"I became a living upcycled human." A Liver Transplant Gave Me a Second Life.

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we talk about life quakes, those
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in time, lead to profound
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discomfort of unexpected change.
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here.
My name is Shawn,

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and this is something shifted.
Today's story belongs to Jasper.

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Beginning of 2015.
I had a liver transplant.

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Essentially, I became like a living
upcycled human. That's next.

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Okay, so this is going to come
out of left field.

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But I'm interested to know what
you've thrown away today.

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Like in the bin.
You haven't been paying attention

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to that. Well that's fine.
I've been keeping track on my side.

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So so far.
I'm up at an empty yogurt container,

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a milk bottle and two banana peels,
although those did go into the

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compost bin.
So those things that you've

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thrown away,
do you know where they'll go next?

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Because, spoiler alert,
there is no away, right?

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All of our waste lands up somewhere.
The best case scenario is that some

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of your recyclables might actually be
turned into something new, but the

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regular waste in the black bin that's
most likely going to a landfill

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site that's running out of space.
So what would it take for you to

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see waste differently?
To see potential value?

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How about an organ transplant?
Will that help you see things

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differently?
With my, um, liver transplant?

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Blonde.
Essentially, I became like a

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living upcycled human.
Because when you die,

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you you're done in that form.
And in in a transplant form.

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I was able to continue the life of
part of that person, which encouraged

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me to think about, like, how do
you recreate things when they've

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finished in their primary form?
It really was just like inspiration

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of like creating new value to waste
and looking at how do we protect the

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natural playgrounds, which we love.
So that's Jasper, the recipient

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of a liver transplant, is also a
lover of nature, a surfer of waves,

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and the co-founder of Sealand Gear.
I just wanted to surf and be

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creative and, like,
design things and make things.

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Um, but I just really wanted to surf.
I didn't think about too much

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else than that.
I just I wanted to finish school

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so I could say if I wanted to,
I wanted to finish university,

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I could serve. Yep.
Jasper lives for the surf.

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Tall, lanky, dark, curly hair.
Not even a chronic liver disease

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could keep him out of the water.
When I was surfing,

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I was I was slower to getting to my
feet and not making as many waves,

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and it was frustrating.
Primary sclerosing cholangitis.

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Try say that three times fast.
Primary sclerosing cholangitis

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or PSC for short.
Thank heavens is a rare chronic

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liver disease.
When you have PSC, your immune system

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attacks the tubes that drain bile
out of your liver into your bowel.

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This immune system attack causes the
bile ducts to harden and narrow,

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which makes it harder for bile to
drain sufficiently from your liver.

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And that can cause painful infections
and liver damage in the long run,

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people with PSC experience many
different symptoms.

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The most common being fatigue,
pain and itching.

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Your energy levels are lower.
You look like the Irishman.

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And, uh, your urine looks like tea.
You and I will agree that PSC

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symptoms would impact the way
you live day to day.

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An unpredictable disease that makes
it really difficult to carry out

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daily tasks with a smile on your face
and plan anything for the future.

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You can't survive without a liver.
I was en route to liver failure.

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A liver transplant,
as with all transplants.

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You've got to wait for a donor.
And it was a full transplant.

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Which means that you only have one.
You only have one liver.

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And for me to get a new one in my
body, somebody else has to pass away.

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The reality of it is, is that
somebody's somebody's life ends,

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which is going to then continue
my life.

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And it's a pretty gnarly topic
to talk about.

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I've confronted death,
and I'm more comfortable talking

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about death because I've
experienced near death myself and

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had close people around me die.
Having spoken to a few

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transplant patients,
they referred to the strange

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limbic time in which they live,
where hope and uncertainty coexist.

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You're living with an illness and its
limitations, and you're also bound in

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time and place because you need to be
within three hours of a hospital,

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because you just never know when
you might receive that transplant.

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So you're waiting for a call.
You're waiting for the phone to ring.

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You're waiting while you're
still living.

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And while I was living in that time,
it was.

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It was definitely a lot more of
the the orange, red light kind

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of feeling than the green light.
So for that period of time,

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it was like very limited travel and
like I couldn't go for long serve.

