Hello! I'm Harry Swales.
I'm 24 years old. I love snowboarding, traveling to cool places, and Jesus. I own HS Media, a digital marketing agency serving ecommerce brands and digital product businesses. I'm also working on a new stealth startup at the moment. I'm currently in Houston, Texas.Over the last few years I've spent time in Asia, South America, Australia, Europe, and the USA. I've crashed a moped (twice), went scuba diving with crocodiles in a cenote, and broke my L1 vertebrae in my spine trying to do a backflip on a snowboard. I attended the University of Texas at Austin (for 3 semesters), was in charge of marketing for a South Korean crypto company (for 3 months), and I've helped scale a bunch of 7, 8, and 9-figure businesses.You can learn more about my marketing agency here. We've helped brands in many industries including DTC products, financial services, live music, oil and gas, coaching, consulting, and more. Our main focus in paid social media advertising, but we're well versed in SMS, email, copywriting, offer creation, and pretty much anything in the digital marketing space. We've helped to drive over $110,000,000 in sales for clients as of 2025.You can get in touch with me via email, Instagram, or Twitter.The table below contains some of my favorite things across several categories. I try to update this monthly but the things on it are so awesome that it rarely changes. For a more detailed explanation behind each item, a much longer list of honorable mentions, and some entertaining personal anecdotes, click here.
| Places | Books | Movies | Activities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Ozark1 | The Bible (ESV) | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Snowboarding |
| Bali, Indonesia2 | Courage is Calling | Catch Me If You Can | Traveling |
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Six of Crows | Ocean's Eleven | Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
| Austin, TX | I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist | Inception | Riding Motorcycles3 |
| Snowbasin Resort, UT | Vagabonding | Limitless | Reading |
1 Camp Ozark is a Christian summer camp for kids. It's where I learned what having a personal relationship with Christ really looks like. Now I spend my summers working on staff there. If you're a college kid I truly believe working there is the best summer job in the world.
2 I love Bali, but both times I've gone I have had bad cases of stomach issues. This is commonly known as Bali belly and happens to most visitors. Severity varies a lot and I seem to have had bad luck, one of my cases actually being stomach parasites. If this weren't such a common occurrence I would spend much more time there.
3 I don't ride motorcycles often but I love doing it. For the most part I only ride them outside of the USA. In many countries I actually think riding a motorcycle is relatively safe but America is not one of those countries.