She is Canadian, she is a surf lover, a yoga teacher and also an inspiring instagrammer. Erika Drolet travelled the world before creating The Salty Souls Experience in 2015, women-only surf and yoga retreats based in South America and Bali.

In this podcast episode, we are going to chat with Tim Has, the founder of BookingLayer. We will talk about how a BookingLayer helps surf camps and surf houses to improve their operations and sell surf packages.

Hadi Beydoun is a young libanese who grew up in Ivory Coast.

He defined the surfing identity of the Ivory Coast by creating the first pro surfboard factory in West Africa in the Ivorian Coast, a country where the surf was still inexistent few years ago.

This is the inspiring story of The West Factory.

In this episode, our resident writer Richard Dobinson touched base with Cris to talk about his life as a Surfpreneur.

In this episode, we discuss what Smart Leash Co stands for, Dan's prior experience in the surf industry, and how that has supported his work with his own company, and getting Dan's brand into some of the world's most recognizable surf shops.

Mario Julian with his partner Petrina together run a couple of businesses under the umbrella brand Magic Quiver, all of them in a small surf village Ericeira, in Portugal.

They have a surf shop, surf lodge, vacation rentals, a coffee place, and a restaurant.

We discussed with Mario about the impact of Covid-19 on their business, the story of Magic Quiver, also how they do things differently - one of the examples is how they collaborate with the world’s famous shapers and how they host them in Ericeira.

Sun and Co is a coliving space in Jávea, a small coastal village near Valencia in Spain.

What I found super interesting is that Sun & Co operates as a coliving space from September to June and as a hostel, under a completely different brand, during the summer.

We discussed with Jon Hormaetxe Castells how you can integrate the coliving concept into your existing surf hospitality business.

Also, how Sun & Co operates, what are their occupancy rates, how they find customers, and what is crucial to run a successful coliving business.

Thijs is the managing director of Viking Bookings, a water sports booking software company.

Thijs was running a kitesurf school company in the Netherlands but after a few years, he realized that they met the limits of what is humanly possible when running a watersports company.

He contacted a local software development agency to help him to solve this problem and together they designed a solution that was successfully automatized the processed in the kitesurf school.

But there were thousands of other water sports companies that were managing reservations all the processes manually. And that was an opportunity to offer this custom solution as a packaged software.

In today’s episode of Surfpreneurs podcast, we have the pleasure of talking to Thomas Zielinski of Get Wet Soon, which is a website, podcast, and a blog. Thomas recently launched in new surf lodge in Morocco and we also talked about the Surfing Worldwide Map.

We discussed with Nicky Kelly about how to build a niche online accommodation business and what challenges the surf hospitality businesses face.

Ru Hill is the founder of Surf Simply, a high-end coaching surf resort in Costa Rica which books out a year in advance.

One of the biggest issues in surfing is the water that always finds a way into your ears, causing hearing problems, infections and other inconveniences. Today we talk with the man who came up with a product to solve this problem. 

In this episode of Surfpreneurs Podcast, the host Peter Fabor talks with Christian Dittrich, the founder of SurfEars. This company from Sweden creates earplugs that not only block water from coming into your ears but also let you hear the outside world. With over 120.000 SurfEars sold to this date, it’s proven to be an excellent product.

In this episode, I'm going to interview Alexandra Gossink from I love The Seaside. Alexandra with her team has a small publishing company that makes travel surf books.

Romain Laulhe, 6 times surf champion, started his entrepreneurial career after saying goodbye to the competition.

Today he presents us Power Surf Center, a surf school like no other. Between fitness classes, yoga classes, and surf trips abroad, this is what a surf school runs by an ex-champion looks like.

Anyone who’s been into surfing for more than a week has heard of Selina. This global hospitality brand focused on millennial travellers was launched in 2014. At the moment of writing, they have 42 locations all over the world and have raised more than $94 million from VC investors.

Today we had a chat with Bruno Muchada Suarez, the global director of Selina Surf Club, a special division of Selina that caters to surfers and the surf lifestyle. We talked about his beginnings in the world of hospitality, about Selina and his thoughts on the future of surf destinations.

In the second Surfpreneurs podcast James interviewed Jack Candlish from Organic Dynamic.

They discussed how Jack started this kiwi surfboard brand as a side project and how it later a while became his full-time job.

The first (and very improvised) version of the Surfpreneurs podcast was recorded with Christoph Zingelmann.

We discusses a couple of Christoph’s surf projects:

• Island Collective

• Saltwater shop

• Surf & Skate Festival