Episode 5: The Spiral, the Snake, and the Storm Before the War

Episode 6: The Solid Copy and Paste surf camp and the beginning of the war

Episode 6 dives into the chaos that followed Jonathan’s firing — the birth of the “solid copy-paste dump,” the alleged robbery that set off a smear war, and the unraveling of everything I’d built. At the same time, my wife was fighting for her life, her daughter’s freedom, and her survival in a corrupt system. Two battles waged in parallel — one on the coast of Nicaragua, one in the shadows of Central America — both about to collide in a way neither of us could’ve predicted

Episode 5: The Spiral, the Snake, and the Storm Before the War

GreenSurf explodes with bookings, my addiction deepens, Jonathan plots, and my wife survives a nightmare I never knew about. Episode 5 tracks the unraveling — right up to the moment I finally fire Jonathan… and trigger the alleged robbery that ignites the coming turf war.

Episode 4: The rise of Greensurf Nicaragua

Episode 4 dives into the wild rise of GreenSurf Nicaragua—success, chaos, cocaine, and the night a minister’s Toyota Hilux vanished into an estuary with a truckload of tourists. It’s the beginning of addiction’s return, Jonathan’s unraveling, and the first major fracture in a dream that was supposed to save me

Episode 3: Living with a Ghost of American History and the beginning of GreenSurf Nicaragua

I move into the beach house of Nicaragua’s Minister of Tourism, get to know all kinds of folks, high and low, rebuild my life from scratch, and prepare for my first surf-camp guests—while living inside the shadow of one of America’s most notorious informants.

Episode 2: The reset - 09/09/09

On 9/9/09, my life reset. I landed in Managua with two surfboards, one pair of jeans, a handful of dreams, and my Jack Russell terrier, Roxy — unaware I was stepping into a world of secrets, storms, informants, and fate.