ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Dan and Erin sit down with Daniel Watkins - a three-time world wakeboarding champion, Ski and Wake Hall of Famer, and the entrepreneur behind some of the Gold Coast's biggest waterparks. Daniel takes us right back to the beginning: from being a kid dragging a ski handle around Victoria, to chasing his dream all the way to SeaWorld California, and eventually clinching that first world title after nearly walking away from the sport entirely.
The conversation shifts to business and how the same mindset that made him a champion athlete carried straight into entrepreneurship. We discuss the wake park that got wiped out by flooding three days before it even opened (and nine more times after that), and the deeper reason he keeps rebuilding: the community and the kids whose lives the parks have changed.
Connect with Daniel on Instagram @_danielwatkins_
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