I Deserve This: Searching for Peace and Serenity Underwater

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🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A special three-part series of the Women Who Travel podcast, presented by Cloudy Bay

We've long admired Kimi Werner, a Hawaiian freediver and spearfisher, so we thought there was no better woman to join us this week. A new mom, she's had to find a way to balance her active new role above land and the regenerative power and calm she finds underwater. We chat about how she's found that balance, what it's meant to introduce her son to the ocean, and how she's managed to leave her anxieties on the shore and just relax.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Lale and I are out on vacation right now, and if you needed a reminder to start planning your vacation days for the rest of the year, this is it. While we're gone, though, we wanted to share one of our favorite episodes from last year. We talked with free diver, Kimmy Werner, about finding a place of calm in the ocean. And while we may not all have the sea at our fingertips, her advice on how to let go and simply relax
0:21.4	is something we could all use right now. I'll let past me take it away. Enjoy. Hi, everyone. You're
0:31.8	listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith Carey and with me,
0:36.2	as always, is my co-host, Bolly Aricoglu.
0:38.8	Hello! For this week's chat, we're catching up with free diver and spear fisher, Kimmy Werner.
0:44.6	Based in Hawaii, Werner has both won awards and garnered a major internet following for her
0:50.0	trips to the bottom of the ocean. Often diving as deep as 150 feet on a single breath with only
0:55.7	her spear for company. Thanks for joining us, Kimmy. Thank you so much for having me. So I'm going to kick
1:02.3	things off with, I'm sure to you, feels like a very big question, but one that I think a lot of
1:08.9	people who do not grow up on or by the ocean would be fascinated by,
1:13.3	which is how on earth did you get into free diving in the first place?
1:18.7	I got introduced to free diving when I was about maybe five years old,
1:23.8	and it was my dad who introduced it to me because that's what he would do.
1:28.3	He would go free diving to go spearfishing simply to put food on the table.
1:33.3	And so we didn't have a whole bunch of money back then and that's how he fed us.
1:39.3	My mom was a waitress and my dad was really trying his hardest to kind of start a construction company that was a slow start.
1:48.0	And so to make ends meet, he would go out and hold his breath and dive down in the ocean and catch us dinner.
1:55.0	And when I was about five years old, instead of hiring a babysitter and having to spend the money on that he just
2:02.9	started taking me with him what are those sort of early memories like of catching fish do you
2:09.4	remember catching the fish were you successful i did not catch any fish i i was just a tag along
2:16.8	the memories i have are just these like montages of just
2:21.4	beautiful colors and sensations of just what it felt like to feel so weightless and be in this
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