In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. –Unknown In one significant way, Ty Bollinger is like almost all of us. He lost someone he loved very dearly to cancer. His father. He was devastated and felt powerless to help, watching his father die within a month of diagnosis, after surgery to remove the cancer-filled organ – the stomach – led him to bleed to death. In the following decade, Ty lost 6 more of his family members to cancer, including his mother. Like many...
Jul 27, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Stop acting so small. You are the Universe in ecstatic motion. ~ Rumi Teresa Yanaros was born into life destined to unite in service with beings beyond Earth. Child of a military family stationed at RAF Woodbridge, England in the early 1980s, she grew up hearing stories about the Rendlesham Forest incident, one of the most famous UFO sightings in history worldwide. Her parents were in the military, devout Christians, and, as a result of this incident… believed in life beyond this planet. Over th...
Jul 12, 2018•1 hr 19 min
“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.” ~ Osho What’s the new way to live, lead, earn and give? Peta Kelly says it’s simple — and it begins and ends with our alignment. A self-made millionaire in her mid-20s, having come from humble (but heroic) beginnings, Peta always lived with a desire to serve others. Initially envisioning that she would serve the world as a doctor, she studied...
Jun 21, 2018•1 hr 5 min
The earth has music for those who listen. ~ George Santayana Gerard Armond Powell (“Gerry”) has always been an all-or-nothing kind of guy. To say he had an addictive personality is a gross understatement. Drugs, women, alcohol, money….you name it. Every vice known to man has written a chapter in his colorful life story. And for many years, each of these chapters had a very dark – and often catastrophic – ending. That is, until he found plant medicine, through a series of synchronicities and the ...
Jun 07, 2018•1 hr 6 min
The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands. – Sir Richard Burton When asking how our lives might look different if we were to follow our hearts and dreams, so many of us point to travel. For most of us, travel represents freedom in one way or another – the ability to do whatever we want to, go wherever we want to, whenever we want to do it. But many of us never do it – or do it only in the limited, accepted, prescribed way – for a couple weeks of vacation a y...
May 24, 2018•1 hr 25 min
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. ~ C. S. Lewis Brandy Gillmore refused to take “no” for an answer. After a car accident and a fall that injured her spine, the former athlete was left with devastating, chronic pain throughout her body. She spent days – years – laying in bed, watching TV, with a constant morphine supply that couldn’t even ease the pain, using a wheelchair, walker – a...
May 10, 2018•1 hr 32 min
I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that’s OK, who wants to be normal anyway? ~ Tim Duncan What do you think of as “normal”? What way to dress? Eat? Work? Live? Have you ever wondered where these ideas came from? It’s amazing what we accept to be truth – and the way things are supposed to be – simply because we’ve been told it is so. And that we want to spend our lives being what’s usual, typical, or expected . From an early age, Daniel Eisenman ques...
May 03, 2018•1 hr 12 min
BTW: Our Sprinter Van is now available for rent! Click here to learn more & view availability. “The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story.” – Michael Margolis Kathleen Morton never understood why people seem to live by the same unwritten rules. As a child in a fairly traditional family and school, she most enjoyed the sanctuary of her bedroom, where she could shut the door on the outside workings of life, and where her natura...
Apr 26, 2018•1 hr 39 min
The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is. ~ Suzy Kassem In 1999, the film The Matrix was released. It told the story of a small band of renegades led by Morpheus and the prodigal son, Neo, breaking loose from a synthetic, lifeless, programmed reality they called “the matrix” and, over the course of 3 films, the eventual collapse of this artificial and controlling system. There is a very real reason why t...
Apr 12, 2018•1 hr 14 min
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ~ Dalai Lama Sometimes when we begin to meditate – and especially when our meditation practice takes off – we may feel that we are living a secret life. There’s the one where we get up in the morning, suit up to show up, grab our morning coffee, and begin our commute to work. We smile, shake hands, make conversation, do our daily business, and head home for the day. Exercise maybe, eat our dinner, and head to bed. T...
Apr 05, 2018•1 hr 30 min
Perhaps no other category of our society is in more desperate need of idealism than education. For many students, the schooling experience is one of severe anxiety and worry, of toxic and constant comparisons to others (via "grades"), the digestion and regurgitation of facts that seem far from being truly relevant to real life in our world today. Does this traditional system honor the innate gifts in a child, expressed as his or her excitement? Are we fostering innovation and inspiration, or are...
