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    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home

    FAR OUT chronicles the shared human experience of returning home to ourselves. What does it mean to heal and follow life’s guidance? How do we cultivate faith and connection? What meaning do we find and give in the experiences of being human? Always in a casual, humorous and real way, you’ll hear about Alasdair and Julie-Roxane’s ongoing journey, others’ stories as they navigate healing, meaning and connection in our current world & impactful conversations with guides and thought leaders that have dedicated their lives to the important work of restoring wholeness for ourselves and the world around us. We’ll explore our human stories through the lens of ancient spiritual traditions, shamanism and archetypal work.
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    Episodes (226)

    FAR OUT #142 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: Zach & Jess Poitra on Pura Medicina, Brujeria & Becoming the Hollow Bone (Episode 10)

    FAR OUT #142 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: Zach & Jess Poitra on Pura Medicina, Brujeria & Becoming the Hollow Bone (Episode 10)

    Listen and explore:

    • Dedicating your life to service
    • What is Pura Medicina?
    • Heal Your Tribe's Kambo facilitator training
    • A working definition of Brujeria
    • Zach's checklist for finding a qualified ayahuasca facilitator and spotting brujos
    • Fighting sorcerers on the astral plain during ayahuasca ceremony
    • Loving-kindness and the importance of building the bodhicitta body for holding space
    • What does it mean in shamanism to be the hollow bone?
    • What the biggest challenge for Zach and Jess has been in their line of work

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    Credits:

    • Photo credit: Courtney Warden (@courtney_yeah)
    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #141 ~ Living Your Life Like a Weed Dealer

    FAR OUT #141 ~ Living Your Life Like a Weed Dealer

    Listen and explore:

    • Why Alasdair is a Slytherin
    • Interests and curiosity as bridges to new realms
    • Relating with our interests as deities, spirits or entities
    • Living your life as an unpredictable adventure
    • Why the opportunity to solve bigger problems is a privilege
    • Soul, spirit and finding our unique niche in the world
    • One of Alasdair's biggest lessons working in a start up
    • Living creatively: how to be a chef with your life
    • The multiplier effect: don't become the best, become the only

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    • Photo credit: Courtney Warden (@courtney_yeah)
    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #140 ~ Yosemite 2021 Recap: Consciousness Expanding Journeys into Wilderness Medicine

    FAR OUT #140 ~ Yosemite 2021 Recap: Consciousness Expanding Journeys into Wilderness Medicine

    Listen and explore:

    • What it feels like to be back at work after a two-year hiatus
    • Wilderness medicine: the universal healing quality of nature
    • The necessity of faith as a facilitator in group work
    • Being in a business partnership: the second most intimate relationship in our lives
    • Why Kelly and Alasdair lead these trips despite the long hours, low pay, risks and challenges
    • "Oh my God, this is my job!"
    • Wilderness medicine as one, long psychedelic journey
    • What people experienced on these trips that's missing in most people's everyday lives
    • What's the most effective way to market a small business with integrity?
    • Alasdair responds to the question "How do I change my life?"

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    Credits:

    • Photo credit: Courtney Warden (@courtney_yeah)
    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    [Repost] FAR OUT #71 ~ What's the deal with French people and food?!

    [Repost] FAR OUT #71 ~ What's the deal with French people and food?!

    Listen and explore:

    • How to drink less wine and not know it
    • What it means to have "your ass surrounded in noodles"
    • The crazy shit the French do with cheese in the Alps called  Raclette
    • What it means to be "buttered"
    • French insults -- why are they so crass?
    • The difference between French and American habits toward food

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    [Repost] FAR OUT #95 ~ Birth is Not a Medical Event, It's a Sacred Portal: Changing our Narrative About Birth with Emilee Saldaya

    [Repost] FAR OUT #95 ~ Birth is Not a Medical Event, It's a Sacred Portal: Changing our Narrative About Birth with Emilee Saldaya

    Listen and explore:

    • Birth as a rite of passage and a vehicle for transformation
    • How birth makes or breaks us
    • Why a woman-centered birth affects everything
    • The unexamined risks of birthing in captivity
    • What happens at a hospital birth
    • The problem with licensed midwifery
    • Why a natural birth is not possible outside of your home
    • The ways we teach woman not to trust their instincts from an early age
    • What kind of elder do you want to be?

