EP: 29 - Helping our World, One Dream at a Time - Professional Mermaid Linden Wolbert!

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Where You Can Find Linden:  Her website – www.mermaidsinmotion.com, YouTube is mermaidsinmotion, Instagram – @mermaidlinden.
About the Guest: Linden is a pioneer of the exploding mermaid trend that shows no signs of slowing down. With well over 50 Million video views on her YouTube Channel and her own top-selling signature line of monofins with Body Glove, Linden is arguably the most successful “entrepremermaid” in the world. 

Featured alongside ocean legend Dr. Sylvia Earle in ELLE magazine, interviewed on ABC’s 20/20, Good Morning America, BuzzFeed, The Today Show, Discovery Shark Week, Inside Edition, NPR, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Huffington Post, Real Clear Life, Fast Company, Fortune, CNBC, Entertainment Weekly and The Undersea Journal to name a few, her story has compelled journalists from all over the world to cover her work in more than 30 languages and 80 countries. 

Over the course of her self-created career as a professional mermaid for the better part of two decades, Linden has spent the better part of her life truly living ‘the life aquatic.’ This real-life mermaid who has a passion for ocean “edutainment” is sharing the magic of our blue planet with anyone who crosses her path. Linden travels the globe in search of unique underwater habitats, unusual creatures and is addicted to the beauty and mystery of the big blue. Finding creative ways to share her love of the sea with others, she rarely swims with two legs. She prefers the aid of her 50-pound silicone prosthetic tail which propels her through the water at remarkable speeds, or one of the monofins she designed for Body Glove. A skilled freediver, she can hold her breath for an astounding 5 minutes, and dive to over 115 feet down and back up on a single breath of air.

Linden has found herself surrounded by dozens of sharks at 50 feet down on a single breath - with no mask and no air tanks in the Bahamas, danced with manta rays at night in Hawaii, and been enveloped by millions of non-stinging golden jellyfish in Palau’s infamous jellyfish lake. She has dived with minke whales and mola mola fish in the pelagic open ocean, been dwarfed by aggregating whale sharks in the Caribbean and mingled with pods of dolphins and sea lions in the Sea of Cortez. She has been circled by 5 Great White Sharks while cage diving in Guadalupe....with a tail on, of course! All of these experiences are captured on film and video, which Linden shares in the form of mini-documentaries for children on her YouTube channel. She has done underwater modeling and pro in-water stunt doubling for films, TV and commercials and has appeared as a mermaid in various feature films and music videos.

Linden is on the board of directors of Reef Check Foundation, a non-profit which monitors the health of our world’s coral and rocky reef systems in an effort to conserve and protect them (will come back to this). She co-branded in 2012 with Body Glove International and designed her own signature line of child and adult swim products, which can be found in the world’s largest retailers including Wal-Mart and Amazon. She is also a co-host for The DeeperBlue Podcast, the official podcast of the world’s most popular diving website. Linden has a Bachelor of Science in Film and Environmental Science from Emerson College, is a PADI Master SCUBA Diver, AIDA International Freediving Judge and US Team Coach, with a 20-year background in ocean conservation and education through visual storytelling and live performance.

TOTD: 

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

Incredible episode, thanks for liste