and sharing time together until her passing. His older brother Mescalito has been clean for 16 years and works as a counselor for troubled addicts and is a charismatic speaker at meetings around the country. Strider has two new endeavors on the horizon. One is launching a new brand of sunscreen called “Shade” which he helped formulate here in Malibu. And the second is a job as a broadcaster for the newly launched ASP World Championship Tour of Surfing. Ironically the ASP’s new offices are located on Bay and Main Streets just blocks from his childhood home and directly across the street from Star Liquors where his mother would send him to buy Chardonnay and tampons with their food stamp book. All of this or none of this has landed Strider in an amazing community on the beach side of PCH called Point Dume here in Malibu! With so much more to tell and not enough pages to actually finish it all, Strider asks to talk about his family. He’s been married to the love of life Lily Harfouche for the past 13 years and the two of them are raising up young sons Coast and Country. They attend Point Dume Elementary and CCW, a far cry from Madison Elementary back in the day. Lily is a real estate broker at Coldwell Banker in Malibu and ranks in the top 1 percent worldwide. “Watching and helping these boys grow up into this crazy world is amazing. Having a person like Lily to share all this with is unexplainable, i can’t imagine the rest!” For Strider the most important things in his life now are simple, Family, Friends and Surfing. And, of course, maintaining a balance between family life in Malibu, the call of the road and the adrenaline he gets from surfing giant barrels at Pipe and Chopes. At 41, possessing an amazing family which he loves more than anything, the ocean still calls his soul. When asked about the looming dangers of surfing waves like these Strider says, “Life is too short not to live life to the fullest. You can’t get too comfortable or your soul will end up dying! I have never felt so alive as the time right before you are possibly about to die…”
lovefest 2014