Flick Palmateer (Survivor Finalist 2021) was someone that caught my eye on the most recent series of Survivor because I wanted to know more about her. When it comes to professional surfing Flick has been the best of the best, dedicating her young life to surfing and becoming a professional surfer on the World Surfing League. Flick also holds the current title for surfing the biggest wave in Australia as a female and she has combined her love of the ocean with her passion for art and expressing herself visually through painting, ceramics and audio visual mediums in her recent project Skin Deep. 

I had to reach out to Flick and ask if she would be keen to chat with me so that I could find out more about her motivations, her aspirations, her fears and self doubt and what pushes you to become a big wave surfer in a male dominated industry. And I am so glad that I did. This conversation is epic, as is Flick's life, as she chats about her thoughts on being a female in the male dominated surfing industry, how she felt lonely as a professional athlete touring the world when her peers where at home doing normal teenage stuff, her struggles with her identity being bisexual as a young person and her struggles with her own body image. It came as a surprise that someone so successful in her industry deals with the same issues a lot of us face when we are trying to find ourselves. 

Of course we also chat all things Survivor and how different and difficult her experience was because as Flick was filming the show, sadly her mum passed away. Sadly Flick's mum had been suffering from years of dementia and had slowly deteriorated over a long period of time, and because of her families support Flick decided to stay on the show. A tough choice and I know one that she didn't make lightly. 

I really hope that you enjoy this chat with Flick. She really is the biggest legend and I know that you will want to connect with her after this and follow her over on insta @flickpalmateer  and check out her project Skin Deep on Vimeo. 

You can always reach out to me too and let me know how you are finding the podcast or if there is anyone you would love me to chat to @danivenn 

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