In this conversation with Joel Monk, we dive into my particular approach to coaching, our connection to our inner nature, aliveness and our personal path, and the importance of story hunting.
Tracking Your Life – Coaches Rising
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Becoming a Meaning Maker – Invest Like the Best with Patrick O’Shaughnessy
This is my fourth time on Invest Like the Best with Patrick O-Shaughnessy – but the first in six years. In this episode we unpacked the intricacies of storytelling and why it’s such an essential for founders. We walk through different mechanisms of cultivating storytelling and becoming a meaning-maker. I encourage everyone to become somebody who stories happen around and be a character who finds characters. We also discussed the concept of “story hunting,” leveraging stories in business, and continuously finding new meaning in life.
For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here.
How to Discover and Follow your Unique Life Path – Evolution FM | Scott Britton
On this podcast I share how you can apply many of the same principles of tracking animals in the wild to discovering a path that’s uniquely you. I emphasize the need to question the scarcity mindset and cultural norms in order to truly be free. We also talks about the aliveness and wealth that comes from following one’s unique expression.
Highlights:
- The journey to self-discovery often begins with a moment of clarity. For Boyd, it was when his mentor Martha Beck said: “The restoration of the planet will come out of a shift in human consciousness.”
- True transformation always begins with not knowing. We’re conditioned to always have answers, but the real magic happens when we surrender to uncertainty.
- Your body is your compass. Pay attention to what expands your energy and what contracts it. That’s how you start developing your “track awareness” in life.
- The path to authenticity isn’t always flashy. It’s often marked by simplicity, a sense of enough, and a natural inclination towards service. That’s the real payoff of living on your track.
- True confidence is not needing anything from anyone. Paradoxically, that’s when people are most drawn to you.
- The mystics who isolated themselves in nature were onto something. Solitude strips away the unnecessary, revealing your true energy patterns and interconnectedness with all things. It’s not about escaping life, but seeing it more clearly.
- Boyd’s life has been a continuous process of discovering what he loves and finding a way to share it.
The Great Unlearn: Activate Your Wild Self and Awaken to a Fuller Life
On this podcast I sharem my wisdom on embracing our wild selves with my friend Cal Callahan from the Great Unlearn Podcast. We recently celebrated his 40th birthday on the South African coastline — hiking across the landscape, leaping from cliffs, and engaging in meaningful and revealing fireside conversations. Along this journey there was one primary aspect that we all felt truly touched by: the awakening of our unique wild self.
Boyd and I dive into…
➝ The ceremony of entering a new decade
➝ The journey to the wild self
➝ Becoming someone who cultivates and fosters life
➝ The intelligence of moving grief
➝ Uprooting what numbs us – identities, roles, unfelt emotions, stimulants
➝ And more!
REFERENCED The Big Leap: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Leap-Conqu…
Align Podcast: The Meaning of Being Human, Overcoming Trauma and Learning to Say ‘I Don’t Know’
In this episode of the Align Podcast, Boyd tells us how African safaris can relate to the journey into our own lives. He also emphasizes how important it is to connect with nature for our personal well-being, especially in a world where technology is dehumanizing us on many levels. Boyd shares his personal experience with trauma and how he embarked on a healing journey through transformational practices and doing the work. Join us as we discuss what it means to be human, how to live towards the feeling and giving into the idea of “I don’t know”.
What we discussed in the episode:
- 02:18 Deep Breathe might help you.
- 06:50 Who is Boyd Varty?
- 18:15 Awareness looking at itself as a separate point of awareness.
- 30:33 If I’m not busy, I get depressed.
- 32:26 The Deep dark, unconscious aspects of yourself will be made manifest in your material world.
- 36:33 Ceremony Work
- 49:16 How do we like to lead someone into more depth within ourselves?
- 01:02:02 The kudu is really travelling with me.
- 01:10:13 What is the evolutionary function of distrust, chronic comparison, and alienation from oneself and nature?
- 01:15:22 What are some natural lifestyle choices that can help soothe the nervous system in a modern world?
