The wave chooses you as much as you choose the wave

It’s time for another surfer girl story! Meet Becca, who never imagined “move to Waikiki at 45 and become a surfer girl” would be on her bingo card. From renting boards at the pink hotel to early dawn lessons at Canoes, Becca’s path to surfing was anything but straightforward — shaped by chance encounters, Craigslist board finds, and uncles with pop-up advice that was more shrug than science.

In this episode, Becca shares how surfing became her unexpected midlife gift, how her background in geology lets her “read” the ocean, and how she faced down the biggest wave of her life — without wiping out.