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I spoke with Irish female pioneer surfer Melanie White, founder of Rebelle Surf for Wavelength Magazine exploring surf in Sligo, Ireland.
Kicking off a new series on Wavelength, ‘Through the Keyhole,’ casts a light on the magic of surf in a particular country or destination. First up, we find out about the beguiling, brackish magic of Sweden through the eyes of former pro surfer-turned-freesurfer and cold water fiend, Tim Latte.
The bad news: surf travel sucks for the planet. The good news: there’s plenty you can do to make it suck less. Editorial for Wavelength Magazine.
I analysed the incredible career of snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott for THE INERTIA, arguably snowboardig’s greatest talent right now.
A deep dive into the fascinating and multi-faceted mindset that drives big-wave slab hunter Kerby, I spoke to Kerby Brown for THE INERTIA.
With the help of some of surfing’s most positive proponents and stalwarts of the industry I analyse what’s going to come next, from inclusivity to the rise of a new guard, the environment and wave pools.
Surfing is an incredible sport in that in it’s very participation, we are enveloped into nature’s raw beauty in one of its purest forms. However, when it comes to the kit we use in order to play in the world’s oceans, the detrimental affects, from production phase through to end of life cycle, are unquestionable.
The iconic White Isle is truly back to its pre-pandemic, vibrant and popping best, and OKU’s chic and bewitching hotel is a jewel in the Balearic Islands crown when it comes to effortlessly fusing hedonism and wellness, creating a one-stop shop that it’s almost hard to tear yourself away from. Sophie Everard reports on her stay at Oku Ibiza…
Sophie catches up with Captain Clark from her home-base, finding out what came next for the intrepid adventurer and activist…SurfGirl Magazine
Surfing is bigger than ever, and with millions more surfers in the water, many breaks are busier than ever, despite the global pandemic. How can we effectively manage its exponential growth?
Now the dust has settled, it’s clear Steph Gilmore’s record 8th World Title truly tore up the rulebook and tossed it in the bonfire…Wavelength Magazine
Southern Portugal has been proving a mecca for creative talent in recent years, a funky kinda free-wildness permeating the farthest Atlantic tip of Europe, arguably shedding its golf/boozehound abroad coat of yesteryear, with a rad raft of exciting and progressive burgeoning businesses. Wavelength Magazine.
We discover Ambre’s world of wildness and weirdness and tumultuous wondrous happenings. Wavelength Magazine.
We explore Pipe’s potholed road to redemption, and chatted to Moana, freshly crowned as Pipe’s newest monarch. Wavelength Magazine.
In the dog-eat-dog world of battling for sponsorship, media coverage and public favour and flavour, many female surfers have often faced tumultuous and unfair uphill battles in pursuit of their surfing goals.
Located in Portugal’s historic wine region where Mother Nature takes centre stage, 6 Senses Douro Valley blends wellness, sustainability, luxury and indulgence. An oasis for those searching for a true meaningful experience and bespoke wellness program that will leave you satiated and wow’ed. Sophie Everard reports back on her stay…
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Is there anything better than plotting an adventure, packing up, and hightailin’ it in search of epic waves? I round up the best camps for Wavelength Magazine.
I spoke with Irish female pioneer surfer Melanie White, founder of Rebelle Surf for Wavelength Magazine exploring surf in Sligo, Ireland.
Kicking off a new series on Wavelength, ‘Through the Keyhole,’ casts a light on the magic of surf in a particular country or destination. First up, we find out about the beguiling, brackish magic of Sweden through the eyes of former pro surfer-turned-freesurfer and cold water fiend, Tim Latte.
The bad news: surf travel sucks for the planet. The good news: there’s plenty you can do to make it suck less. Editorial for Wavelength Magazine.
I analysed the incredible career of snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott for THE INERTIA, arguably snowboardig’s greatest talent right now.
A deep dive into the fascinating and multi-faceted mindset that drives big-wave slab hunter Kerby, I spoke to Kerby Brown for THE INERTIA.
With the help of some of surfing’s most positive proponents and stalwarts of the industry I analyse what’s going to come next, from inclusivity to the rise of a new guard, the environment and wave pools.
Surfing is an incredible sport in that in it’s very participation, we are enveloped into nature’s raw beauty in one of its purest forms. However, when it comes to the kit we use in order to play in the world’s oceans, the detrimental affects, from production phase through to end of life cycle, are unquestionable.
