Leading with Your Heart | Big Wave Surfer, Garrett McNamara

Garrett McNamara (0:00)

Get a mantra of how you want to be all day, every day, and just meditate on that mantra. And then it's hard to keep it going all day long. It's good to do a one minute three times a day. And if you want to go 10 or an hour or whatever, that's fine and that's great. But if you do the one minute, you're already working towards being a better person because you're setting the intention and digesting it and saying it to yourself over and over.

How you want to be, how you want to contribute, how you want to be seen.

We all just want to be loved. So love is the answer.

Michael Gervais (0:47)

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Now, this week's conversation is with Garrett McNamara, and he's an international big wave explorer known for discovering and pioneering and surfing the biggest wave in the world. And it's known as the Everest of the Oceans, Nazary, Portugal. And if you haven't seen this wave yet, do a search online and look for just Nazary, N-A-Z-A-R-E and surf. And it's just an extraordinary wave. I mean, it's amazing. It's this amazing convergence that takes place right at this tip at Portugal. And so Garrett, you know, he's amazing.