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So I had to be by my phone,
which was a very different take

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on my life as a free spirited
individual who likes to travel,

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who likes to get away from the hustle
and bustle, and it's not pleasant.

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But at the same time,
like my belief with all these

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things is like mindset.
Mindset is like, it's the one

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thing you have control of.
And in my view,

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it's one of like the single most
powerful things that one can do.

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And I've always been the more
optimistic,

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like glass half full kind of person.
And I truly believe that that

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was my ultimate strength through
getting through this whole thing.

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Jasper adopted a take the bull
by the horns approach to getting

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through this whole thing of waiting.
I knew that the stronger I could go

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into the procedure, the better the
possibility of a successful procedure

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and recovery post procedure.
And as much as I struggled in doing

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it because of the fatigue the week
before, I managed to run up Lion's

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Head before I had a transplant.
Now, of course, he didn't know that

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he was a week away from receiving a
liver transplant as he was running

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up Lion's Head that day. Limbo.
Remember, like waiting for a payment

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to land in your bank account.
Or to learn if you've aced an

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exam or watching the clock when
you're late for a meeting and

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the traffic light is stuck on.
Red can be anxiety inducing while

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Jasper was on the waiting list.
Living in that anxious orange to red

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traffic light zone, he prepared for
the operation mentally with therapy.

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I didn't opt into.
Like, oh, I need to go for therapy.

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Prior to a liver transplant.
It's something that's like part of

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a program where they prepare you.
They assist you in that journey.

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Everything stems from your mind.
If you're strong in your mind.

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That's that's the first big step
that anybody can make in any

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challenging moment.
It's not an easy thing to do,

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but it is proven that it can
have huge benefit.

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I would contribute the biggest
portion of my life changing

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moment to that being positive
and applying a positive mindset.

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Optimistic. Realistic. Optimistic.
In addition to the mental

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preparation,
Jasper also prepared physically by,

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you guessed it, surfing.
I think it was probably like 630

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on a Friday evening.
I got out of the surf, had this

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amazing moment, and then received a
phone call from the liver professor.

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Only one reason he's burning at
that time.

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It had been ten months of waiting
in this haze of uncertainty.

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And just like that,
things were crystal clear.

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In an instant, Jasper was going
to have a liver transplant.

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Of course, all transplant
procedures are major surgeries,

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and nobody can be 100% sure of
how things will turn out.

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Each surgery carries significant
risks, but Jasper had been preparing

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himself mentally. Remember?
I saw it as an opportunity versus

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like being scared about it,
because if I didn't get it,

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then I would have died.
So for me, it's like an opportunity

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for a second chance of life.
There's also no guarantees in the

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procedure. It's a massive procedure.
Jasper was on the operating

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table for about eight hours that
Friday evening in 2015.

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All of his mental and physical
preparation pushing through the

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fatigue was worth it.
He only needed one blood transfusion,

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and although he had mentally been
prepared to spend up to three

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months in hospital post operation,
he was out of there within ten

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days and ready to embrace his
second chance at life.

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And that's kind of where Sealand
was born in 2015, which is the same

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year that I had my transplant.
So it was really significant, like we

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had been talking about this idea of
this business and what it was going

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to look like prior to my transplant.
It really was just like inspiration

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of like creating new value to
waste and looking at how do we

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protect the natural playgrounds,
which we love as the two founders of

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the business, and we both served
and loved the outdoors and so on.

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I can't be sure if it's Jasper's
story that drew me to his brand, or

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if it was the story behind the brand
that got me interested in Jasper.

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But either way,
Sealand Gear happens to be one

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of my favorite apparel brands.
I really like the design,

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the functionality, the aesthetics
are so pleasing to my eyes.

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Sealand has that secret sauce
blending function with looks and

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they get it just right.
And they do this in a way that

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upcycled waste materials combined
with other carefully selected

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materials, and they've transformed
them into new high end products.

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It's a brand that just feels
like surfing, running, hiking.

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It feels like adventuring and being
on the move in the great outdoors.

