Track Your Life with Boyd Varty
How wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize the essential ingredients in a meaningful life.
About the show
Somewhere deep inside, you know what your gift, purpose, and mission are. Boyd Varty, a lion tracker and life coach, reveals how the wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize these essential ingredients in a meaningful life. Know how to navigate, don’t worry about the destination, and stay alert. These are just a few of the strategies that contribute to both successful lion tracking and a life of fulfillment. Trackers learn how to use all of their senses to read the environment and enter into a state of “greater aliveness.” When we learn to find and follow our inner tracks, we learn to see what is deeply important to us.
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Episodes
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Roadtrip Edition | Story Hunter Part 3
May 1st, 2025 | Season 4 | 45 mins 40 secs
boyd varty, kalahari desert, lion tracker, londolozi game reserve, story hunter, storyteller, wilderness immersion
Part 3 of Story Hunter, Season 4 of the Track Your Life Podcast, is now available as a complete two-hour anthology - perfect for the next time you set out on the open road.
In Part 2, we go back to the wildest parts of the Kalahari Desert with the spirit of a Story Hunter, to learn about the ancient art of tracking.
Experience this epic journey, from start to finish – stream the complete Roadtrip Edition now!
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The Wild Man
April 24th, 2025 | Season 4 | 8 mins 46 secs
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The Outback of Life
April 17th, 2025 | Season 4 | 6 mins 55 secs
I love being on a journey where all I know is tomorrow we will drive into the wild in search of lion tracks. I don't know where we're going. I don't know where we will sleep, and I don't care, I'm content.
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The Hunt
April 10th, 2025 | Season 4 | 9 mins 18 secs
We're in the realms of the archetypal out here in the desert. The night before the hunt, the men gather around the fire. The energy is somewhat disparate and chaotic, as often happens when diverse people gather in a remote place
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Hunting and Faith
April 3rd, 2025 | Season 4 | 6 mins 49 secs
The persistence chase is an incredibly complex skill demanding deep environmental insight, deep physical endurance and deep empathy with animals. These expeditions are about remembering these ancient skills, and what it means to be human.
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The Kudu
March 27th, 2025 | Season 4 | 4 mins 52 secs
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Preparation
March 20th, 2025 | Season 4 | 7 mins 27 secs
boyd varty, kalahari desert, lion tracker, londolozi game reserve, story hunter, wilderness immersion
Training, reflection and life in seasons.
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Epilogue
March 13th, 2025 | Season 4 | 8 mins 1 sec
One year has passed since our last expedition into the Kalahari. These few episodes represent a continuation of the series, although they occur a year later. It's been one year since we last ran with the Bushmen people, and I cannot even fathom how much my life has changed that year since we last spoke.
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Roadtrip Edition | Story Hunter Part 2
March 7th, 2025 | Season 4 | 1 hr 56 mins
Part 2 of Story Hunter, Season 4 of the Track Your Life Podcast, is now available as a complete two-hour anthology - perfect for the next time you set out on the open road.
In Part 2, we go back to the wildest parts of the Kalahari Desert with the spirit of a Story Hunter, to learn about the ancient art of tracking.
Experience this epic journey, from start to finish – stream the complete Roadtrip Edition now!
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Roadtrip Edition | Story Hunter Part 1
February 28th, 2025 | Season 4 | 1 hr 53 mins
Part 1 of Story Hunter, Season 4 of the Track Your Life Podcast, is now available as a complete two-hour anthology - perfect for the next time you set out on the open road.
In this 7-part series we chase stories to remote places, seek out unique characters, and breakdown the archetypal characteristics of stories that transcend time and space.
Dive into the uninterrupted storytelling adventure - Roadtrip Edition!
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The Kalahari lion
December 5th, 2024 | Season 4 | 10 mins 47 secs
Tracking the Kalahari lion is an intense experience of extreme endurance, grit and absolute commitment.
Few environments cultivate extreme mindfulness like the desert. There is no margin for error here and I consider my own fragility.
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The Great Dance
November 28th, 2024 | Season 4 | 16 mins
botswana, boyd varty, bushmen, great dance, kalahari, story hunter, storytelling, tracking
There is a beautiful feeling to driving into the middle of nowhere, and frankly anywhere west of Hukunsi is the middle of nowhere. The land is vast and empty. White desert sand, tall camel thorn trees, rolling plains of dry grass, that just goes on and on and on. The temperature gauge on the vehicle gives a casual outside reading of 46 degrees at three in the afternoon.
We bump along dirt roads into a wildlife concession roughly the size of Switzerland that not a single tourist visits. This land is not even game reserve, it's simply the Botswanan wild lands.