The iconic White Isle is truly back to its pre-pandemic, vibrant and popping best, and OKU’s chic and bewitching hotel is a jewel in the Balearic Islands crown when it comes to effortlessly fusing hedonism and wellness, creating a one-stop shop that it’s almost hard to tear yourself away from. Sophie Everard reports on her stay at Oku Ibiza…
Sophie catches up with Captain Clark from her home-base, finding out what came next for the intrepid adventurer and activist…SurfGirl Magazine
Surfing is bigger than ever, and with millions more surfers in the water, many breaks are busier than ever, despite the global pandemic. How can we effectively manage its exponential growth?
Now the dust has settled, it’s clear Steph Gilmore’s record 8th World Title truly tore up the rulebook and tossed it in the bonfire…Wavelength Magazine
Southern Portugal has been proving a mecca for creative talent in recent years, a funky kinda free-wildness permeating the farthest Atlantic tip of Europe, arguably shedding its golf/boozehound abroad coat of yesteryear, with a rad raft of exciting and progressive burgeoning businesses. Wavelength Magazine.
We discover Ambre’s world of wildness and weirdness and tumultuous wondrous happenings. Wavelength Magazine.
We explore Pipe’s potholed road to redemption, and chatted to Moana, freshly crowned as Pipe’s newest monarch. Wavelength Magazine.
In the dog-eat-dog world of battling for sponsorship, media coverage and public favour and flavour, many female surfers have often faced tumultuous and unfair uphill battles in pursuit of their surfing goals.
Located in Portugal’s historic wine region where Mother Nature takes centre stage, 6 Senses Douro Valley blends wellness, sustainability, luxury and indulgence. An oasis for those searching for a true meaningful experience and bespoke wellness program that will leave you satiated and wow’ed. Sophie Everard reports back on her stay…
CHELSEA WOODY ON REBELLION, TEXTURED WAVES, ‘CADAVRE EXQUIS’ & THE BEAUTY OF DEEP CONNECTION for WAVELENGTH MAGAZINE
A GUIDE TO THE RAD WOMEN’S SURF COMMUNITY OF TOFINO WITH HANNA SCOTT, for Wavelength Magazine
Sophie Everard explores the fallacy of “the bikini body” and how body confidence is on the rise in the line-up.
Sophie Everard analyses the metamorphosis of travel and how ecologically aware travellers have never had it easier to make better choices.
One of the commonly highlighted industries that is known for blighting the environment and the source of mass ocean pollution and destruction is fast fashion and textiles. A fervent wave of female-founded businesses are shaking up the industry, aiming for positive impact and consumption…
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Sophie’s interview for Cooler Magazine in 2018 with renowned poet, life coach and feminist Janne Robinson.
19-year-old professional climber Imogen Horrocks, the former British Bouldering Champion (a title achieved at only 14 years old) is palpably excited when telling me about her recent expedition to The Rocklands, South Africa.
Sophie Hellyer is a woman on a mission. The Westward Ho!, Devon raised surfer has been the poster child for British surfing during her career as a competitive athlete, contracts with global-leading surf brands, magazine covers and competition wins making for an illustrious career that has seen Sophie raise the profile of Britain’s surf industry and been a well-known, and liked, face of it.
Big wave surfing has been thrust into the mainstream public consciousness in recent years in no small part due to an unassuming small Portuguese fishing town by the name of Nazaré. Visit this popular seaside town in a blustering Atlantic storm-saturated winter though, and you might bear witness some of the most unfathomably fearsome and shockingly enormous behemoths of waves ever recorded.
Canadian snowboarding-supernova Robin Van Gyn has just wrapped a screening of the latest epic cinematic masterpiece from infamous snowboarder Travis Rice and Quiksilver and Roxy, “Depth Perception” in the bustling heart of London’s film premiere hub, Soho. An unusual place to find a mainly mountain-dwelling athlete like Robin, but it is clear she is exultant, in high spirits riding the wave of an incredibly successful tour of the film which has garnered world-wide critical acclaim.
Cornish born and bred lady-slider, the London Surf Film Festival Director, author and screen writer Demi Taylor has been a stalwart of the surf-ciné world and the global creative surf movement. Co-author of numerous surf and travel books with her partner Chris Nelson, 7 years ago Demi & Chris gave birth to a vision to celebrate the unique and iconic British surf industry. Years down the line, The London Surf Film Festival is a beating heart not just of the UK surf scene, but the global waters, hosting international film-makers, surfers, ocean lovers, dreamers and thinkers.