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    [Repost] FAR OUT #9 ~ Welcome to L-Town

    [Repost] FAR OUT #9 ~ Welcome to L-Town
    • Road tripping and camping down the coast 
    • On our way to Nevada City 
    • Welcome to L-Town 
    • An orgy in the woods?
    • Where the road takes a 90 degree turn 
    • The darkness begins 
    • We're stuck here 
    • The tow truck driver 
    • Meet Chuck 
    • That's f*cked uuup! 
    • The mechanic 
    • Charles Manson?!
    • The devil's in the tarot cards 
    • Should we have guns? 
    • The apple story 

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    [Repost] FAR OUT #10 ~ Making Space for Depression

    [Repost] FAR OUT #10 ~ Making Space for Depression

    Julie-Roxane and Alasdair sit down to talk about 2019 and end up having an impromptu conversation about depression and how they make space for it in their lives and in their relationship.

    Listen to this episode and explore:

    • How 2019 began for Alasdair (6:38)
    • How pain helps us change (8:00)
    • Giving space in a relationship when we're in different places (10:44)
    • The value of depression (11:48)
    • How depression is similar to an acid trip (12:40)
    • The problem with numbing (13:14)
    • Loving by letting be (14:01)
    • Alasdair ends up comparing depression to an acid trip again (16:40)
    • Our engagement and moving to a new phase of life (18:45)
    • Julie-Roxane's unconventional bachelorette party (20:32)
    • Simple habits as an anchor during difficult times (22:56)
    • Taking care of yourself as you would a toddler (24:22)
    • Ignoring mental discomfort can become physical disease (34:22)

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    [Repost] FAR OUT #46 ~ Going to a nudist camp with my mother in law?!

    [Repost] FAR OUT #46 ~ Going to a nudist camp with my mother in law?!

    Listen and explore:

    • Julie-Roxane asks a very strange question---at least it was to her American husband.
    • What's weird about going to a nudist camp for the first time in France with your mother-in-law?
    • How it went + the highlights
    • A few reflections on how we live our lives sparked from our time in the nude
    • Listen to the end for a special surprise! :)

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    [Repost] FAR OUT #33 ~ Going through life's thresholds with Danny van Leeuwen

    [Repost] FAR OUT #33 ~ Going through life's thresholds with Danny van Leeuwen

    Listen and explore:

    • The importance of holding space and being there when others cross thresholds.
    • The way Danny and his family chose a back to the land life
    • "You've come a long way buddy": Danny's Men's Lib group
    • What life on land looked like: the financial situation, growing food and slaughtering chickens, the toilet situation
    • What homeschooling looked like for them and how his kids are doing these days
    • Why they left the land?
    • Danny's career moving from individual health to organizational health
    • Traveling together towards best health
    • Learning what works for your health as an experiment
    • How to manage manageable stress?
    • Mike, Danny's son who passed away from metastatic melanoma at 26
    • We expect too much from the health care system
    • How Danny became an activist
    • How young and old together can make the world progress
    • Living with multiple sclerosis

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    Danny's Blog and Podcast: https://www.health-hats.com/new-health-hats-blog/

    Danny on LinkedIn

    Danny on the Back2Basics podcast with Leticia Latino

    The blog posts we mentioned:

    Episode 1 of Health Hats podcast about Mike, Danny's son who died at age 26 on November 18, 2002, of metastatic melanoma.

    Crossing Thresholds

    Learning What Works

    Adjusting to new chronic illness

    Setting Personal Health Goals

    Eureka! Triggers and Signals

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    Pictured: Danny and his family during their back to the land hippie days in the 70s.

    FAR OUT #139 ~ What Does it Mean to Live a Life of Service?

    FAR OUT #139 ~ What Does it Mean to Live a Life of Service?

    Listen and explore:

    • We're taking a short break for summer: new episodes of the podcast will air on Wednesday, September 8th, 2021. 
    • Peeling the layers of the ego back
    • Aligning our ego with something greater
    • In service to what?
    • The wanderer and the apprentice: stages of development
    • When Alasdair first heard the call to service
    • When Julie-Roxane first heard the call to service
    • Becoming a student again
    • The challenges we are experiencing in striving to live a life of service

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #138 ~ Wilderness & the Four Facets of Nature

    FAR OUT #138 ~ Wilderness & the Four Facets of Nature

    Listen and explore:

    • Does Julie-Roxane need to cry?
    • Why we need wild places
    • Wilderness as medicine
    • What does it mean to serve Wilderness?
    • How we've lost touch with our wild nature
    • The four facets of nature: wild world, body, emotions, imagination
    • Using the the four facets to design our retreats at Wild Within

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #137 ~ We're Selling the Camper [Life Update]

    FAR OUT #137 ~ We're Selling the Camper [Life Update]

    Listen and explore:

    • Why we're selling the truck camper just when things got good
    • Where we're going (we think)
    • Listening to ego vs. our higher selves/intuition and how each feels
    • Transitioning from wanderer to apprentice
    • We bought a car!
    • Masculine and feminine energies in our relationship
    • Nonviolent communication, the Observer and shadow in relationship dynamics

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #136 ~ 3 Nutrients for a Fulfilling Life: Beyond, Becoming & Belonging

    FAR OUT #136 ~ 3 Nutrients for a Fulfilling Life: Beyond, Becoming & Belonging

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #135 ~ What is Your Restorative Niche?

