The Ocean Age
By Fed DeGobbi
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Episodes: 43
Description
This podcast is for ocean entrepreneurs and innovators who want to grow and succeed in the blue economy. Through interviews with industry leaders, founders, and subject matter experts, I will share their stories, unpack their most important lessons, and extract actionable insights and best practices.
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#42: Ralph Chami (Blue Green Future) – How Much Is a Whale Worth, Dead or Alive?
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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#41: Emily Charry Tissier (Whale Seeker) – AI to Track Whales and Why Ocean Tech is Stuck at the Pilot Stage
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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#40: Kate Streather – Behind the Making of "Ocean with David Attenborough"
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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#39: Dr Catherine Jadot – Blue Finance Expert and Author of “How It Doesn’t End”
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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#38: Jose Puga (ChucaoTech) – Patagonia Special 3/3 – Nanobubbles to Remediate the Seabed
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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#37: Catalina Cendoya (Por El Mar) – Patagonia Special 2/3 – The Dark Side of Aquaculture.
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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#36: Daniela Allerbon (Aquit) – Patagonia Special 1/3 – Replacing Antibiotics in Aquaculture for the Prevention of Fish Infections.
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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#35: Adam Parker (OceanSaver) – Building an Ocean Megabrand: How to Take on the Giants in The Consumer Goods Market, with the ReFounder of OceanSaver.
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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#34: Jay Dignan (BioMara) – Cracking the Seaweed Code: How Fucoidan Unlocks a Profitable Business Model
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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#33: Kira Smiley (TidalX) – Seeing the Unseen: Ocean Tech, AI, and the Data-Driven Future of Aquaculture
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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#32: Linzi Hawkin – Impact Strategy Expert On Building Purpose-Driven Ocean Businesses That Make Real Impact And Real Money
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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#31: Olly Hicks (Algapelago) – World Record Ocean Explorer Turned Aquaculture Entrepreneur, the Expedition Mindset Every Ocean Entrepreneur Needs to Succeed, Nutrient Credits and Securing Funding for Ocean Projects.
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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#30: Emily Power (OceanMade) – From Microsoft to Kelp Pots, developing a biodegradable seed starter pot, designing a successful pre-sale campaign, navigating imposter syndrome and making decisions with limited information.
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Inside Seaweed becomes The Ocean Age
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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#29: Sea6 Energy with Sowmya Balendiran – The Evolution Of Mechanised Ocean Farming, Enhancing Productivity, Navigating Logistic Challenges And Regulatory Hurdles, Market Expansion and Local Impact.
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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#28: Branding Expert Danny Matthews – How to build a seaweed startup brand, avoid common pitfalls, understand the neuroscience of buying decisions, find Problem-Solution fit and craft the right story.
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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#27: Doctor Seaweed with Dr Craig Rose – Seaweed nutraceuticals, how to develop a dietary supplement product, from understanding market trends to manufacturing, sales and compliance with regulatory requirements.
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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#26: Bright Tide with Harry Wright - The investment ecosystem for regenerative farming on land and water, successful business models in the blue economy and the Regenerative Farming Accelerator Programme.
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May 14, 2024 |
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#25: Rootless with Sachi Singh - The health benefits and composition of seaweed, thyroid health and sex hormones, creating a habit-forming product.
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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#24: Andrew Wilkinson (Chef) - The role of chefs in the future of seaweed, bringing sustainable and healthy meals to America's schools.
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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#23: Seadling with Simon Davis – Southeast Asia and why production scale-up will happen in the tropics, the potential of red seaweeds, lessons from the East and opportunities for innovation.
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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#22: Akua with Courtney Boyd Myers – How to build a seaweed brand, engaging with your audience and learning what they want, developing a kelp burger, sustainability and why people buy a product.
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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#21: Macro Oceans with Matthew Perkins – Biorefining to create profitable seaweed products, lessons from a decade in terrestrial agriculture and the role of technology in building positive change.
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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#20: Sway with Julia Marsh - How a design led company is making bioplastic from seaweed, what will drive adoption, understanding the supply chain, the flow of information and biological circularity.
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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#19: Arctic Seaweed with Matthias Boeing - Technology to disrupt the industry at a "make or break" moment, farming and offshore wind, Seaweed as a Service (SaaS) as a framework for partnerships.
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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#18: Kaly with Daniel Hillman - Seaweed meets finance: thoughts and perspectives from an impact investor and entrepreneur, existing gaps, creating a scalable model and the path to sustainable growth.
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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#17: GreenWave with Sam Garwin - How to build a business that works, market development, making seaweed a "cash crop" and the new "dating" app for the seaweed industry.
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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#16: Vincent Doumeizel, Author of "The Seaweed Revolution" - Lessons and takeaways from writing the book, how to work with the Global Seaweed Coalition and its framework for collaboration, and more!
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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#15: Nordic SeaFarm with Simon Johansson - Cultivating and using sea lettuce and dulse, disrupting the food industry, reaching product-market fit, developing food products and a downstream market.
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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#14: Phyconomy with Steven Hermans - Separating signal from noise, unsupported hype Vs. unnecessary pessimism, serving a niche and the feasibility of a knowledge-based business in seaweed.
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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#13: Ocean Rainforest with Olavur Gregersen - Finding customers for your seaweed biomass, large scale farming in California and the financial ecosystem to enable scaling-up seaweed cultivation.
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May 22, 2023 |
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#12: SINTEF Ocean with Silje Forbord - Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture and circular bioeconomy, learning from Asia, upscaling seaweed cultivation and diversifying into different species.
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May 02, 2023 |
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#11: Kelpy with Fionnuala Quin - Creating positive impact with a seaweed product, how to pick the right idea, the importance of market pull, seaweed bioplastics and the soil as a carbon sink.
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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#10: Atlantic Sea Farms with Liz MacDonald - Lessons from the field, practical tips, training path and resources to become a seaweed farmer, best practices, equipment, logistics, costs and challenges.
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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#9: Sirputis & SoftSeaweed with Morten Kroslid - How automation and AI could revolutionise the seaweed industry, new processing technologies, the benefits of using data and specialised software.
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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#8: The Seaweed Company with Joost Wouters - Stepping up professionalisation, building a company as a platform, true collaboration Vs. secrecy, and going from corporate career to seaweed entrepreneur.
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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#7: Shore with Peter Elbourne - Wild harvesting and its advantages/disadvantages compared to farming, sustainability, available species and their uses, seaweed fouling, carbon accounting.
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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#6: GreenWave with Bren Smith - The author of "Eat Like A Fish" shares his inspiring vision for the future of the seaweed industry.
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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#5: GreenSea Solutions with Amabel Hamilton - Kelp-based fertiliser from seaweed farmed in Scotland (UK)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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#4: The Seaweed Academy with Rhianna Rees – Everything you need to know to get started in the Seaweed Industry today.
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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#3: Cascadia Seaweed with Mike Williamson - Starting as a seaweed entrepreneur, focusing on 3 verticals, branding, and the challenges of processing seaweed when it doesn’t behave like spinach!
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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#2: FlexSea with Carlo Fedeli - Single use bioplastic from seaweed, developing alternative packaging materials to replace traditional plastic.
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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#1: Dr. Thierry Chopin - Seaweed role as climate solution, Hype vs. Science, the carbon in your ketchup and sinking seaweed to the deep ocean.
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Jun 07, 2022 |