Ridiculously Human Podcast
Discussion Topics: What you will discover from listening to this Podcast:
* Boyd’s experience of spending 40 days and 40 nights in nature, alone, without any technology
* Becoming attuned to nature
* The importance of campfires and storytelling
* Wrestling with the complexity of modern life
* How technology absorbs your attention
* Why we should stop and slow down
* The history of Londolozi Game Reserve
* Tracking animals in the wild bush
* Boyd’s journey of coming out of depression
* How to heal from your wounds and demons
* Spending time with Nelson Mandela after his release from prison
* The discovery of living an authentic life
* Almost being eaten by a crocodile
* How animals can teach us
* Restoring the wildness inside of you
* How to begin your own transformation
We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.
Your fellow beings
Craig and Gareth
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Tim Ferriss Podcast – Boyd Varty: The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life (#571)
“If it had been a horror movie, people in the audience would’ve started saying, ‘Don’t go near the shadowy place!’ And of course, as I walked past the shadowy place, I actually sat down just on the edge of those shadows. And my perception was that the water was too shallow for crocodiles. But of course the crocodile was in the hole, and the first thing that you notice when a crocodile grabs you is just the ferocity and the pressure of the bite.” — Boyd Varty
Boyd Varty (@boydvarty) is the author of two books, The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life and his memoir, Cathedral of the Wild. He has been featured in The New York Times, on NBC, and in other media and has taught his philosophy of “tracking your life” to individuals and companies around the world.
Boyd is a wildlife and literacy activist who has spent the last ten years refining the art of using wilderness as a place for deep introspection and personal transformation. He grew up in South Africa on Londolozi Game Reserve, a former hunting ground that was transformed into a nature preserve by Boyd’s father and uncle—both visionaries of the restoration movement. Under his family’s stewardship, the Reserve became renowned not only as a sanctuary for animals but as a place where once-ravaged land was able to flourish again and where the human spirit could be restored. When Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment, he went to Londolozi to recover.
Boyd has a degree in psychology from the University of South Africa. He is a TED speaker and the host of the Track Your Life podcast.
Please enjoy!
A podcast with Tim Ferriss
Skinny Confidential – How To Heal Your Trauma & Find The Track Of Your Life
A podcast with The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast
On today’s episode we are joined by wildlife and literacy activist Boyd Varty, author of the memoir Cathedral of the Wild, and recently The Lion Trackers Guide To Life. Boyd joins the show today to discuss how we can learn to connect with nature more to heal our trauma and find the track of our life.
The Life Stylist Podcast : A LION TRACKER’S INNER JOURNEY OF AWAKENING & INSPIRATION
“I’m still tingling from my in-depth, heart-opening conversation with Boyd Varty, a true man-of-the-earth whose book, “The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life,” I ravaged through last week in eager anticipation of this recording.
Boyd Varty grew up on the verdant plains of a South African safari, within touching distance of the epic wildlife most of us only catch glimpses of on 2D screens. As a lion tracker, Boyd has studied the movements and mindset of the animal kingdom in a way I have never encountered before. He’s articulately folded the truths from the bush into the human experience, using his background to explore trauma – both for himself and as a facilitator for others – in sacred ceremonies.
Medicine flows through this man, and this raw, meaty, wild ride of an episode is as enlightening as it is emotional. ” ~ Luke Storey
SCP Podcast Episode 205: Boyd Varty – Following The Track Of Your Life
In this episode, join us as we talk with Boyd Varty, author of “The Lion Tracker’s Guide To Life”. A wildlife and literacy activist Boyd Varty, had an unconventional upbringing. Born to a family of conservationists, Boyd grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in the South African wilderness, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders.
Since childhood, Boyd shared his home with lions, leopards, snakes, and elephants and has spent his life in apprenticeship to the wisdom of nature. Boyd survived a harrowing black mamba encounter, a debilitating bout with malaria, even a vicious crocodile attack, but his biggest challenge was a personal crisis of purpose. As a university student, he studied psychology and ecology, supplementing his education by learning martial arts in Thailand, hiking through the jungles of the Amazon, and apprenticing to a renowned tracker from the Shangaan tribe deepening his intimate knowledge of the natural world. Boyd grew up speaking the local language and learning the true meaning of coexistence between people and with nature.
Highlights of this podcast include:
- Awareness begins transformation
- Tracking
- Authentic self vs social self
- The story we tell ourselves
- Realistic changes
- Healing
- Solitude in nature
- The story we tell ourselves
- And so much more