Abraham Paskowitz: The Life Lessons of Surfing

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week's guest is a legend in the surf world, in fact his family is known as the first family of surfing! the remarkable Abraham Paskowitz. Abraham’s father, Dorian–or Doc Paskowitz was a Stanford-educated doctor who lived and surfed in Israel, Hawaii (with Duke Kahanamoku), and California. Abraham was born in Hawaii and moved to California as a kid. Surfers, you're going to love this episode of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth.
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0:48.0	I'm Kai Kawasaki and this is Remarkable People.
0:51.9	I'm on a mission to make you remarkable.
0:55.1	Helping me in this episode is a remarkable Abraham Paskowitz.
0:59.8	Abraham's father, Dorian, or Doc Paskowitz,
1:03.3	was a Stanford educated doctor who lived and served in Israel, Hawaii, California,
1:09.1	and other fantastic places. Abraham was born in Hawaii and moved to
1:13.5	California as a kid. He and his eight siblings grew up in a van that Doc and his third wife,
1:18.9	Juliet, piloted around the United States in search of the perfect waves. In fact, the Pasquets
1:25.6	are considered the first family of surfing.
1:28.3	Truly, it was a bohemian lifestyle because Doc rejected the notion of formal structured education.
1:35.3	In 1972, Doc founded the first surf school in the United States.
1:40.3	It operates to this day.
1:42.3	Kelly Slater was once an instructor there.
1:46.0	Abraham worked for several years as the global sales director for Carver Skateboards.
1:50.7	He is now a co-owner of the skateboard company, Ham Board,
1:54.6	and is a partner with icerest wetsuits.
1:57.4	I have four, maybe five, maybe even six icerous wetsuits.
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