# @marina.k.villatoro on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbyXCVWu4wb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68910194-marinakvillatoro-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-08T17:05:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Marina Kuperman Villatoro (@marina.k.villatoro) — https://gondola.cc/marina.k.villatoro

## Caption

John John Florence’s mom used student loans to raise surfers.

🏄 John John Florence | Surfing | 3× World Champion

John John’s, Alex  wasn’t studying to become a doctor, she wasn’t building a high-paying profession yet she took out enormous student loans so she could keep raising her three boys by the ocean.

She chose time over income. Night classes instead of a full-time career. A house full of boarders to pay the bills. An ocean instead of expensive coaching.

When they lost their rental, she walked up to a stranger’s front door and asked if her family could live there.

That house became home. It also happened to sit across the road from Pipeline surf break.

Years later, one of those little boys became three-time world surfing champion John John Florence.

⁉️ What investment are you making today that won’t make sense to everyone else but could change your child’s future? ⁉️

👩‍🔬 I spent years decoding what 100 elite athlete parents actually did. The uncomfortable truth about how athletes get made.

🏘️🌴 It takes a strategic village to raise an athlete. This is your village. 🥇

#johnjohnflorence #surfingchampion #reelsinstagram #raisingproathletes

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reelsinstagram, johnjohnflorence, surfingchampion, raisingproathletes

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