Sam Judd – the co-founder of beach cleaning/tree planting charity Sustainable Coastlines – had concluded his university studies in Chile when he decided that instead of going home to New Zealand, he’d take a side trip to the Galapagos Islands to go surfing. 

Let’s just say sh*t turned to custard, of a variety that proved to be formative for Sam, in more ways than one.

Mr Judd knows how to spin a yarn, so lock in. It’s one hell of a ride. 

By the way, the language spoken at the top of the interview is Māori, the language of the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. Sam gives his ‘pepeha’ – an introduction to who he is through sharing the people and places important to him. Ngā mihi for the chat, Sam!

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