Vincent Lartizien has learned this fact, not with his mind but with his heart. As he was introduced to windsurfing and surfing and through the travels he’s embarked into, he learned that humans are meant to connect with the environment they live in. For decades of professional surfing, he saw how his love was gradually changing into business without values. This became his mission today as an entrepreneur- to bring back the dwindling values in the industry. He created the Nunti Sunya brand along with this idea.

They say this month is the month of love. So today, we get to hear Vincent’s story of how he fell in love and pursued that love, both for surfing and in business. He shares with us his journey with some of the lives he’s lived and how he came out victorious. Tune in and learn how to overcome challenges both in your entrepreneurial journey and in life. Vincent also enlightens us with so much wisdom on the spiritual side of surfing and how finding the energy can help us discover greater realities in our life. Vincent stresses the importance of values and sticking to them. Values are everything that a human is. Without it, how are we different? 

Episode Highlights:

• 04:19 Living Lives
• 08:44 The Roaf to Professional Wind Surfing
• 14:30 Big Wave Surfing Adventures
• 21:57 Guided The Spirit of the Sea
• 25:33 Find First The Energy and Discover Larger Reality
• 30:45 Gain Access to the Universal Rules
• 34:33 Bringing Back the Value in Biz
• 46:25 Entrepreneurial Challenges and Solutions

This week, I had the privilege of having a chat with one of the pioneers of big wave surfing: he’s French and his name is Vincent Lartizien.  Vincent started his career as a professional windsurfer. He traveled to Maui in the ’80s to follow his dream and ended up living there for the next 20 years.  It turned out big wave surfing was something he loved doing, and during the time he spent in Hawaii, he learned and mastered the art of tow-in surfing just after it got invented by Laird Hamilton. He was, in fact, the first non-Hawaiian to be allowed to surf Jaws and spent the next 30 years pulling off incredible exploits in dangerous situations in Hawaii and the rest of the world.  

“Nature is a place of freedom where anything that will be taught to you will help you to work your life with deep values.” -Vincent Lartizien

Our conversation covers these early years and beyond, but turns into a more spiritual conversation about the flow of energy in the ocean, and how Vincent's spiritual connection with the ocean has helped him see life differently.  In fact, about 6 years ago, Vincent, against all odds decided to create a hemp t-shirt manufacturing business. Six years later he is a successful soulpreneur with vertically integrated hemp manufacturing facility near Hossegor. It’s from the shores of the Atlantic that practices what he learned from the ocean to succeed in business.  Vincent’s path is atypical but is also fascinating.

Next episode I’ll be chatting with a multipotentialite globetrotter living in Byron Bay.  

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Take care, have fun, and enjoy the waves.

Ciao,

Imi

Connect with Vincent: 

• Website
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram

Resources Links:

• Vincent’s Products

Quotes:

• 13:00 “We did the mistake that we could do and we learn.” -Vincent Lartizien
• 22:29 “Every time I have some needed sign that comes in front of me, where I know I'm connected, there is a special connection and I feel good.” -Vincent Lartizien
• 23:09 “Each wave is alive; each place has a spirit.” -Vincent Lartizien
• 23:26 “It's a game we play with the wave and we want the spirit of the place of the wave to guide us, to show us… If you let yourself be guided by the spirit of the wave, you cannot make a mistake.” -Vincent Lartizien
• 24:28 “That's what surfing is about- it's not a sport, it's more of spiritual activity.” -Vincent Lartizien
• 26:59 “You can gain the knowledge without going to school. And that really freed me. I could learn whatever I wanted.” -Vincent Lartizien
• 27:51 “Matter is created by energy and not the contrary. So all the material that we have, or the matter that we experience with our senses is only a creation of something larger, deeper.”  -Vincent Lartizien
• 31:48 “Nature is a place of freedom where anything that will be taught to you will help you to work your life with deep values.” -Vincent Lartizien
• 39:26 “You have to be very balanced. You have to have one foot in the old world that is getting the rules… and one foot in the new world that nobody knows where it's going to be.” -Vincent Lartizien
• 41:03 “If we let go of our values, we lose everything.” -Vincent Lartizien
• 46:49 “I have to swallow my frustration and to understand that there is a timing for everything.” -Vincent Lartizien

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