If when I say women’s swimwear and female empowerment go together in the same business strategy, I can understand how you could have your doubts, raise an eyebrow and potentially utter a likely hmmmmm. But Kristina Maciukaite and Gerda Mickevicuite, owners of Bali/Cali -based swimwear brand Makara, are trying to turn the tables on the traditional narrative surrounding women’s swimwear quite frankly, on its head.
If you’ve been tuning into the action from the Mad To Live Retreats x The Surf Experience weeks in the stunning, golden hued, lemon-tree scented shores of southern Portugal, your keen eye, like many others, may have been glued to the delicious imagery of the food that is served to the guests, and to the effusive and brilliant chef, Rachel Snow.
I was lucky to spend a few days with the Vans pro surf-team recently in the lushly wild Mundaka, a pocket in the Basque region of northern Spain that brims with adventure, surf, and a raw, primordial energy that is apparent and palpable in it’s vast mountains, Neolithic cave-painting remains and breath-taking vistas.
I’m at the LAAX European Open Switzerland, a definitive stop on the World Snowboard Tour at the home of snowboard freestyle, LAAX. Attracting the biggest names on the global tour, the LAAX Open has long been one of the most critical and enjoyed stops of the tour, with the riders stoking out on LAAX, which was purpose built for snowboarders. It’s incredible facilities include the world’s biggest halfpipe, indoor training hubs, and of course, the unparalled and stunning riding terrain. I’m here to see for myself the incredible highs snowboarding has come to in this leg of the European Open, and to chat to none other than slopestyle QUEEN, the reigning Olympic Gold slopestyle medallist, the incredible Miss Jamie Anderson.
Competitive sport is an exciting arena. Every so often a fresh and exciting, raw and disuptive talent emerges to shake the field up, and herald the arrival of a new crop of competitors vying for the top spot. Enter Tahnée Seagrave, next up in the series of WHY I interviews delving into the minds, motivations and passions of a slew of diverse, talented, and highly inspiring women. Downhill mountain bike racing could be fairly new to many of you, and with the first thing coming to mind normally being that this is one GNARLY sport, I was interested to chat to 21 year old Tahnée about her life in this adrenaline-charged world.
There are certain people you meet in your life who proffer those serious pinch me moments. As an ardent and voracious little runner when I was a child, and having grown up in Greece, home to the 2004 Olympic Games, Dame Kelly Holmes always stood out to me as someone of incredible inspiration, someone on that lofty pedestal of athletic ability and success, physical and mental prowess.
Georgie Rogers is a prodigious talent in radio broadcasting, presenting and djjing. With a CV resplendent of a veritable who’s who of top dog employers including BBC 6 Music, Virgin Radio, Apple Beats 1, Coca Cola, XFM, Topshop, Secret Garden Party, and a name synonymous with being a dogged champion of new talent, Georgie's tenacity and passion has cut her apart from the pack from the start.
It isn't easy coming up with an introduction for the astonishing, multi-talented force that is Hannah Bailey. Recent recipient of Campaign Magazine's "Digital Maverick of 2016", Hannah Bailey's precocious talent, drive and motivation for what she believes in has seen her manage PR for some of the biggest action sports brands in the world including her current position at non-profit charity Skateistan, found her own creative agency, Neon Stash, and write and shoot (a talented photographer to boot) for a multitide of outlets including Dazed and Confused. A tireless promoter of creativity, of positivity, of women in sport and just women generally being rad, being imaginitive and being original, I am so excited to introduce Hannah Bailey to the "WHY I" mix. Kick back and settle down for a killer read with the awesome Hannah.
Next up in our "WHY I" series of interviews with inspiringly awesome women, we have none other than Aimee Fuller. Pro-snowboarder, Olympian, the first woman to land a double backflip in competition and long-time face of Roxy Snowboarding, the list of accolades goes on with twenty five year old Aimee. I think I first met Aimee at the London Freeze festival when she was still mid-teens, and it's been amazing to see her progress and prosper through the years. Even back then her infectious high-energy, positivity and all-round stoke and love for her sport was clear and made her stand out from the pack. Grab yourself a hot one and settle down for the read with the truly brilliant Aimee Fuller.
