288. Koa Smith: You're Facing Your Fear the Wrong Way. A Top Big-Wave Surfer's Method

You think some people are just born without fear, but my guest Koa
Smith has spent 15 years paddling into waves big enough to kill
him, and he'll tell you the opposite: fear never leaves, the whole
game is what you do when it shows up. After a reef injury knocked
him unconscious underwater and left him eight months numb,
depressed, and unable to get a straight answer from a doctor, he
clawed his way back with forest time, breathwork, meditation, clean
food, and real sleep instead of a prescription. This isn't really a
surfing video, it's about the same fear that keeps you from a hard
conversation, a new business, or a decision you've been avoiding,
and how getting clear lets you finally see through it. CLICK HERE
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00:00 - Intro of Show 01:16 - Meet Koa Smith: surfer and abundance
advocate 03:44 - Learning to manage the fear of the ocean 06:23 -
Feeling good as the key to seeing through fear 07:33 - Wim Hof
breathing, ice baths, and the early days 08:51 - Transcendental and
Joe Dispenza meditation 10:02 - What meditation actually is (and
busy minds) 11:57 - Surfacing buried memories and energetic
blockages 13:45 - Learning to hear your own voice 16:37 - The
traumatic brain injury on the reef 17:15 - Waking up underwater to
violin music 21:07 - Depression, double vision, and numbness set in
22:23 - Doctors refuse the brain scan 23:18 - Forest bathing as the
number one tool 25:00 - Slippery thoughts and the darkest moment
26:16 - Antidepressants vs. his gut instinct 27:06 - Fantastic
Fungi and the mushroom decision 33:00 - The forest experience and
its instructions 37:17 - The reset that healed the injury 46:26 -
Why meditation beats going deeper too often 48:01 - Pear-xanthine
and getting off stimulants 52:16 - Building the cafe and drink
brands 56:32 - Where to find Koa 58:03 - What it means to be an
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