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We're really lucky to live in where
we do in Cape Town, and we've got all

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these natural playgrounds around us.
How do we protect our natural

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playgrounds?
Through creating products which are a

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necessity within the lives of us as a
kind of outdoor people employ people

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locally and create value from waste,
which is being generated in

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multiple different forms.
Jasper's love for nature has been

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a constant presence in his life.
Growing up, you wouldn't have

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found him sitting still in front
of the TV playing video games.

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In fact, you would have been
lucky to find him at all.

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I wanted to play in the garden.
I wanted to build things with my dad.

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I wanted to go down to the beach
and do life saving or nippers,

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or go surfing, or go swimming, or go
hiking in the mountains or camping,

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like, those are the things that,
like, I really got excited about

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as a kid, and I still do today.
And the signs of his creativity

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and curiosity were also there
from an early age.

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I come from a family with two
creative parents and, um, yeah,

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that was kind of instilled from
an early age and encouraged.

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And when my parents were successful
through being creative entrepreneurs

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and that's, you know, ultimately
they mentored me and, you know,

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showed me what was possible.
Jasper pursued his creativity and

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studied product design at Cape
Peninsula University of Technology.

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That's kaput for us locals.
And he started his own design label,

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Jasper Eales Original.
One of his first ventures was

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making furniture in his garage
in Cape Town, which is when he

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started to experiment with this
potential of so-called waste.

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Offcuts things that are left over.
Jasper started making these little

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characters from the offcut, pieces of
wood and other bits of materials

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lying around that had been used,
discarded as far as furniture was

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concerned. He called these robots.
And I started to really sell a lot of

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them, and they were really desirable.
And all it was, was made from waste.

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When you think of it, waste is
really a manmade concept in nature.

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Things don't go to waste.
Decaying material becomes

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nutrients that are then upcycled
into new organisms.

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Creating these elegant,
intricate closed loop systems.

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Because I love nature, and I see the
way the world is progressing and

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the way that people consume and the
way that people produce, there's

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obviously huge problems there.
And with problems,

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there's opportunities.
The foundation and foundational

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principles of our business,
and the way that the business has

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continued to develop and evolve
is ultimately an extension of

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what I believe in and who I am.
In the Sealand world, it's about

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being authentic and transparent and
trustworthy and respectful and doing

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that in a way that looks after the
planet and people on the planet.

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And if anything we can do is be an
aspirational brand which has this

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educational voice, then I feel
like we're making a difference.

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These values are almost tangible
when you step into one of his

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physical stores.
You know, when you're in a space that

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just feels right, like attention has
been paid to the smallest of details.

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It has an element of handcrafted
with love.

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And that's where the value
really lies in.

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It is building a strong brand
which has got a good reputation,

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and it's going to continue to.
It's like stands the a test of time.

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And that's our objective.
It's got to do with family and

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the team in which we've created
an environment we've created at

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Sealand is it has a feeling and
a personality of like a family.

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It's personal. Not in a weird way.
It's just lovely. It's.

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The culture is open and honest.
At the same time,

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there's a team dynamic where,
you know, high performing team,

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you've got to perform.
If there was a recurring theme for

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Where were we? Ah, yes.

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The importance of having others
around you.

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And essentially,
Jasper has two families.

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His work family and his bloodline.
His supportive entrepreneurial

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parents, the two brothers,
his soulmate since 2010 and now

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two little girls.
All the more reason to make the

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world a little bit better.
Yeah, sometimes it's hard to be

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hopeful. So.
But I also I'm a big believer of

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like focus, energy and things
that you can control.

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And that gives me hope because I
know the things that I'm focusing

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on can make a difference,
and it is making a difference.

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I'm not going to try and change
the world like in one go, but if I

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can make little steps and little
progressions in a good way, then I

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feel like we're doing a good thing.
So it doesn't feel,

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doesn't feel tiring.
And while doing good doesn't

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tire him out.
Jasper knows that it takes

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effort and intentionality to
keep your mind strong.

