Celebrating spirited women who embrace life with Mother Nature. These women inspire us through their stories of adventure, personal growth, and connection to something greater than themselves.
Nature becomes the perfect backdrop for compelling, yet light hearted conversations where we wrestle with some of life’s big sticking points such as when and how to open up the doors to being brave and authentic, compassionate and curious.
These themes bubble to the surface when we explore a variety of access points into the natural realm. Whether by pushing physical and mental limits, creative art making, exploring healing and wellbeing, pursuing business endeavours, understanding ecology or unpacking spirituality.
Join our community and Nature Club to get inspired.
Celebrating spirited women who embrace life with Mother Nature. These women inspire us through their stories of adventure, personal growth, and connection to something greater than themselves.
Nature becomes the perfect backdrop for compelling, yet light hearted conversations where we wrestle with some of life’s big sticking points such as when and how to open up the doors to being brave and authentic, compassionate and curious.
These themes bubble to the surface when we explore a variety of access points into the natural realm. Whether by pushing physical and mental limits, creative art making, exploring healing and wellbeing, pursuing business endeavours, understanding ecology or unpacking spirituality.
Join our community and Nature Club to get inspired.
This episode is steeped in vulnerability. And it’s this, not her external achievements as a world class surf photographer, that has become the superpower of my guest today, Cait Miers. She is a force to be reckoned with. When talking to her I’m immediately struck by the paradox of her laid back, agreeable demeanour and yet her profound wisdom for someone her age.
I’ve connected with Cait at a pivotal cross road in her life, which makes for the perfect backdrop for a deep conversation in podcast format. This act of personal reflection is a recurrent theme at moments throughout her life, and is what has allowed her to stay authentic to herself, questioning her motivation at every major junction. She shows up with compassion and curiosity, enabling her to plan her next move with intention and purpose, and it’s from this place that she’s been able to achieve great heights in her career, frequently redefining what success looks like along the way.
Following the breadcrumbs of her intuition, her recent work explores the concept of radical self acceptance. This body of work speaks to her personal experiences growing up, and also sprouts from the industry that she lives and breathes; Fashion shoots on the beach, models, instagram filters, selfies. However her work within this somewhat restrictive space caught the eye of the WSL (World Surf League), and she was invited to shoot major international sporting events around the globe. Photographing professional athletes on the world stage is a high pressure environment, and a challenge that she has definitely risen to, showing just how versatile she is as a human and a photographer. Her goal is to humanise the people she shoots and capture the essence of their unique story no matter who they are.
To date she has shot the cover of the surfing mag Tracks Magazine with Stephanie Gilmore and won the prestigious Monster Children Magazine photography competition.
The ocean plays several fundamental roles in her life, being where she works, plays creatively and finds solace for personal reflection. She is a savvy business woman to have figured out so early on that it was possible to bring all these facets of life together with the foundation of the Ocean being the glue.
Cait is an absolute breath of fresh air and it’s her spirited approach to life that has inspired me to keep evolving as a person and not meander off track.
PLUS! Want to practise your surf photography? Enjoy a 5% discount off Aquatech Gear, which is the water housing Cait uses when shooting. Use code CAIT5 at checkout.
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