The Kyle Thiermann Show

Meg Haywood Sullivan is a photographer and environmentalist who splits her time between shooting campaigns and pushing for environmental stories through editorial features & social platforms. Meg’s career has taken her from contributing to a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece with the New York Times and photographing with the world’s leading snowboard brands to documenting a feature with National Geographic Adventure following John Muir’s footsteps to the fastest retreating glacier in Yosemite. Anna Ehrgott is a professional surfer and filmmaker. She has worked on films including Island Earth and From The Ground Up.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Emily Penn has organized the largest ever community-led waste cleanup from a tiny Tongan island, trawled for micro plastics on a voyage through the Arctic Northwest Passage, rounded the planet on the record-breaking biofueled boat Earthrace, and worked on a sailing cargo ship trading western supplies for coconuts. Emily splits her time between running eXXpedition - a series of all female voyages which focus on the relationship between plastics, toxics, and female health - and working to solve the ocean plastics issue with Parley for the Oceans and other corporate clients. Prior to this, Emily co-founded Pangaea Explorations, to enable scientists, filmmakers and everyday people gain access to the most remote parts of our planet; collecting data on global issues and along the way discovered the previously unknown oceanic gyres – huge areas of plastic pollution accumulation. Emily was honored with the Fitzroy Award at the 2016 Ocean Awards and is also the youngest and only female recipient of both the Yachtmaster of the Year, awarded by HRH Princess Royal, and the Seamaster of the Year award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical society and in 2017 was elected as a member of the Cordon Rouge Club. Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Rick Carter is a production designer and art director. He is known for his work in Forrest Gump, Amistad, A.I. Cast Away, War of the Worlds, What Lies Beneath, Jurassic Park, Avatar, and Back to the Future Part II and Part III. Many of the films that he has worked on are directed by Steven Spielberg or Robert Zemeckis. For his Art Direction of Avatar, he won an Academy Award and, in 2013, Rick won his second Academy Award, for production design on Steven Spielberg's, Lincoln.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Fergal Smith is one of the most well-known professional surfers to come out of Ireland. He is also the owner of Moy Hill Farms, a permaculture farm located in Lahinch, Ireland.  Farms. http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/moy-hill-farm Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Conner Wanders (@ConnerWanders) works for Onnit and is the host of the Pleasure Monkey podcast. He focuses on how to life the f*ck out of life! Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Carlos Burle (@CarlosBurle) is a professional big wave surfer from Brazil.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Amy Baldwin (@AmyPurePleasure) is a Somatic Sex and Relationship Coach (trained in the Somatica® Method), Certified Sex Educator, sales trainer and educator for Uberlube, as well as co-owner of a mother-daughter owned pleasure boutique called Pure Pleasure Shop. Amy has a passion for promoting shame-free, pleasure-focused sexuality education while emphasizing the deep emotional and energetic forces behind great sex and intimate connection, offering everything from how-to workshops to erotic empowerment retreats. Amy also appears in episodes #23 and #54 of this podcast. https://www.shamelesssex.com/ Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Toby Thierman (@TheTobes) has been traveling the world with a camera for over 15 years searching for the perfect frames and images. His adventures have brought him from Steven Spielberg sets to Cambodian mine fields. A passionate storyteller and director, Toby brings a keen sense of story and composition to every project. The competitive edge of his work draws from daring camera work, vibrant connection to audience and accolades for ongoing innovation. http://www.lensfirefilms.com/ Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Ernie Child is a Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue Swimmer. He is a certified EMT, operational fitness trainer, swiftwater rescue technician, high angle ropes rescue technician, advanced helicopter rescue technician, and cold weather survival instructor. As an active duty operator he deals with his own battles, including PTSD, and strives to set an example to people in and out of the military by showing others that there are positive and healthy ways to live life without being weighed down by traumatic experiences. Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

SIGN THE PETITION TO CONNECT THE CAP: http://p2a.co/qwV7f0c Marcus Eriksen (@5Gyers) is the co-founder of Leap Lab, as well as the Research Director and co-founder of the 5 Gyres Institute. He studies the global distribution and ecological impacts of plastic marine pollution, which has included expeditions sailing through all 5 subtropical gyres, Bay of Bengal, Southern Ocean and inland lakes and rivers, recently publishing the first global estimate of all plastic of all sizes floating in the world’s oceans, totaling 270,000 metric tons from 5.25 trillion particles. In 2013 he and colleagues published the discovery of microbeads in the Great Lakes, which became the cornerstone for a US-based campaign to eliminate plastic microbeads from cosmetics, resulting in the Microbead-Free Waters Act, which became US federal law in 2015. Years earlier, in 2000, he traveled to Midway Atoll, finding hundreds of Laysan Albatross with plastic pouring out of their stomachs, and that experience narrowed his focus to plastics. He received his Ph.D. in Science Education from University of Southern California in 2003, months before embarking on a 2000-mile, 5-month journey down the Mississippi River on a homemade raft of plastic bottles to bring attention to this issue. Again in 2008, he rafted across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii on JUNK, floating on 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessina airplane fuselage as a cabin (junkraft.com). The journey, 2,600 miles in 88 days, brought attention to the work of the 5 Gyres Institute, the organization he co-founded with his wife Anna Cummins. His first book, titled “My River Home” (Beacon Press, 2007) chronicled his Mississippi River experience paralleled with his tour as a Marine in the 1991 Gulf War. His second book, titled "JUNK RAFT: An oceanic voyage and the rising tide of activism to fight plastic pollution" (Beacon Press, 2017) tells the story of how plastic pollution at sea was discovered, the impact on people and the planet, and the growing movement to solve the problem through zero waste initiatives in the largest cities worldwide. The experience of war, sailing across oceans with wonderful crew-mates, and long rafting voyages, have led to a strong conservation ethic worth fighting for. “We must understand and define conservation and social justice as our collective self-preservation – a rationale that crosses all boundaries between all people.” Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe