Episode 31 with Walker Ryan, professional skateboarder, writer, podcast host and founder of Old Friends. 

Together we discussed him starting to skate between California and ex-Soviet Georgia as a child, going to college and turning pro for Organika, traveling around the world with Patrik Wallner’s Visual Traveling crew, starting Old Friends as a hat and clothing brand, evolving it towards fitness and physical therapy with the help of his good friend Dr. Kyle Brown with whom he hosts the Old Friends catch up podcast, writing his first novel “Top of Mason” and finishing his second one, his favorite skater-writers...

• Intro (00:13) 
• Growing up (01:14) 
• Sponsors (05:55) 
• Going to college (08:23) 
• First experiences abroad (18:11) 
• Traveling with Patrik Wallner and Visual Traveling (22:36) 
• Old Friends (25:21) 
• Top of Mason (32:53) 
• Dealing with social media (39:47) 
• Skater-writers (46:16) 
• Second novel (49:17) 
• Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (51:51) 
• Friends questions (53:27) 
• Conclusion (01:07:57)  

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