Mar 29, 2018•1 hr 53 min
Born into a fundamentalist Mormon family in rural Canada, Freyja (then, Catherine) was taught to keep her head down and not raise her voice. At age 15, she entered into an arranged marriage as the second wife of a 25-year-old polygamist man, and joined his community. She spent the next 28 years raising 12 children in this marriage, and abiding by the repressive rules set for women, wives and mothers in the community. One day, she attended a training to grow herself and her work, and something aw...
Mar 22, 2018•1 hr 10 min
Often we accept things we've been taught or told, until one day something strikes us as being a bit "off", and we begin to ask questions. For Ross Lukeman, that something was the traditional story we've been taught about home ownership and freedom. That is, if you own a home, you have achieved the American Dream. It struck Ross as strange that people buy homes, believing this story, then design the rest of their lives around paying for that home - staying in jobs they don't like to pay a mortgag...
Mar 08, 2018•1 hr 27 min
How many people talk about spending more time in nature? Yearn for time outside, in the ocean, forest, mountains? When we lived in NYC, talk of getting into nature was practically a mantra on the street. The thing is, while most people feel a call to nature, few end up spending much time there. Not so for Amy Schrift. After a heavy dinner out in the city, Amy felt a call to feed her body more naturally. That week, she discovered a living foods diet, and began eating only raw fruits and vegetable...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 44 min
We're three weeks into our Costa Rica adventure, exploring and enjoying this gorgeous country. And, quite consciously, we're considering this special place as a future home for our family. We've felt called here, through various channels. In many ways, it feels right and true to be here. Much feels aligned to who we are and our values. But, as far as a specific place to be (i.e. city or town), we've yet to find it. What we find interesting is how clearly we have been led to Santa Teresa, Costa R...
Feb 15, 2018•46 min
There are 1410 miles between Fairhope, AL and Monteverde, Costa Rica. We know this because while interviewing this week’s guest, Marvin Rockwell at his home in Monteverde, describing his epic journey there from Alabama in 1948, we pulled it up on Google maps. Of course, the internet wasn’t at the disposal of Marvin and the small community of Quakers heading south from Alabama in 1948 on their way to Costa Rica. Nor were fully completed roads. Marvin and three other men had just completed a year ...
Feb 01, 2018•1 hr 25 min
Once you begin to question one area of life, the lies suddenly begin to unravel everywhere. Along the way, you are likely to encounter all sorts of characters shouting their version of the "real story" from the rooftops. When you find someone as eloquent, trustworthy and well-researched as Dr. Pam Popper, however, you grab your seat and listen. As you will find, she held nothing back in this, our second conversation (she also appears on episode #6). She starts off with a bang, describing her con...
Jan 25, 2018•1 hr 7 min
For Natalie Sisson, doing anything which doesn't feel good for too long sets off an internal alarm. So, some 10 years ago, after too many days of feeling "off" at a corporate job...she quit. What's remarkable about her decision is that she didn't have a solid plan for what to do afterwards, but took the leap anyway. What unfolded from there is truly epic: 70 countries in 7 years, multiple online programs helping other digital nomads, a very popular podcast, her own book and a vast array of exper...
Jan 18, 2018•48 min
Many dream of it, but very few actually do it: sell it all and move to paradise. For Nadine Pisani, it took her husband being hospitalized for 10 days for her to realize that their way of life as chiropractors in Pennsylvania wasn't working. A short time later, they walked off a plane in Costa Rica and knew immediately they had done the right thing. Since that time, they have stopped working so much, fostered all sorts of other creative interests and have fallen back in love with life and each o...
Jan 11, 2018•1 hr 16 min
It is said that the inherent challenges of being an actor will rather naturally weed out those without the true bug in their system. If this is true, Matt Mitler must be completely consumed by it. His ambition though is not for fame nor fortune, as his interest in those conventional notions of success has waned as he and his work have matured. Instead, it is the tantalizing quest for truth, expansion and - perhaps most of all - the urgent need to serve others using his art. Imagine this: a group...