    FAR OUT #135 ~ What is Your Restorative Niche?

    Photo taken by Alasdair in the Caucasus mountains in Georgia (the country). 

    Listen and explore:

    • A brief summary of extraversion and introversion
    • You are not an ambivert
    • The extravert bias in our Western culture and what this means for introverts
    • Hiding in the restroom as an introvert during a business conference
    • Self-awareness and approaching situations based on your personality preferences
    • What is a restorative niche? Why can  we all benefit from them?
    • Alasdair's and Julie-Roxane's restorative niches at work and home
    • Self-care means being a friend to yourself
    • Julie-Roxane flashes Alasdair on the podcast

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #134 ~ Faith, Vision and Business: Building Wild Within

    FAR OUT #134 ~ Faith, Vision and Business: Building Wild Within

    Listen and explore:

    • Spiritual growth & the business path
    • How the pandemic affected Alasdair's business, or, is it doomed?
    • Wild Within's revenue for 2020 and projected revenue for 2021
    • Growing pains, "good problems to have" and transcending your current limitations
    • Straddling the line between what's actual and what's possible
    • "Chewing glass and looking into the void"
    • Trust in business partnerships
    • Is this foolishness or is this faith?
    • The grand adventure: living your one, wild life

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #133 ~ Ups and Downs from the Road in the Northwest [Life Update]

    FAR OUT #133 ~ Ups and Downs from the Road in the Northwest [Life Update]

    Listen and explore:

    • Our favorite board games of all time
    • The lack of elders and initiation rites in contemporary society
    • Where we've been and what we've been doing over the last month
    • Dieting the Juniper tree in the Oregon high desert 
    • Kambo and announcing new Kambo dates in Oregon in August
    • Some of the questions we're currently facing with our journey and lifestyle
    • What god do you serve?
    • Trusting our own intuition and learning to trust each other's
    • Surfing the wave: staying in the sweet spot of an unpredictable journey

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #132 ~ Integration Practices: A Path Toward Lasting Change

    FAR OUT #132 ~ Integration Practices: A Path Toward Lasting Change

    Listen and explore:

    • Integration is the practice of bringing separate parts together as a whole
    • When is integration useful?
    • Different forms integration may take 
    • Cultivating the art of listening to ourselves and acting on the messages we receive
    • Building faith in our natural intelligence and process
    • Ideas for integration practices and some of the ones we've explored

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #131 ~ Being a Foreigner in a Foreign Land: The Journey of Immigrating

    FAR OUT #131 ~ Being a Foreigner in a Foreign Land: The Journey of Immigrating

    Listen and explore:

    • Julie-Roxane's early relationship with U.S. culture
    • The sense of destiny Julie-Roxane has experienced with the U.S. and the English language
    • The challenges Julie-Roxane has faced immigrating to the U.S.
    • What it's been like to have one life in France and another in the U.S.
    • The questions of identity that have come up while immigrating
    • The fear of forgetting one's roots and being forgotten

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #129 ~ 7 Things You Need to Know Before Going Into a Business Partnership

    FAR OUT #129 ~ 7 Things You Need to Know Before Going Into a Business Partnership

    Listen and explore:

    • #1: A business partnership is like a marriage without the sex
    • #2: Plan for failure
    • #3: Everything is on the table
    • #4: If you aren't having hard conversations you aren't doing it right
    • #5: Don't work with a jerk
    • #6: Take baby steps and feel it out slowly
    • #7: Do it for love

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

    FAR OUT #128 ~ How We Manage Our Money as a Married Couple

    FAR OUT #128 ~ How We Manage Our Money as a Married Couple

    Listen and explore:

    • Join our free book club discussing Susan Cain's Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    • How we managed our money before getting married
    • "The Board" - a simple solution for managing money and relationships with partners, friends or family
    • The importance of knowing what your default action 
    • The spending trap we can fall into when we share a joint account for purchases
    • Why we chose to share our income but keep our personal accounts separate
    • The psycho-spiritual benefits of making the shift to share all of our income as a married couple and as business partners
    • The reason sound money management is such a fundamental and integral component of living the way we do

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    Credits:

    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)