EP.3 Bede Durbidge - Surfing, flow, leadership & adversity as a motivator

Bede Durbidge - Surfing, flow, leadership & adversity as a motivator.

Today’s epic guest is no stranger to the experience of Flow and has built phenomenal success in one of the ultimate flow experiences on the planet - Surfing.

We tackle - 

• Flow in surfing and spearfishing
• Bede's journey to the Top of Pro Surfing
• Adversity and the challenges that he turned into motivation
• His crippling near career & life threatening injury
• Losing his Billabong sponsorship
• Surfing in Australia and his leadership

Bede Durbidge hails from North Stradbroke island via Brisbane and reached the pinnacle of Professional surfing in 2008 finishing runner up overall.

Bede spent 3 years in the top 5 in the world  and has endured some major obstacles in achieving his greatness in the surfing World. Some of which we dig into today

Today Bede continues to build his legacy as a father, partner and as the Elite Performance manager for Surfing Australia where he will become the First Australian Coach to lead the Australian Olympic Surfing team next year in the postponed Olympic Games.

I can’t imagine there’s a better leader out there to tackle the challenge and embed his attitude vision and vibe into the sport

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