Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's on Leadership Series I'm Scott Miller and I serve as your weekly host and interviewer. Today's guest is well known as a speaker, author, entrepreneur, business owner, father, and to some of you you may know him

as an international fitness icon nutrition expert, and to a few of you you might know him as the world's oh I don't know most famous big

wave surfer Laird Hamilton welcome to Franklin Covey's on leadership series.

Scott I say thank you for having me, appreciate it.

Thanks for joining us today.

I see for the corporate audience you put on your work clothes.

In fact, I had people ask me, well, he wear a shirt.

I said, I don't know and I don't care but

welcome to today's podcast. Thank you for having me I appreciate it.

Hey Larry you've written several books a new one out called Life Rider, Heart Body, body soul and Life Be and life beyond the ocean by Laird Hamilton. Talk a bit about the

intention behind the new book. Well I had I had a book called Force of Nature that was, I think it's been about 15 years ago.

And you know, it was somewhat lifestyle base and I got some pressure from some friends of mine to kind of like they're like well why do you you know why don't you do a new book and and so you know, you know, the book itself kind of evolved naturally the direction that we that we went and and the things that we wanted to share. I mean, the fact is that I learned

some things about myself

from the kind of process of, you know,

all of the research that was done around the book. so it was kind of it's nice to you know

Be involved in writing a book and then also learn something about yourself in the process.

Laird, by most accounts, your, if not the world's one of the world's most iconic famous

big wave surfers, surfers, period, period.

But you're also known as really a cutting-edge innovator when it comes to water sports.

Check your humility.

Reorient our audience a little bit to some of the innovations you've been responsible for as it relates to all of the gear and the equipment in surfing.

Well, I mean, ultimately, you know, I think I consider myself an innovator first before anything.

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