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.
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Timestamps
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 ultimate human
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