Sound the claxon y'all, I am so excited to announce a new sequence of interviews on the Mad To Live Blog. In the "WHY I" series, I will be speaking to a host of awesome and inspiring women, to pick their brains on what drives them, what inspires and motivates them, what stokes them out, and what advice they can share with you and I, dear reader.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the proliferation of images, words & videos that we’re assailed with daily through our social feeds and through the media. There’s no doubt about it, wellness and fitness now are HOT right now, smokin’, red-hot, which is great. Some of you may have been following my adventures and love of sport, the outdoors and a healthy life for a while now through my Mad To Live Blog, and I felt that I wanted put some words down about why I train the way I do.
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Located in Portugal’s historic wine region where Mother Nature takes centre stage, 6 Senses Douro Valley blends wellness, sustainability, luxury and indulgence. An oasis for those searching for a true meaningful experience and bespoke wellness program that will leave you satiated and wow’ed. Sophie Everard reports back on her stay…
“Sophie Everard heads to the hub of El Salvador’s surfing heartland and discovers how a singular community’s tentacles of positive change are making palpable positive changes reaching far and wide…” An editorial for SurfGirl Magazine
“Nestled amongst the sprawlingly lush and verdant hills of Sussex, a vista so breathtaking it’s hard to remember you’re but an hour from London, South Lodge Hotel and Spa promises a weekend break like no other, as Sophie discovers…” Check out this feature for Dose Magazine!
“Sophie Everard, author of ‘Snowboarding: Skills – Training – Techniques’ has put together a compressive guide. Read on for pre-trip fitness tips, the best resorts, snow gear and more…” Check out this editorial in 2018 for Dose Magazine!
“Sophie Everard touches down at the Sublime Comporta Country Retreat & Spa to find out why this decadent, beautifully rustic and chic enclave under an hour from Lisbon is a firm favourite with the capitol’s jet-set…” Check out this editorial for Dose Magazine!
Tourism is starting to open back up across the UK, & it can definitely be confusing to know what exactly is permitted, open, and how you can safely travel, and also critically, how to enjoy the outdoors responsibly. Check this handy guide!
LA’s historic magic has been drawing tourists for decades, “The City of Angels” a cultural melting pot of popular culture, cinematic history, music, surf and adventure.
I spoke to the formidable founder Joke Devresee and other hardy ladies who’s love affair withs surfing the cold waters of the North Sea knows no limits for SurfGirl Magazine.
A trip to Lanzarote quickly dissolved all pre-conceived notions of this wondrous and staggeringly beautiful archipelago. Check out my story published in SurfGirl Magazine below!
Check out Mad To Live Founder’s Ultimate Snow Trip Guide she penned for DOSE MAGAZINE including full breakdown on pre-trip fitness preparation, resort guide, gear guide and skincare help!
Mad To Live Founder Sophie’s next editorial for Dose Magazine is live, a round-up of top active breaks for adventurous types. Check the round-up!
Check a trip to The Wave for it’s opening day, hitting the walls in Cheddar Gorge, free-falling backwards down a 500,000 year old cave and more!
Check out all Mad To Live’s adventure musts, where to eat and sleep and more, and the full video edit of our epic trip.
The dog days of summer are over, but despite the chill in the air there are plenty of reasons to keep your spirits up. Autumn is a spectacular season for travel, check out the Mad To Live Guide to autumn hot spots!
Check out the Mad To Live Guide to adventures around the world to end your summer with a bang.
Mad To Live Retreats have featured in Marie Claire UK’s surf-focussed feature as their top pick for a surf school!
Find out what The Telegraph made of Mad To Live Retreats in a moving and insightful review.
Check out Sophie Mad To Live’s recently penned Insider’s Guide to Canggu Bali for SurfGirl Magazine, including all the hot tips on where to eat, sleep N stay
It’s wild, wet and 450 metres high – Wildwire Wanaka’s Lord of the Rungs is the world’s highest via ferrata.
Mad To Live are jazzed to feature in the latest Hip & Healthy Magazine’s round-up of The Best Women-Only Wellness Retreats To Book Now!
As we begin to emerge from the chrysalis of winter, thick sweaters relegated to the back of our wardrobes, thoughts turn to warmer months, and with that, festival season honks it’s siren. Forget about the typical festivals you may be accustomed to, checked off your bucket list and snagged the t-shirt. We’ve rounded up a hot-list of radical festivals you may not have heard of to get your juices going!
