I found surfing during a heavy time in my life, and it had a deep impact on me.

Surfing untangled my mind, softened my edges, and helped me find myself again.

Surfing is a relentless lesson in letting go of control. You don’t dictate the conditions; the ocean decides, and you just have to adapt. It’s a hard, messy sport where you get tossed around, scorpioned on a sandbank, and swallowed whole. Nothing keeps you humble like realizing how much there is still to learn.

Billions of things have to mesh together just so you can ride a single wave—the swell energy moving across thousands of miles, the wind, the tide, the sandbars. When everything aligns, time slows down, the board and the water move as one, and everything else in life just disappears. It is a gift that reminds me I’m part of something much bigger than myself. I get to let the ocean hold what I can't hold.

In leadership, my goal is to build high-trust teams where it is safe to fail, where we match the rhythm of a shifting environment, and where we face the heavy sets together.

Every wave comes down to a choice between fear and trust. Joy lives on the trust side.