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He's no stranger to therapy because
of the transplant preparation

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program, but it still taken him some
time to find the practices that

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feel good and feel right to him.
For at least the first five years.

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I was like, all good.
I bounce back and I was like,

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the purpose of having transplant is
to improve your quality of life,

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not to take it backwards.
So I got back into living the

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way that I would always that I
always did live.

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But then when you start to have
little challenges, health challenges

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which are connected to the procedure,
Knowing that every challenge can

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be really problematic.
It does start to play on your mind.

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And as somebody who's gone through
those kind of health challenges,

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I'm very in tune with my body.
So as soon as there's something

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a little bit out, I'm like,
my mind has to be controlled

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very quickly as to not to think
the worst or freak out about it.

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Again, like in a relationship,
it becomes difficult to you

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don't want to burden people with
this sort of stuff and stress,

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stress your loved ones out.
And I would say that over the last

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two years is definitely become more
prevalent, where I realized that,

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like, I hold a lot of stuff in
and it wasn't really healthy.

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More and more recently,
I've felt the need to have

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somebody who I can talk to very
openly who's outside of my, like,

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closed circle, not because I don't
want to talk to people about it.

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I just don't want to stress
people out when it's unnecessary.

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There's a lesson there for all of us,
something that we don't talk

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about often enough.
If you don't connect well with a

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therapist, it doesn't mean that
therapy isn't for you.

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The important thing is to respond to
your inner voice that is saying,

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we need some help here.
Let's find the confidant that we

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trust and that we feel safe with.
I'm open minded to spirituality,

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but also my life is sad because
of like Western medicine and

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science and but there's very few
integrated versions of that.

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And I speak to the profs who
saved my life and supply me with

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the medication drugs which I
need to stay alive.

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But they don't necessarily see the
value in the spiritual side or

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the you feeding your body side.
And then on the other side,

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there's a lot of like eastern
medicine or more spiritual people

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who then don't have the science.
And I can't just not take my

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medication like it's not an option.
So to find the right integrated

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professional has been a bit of a
journey.

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But I'm currently working with
somebody which there's a good

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connection going, which is great.
And this is how Jasper is taking

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care of his mental and physical
health through balance and

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intention and surfing, of course.
Like, I genuinely feel like I'm

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doing good things in my day to day.
I'm healthy, I'm active, I surf,

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I have a lovely family.
I now have a lovely business.

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I protect the environment.
I look after people's rights

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like not in any form of an
arrogant or ego way.

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Like it's always been important
for me is to be confident, to know

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that the decisions I'm making,
the way that I'm leading my life,

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I believe, is a responsible one.
It feels right to me and it

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feels good.
Jasper has the perspective of

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looking at his life before and after
a life saving liver transplant,

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which has changed the way that
he sees life quakes.

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With challenges comes growth.
There's a lot of good that comes

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from the challenges without the
challenges.

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I believe your growth is going to be
stagnated and you're not going to

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necessarily see your full potential.
Jasper says that having options

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is one of the biggest luxuries
that life has to offer him,

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and that's his goal to create an
environment where options abound.

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You've got to prepare for the future,
but not today.

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Right now, the moment you're in is
the most important thing and you got

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to, like, enjoy what you're doing.
Like, you know,

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I couldn't think of anything worse.
Waking up and not wanting to live

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my day because I'm not enjoying
my work or the people at my work

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or that kind of thing like that
doesn't exist in my world,

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and we're in control of that.
Like, everyone has different

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scenarios and situations they're in.
But at the end of the day,

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you're in control.
And if you're not,

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then you need to get yourself in
control and remind yourself that

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you have the power to create your
journey and your your destiny.

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The next time you see a beautifully
functional Sealand gear product,

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remember what it represents a family
of dedicated high performers.

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The stories of all the waste
materials that went into its

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production.
The clear mission of a brand

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that is trying to take care of
the people and the planet.

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And behind that mission is an
upcycled man.

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Jasper Eales lives in Cape Town with
his wife and lovely family, and can

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most likely be found in the surf.
Thank you for listening to this

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episode of Something Shifted.
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Rhonda Lewis, and to you, of course,
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