Mad To Live are so stoked to share we have featured in the awesome London Evening Standard Magazine, and in none other than their LOVE issue with Mad To Live Retreats!
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Is there anything better than plotting an adventure, packing up, and hightailin’ it in search of epic waves? I round up the best camps for Wavelength Magazine.
“Sophie Everard, author of ‘Snowboarding: Skills – Training – Techniques’ has put together a compressive guide. Read on for pre-trip fitness tips, the best resorts, snow gear and more…” Check out this editorial in 2018 for Dose Magazine!
“Forget January signalling the start of new beginnings, Autumn is the time for rebirth and goal-setting. Sophie Everard rounds up key fitness trends to keep you motivated through the darker months, from hike ‘n yoga retreats, to hot tech…”… Check out this editorial for Dose Magazine!
Red Bull UK have featured Mad To Live Founder Sophie Everard’s Instagram account @sophiemadtolive in it’s roundup of “13 of the best Instagram accounts to follow for serious training inspo”!
Limited Space? Doesn’t Matter! Here’s a hardcore cardio workout you can do from your own garden or living room.
Check out Mad To Live Founder’s Ultimate Snow Trip Guide she penned for DOSE MAGAZINE including full breakdown on pre-trip fitness preparation, resort guide, gear guide and skincare help!
Mad To Live so excited to share that Founder Sophie Everard and gal pal Victoria Pendleton sat down with the High Priestess of good vibes and epic chinwags Fearne Cotton for her incredible Happy Place Podcast!
Mad To Live are stoked to announce two very special fitness workshops this summer in London with fellow cohorts and the oringinal instigators of girl power bad-assery, leading London gym Move Your Frame.
The recent Sweaty Betty “Summer of Sisterhood” campaign launch featuring Sophie Everard and Victoria Pendleton garnered press coverage in the London Evening Standard, making the front cover.
It’s wild, wet and 450 metres high – Wildwire Wanaka’s Lord of the Rungs is the world’s highest via ferrata.
Mad To Live are stoked to share that Founder Sophie Everard is fronting an inspirational campaign, “The Summer of Sisterhood” for the original instigators of girl power, inclusivity and bad-assery, Sweaty Betty, with one of her best friends, the incredible (and needs little introduction), multiple Olympic Champion, World Champion, horse-racing, alpinist and surfing fiend, Victoria Pendleton.
Having spent plenty of time living in the Big Smoke, much to the bemusement of friends and acquaintances who often can't imagine me not within 10 feet of water, I became a dab hand over the years at sussing out the best adventures within the confines of the city. Sometimes we can't always head to a mountain or the coast, it isn't realistic every single week, so for those of you starved for adventure, check out my guide below of my favourite adventures to have, all in or within an hour of London!
I am super stoked to be collaborating with my adventure partners in crime, the radical folk at KEEN whose brilliant ethos for their #TrailFit movement is about empowering women to get outside and enjoy fitness and the outdoors, something I wholeheartedly subscribe to.
I recently spent a week with the Nomads Camp at the Action Academy in the breathtaking town of Morzine in the French Alps. I was galvanised by this unique concept, finding so much professional and personal inspiration whilst housed in the stunning year-long snow and summer resort. My interest was immediately piqued when I read through the concept for the Nomads Camp: a working retreat so to speak, where a group of burgeoning/budding entrepreneurs/digital nomads are brought together to spend time on workshops to help with our respective businesses, listen to talks from like-minded business owners, hot-desk from the outrageously beautiful mountains, and pepper our working day with the radical activities all of us craft our lives around.
My collaboration with KEEN for the launch of their women's-specific all-terrain shoe, the Terradora, saw me create 3 separate training programmes to demonstrate the versatility of the shoe. This was a super fun project, as I love to show that you don't always need access to a gym, you can make any space a place to have fun and train.
I was super psyched to connect with Keen some time ago, a US-founded adventure shoe company, partnering up on a project that is very close to my heart. Keen, like myself, has it’s roots firmly entrenched in a genuine love of the outdoors and living an active life, with a healthy dose of adventure and connection to nature. I live my life, both professionally and personally, in the persuit and existence of the activities and lifestyle that I adore so much ,and I believe this rewards me with me so much, both physically and mentally.
