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Jane is bursting for a wee and Fi isn't helping matters. Before Jane dashes off, they discuss power cuts, greyhound suffragettes and asserting their fame.

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In today's episode, Andy answers your questions on the integrity of the 2024 presidential election, the three most important lessons his dad taught him growing up, and how to make your customers feel valued as your business grows.

It might not be as bad as you think.

Some people dread winter with its cold weather, long dark nights, and the downcast mood these elements often induce.

But my guest would say it's possible to befriend winter, and truly enjoy the rhythms and opportunities that are unique to this season.

Micah Mortali is the founder of the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership and an instructor and retreat leader who uses the teaching of ancestral skills to help people develop greater mindfulness and connection with nature. Today on the show, Micah explains why we should consider winter "the night of the year" and how befriending the season involves aligning yourself with its call toward rest and reflection. We first discuss exploring the outdoor world during winter and how learning survival skills like shelter building and animal tracking can help you spend more time in nature, restore your sense of well-being, and simply feel more alive. In the second half of our conversation, we talk about how to improve your interior life during winter, both in the literal sense of making your house more cozy and in the metaphorical sense of turning inward. Micah explains why you should spend one night a week pretending you live off the grid, embrace the power of firelight, and may want to wait until March to make your New Year's resolutions. We end our conversation with why you might want to read The Road this winter.

Resources Related to the Episode

• Micah's previous appearance on the AoM podcast: Episode #739: Rewild Your Life
• Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
• AoM Podcast #157: Primitive Pursuits & Winter Survival
• AoM Article: How to Make Pine Needle Tea
• AoM Article: How to Track Animals — A Primer on Identifying Footprints
• Tracking and the Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendes
• Tom Brown's Science and Art of Tracking by Tom Brown Jr.
• AoM Podcast #566: How to Have a Hyggely Christmas and a More Memorable New Year
• AoM Article: 8 Things That Can Help You Get More Hygge This Winter
• "The Forgotten Medieval Habit of 'Two Sleeps'"
• "Can't Get to Sleep? A Wilderness Weekend Can Help" (Write-up on CU sleep study)
• WoodWick Candles that crackle when lit
• AoM Article: Carry the Fire
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• AoM Podcast #760: Cormac McCarthy, The Road, and Carrying the Fire

Connect with Micah Mortali

• Micah's Website
• Micah on IG
• Micah's Kripalu Faculty Page

Ready to make 2023 the best year of your life? If so, join my 31-Day Limitless Challenge and get daily live coaching from me starting January 1st! Learn more here: http://limitless31.com/

Note: For fall break, the McKays are attempting their first familial backpacking trip. Kate and I have been before, but we've never brought the kids, so this will be fun. While we're out of touch, please enjoy this rebroadcast with Gary Collins about going off the grid for a much longer period of time. Gary unfortunately passed away this fall, but he left a lot of great tips on simplifying your life in this episode. 

Many dream of leaving the city and all its tethers and obligations and creating a simpler, more independent life farther from the mainstream population and entirely off the grid. But how do you go from that daydream to making such a move a reality?

My guest walks us through the process today. His name is Gary Collins, he made the leap himself and now lives off the grid in Northeast Washington, and he's the author of several books on off grid living as well as simplifying your life. We begin our conversation today with why Gary decided to leave his conventional, urban, 9-5 existence to find a freer lifestyle, and how he defines being off the grid. We then get into why Gary thinks you should make the move to living off the grid in a series of steps, the first of which is to simplify your existing life in three main ways. Gary then makes the case for why living in a RV should be the next step in your journey, before discussing the process of finding land for your off grid home, and the factors to consider in picking a locale. From there we get into how those who live off the grid take care of water, sewage, power, and internet, how they construct the house itself, and what to know about the start-up costs involved. We end our conversation with a discussion of getting off the grid in a more metaphorical way by quitting social media, and why Gary thinks you should pull the plug on those platforms, even if you're an entrepreneur.

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Resources/People/Articles Mentioned in Podcast

• Gary's books
• How to Survive a Grid-Down Disaster
• How to Bug-In
• A Survival Expert's Guide to Bugging-In
• 5 Books to Get the Personal Finance Education You Never Had
• A Place for Everything and Everything In Its Place
• How to Get Started Composting
• Zillow.com
• 4 Lessons From a 4-Week Social Media Fast
• Becoming a Digital Minimalist
• Utopia is Creepy
• TheSimpleLifeNow.com

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Tom Green is a comedian, actor, filmmaker, and talk show host. His latest project is The Tom Green Interview: a podcast series featuring weekly conversations with celebrities, newsmakers, and everyday people.

While most people think having a "safety net" or a "back-up plan" is thoughtful, it can actually be a dangerous thing. If your safety net is something financially related, like taking money from your family, it can actually do more harm than good to you because now they have leverage over your life and the things you do. If you realize this and "cut-through" the safety net, you will be able to retake control of your life, do what you genuinely want to do and ultimately be happier for it! Enjoy! Let me know what you thought.

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Author, columnist, and documentarian Shelby Steele has been a leading scholar on race in the nation for decades. A strong advocate for the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Steele promotes individual liberty and freedom. However, modern racial movements and policies, he says, have done more harm than good for the cause of equality. Increasing dependence on the government has undermined the cause of liberty. Steele, along with his son Eli, have recently released a new documentary, “What Killed Michael Brown?”, an investigation into the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri shooting, just as George Floyd’s death rocked the nation. The film has been labeled as controversial in some unexpected ways. Shelby joined the show today to share the full story, as well as discuss the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and organization, and the reason President Trump and his supporters are so often labeled as racist. 

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Are more people identifying and even foraging wild mushrooms than in previous years? If so, why is this? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe talk about mushroom foraging, the importance of human foraging and even some studies that pit forager against forager.

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Jordan Klepper talks to a professional doomsday prepper, gets feedback from a counter-protesting health care worker and learns how to beef up during the pandemic.

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Many dream of leaving the city and all its tethers and obligations and creating a simpler, more independent life farther from the mainstream population and entirely off the grid. But how do you go from that daydream to making such a move a reality?

My guest walks us through the process today. His name is Gary Collins, he made the leap himself and now lives off the grid in Northeast Washington, and he's the author of several books on off grid living as well as simplifying your life. We begin our conversation today with why Gary decided to leave his conventional, urban, 9-5 existence to find a freer lifestyle, and how he defines being off the grid. We then get into why Gary thinks you should make the move to living off the grid in a series of steps, the first of which is to simplify your existing life in three main ways. Gary then makes the case for why living in a RV should be the next step in your journey, before discussing the process of finding land for your off grid home, and the factors to consider in picking a locale. From there we get into how those who live off the grid take care of water, sewage, power, and internet, how they construct the house itself, and what to know about the start-up costs involved. We end our conversation with a discussion of getting off the grid in a more metaphorical way by quitting social media, and why Gary thinks you should pull the plug on those platforms, even if you're an entrepreneur.

Get the show notes at aom.is/offgrid.

Bryan Callen is an actor and stand-up comedian, and together with Brendan Schaub he also hosts “The Fighter & The Kid” podcast available on Spotify.

Oprah Winfrey shares surprising details from her everyday life, talks about opening a school in the U.S. and reflects on the importance of de-stigmatizing mental illness.

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