The Kyle Thiermann Show

I first got involved with Surfers Against Sewage way back in 1991, the year after it was formed. I was passionate about the nature, the environment and surfing so the organisation resonated loudly with me in its mission to stop sewage disposal in our seas.

Over the years I’ve been an activist, regional rep and trustee with SAS. I had the great honour of taking the helm in 2008 to help shape a new strategy on emerging issue, build a sustainable action plan and community, and most importantly of all carry on delivering a high impact to protect oceans and beaches for everyone.

Whilst water quality remains in the DNA of the organisation, after 25 years of successful campaigning we’ve made great progress so our attentions are squarely focused on the most immediate and pressing threats, namely plastic pollution and climate change.

I see SAS as a charity connecting people and planet. We connect people and communities, and create opportunities for our supporters to protect the spaces we all love. The organisation has always been defined by the relationship we have we the sea. Our community is an active part of the ocean. It is this community that helps us create the change we want to see for our coastlines.

Meg Haywood Sullivan is a photographer and environmentalist who splits her time between shooting campaigns and pushing for environmental stories through editorial features & social platforms. Meg’s career has taken her from contributing to a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece with the New York Times and photographing with the world’s leading snowboard brands to documenting a feature with National Geographic Adventure following John Muir’s footsteps to the fastest retreating glacier in Yosemite.

Anna Ehrgott is a professional surfer and filmmaker. She has worked on films including Island Earth and From The Ground Up. 

Emily Penn has organized the largest ever community-led waste cleanup from a tiny Tongan island, trawled for micro plastics on a voyage through the Arctic Northwest Passage, rounded the planet on the record-breaking biofueled boat Earthrace, and worked on a sailing cargo ship trading western supplies for coconuts.

Emily splits her time between running eXXpedition - a series of all female voyages which focus on the relationship between plastics, toxics, and female health - and working to solve the ocean plastics issue with Parley for the Oceans and other corporate clients.

Prior to this, Emily co-founded Pangaea Explorations, to enable scientists, filmmakers and everyday people gain access to the most remote parts of our planet; collecting data on global issues and along the way discovered the previously unknown oceanic gyres – huge areas of plastic pollution accumulation.

Emily was honored with the Fitzroy Award at the 2016 Ocean Awards and is also the youngest and only female recipient of both the Yachtmaster of the Year, awarded by HRH Princess Royal, and the Seamaster of the Year award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical society and in 2017 was elected as a member of the Cordon Rouge Club.

Rick Carter is a production designer and art director. He is known for his work in Forrest Gump, Amistad, A.I. Cast Away, War of the Worlds, What Lies Beneath, Jurassic Park, Avatar, and Back to the Future Part II and Part III. Many of the films that he has worked on are directed by Steven Spielberg or Robert Zemeckis. For his Art Direction of Avatar, he won an Academy Award and, in 2013, Rick won his second Academy Award, for production design on Steven Spielberg's, Lincoln. 

Fergal Smith is one of the most well-known professional surfers to come out of Ireland. He is also the owner of Moy Hill Farms, a permaculture farm located in Lahinch, Ireland. 

Farms. http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/moy-hill-farm

Conner Wanders (@ConnerWanders) works for Onnit and is the host of the Pleasure Monkey podcast. He focuses on how to life the f*ck out of life!

Carlos Burle (@CarlosBurle) is a professional big wave surfer from Brazil. 

Amy Baldwin (@AmyPurePleasure) is a Somatic Sex and Relationship Coach (trained in the Somatica® Method), Certified Sex Educator, sales trainer and educator for Uberlube, as well as co-owner of a mother-daughter owned pleasure boutique called Pure Pleasure Shop. Amy has a passion for promoting shame-free, pleasure-focused sexuality education while emphasizing the deep emotional and energetic forces behind great sex and intimate connection, offering everything from how-to workshops to erotic empowerment retreats.

Amy also appears in episodes #23 and #54 of this podcast.

https://www.shamelesssex.com/

Toby Thierman (@TheTobes) has been traveling the world with a camera for over 15 years searching for the perfect frames and images. His adventures have brought him from Steven Spielberg sets to Cambodian mine fields. A passionate storyteller and director, Toby brings a keen sense of story and composition to every project. The competitive edge of his work draws from daring camera work, vibrant connection to audience and accolades for ongoing innovation.

http://www.lensfirefilms.com/

Ernie Child is a Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue Swimmer. He is a certified EMT, operational fitness trainer, swiftwater rescue technician, high angle ropes rescue technician, advanced helicopter rescue technician, and cold weather survival instructor. As an active duty operator he deals with his own battles, including PTSD, and strives to set an example to people in and out of the military by showing others that there are positive and healthy ways to live life without being weighed down by traumatic experiences.