Ian Walsh: Big Waves, Facing Fear, Giving

Michael Gervais (0:09)

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And the idea behind these conversations is to sit down with people and to celebrate their path of mastery and to celebrate their point of view around it. I wanna take a minute here to announce a really exciting event that we have coming up. As you continue to navigate the challenges and opportunities of 2024, I wanna pose a question. What are you doing right now to be great with stress? How are you working with stress on your pursuit towards your most important ambitions and goals? And I just wanna get right to the heart of the key elements, one in particular, for what it takes to excel in today's high heat, high stakes world. Because stress is not the problem that we think it is. Stress is a synonym for change. And our ability to be agile with change, that is the real opportunity at hand. So if you're wanting to unlock extraordinary results and sustainable performance in your life, it's not about avoiding or reducing stress. And as simple as that sounds, it's very tricky to do, but it is about fundamentally changing your relationship with it.

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And he spent most of his life working to understand the relationship, his relationship with Mother Nature and inside of and sometimes underneath waves that make even the most salt tested surfers shudder. And when you have a chance, go look up his work, Ian Walsh, and just find some of the images online that capture what he's been able to do.

And I mean, just looking at what he purposely puts himself in the situation to capture, to give life to him, as well as to risk life taking is, those images are amazing. And so he's got a really clear way that he thinks about the risk taking process and the preparation for it.

And if you're curious about how you might apply insights from a big wave surfer, consider working to better understand passion and if that's of use for you, or humility and the risk taking process and the mechanics of it. And even we dive into the importance of relationships.

And he's also done something, he's on the bleeding edge and cutting edge of innovation for his craft. So if you're interested in passion or humility or risk taking and relationships, innovation, then this is a conversation that I think you'll want to deeply attune to.

And not to mention he does all of this with part of the intention of being able to give back and give to. And he's got a real rich interest in being service oriented to help the generation that's right behind him to be able to give to them. And so it's a beautiful conversation from a beautiful human being. And I hope that you're able to distill some of the nuances and parts of the conversation that had my hair stand right up. And I just think you're going to flat out love this conversation. He's faced death.