on the North Shore of Oahu, he dedicates his life to charging the biggest surf possible. "I'm interested in pushing the performance aspect of paddle-in surfing," he says, "coming hard off the bottom and drawing critical lines on XXL waves." Out of the water Big Ben combines carpentry and art, working with salvaged wood to create custom furniture for clients in Hawai'i and around the world. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Thomas Morton (@BabyBalls69) is a writer, producer, and on camera correspondent for Vice.  During his tenure at the magazine, Morton wrote first-hand accounts of infiltrating religious cults, competitive binge-eating and living with a Dominican family for a week. He was also the first non-Juggalo to attend and report on the Gathering of the Juggalos. When Vice launched its online video channel in 2007, Morton began appearing as an on-air correspondent in numerous documentaries and video series, covering environmental catastrophes in the Pacific Ocean, the Louisiana Gulf coast, and the Brazilian Amazon.  Morton has been a producer and correspondent for Vice HBO since 2013. From 2014 to 2015, Morton served as a field reporter and host for Noisey's music documentaries Noisey Chiraq and Noisey Atlanta.  In early 2016, Vice began broadcasting a new television channel, VICELAND. Thomas Morton currently hosts a long-form, pop anthropology docuseries called Balls Deep, which features