Dec 21, 2017•1 hr 36 min
Just a few years ago, Hemma Haridin ran multiple accounting franchises in New York City. She was marginally fulfilled, supported her family and loved being her own boss. Upon the passing of her dear grandfather though, some parts of herself began to open up, revealing a vastly different blueprint for living than the one she previously assumed. She began receiving messages - very clear ones - related to a deeper calling or capacity that she had barely tapped. "You're a healer", she heard. After h...
Dec 14, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Prior to working with us, Benita Conde was struggling. She was working in a job she didn't like, rarely saw her family, hadn't taken dance class in years (having loved dance for decades), suffered from eczema and - most importantly - felt trapped in a life that didn't feel "good". Then, she did the unthinkable...she asked for help. We were the fortunate recipients of her call, and for the last 6 months have witnessed one of the most dramatic life turnarounds we have ever seen. She now runs her o...
Nov 30, 2017•1 hr 29 min
When presented with the idea of “world schooling” as a replacement for formal, classroom education, most parents typically default into various forms of knee-jerk reactions: "What about having friends? How can you cultivate a social circle while on the move? What about college? Does this style of education prepare you for university? How will my son/daughter get a job if they aren't formally educated?” These questions are certainly valid but usually point to one's own programming and a lack of c...
Nov 23, 2017
After building the complete picture of happiness sold to each of us by society, Didi Taihuttu was more stressed and worn-out than ever. Upon realizing this, he didn't get angry. Quite simply, he sold it all back in an effort to reclaim his and his family's freedom. Unlike many who spend their lives addicted to the accumulation of material goods, Didi was able to take a step back and see that - in fact - the "stuff" was taking away from his happiness, creating more stress, worry and anxiety. So, ...
Nov 16, 2017•1 hr 16 min
Author, dad and farmer Ben Hewitt has emerged as one of the leaders in the alternative education movement. For over a decade he and his wife Penny have explored the nuances of "unschooling" their kids (a word they admittedly dislike). Basically, the idea is to give kids room to explore, follow their excitement and then - as parents - step in and facilitate, add enthusiasm and get out of the way. The result are two boys who are independent, confident and highly expressed. This road has led them t...
Oct 26, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Lynne McTaggart admits she is a "disruptor". Trained as an investigative journalist, she is highly skilled at identifying questionable practices or truths, exploring these deeply and testing them to obtain some measure of objectivity. Initially, it was medical practices and treatments that didn't seem to deliver their promised results. This led to her highly successful magazine "What Doctors Don't Tell You". She never expected her life's journey to propel her into the study of spirituality, cons...
Sep 28, 2017•1 hr 10 min
Mike Perkins and Gina Savage had, independent of the other, always dreamed of owning their own Oregon farm. Gina toiled away at a corporate job while Mike ran various businesses, while periodically traveling and living out of his camper. When they met, and fell in love, both felt buoyed to go for it and act on their excitement. Just three years later, the couple owns a thriving, organic farm in southern Oregon called the "Surf Ranch" where they grow vegetables, raise cattle and build community w...
Sep 14, 2017•1 hr 33 min
When Sara Warden's husband landed a great job in Morocco, they jumped at the opportunity. They were done with New York City, and felt the call to take their two kids to another country enabling them to directly learn about another culture and way of life. Thus begins Sara and her family's amazing journey with world schooling and living life outside of the box. They have since traveled to many countries, learning and experiencing great art, culture, language and more. This radically different app...
Aug 31, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Dr. Robert Ostfeld has emerged as one of the more vocal leaders in the movement to educate both our population and our medical professionals about the vast powers of the whole foods, plant-based diet. And, he is conveying his powerful message from within the food desert of the Bronx, NY. He not only helps his patients reverse their debilitating conditions of heart disease, he actively promotes the preventative powers of the diet by hosting healthy and open community whole foods plant-based meals...
Aug 17, 2017•1 hr 15 min
Patrick Haize is a true renaissance man. He wears various hats, coaches people on an assortment of skills and practices, and leads adventures into sacred locations in nature around the world. More and more, people are breaking out of the cookie-cutter design of work and life by simply following their excitement, healing themselves, and helping others. So, in Patrick's case, he does a variety of things, each though focused on one ultimate goal - raising consciousness. In this episode, we discuss ...
Aug 03, 2017•1 hr 21 min
