In this episode, our resident writer Richard Dobinson touched base with Cris to talk about his life as a Surfpreneur.

In this episode, we discuss what Smart Leash Co stands for, Dan's prior experience in the surf industry, and how that has supported his work with his own company, and getting Dan's brand into some of the world's most recognizable surf shops.

Romain Laulhe, 6 times surf champion, started his entrepreneurial career after saying goodbye to the competition.

Today he presents us Power Surf Center, a surf school like no other. Between fitness classes, yoga classes, and surf trips abroad, this is what a surf school runs by an ex-champion looks like.

Hadi Beydoun defined the surfing identity of the Ivory Coast by creating the first pro surfboard factory in West Africa in the Ivorian Coast, a country where the surf was still inexistent a few years ago

In this podcast episode, we are going to chat with Tim Has, the founder of BookingLayer. We will talk about how a BookingLayer helps surf camps and surf houses to improve their operations and sell surf packages.

Erika Drolet is Canadian, she is a surf lover, a yoga teacher, and also an inspiring Instagrammer. Erika travelled the world before creating The Salty Souls Experience in 2015, women-only surf and yoga retreats based in South America and Bali.

We discussed with Mario about the impact of Covid-19 on their business, the story of Magic Quiver, also how they do things differently - one of the examples is how they collaborate with the world’s famous shapers and how they host them in Ericeira.

Sun & Co operates as a coliving space from September to June and as a hostel, under a completely different brand, during the summer. We discussed with Jon Hormaetxe Castells about how you can integrate coliving concept into your existing surf hospitality business.

Alexandra with her team has a small publishing company that makes travel surf books. Imagine a type of content of Lonely Planet combined visual aesthetics of printed Monocle Magazine.

Thijs was running a kitesurf school company in the Netherlands but after a few years, he realized that they met the limits of what is humanly possible when running a watersports company.

Thomas is the founder of Get Wet Soon. What started as a blog has become a hub for other surf-related collaborations and businesses. Among other projects, we discussed Surf World Map and a new surf hostel that Thomas is opening in Morocco this autumn.

We discussed with Nicky Kelly about how to build a niche online accommodation business and what challenges the surf hospitality businesses face.

Ru Hill is the founder of Surf Simply, a high-end coaching surf resort in Costa Rica which books out a year in advance.

Bruno Muchada is a global director of Selina Surf Club which is a surf division of Selina - a global hospitality brand focused on millennial travellers.

In the second Surfpreneurs podcast James interviewed Jack Candlish from Organic Dynamic. They discussed how Jack started this kiwi surfboard brand as a side project and how it later a while became his full-time job.

An interview with Christoph Zingelmann about his surf related projects: Island Collective, Saltwater shop, and Surf & Skate Festival.