Track Your Life with Boyd Varty

A story apart

September 19th, 2024 | Season 4 | 38 mins 14 secs

andreas sitole, boyd varty, david rattray, leverage, londolozi, morgan housel, stories, story hunter, storytelling, tracker academy

When I was working as a safari guide, I would notice that a story could always shift the group's energetic momentum towards you, which is important when you are guiding. More than being a momentum shifter, a well-crafted story could, in the right moment, be profoundly transcendent.

The personal collective

September 12th, 2024 | Season 4 | 12 mins 13 secs

african bush, boyd varty, depression, lion tracker, lioness, lions, londolozi, personal collective, safari guide, story hunter, storytelling, universal energy, universal truth

If you have begun the journey of becoming a Story Hunter, you have become a character who finds characters, switched on your attention, learnt to see with the right kind of eyes, become someone who can create context. You are now ready to touch the core of what makes the story elevated. I call it the personal collective.

The unseen solitary path

September 5th, 2024 | Season 4 | 8 mins 10 secs

There is a deep chasm between the making of art and the experiencing of it. When I am in that chasm - a solitary path - I know I must face the resistance in the now, knowing what it can give in the future.

Seek out characters to become one

August 29th, 2024 | Season 4 | 13 mins 42 secs

boyd varty, characters, kruger national park, namibian beer, namibian desert, stories, story hunter, storyteller

I have found that remote places are often the natural habitat of wild characters.

Nothing bad ever happened to a Story Hunter

August 22nd, 2024 | Season 4 | 16 mins 22 secs

africa, boyd varty, lion tracking, londolozi, renius mhlongo, safari, story hunter, storytelling, track your life, wilderness

Being lost is part of being found.
In this episode, I share an experience of being lost while tracking lions in the wild African bushveld.

Stories are attention

August 15th, 2024 | Season 4 | 11 mins 28 secs

40 days and 40 nights, adventure, boyd varty, buffalo, londolozi, story hunter, storytelling, tracking, tree house, wild stories

How it looked to Amber - Stories are attention. If the truth is stranger than fiction, then the art of storytelling is not to make something up, but rather to really see what is there. Reality, if you look close enough, is almost always hilarious.

Be someone stories happen around

August 8th, 2024 | Season 4 | 11 mins 48 secs

adventure, story hunter, storytelling

If you are to become a Story Hunter you must live stories. You must find a way to say yes to life beyond the known.

How it started

August 8th, 2024 | Season 4 | 9 mins 26 secs

african bushveld, ancient art form, anonymity, londolozi, martha beck, oral tradition, safari guide, shamanic art, shamanism, story hunter, storytelling, wilderness

Story Hunter is an exploration of the art - and the magic - of storytelling.
A person who can tell a story is gifted with the ability to help people understand and feel. A storyteller is an instrument for meaning.

This show is an album of stories, and thoughts about stories. It is my hope that by sharing in my stories, you will you will become the architect of your own.