Shred Ready: Surf Fit is a bespoke workout that will improve your stamina and conditioning with highly targeted movements that work to boost your performance and ultimately enjoyment in the water. Focussing on the critical factors crucial to developing your dynamic surfing ability.
Check out this workout I created for Grazia Magazine's #7in7 challenge at Another Space London, 7 killer moves for killer abs!
Whilst staying at the EPIC surf-yoga/bike-all-round epicentre of radness in Bali, The Chillhouse (stay tuned for a trip report soon), I filmed a special workout from my bespoke Shred Ready: Surf Fitness workout that some of you may have already attended live at my bootcamps, or followed on my blog.
I recently penned a short entry on an Instagram post outlining how I am trying to better implement active changes to my lifestyle where there is more time for downtime. Quite simply, more time to sit around, smell the frigging roses and remember to not be all-guns blazing 24/7, because shucks, I'm only human, and all humans get TIRED.
The annual Roxy Fitness event, part of the global movement of international events taking place throughout the year (France and Hawaii already takin' off with a bang in early July) draws together a crowd of wave, stoke and fitness hungry women and girls for an incredible day of sandy fun and awesomeness.
The all-new righteous boutique studio, Another Space in Covent Garden has now launched, and the killer new concept class HIIT is open to book from this week!
The first Shred Ready Surf Fitness session blasted off last month in the heart of East London, Brick Lane, and I am super excited to announce the next date! Whether you're a seasoned or novice surfer who spends plenty or not quite enough time in the water (like some of us land-locked surfers!), Shred Ready: Surf Fitness is a bespoke workout that will improve your stamina and conditioning with highly targeted movements that work to boost your performance and ultimately enjoyment in the water.
A few weeks ago I hightailed it down to Devon to shoot a secret campaign which has now gone live. Retailer Surf Dome pulled together a crew of real-life surf, skate, yoga and general stoking your brains out aficionados for a campaign that really taps into that whole vibe I dig of using your body, or in this case, your bikini too, for shit other than just posing. Shredding waves. Getting sweaty in yoga. Dancing around bonfires. Riding ramps and not caring about what you look like, more about how good it makes you feel.
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Mad To Live Founder Sophie was interviewed for her High School Magazine, talking all that’s her career since finishing school! Read the full interview below to chart Sophie’s journey.
Red Bull UK have featured Mad To Live Founder Sophie Everard’s Instagram account @sophiemadtolive in it’s roundup of “13 of the best Instagram accounts to follow for serious training inspo”!
Porter Magazine have featured Mad To Live founder Sophie Everard and Mad To Live Retreats in their latest issue!
Mad To Live are so excited to share that leading industry outlet FORBES has featured Founder Sophie Everard and the Mad To Live business.
Mad To Live Founder Sophie Everard features in the latest issue of PROJECT CALM Magazine discussing a love of the ocean and it’s benefits.
Mad To Live so excited to share that Founder Sophie Everard and gal pal Victoria Pendleton sat down with the High Priestess of good vibes and epic chinwags Fearne Cotton for her incredible Happy Place Podcast!
Mad To Live Retreats have featured in Marie Claire UK’s surf-focussed feature as their top pick for a surf school!
Find out what The Telegraph made of Mad To Live Retreats in a moving and insightful review.
The recent Sweaty Betty “Summer of Sisterhood” campaign launch featuring Sophie Everard and Victoria Pendleton garnered press coverage in the London Evening Standard, making the front cover.
Mad To Live are stoked to share that Founder Sophie Everard is fronting an inspirational campaign, “The Summer of Sisterhood” for the original instigators of girl power, inclusivity and bad-assery, Sweaty Betty, with one of her best friends, the incredible (and needs little introduction), multiple Olympic Champion, World Champion, horse-racing, alpinist and surfing fiend, Victoria Pendleton.
Mad To Live are totally jazzed to have made the brilliant Women’s Health UK mag’s top 30 Fitness Holidays To Inspire Your Next Skyscanner Search!
Mad To Live are jazzed to feature in the latest Hip & Healthy Magazine’s round-up of The Best Women-Only Wellness Retreats To Book Now!
Mad To Live are so stoked to share we have featured in the awesome London Evening Standard Magazine, and in none other than their LOVE issue with Mad To Live Retreats!
Mad To Live founder Sophie chats to Outdoors Magic magazine for “10 Items The Pros Never Leave For A Winter Adventure Without”.
We are stoked to have feature in the brilliant Ally Head’s round up of top Adventure Activities to smash in 2019!
