Surfing, Fitness, and Plus-Size Adventuring with Kanoa Greene

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Kanoa Greene was born into a family of surfers in Hawaii, but for a long time she didn't feel like she belonged in the ocean. She'd never seen a plus size person out in the water and she struggled to find gear to fit her body. Eventually when she was in her 30s, she stood up on a wave for the first time and it opened up a new world for her. Now Kanoa's goal is to help other people, no matter their size, discover their own sense of adventure.

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0:00.0	When I thought fitness and outdoor adventure kind of popped into my mind I was like are you nuts like I've what I'm like I'm this fat opera singer like this
0:17.6	makes zero sense I just took the leap one foot in front of the other right?
0:29.0	Canoa Green was born into a family of surfers in Hawaii, but for a long time she didn't feel like she belonged in the ocean. She'd never seen a
0:34.2	plus-sized person out in the water and she struggled to find gear to fit her body.
0:38.2	Canoa put surfing on the back burner. Eventually when she was in her 30s she stood up on a wave for the first time and it opened up a new world for her.
0:48.0	Now Kanoa's goal is to help other people no matter their size discover their own sense of adventure.
0:55.0	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living,
0:59.0	an REI Coop Studio's production brought to you by Capital One. A few years ago,
1:06.6	Kanoa Green started her own outdoor guiding company,
1:09.7	Nacoa Adventure. Although her business has been a huge success,
1:14.4	Canoa's path to become an entrepreneur
1:16.4	has been anything but ordinary.
1:18.8	When she was young, Canoa is headed in a completely different direction.
1:22.9	She was pursuing music and went to school
1:25.1	to become an opera singer.
1:29.1	Kanoa, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:31.8	Thank you for having me. You are sitting in this
1:34.3	purple studio with a bright pink beautiful tank top and I just I just love it. You
1:39.2	are bringing the energy. It's awesome. I'm ready. Okay, first of all, yay, I love talking to other surfers.
1:47.3	Yay! I just went out and it was really quite good. I live in San Diego. But before you were a surfer, I read that
1:55.8	your first love was opera singing? Yes. I was not doing sports. I was not doing team sports. I was choir girl like it was music and again from
2:08.1	Hawaii we love music it's part of my life, my every day.
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