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Something that truly inspires me are folks that are trendsetters.

People who are born with a raw talent or a gift

or a certain skill set

that maybe falls outside of society's normal parameters.

And instead of conforming and changing their gift and trying to get better at something else to please somebody that they don't even

care about. They go off and they do their own thing. They exercise the skill set, gift, raw talent that they've been given.

And they get so good at it that they force the attention of the public, the critics, the world.

And my next guest is just that.

He is possibly the most prolific surfer in the entire world.

And in the beginning, the surfing community

wouldn't give him the time of day.

They wouldn't sponsor him, because he refused to conform to the judges

point system or anything else that the community was trying to make him do.

Instead he pursued his dreams and he became so good at what he does that he forced the

attention of the entire world to look at his talent.

Ladies and

gentlemen, that exact mindset is partly how I built this podcast is by

by setting trends and not looking at competition and not worrying what everybody else thinks.

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