Way of the Sea Huntress, Part Two - Kimi Werner #139

ReWild Yourself

Daniel Vitalis

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In part two of the Way of the Sea Huntress, professional spearfisherwoman Kimi Werner shares the beautiful story of her relationship with her local aquatic ecology and what led her from competitive spearfishing to spearfishing for food. Coming full circle, one of the most important parts of spearfishing for Kimi is getting to prepare her harvest to share with her loved ones and community. Tune in for an inspiring story of a woman dedicated to her craft and passionate about a healthy, sustainable future for our global community. And if you enjoy this conversation, check out part one where Kimi and I go deeper into her spearfishing hunting practice!

EPISODE BREAKDOWN:

Introducing Kimi Werner
How Kimi became a spearfisherwoman
What led Kimi to competitive spearfishing
Spearfishing in Hawaii vs Rhode Island
Walking away from competition
Who is Kimi today
Participating in ecology
Kimi’s relationship to her prey
Kimi on holding her breath
Women and hunting
The beauty of your food’s story
Kimi’s prognosis for the future of the human species

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0:00.0	You're listening to the rewild yourself podcastakens. Your instincts.
0:14.0	Awakens.
0:16.0	Awakens. Awakens.
0:17.0	You're instincts.
0:18.0	Awakens. You're it instincts. Hey, welcome back to the ReWild Yourself Podcast. This is episode two of a double episode I've done with Kimmy Werner.
0:35.0	To get the full intro to her show and to hear about what I've been up to and some of the questions
0:39.5	that I answered in this week's show, go back to episode one and check that out. Now what you're
0:46.8	about to hear is the first conversation I had with Kimmy and we had some audio
0:51.1	challenges and ended up doing the recording on Skype.
0:54.0	So there's a bit of, you know, jarbled audio here and there.
0:57.8	It's not as clean as I usually like to do.
1:01.4	And that's why we ended up with the other episode. Now the first
1:04.8	episode goes a lot deeper of a dive and Kimmy and I know each other a little bit
1:09.4	better there too. But I thought I'd published this episode as well, so hope you enjoy this get to know you chat between Kimmy Werner and I and do check our show notes for links to videos and anything else we talk about here in this episode. I'll be back next Wednesday with another episode of
1:25.7	the Rewild Yourself Podcast.
1:29.2	The Ocean has long been a source of sustenance, inspiration, and adventure for Kimmy Werner.
1:35.1	As a young child growing up off the grid in an isolated part of coastal Maui, she floated behind
1:40.4	her father as he freedove for her family's primary food source.
1:44.3	Only later as an adult on Oahu did she understand the central role the ocean was going to play in her life
1:50.1	when she discovered her own passion for free diving.
1:53.0	Kimmy has gone on to become the United States National Spearfishing Champion,
1:57.0	a certified culinary chef, an award-winning artist, and a sought-after speaker.
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