Citizen Kane
From high-stakes beach rescues and traversing the jungle in Brunei to being thrown in the air by a team of high school cheerleaders, Brodie Kane has always been up for an adventure.
She grew up at Canterbury’s Waikuku Beach in a family full of surf lifesavers, so naturally she became one herself, throwing herself into the waves to help others from her childhood right up until she was about 20.
Even now, she lives only a few hundred metres from that very beach and spends as much time there as she can.
“It’s absolutely my happy place – a spiritual home. Every time I walk over the sand dunes and see the ocean, it’s just like everything’s OK. It’s a magical moment,” she says.
During her time studying journalism at the University of Canterbury, Brodie joined the army’s territorial force after a holiday military camp sparked a passion in her.
“At the time I was like, ‘This is like everything I’ve ever seen in the movies,’” she laughs. She was part of the force for four years and during that time she was deployed to Brunei.
But she gave it all up to pursue her
