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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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.
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Cheetah
November 21st, 2024 | Season 4 | 12 mins 5 secs
In this episode we embark on what feels like a masterclass in desert tracking.
The first light of dawn hadn't yet cracked the horizon when I found myself breathless, feet sinking into the sands of the Kalahari, trying to match the pace of Kecao, Hamku, and Tamai, on the tracks of a cheetah.
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The Road South
November 14th, 2024 | Season 4 | 11 mins 53 secs
We have begun our journey South. In Ghanzi we are warmly greeted by Anneli, who is a descendant of the Dorsland Trekkers, and can be described as the salt of the earth. She shares her knowledge with all the complexities and nuances that only a local can offer and offers a small window of insight into the complex interactions between traditional and modern ways of life in the Kalahari. I'm quickly learning that in this profoundly complicated world,, we often miss the multiple layers and complexity inside of every issue.
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Last night in the Delta
November 7th, 2024 | Season 4 | 7 mins 22 secs
african sky, anticipation, boyd varty, bushmen, commitment, connection, delta, elephant, enlightenment, essence, everyday tasks, healing, heat, human connections, intimate reflections, kalahari, landscapes, love, master tracker, planner, reflection, ritual, sacred trance dance, sanctuary, story hunter, storytelling, strategic planning, strategy, survival, trek, untamed, wild
Our organic plans to meet with the Bushmen people are coming together. I am ready and excited to learn from the Bushmen people - who are renowned trackers and people of the land.
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Pride
October 31st, 2024 | Season 4 | 12 mins 19 secs
adventure, african sky, aliveness, archetypal energies, botswana, boyd varty, consciousness, footsteps, hunter-gatherer, kalahari, lion tracker, lion tracking, majestic creatures, master tracker, mastery, otto james, perseverance, pug marks, pursuit of complexity, simplicity, spiritual liberation, story hunter, storytelling, wilderness
At sunrise, we cut the tracks of a male lion.
This episode follows our pursuit of this majestic animal through wild and dangerous terrain. Deep down, I feel my own hunter - a desire to compete and survive. I feel a million-year-old drive to find what I'm tracking. I feel how in the wild, there is no margin for error. A mistake out here can mean instant death. And this proximity to real death is paradoxically full of life.