Spearfishing, Motherhood, and Cooking What You Catch with Kimi Werner

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Kimi Werner is a world champion spearfisher, ocean advocate, and chef whose life centers on sustainable fishing, food, and a deep connection to nature. After winning the largest spearfishing competition in the world in 2008, she stepped away from competition to focus on feeding her community and cooking with fish she harvests. Her upcoming cookbook, Kimi’s Kitchen, blends recipes and memoir to explore living well through the ocean, the land, and family.

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0:00.0	Off the coast of Oahu, Kimmy Werner holds her breath and dives down 70 to 100 feet below the surface of the ocean.
0:15.0	The more time that you spend in the water and the more time that you take baby steps into learning to slow down
0:24.0	your heart rate learning to calm your nervous system it becomes the most calming feeling in the
0:31.5	world there's no other place like it it is a place that just demands my presence to this day. And I love that the only
0:41.9	thoughts going through my head are present thoughts. They're thoughts in observing what's in front of
0:48.0	me. And that is the most cleansing feeling that I could ever ask for.
0:57.0	Do you know, cleansing feeling that I could ever ask for. Deep underwater, Kimmy hears the sound of her heartbeat and the slow rhythm of the ocean as she looks for fish to catch.
1:06.0	In 2008, Kimmy won the largest spearfishing competition in the world.
1:11.3	She still spearfishes multiple times a week, but these days she's more focused on connecting
1:16.5	with nature and feeding her friends and family.
1:20.1	Food has always been a central part of Kimmy's relationship with the ocean.
1:24.7	She has a big garden at home, and she loves preparing the fish she catches with
1:28.9	homegrown and local ingredients. This spring, she's coming out with a cookbook that's part
1:34.8	recipes and part memoir, called Kimmy's Kitchen. This is the second time we've had Kimmy on the
1:40.9	show. When we last spoke in 2017, her career was just taking off.
1:47.1	Since then, it's flourished, and she's also become a mom to her six-year-old son, Buddy.
1:52.9	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI Co-op Studios production, presented by Capital One and the REI Co-Op MasterCard.
2:07.9	Kimmy Warner, welcome back to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
2:12.0	I'm really, really excited to talk to you.
2:15.0	First off, since we last talked so much in your world has changed. You got married,
2:21.0	you have a baby who's not a baby anymore, a young, young little boy, buddy, and you have a new book
2:27.8	baby. So much to talk about. So thank you for coming back on the show. I really appreciate it.
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