I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. My guest today is the award-winning documentary filmmaker,

one of the world's leading natural history filmmakers in the world

who won the Oscar last year for his work with the documentary My Octopus Teacher,

which was a mega sensation on Netflix and you really have to question yourself if

you haven't spent the time to watch it. He is also the co-founder of the

Sea Change Trust and, through his work on the C-change project, shares his love for

nature with others in order to create some kind of change so that we can integrate and be closer to nature,

not just dealing with it as a resource or dealing with it as an external entity from who we are. His new book is called Underwater Wild, which will be

available globally in November 16, 2021. And he, in his filmmaking has mostly followed some of the more interesting

animal species to just follow their behavior which I think was the beauty of his film,

My Octopus Teacher, where he follows the unbelievable story of

almost a one year of the life of an octopus that he gets really, really close to,

as he honors his pact to dive 360 times a year.

My view of my octopus teacher has been that he somehow Craig was not our teacher and neither was the octopus actually.

When I watched that film, I felt that I was my teacher as guided by Craig and the octopus, and by Mother Nature herself. Such an inspiring work and I hope that today you

will be inspired as we dive through it together with Craig Foster.

I will start by saying thank you because of course the documentary is

incredibly inspiring and the way you tell the story I felt made it not just

about her story but about your story which I think was wonderful. But in an interesting way, you were teaching us,

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