Ep 28: Tim Corcoran on Vision Quests and Finding Your Purpose

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09/22/21 • 78 min

Tim Corcoran is the founder of Purpose Mountain, where he offers Nature-Based Purpose Guidance to support people with a love for wild nature who feel a deep yearning to discover their purpose. Tim also serves as co-Director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School, an organization he co-founded with his wife, Jeannine Tidwell, in Sandpoint, Idaho, in 2005, dedicated to facilitating deep nature connection mentoring, cultural restoration, and inner tracking.

A leader of vision quests, holistic rites of passage, and men's groups, Tim has been facilitating spiritual initiations in the wilderness since 1999. Healing the cultural rift between the mainstream and indigenous cultures, transformational consciousness work, the spiritual journey, ancestral work, deep nature connection, family, and health are all deep commitments in his life. Tim is a heart-centered father of two brilliant sons and husband to a magnificent wife, and lives in pristine Sandpoint, Idaho.

Quotes:

"A healthy connection to nature is essential for us as human beings."

"We can't be in the container and be the container at the same time."

Topics Discussed:

Being in the woods as a child
Finding one's purpose in life
Embracing sensitivity
The "sacred wound" becoming the "sacred gift"
The importance of being connected to the earth
Experiencing inner peace
Assessing life & leaving a legacy
Discovering our gifts and serving others
Vision Quest & its purpose
Transitioning from childhood to adulthood
Utilizing mentors
Transformations & integrations
Facing jealousy, abuse & bullying
The journey of fatherhood
The idea of "getting back to nature"
Living in an urban environment
Community being artificially manufactured
Learning to deal with conflict

Resources Mentioned:

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Quotes:

"A healthy connection to nature is essential for us as human beings."

"We can't be in the container and be the container at the same time."

Topics Discussed:

Being in the woods as a child
Finding one's purpose in life
Embracing sensitivity
The "sacred wound" becoming the "sacred gift"
The importance of being connected to the earth
Experiencing inner peace
Assessing life & leaving a legacy
Discovering our gifts and serving others
Vision Quest & its purpose
Transitioning from childhood to adulthood
Utilizing mentors
Transformations & integrations
Facing jealousy, abuse & bullying
The journey of fatherhood
The idea of "getting back to nature"
Living in an urban environment
Community being artificially manufactured
Learning to deal with conflict

Resources Mentioned:

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

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Ep 27: Arthur Haines on Rewilding Ourselves

Arthur Haines is a hunting and recreation guide, forager, ancestral skills mentor, author, public speaker, and botanical researcher. He grew up in the western mountains of Maine, a rural area that was home to swift streams known for their trout fishing. He spent most of his childhood in the Sandy River Valley hiking, tracking, and foraging.

Arthur now runs the Delta Institute of Natural History in Canton, Maine, where he teaches human ecology, focusing on the values of foraging, wildcrafting medicine, and primitive living skills. He continues to spend a great deal of his free time practicing his skills as a modern hunter-gatherer.

In 2017, he authored "A New Path", a comprehensive work on nature connection and rewilding, detailing how to incorporate ancestral practices into modern living. As a research botanist for the Native Plant Trust, he completed an inclusive flora of the New England region titled "Flora Novae Angliae" and has authored over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, including naming species of plants new to science. His series of YouTube videos has inspired thousands of people interested in foraging wild edible and medicinal plants.

Quotes:

"Don't jump to a solution."

"There's consequences to people going into the wilderness, but there is greater consequence to people staying in the city."

Topics Discussed:

Definition of a hunter-gatherer
The progress culture
The four C's:
- Comfort
- Convenience
- Class
- Culpability
Arthur's upbringing & the wilderness
Using grief as a motivator
The loss of various species
Soil depletion
Thoughts on war, famine & pestilence
The waning number of hunters
Rewilding our lands & wilderness degradation
Conserve & not preserve
Rewilding in the East vs. the West
Becoming apathetic toward the outdoors
European vs. American mindset on building things
The importance of leisure
Ancestral foods
The three sisters: corn, squash & beans
Chronic disease & wild foods
Fire & its effect on civilization

Resources Mentioned:

Website: Arthur Haines
Book: A New Path
Books: Tom Brown Jr
TED Talk: What's Wrong with our Conservation Paradigm
Facebook: Arthur Haines
Community Facebook Page: Wilder Waters Community
Podcast: ReWild Yourself
Podcast: Wellness Mama
Podcast: WildFed

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

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Ep 29: Joel Runyon on Pushing Yourself to do the Impossible

Joel Runyon is an endurance athlete and entrepreneur. He's the founder of IMPOSSIBLE ®, a performance lifestyle brand dedicated to helping people push their limits and do something impossible. In 2017, Joel became the youngest person to run an ultra marathon on every continent while raising $200k+ for education non-profit initiatives around the world.

Quotes:

"What is the most difficult thing you can do relatively soon?"

"How you do anything is how you do everything."

Topics Discussed:

Early beginnings of life & entrepreneurship
The start of IMPOSSIBLE
Getting into endurance racing
Not being able to get a job at Starbucks
Softening failure - good or bad idea?
The stories we tell ourselves that hold us back
Quitting not being an option
Using commitments to accomplish goals
Building trust with yourself
Overriding pain
Goal setting - the IMPOSSIBLE List
Finding hard things that are worth doing
Asking the question - "What would make my life a good story?"
Running a marathon on each continent
Lessons learned from nature & our relationship with it
Getting stuck in Doha, Qatar, without a passport

Resources Mentioned:

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!