The Salty Club

Drop into this quick 5 minute meditation spoken by Caitlin and written by Erika. A perfect pause when you find your mind spiralling off into the uncontrollable elements in the future. Be here. Needing nothing. Having everything.

Find more meditations in The Salty Club ~ https://thesalty.club/

Today's interview guest is Ale Romo (@ale.romoo.) Ale has been working with The Salty Club for over a year now, she is our collaborations and PR woman, a surfer, savvy traveler, yoga teacher, and lifestyle photographer. She spends her time chasing sunny days, and dreamy coastlines around the world. And also connecting us with other amazing likeminded brands across the world.

Topics covered;

• How Ale went from studying and living in Mexico, to owning a yoga center and vegan cafe in Spain, to traveling, surfing and working out of a van
• Professional, spiritual and emotional lessons from closing a business (especially when you thought. itwas 'the one'.)
• Why the hustle, grind, Boss Babe era of entrepreneurship for women is over; and what comes next
• How she learnt to cultivate loving boundaries
• Why what you do for work is not who you are
• How she got into her line of work and advice for those interested in the world of collaborations and PR.

Check out Ale's photos here.

We’re here today with Marie-Pier Préfontaine, two-time Olympian Ski Racer specialising in super-G and giant slalom, currently she travels the world coaching downhill racing and is a mountain guide for Extremely Canadian in Whistler, BC. She is also a sponsored free-skier, an entrepreneur, a woman of style and an all-around badass.

Interviewed by Taylor Godber

This interview is part of the Salty Club's Move and Breathe with the Pro's Series. Access Legs & Core Burner workout with MP here >> https://watch.thesalty.club/move-breathe-with-the-pros-series/videos/legs-core-burner-w-mp-prefontaine

Interviewed by Caitlin Creeper.

California born and bred, Kassia Meador began surfing at age 14. By 17-years-old, Kassia was a sponsored pro-longboarder, traveling the world. Known for her graceful surf style, Kassia was crowned the "queen of noseriding" by the New York Times and in 2011 ranked 2nd on the WSL women's longboard tour.

Throughout her career as a competitive sponsored athlete, Kassia was actively involved in designing products under the umbrella of her sponsors. In 2013, Kassia left sponsored surfing to build a brand--that focused on quality instead of quantity, working towards more conscious solutions rather than contributing to the larger global issues. In 2015 she launched KASSIA+SURF, a brand for women by women with design rooted in authenticity gained through 23 years experience.

We are so stoked to be interviewing Kassia today as part of the Salty Club’s Move and Breathe with the Pro’s Program, where Kassia provides a crystal sound experience.

In this latest interview, we welcome Kate Ediger, interviewed by Taylor Godber.

Kate is a mountain mama to her son Timber, she’s a leader in her community as the founder of Pit+Peak, an avalanche skills training company out of Revelstoke, BC. She’s also a Burton Snowboard ambassador and an advocate for the planet as a member of POW: Protect Our Winters. Surfer, skater, fly-fishing woman and all-around bad-ass, she is one of the ever inspiring contributors in The Salty Club Move & Breathe with the Pro's program.

I’m here today with Taylor Godber. She is a backcountry snowboarder that lives in Whistler, BC. In her own words, one of the things that truly makes her feel alive, is backcountry snowboarding. Whether its snowmobile access or self-propelled missions; navigating the mountains under bluebird skies or in the chaos of a storm; dropping in to carve a line down a snow covered face or weaving between trees in pockets of pow with friends, it all demands for us to be present, to live in the moment. And there is no better place to be.

She creates recipes and nutrition guides for The Salty Club, and we are stoked to have her in our new move and breathe with the Pro’s program, where she has created a ten minute breathe routine and a meditation and pranayama video. Lets get into it.

Aline Adisaka is a professional surfer and TV show host from Brazil. A 7-time Gold Medal Winner; 4 times in in SUP surf and 3 times in SUP sprint race, we’re stoked to have her as a coach on our Move and Breathe with the Pro’s series.

Interviewed by Caitlin Creeper

Anna Segal is a professional skier with accolades as a 2 x world champion. An X games gold medalist, film producer alongside her sister and an active backcountry skiing pro with parts in the award-winning films under the blank film production. She’s a brilliant mind with an even bigger smile, as well as a contributing coach to the Salty Club’s Move and Breathe with the Pro’s series, and a recreational surfer.

Interviewed by Taylor Godber

Just a few notes before we get started. This is MC, my cofounder, and I, Caitlin, talking about our own personal experiences with surfing. It was recorded a while back while MC was still pregnant We consulted our own birth care providers, we tuned into our own bodies, we weighed up the risk for ourselves, and from there we decided what surfing would look like for us during pregnancy. This is an invitation to do the same for yourself if you’re wondering if you can keep up your sport during pregnancy, feel into your body, talk to your birth care provider make the right decision for you because you are the only one who will have to be responsible for the decisions you make. The purpose of this interview is more to just drop into some of the emotional and physical intricacies of surfing, or continuing your chosen sport, while pregnant. We see these pictures of women surfing with their big bellies and maybe idealise the same situation for ourselves but the truth is it’s a lot more complicated than that. You might think you want to surf until the end of your pregnancy but maybe your body is calling you to stop sooner, you might want to surf but the season is too gnarly for your comfort level. You might surprise yourself and surf might be a really positive and helpful thing for you. It’s about being open and curious and accepting for this stage of your life, surfing, or your chosen sport will be different. And that doesn’t mean its bad, it is an opportunity to experience your sport, yourself, this stage of your life in a completely different way.

This is an extension or lets say a taster of our Mama Program; Journey to Motherhood. Which is a complete 360 package designed to support and guide you through pregnancy, birth and early postpartum. You’ll find more interviews like this, informational videos, prenatal and postnatal yoga classes, prenatal and postnatal workouts, a 219 page ebook designed to guide you through the emotional underworld of pregnancy, birth and new motherhood. It is has been a long time in the making, almost a year, and it is finally here. You can find it at https://watch.thesalty.club/products/mama-program, check it out, watch the trailer, see if its something that could serve you.

Photo: Pauline Mathiot

Did you know that most of us ingest up to a whole credit cards worth of plastic each week? This affects our hormones, our health and even our future children. Plastics have even been found in human placentas. If you’re a surfer, a traveler, or, let’s go as far to say a citizen of the planet, you’ve likely noticed ocean plastic pollution is a massive problem for our planet, for our health, and for future generations.

Caitlin Creeper speaks to writer, photographer and marine litter expert Nikkey Dawn on what we can do to start to fight the ocean plastics problem without drowning in overwhelm, burnout and eco anxiety.

Further resources: you can access Nikkey's Ocean Plastic Pollution workshop completely free in the Salty Club

https://watch.thesalty.club/videos/ocean-plastic-pollution-workshop

Find more from Nikkey:

on instagram at; @nikkeydawn

and her website: https://nikkey-dawn.squarespace.com/

We also reference eXXpedition throughout the podcast. All-female voyages exploring the impact of and solutions to plastic and toxic pollution in our ocean.

You can find more information on them here.

https://exxpedition.com/