I am so stoked to share that I have been announced as a face of the new The North Face “New Explorer” campaign. What is especially exciting is that through this campaign, we have announced now that I will be taking 6 women on a very special retreat to explore Putsborough, a surfer’s paradise and location very close to my heart.
We recently spoke to the brilliant Dose Magazine who have featured an interview with Mad To Live founder Sophie talking all that is Mad To Live Retreats, foundations, burnouts, dreams and more.
I was stoked to ask to be a part of a movement by The North Face spearheaded by their phenomenal athletes including climbing prodigy the incredible Ashima Shiraishi and ultra runner Fernanada Maciel (who recently ran up and down Kilimanjaro in just over 10 hours...) amongst other ground-breaking women. The campaign isn't just celebrating female explorers, but so to speak putting it's money where it's mouth is, supporting equal marketing spend between the sexes at the brand, product development for women, closing the gender pay gap amongst their athletes, and grants and charity partnerships to foster female exploration.
Summer is finally beginning to cast it's glow across what has been an unfathomably long and cold winter. Buoyed up by sunny vibes and a road trip to California, I've penned a piece for my fav women's all-time rock n' roll surf brand, Billabong Womens, hot off the back of the launch of their New Wave collection inspired by Billabong's long-time heritage in surf and the wild and rad bonds of a badass crew of friends.
We are stoked to feature in the latest issue of SurfGirl Magazine's Travel Special roundup of top summer destinations for Mad To Live Retreats x The Surf Experience in Portugal. Pick up a copy & check it out, SurfGirl rules #printisntdead, or else keep reading to scope the full piece, with an interview from yours truly.
SurfGirl Magazine are a staple read and favourite at Mad To Live HQ, and we were stoked to feature in their latest Sofa To Surf Travel Guide, where they take a look at Mad To Live Retreats x The Surf Experience epic dates in Portugal.
So excited to find Mad To Live Retreats included in our favourite bible of all that is health, wellness, travel & awesomeness, Women's Health UK's run down of the Top 21 Fitness Holidays of 2018!
I was so excited to pick up a copy of the most recent issue of Grazia and find my feature, "The One" in all its glory on the news stands.
We are stoked to feature in the brilliant Escapism Magazine's recent round-up of the top adventure camps for 2018. Check out the feature below! With thanks to Lou Boyd.
A week ago Kreativ House (a rad new co-work space) in the heart of Hackney, East London hosted us for MAD TO RAVE: A showcase of all that is Mad To Live. With a screening of the mini-short film by The Psychic Visions Collective, a collaboration with The Surf Experience, a gallery presenting the best of Mad To Live in action and live art with surf artist Harvey Saunders, an all-time party ensued, well-watered by our friends at BrewDog, Twisted Halo and Craft & Origin, and fuelled by delicious poke bowls from Lords of Poke.
Hot off the back of a recent trip to The Nomads Camp with The Action Academy, a co-working retreat where interjected between workshops and talks to help transition you to be a digital nomad/run your own business we tore down the mountains of Morzine on mountain bikes, wakeboarded Lake Annecy and packed more adventure into a week than you can shake a stick at, is my article in SurfGirl Magazine outlining how you, too, can be a digital nomad.
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Porter Magazine have featured Mad To Live founder Sophie Everard and Mad To Live Retreats in their latest issue!
Mad To Live are so excited to share that leading industry outlet FORBES has featured Founder Sophie Everard and the Mad To Live business.
Mad To Live Founder Sophie Everard features in the latest issue of PROJECT CALM Magazine discussing a love of the ocean and it’s benefits.
Mad To Live so excited to share that Founder Sophie Everard and gal pal Victoria Pendleton sat down with the High Priestess of good vibes and epic chinwags Fearne Cotton for her incredible Happy Place Podcast!
Mad To Live Retreats have featured in Marie Claire UK’s surf-focussed feature as their top pick for a surf school!
Find out what The Telegraph made of Mad To Live Retreats in a moving and insightful review.
Mad To Live are totally jazzed to have made the brilliant Women’s Health UK mag’s top 30 Fitness Holidays To Inspire Your Next Skyscanner Search!
Mad To Live are jazzed to feature in the latest Hip & Healthy Magazine’s round-up of The Best Women-Only Wellness Retreats To Book Now!
