#36 Nida Soe 🇲🇲 - Leading the first wave of surfers in Myanmar

🇲🇲 Nida Soe is a surfer who led Myanmar’s first-ever surfing delegation at the South East Asia Games in 2019. 🌊 As her surfing journey built her confidence and created so many opportunities, she believes that surfing can help the youth connect with their power of action and co-founded the Surfing Association of Myanmar to fulfil her mission. 🏄 She dreams to build a professional surfing ecosystem in Myanmar through which the youth can learn the values of hard work, develop their resilience, connect with the nature, get exposed to new opportunities and become professional athletes. 💪 She shares how she organised the first surfing trainings in Myanmar, how she can identify the best surfing spots with Google Earth, how she collected half-broken surfing boards from all around the world and how she prepared the national surfing team for the SEA Games. Hope it makes you keen to start your own surfing journey! :D ❤️ TIMELINE: 10’ - Discovering new surfing spots in Myanmar with Google Earth 15’ - Growing up as an athlete 27’ - Choosing between the national basketball team or pursuing university 34’ - Learning surfing the hard way on California’s beaches 49’ - Training the first wave of surfers in Myanmar 62’ - Representing Myanmar at the South East Asia Games 2019 88’ - Surfers’ connection with the oceans and the environment 106’ - Helping people understand complexity through data with Thibi 🗒️ REFERENCES: About the Surf Association of Myanmar . About the startup Thibi . Connect with Nida on LinkedIn . To read about her story, click here or here . 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube: Apple Podcasts: Spotify: Google Podcasts: Deezer: All platforms: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/36nidasoe . 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app . Leave your email for the weekly newsletter . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.