Danielle Black Lyons is a surfer, artist, mother and co-founder of Textured Waves, a collective aimed at promoting diversity in surfing. Danielle lives in California with her husband and son and surfs daily. Danielle co-founded Textured Waves with several other women in response to a representation issue in surfing. The goal of Textured Waves is to elevate the culture and sport of women's surfing towards women of color and underrepresented demographics through representation, community, and sisterly camaraderie. This episode covers the following topics:What Danielle’s mornings look likeGrowing up in the water and her family’s connection to the waterHow she started surfing and her progression learning to surfNavigating white spacesMotherhood, navigating postpartum depression,  and raising her sonThe inspiration to create Textured WavesDiversity in surfingThe water as a healing spaceLiving in London and being away from the waterFuture goals for Textured Waves____EPISODE LINKSDanielle's InstagramDanielle's ArtworkTextured Waves InstagramTextured Waves WebsiteSea Us Now Film Premiere____SPONSORSPlatinum PTThis podcast is sponsored by Platinum PT. Platinum Physical Therapy is a private practice sports medicine clinic whose mission is to provide evidence-based physical therapy care to help people live their healthiest lives possible. They have clinics located in Ashland, Hopkinton, and Milford Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. The physical therapists at Platinum PT work with their patients one on one at every treatment in order to provide consistent care from day one until discharge. They are runners themselves and understand the demands that endurance athletes experience in training at the recreational and elite levels. In addition to traditional physical therapy through insurance, they offer cash pay services including use of the Alter-G anti-gravity treadmill, strength & conditioning programming, running gait analysis, dry needling, and telehealth appointments for those far away. For more information, please visit their website at platinumptma.comPlatinum PT’s Facebook____For more information and additional content visit runningonom.comEpisode Artwork by Ashleigh Yob