A little different episode of The Buoy Report. This conversation originally took place on The Process with Dr. Masi, where Dr. Masi Reynolds flipped the microphones around and sat down with me and my wife, Dr. April Mancuso Reynolds, for a conversation about injury, fertility, parenthood, resilience, and healing. We go back to my knee injury at Jaws during the 2023 Eddie swell — a turning point that ended up changing a lot more than surfing. From there, April and I share our fertility journey, the frustration of being told “nothing can change,” and how asking better questions led us down a different path involving diet, regenerative medicine, mindset, and ultimately becoming parents. We get into agency in health, calculated risk, fatherhood, discipline, and how my relationship with pushing limits has evolved through different stages of life. Then, in the second half, I flip back into Buoy Report mode and ask Masi one of the questions at the center of this project: What does energy mean to you? That opens up a wider conversation about how energy is stored, depleted, renewed and directed — in the body, in performance, in relationships, and in life. Two podcasts. Three perspectives. One conversation about learning when to push, when to adapt, and when to let go. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thebuoyreport.substack.com