Mad To Live are so stoked to share we have featured in the awesome London Evening Standard Magazine, and in none other than their LOVE issue with Mad To Live Retreats!
We are stoked to have feature in the brilliant Ally Head’s round up of top Adventure Activities to smash in 2019!
In September I was proud to share the announcement of a brilliant project which would enable 6 women to come on a very special adventure with me to a place which has long held meaning in my heart…
Agadir, Taghazout and its surrounding areas is a veritable treasure trove of adventure and wellness activities. The azure-hued oceans and gold-dust deserts rich in culture and with super-friendly locals makes it’s a no-brainer as a Mad To Live Retreats base. We’ve been exploring the epic terrain out here the last year and check out our guide to the top wellness and adventure activities.
The first budding blossoms of spring bring with it a taste of a summer to come, and with a hot spell stretching it’s giving touch across Europe to the UK, we were blessed with the hottest April on record for a Mad To Live hosted Seafolly Australia Retreat in Devon. Devon has long been one of my favourite places in the world to explore and adventure in, it’s clean waters, rambling expanses of lush green lands and vast unparalleled beauty.
Want to know what the ladies who come on Mad To Live Retreats REALLY think of the trips? I pinned down some of the girls on the last night of their retreat (disclosure: For some of them, some wine may have been drunk ;) )for a natter about what they experienced.
I am SO excited to share a project that has been long in the works, captured over the last summer leg of Mad To Live Retreats x The Surf Experience in Lagos, Portugal.
Recent Mad To Live Reteats attendee and friend for life Natalia Fludra is a woman after our own heart. To me Natalia perfectly epitomises exactly what I have endeavoured to showcase about Mad To Live Retreats: being a modern, successful woman (Natalia works in law) who also is passionate about actively following her interests and dreams and does not sacrifice them.
How I love running women's surf retreats. It could be selfish but sheez, I am just getting to meet the MOST radical awesome ladies doing this, and making incredible new friends. So from a selfish perspective, I LOVE IT as I am making so many brilliant new friends, women that are inspiring me in turn to be creative and do epic things.
The June leg of Mad To Live Retreats saw awesome soul and fellow travel-nut , blogger and journalist Poppy Cross join us for a full week of surf and adventure in beautiful Lagos, Portugal.
Every time I wrap a leg of Mad To Live Retreats, I, as I hope my guests, am left in a stoked out, energized bliss, wondering what the heck just happened. Collaborating with long-time friends and the number one surf and lifestyle camp in Europe, The Surf Experience, and with a weeks itinerary bursting with adventure and stoke-inducing possibilities at every turn, we welcomed our righteous crews of women including including Jess, Lucy, Poppy, Carly, Nicola, Charlotte, Holly, Naztasia, Debbie and Pixie to the wondrous shores of Lagos, Portugal.
The latest leg of Mad To Live Retreats has just wrapped and I have waved off a group of some of the most incredible women I have been fortunate enough to spend time with, let alone be part of their adventure. Experiencing the highs of catching waves, pushing their limits and more, in the wildly raw and beautiful Nosara, Costa Rica.
We've just wrapped an incredible leg of Mad To Live Retreats Costa Rica. Having just waved of an all-time crew of the most incredible women, guest and YouTube blogger and all-round righteous babe Carly Rowena has shared her round-up of the trip on her YouTube Channel!
SOUND THE CLAXON. IT IS HERE. I AM SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THE NEXT DATES OF MAD TO LIVE RETREATS PORTUGAL, AN INCREDIBLE COLLABORATION WITH EUROPE'S ORIGINAL SURF & LIFESTYLE COMPANY THE SURF EXPERIENCE!
Always wanted to learn to surf or progress to the next level? Sun salute as it sets in front of you? Ride horses, scramble & charge up hills with the rising sun, get sweaty & stoked with tailored beach workouts, have the adventure of a lifetime with a group of like-minded souls?
A little over two weeks ago I set out for home in Portugal to kick-off the inaugural Mad To Live Retreat in collaboration with our all-time favourite surf and lifestyle camp, The Surf Experience, in Portugal's vibrant and awesome epicentre of all that is surf, culture & adventure, Lagos.
I am INCREDIBLY excited to finally announce my exciting news that I have been teasing you all with for the last month. It's out, Mad To Live Retreats are now LIVE and I am so stoked to reveal the first retreat will be held in Lagos, Portugal, in collaboration with The Surf Experience!
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