with Bella Fothergill
About this episode
What does growing up look like when the ocean is your backyard and adventure is simply part of everyday life?
At just 16, Bella Fothergill has already spent half her life sailing around the world with her family aboard Sailing With Six.
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About this episode
Bella kitesurfs, surfs, freedives, spearfishes, sails and writes about life at sea through her blog, Sailing Sister. But growing up this way isn't just about turquoise water and incredible adventures.
Bella talks with Sarah about the responsibility that comes with life at sea, the day their rudder snapped eight days into a 4,000-mile Pacific crossing, and what it feels like to know that getting things wrong can have real consequences.
She also shares what she misses about life on land, community, friends and having a physical church to belong to, and why family, freedom and generosity have become such important parts of how she sees a successful life.
From surfing and freediving to facing fear hundreds of miles from land, this is a conversation about growing up differently — and what that can teach all of us about how we choose to live.
In this episode
- Growing up aboard Sailing With Six
- Learning to kitesurf at nine
- Surfing waves
- Freediving and spearfishing around the world
- Responsibility as a teenager at sea
- Losing a rudder eight days into a 4,000-mile Pacific crossing
- Sailing another 20 days with only one rudder
- How that experience changed Bella's respect for the ocean
- Missing friends, community and church while cruising
- Writing about life at sea through Sailing Sister
- What family, freedom and success mean to Bella
- Her advice for anyone still waiting for “someday”
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