web01.fireside.fm Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:13:29 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Track Your Life with Boyd Varty - Episodes Tagged with “Adventure” https://trackyourlife.fireside.fm/tags/adventure Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0200 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. en-us episodic How wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize the essential ingredients in a meaningful life. Boyd Varty 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. no Boyd Varty, Tracking, Personal Development, Storytelling, South Africa, Safari, Nature, Wildlife Boyd Varty info@boydvarty.com Pride http://trackyourlife.fireside.fm/s4-e2-5 b50d5111-2d53-47a0-93bf-f1aa9b74238d Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0200 Boyd Varty full 4 Boyd Varty 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. 12:19 no 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. There is an intimacy to tracking. To walk in an animal's footsteps all day is to know that animal on a different level. And the beginning of a transformation and a deeper understanding of our own agency in the world. Tracking takes us on a journey of mastery and perseverance that challenges us to question the crafting of our experiences in the pursuit of what it means to truly be alive. Mentioned in this episode: The San people is the broad term for the name of many clans that make up the Bushmen. I will refer to the people I met with the term Bushmen because that is how they asked me to refer to them. Timestamps (02:24) The alertness to lion tracking 3.37 - Archetypal energies of tracking 08.58 - Different worlds 10.22 - Finding the lions Resources: Online Courses: Become a Story Hunter - Sign up for the Story Hunter Online Course. (https://boydvarty.com/story-hunter-online-course/) Uncover the track of your life through the Track Your Life Online Guided Retreat. (https://boydvarty.com/course-listing/) Discover Boyd's books: https://boydvarty.com/book/ Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi (https://boydvarty.com/retreats/visit-londolozi/) Join Boyd’s community: Follow the journey - Subscribe to the Track your Life Podcast and never miss an episode. Sign up to Boyd’s newsletter. (https://boydvarty.com/contact/) Follow Boyd on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/boyd_varty/) X (https://twitter.com/BoydVarty) Visit Boyd's website (https://boydvarty.com/) for more. Boyd Varty, Story Hunter, Storytelling, lion tracker, Otto James ,Wilderness, Hunter-gatherer, Adventure, Consciousness, Archetypal Energies, Spiritual Liberation, Mastery, Perseverance, Aliveness, African Sky, Master Tracker, Pug Marks, Botswana, Kalahari, Footsteps, Majestic Creatures, Pursuit of Complexity, Simplicity, lion tracking, 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.

There is an intimacy to tracking. To walk in an animal's footsteps all day is to know that animal on a different level. And the beginning of a transformation and a deeper understanding of our own agency in the world. Tracking takes us on a journey of mastery and perseverance that challenges us to question the crafting of our experiences in the pursuit of what it means to truly be alive.

Mentioned in this episode:

  • The San people is the broad term for the name of many clans that make up the Bushmen. I will refer to the people I met with the term Bushmen because that is how they asked me to refer to them.

Timestamps

(02:24) The alertness to lion tracking
3.37 - Archetypal energies of tracking
08.58 - Different worlds
10.22 - Finding the lions

Resources:

Online Courses:

Discover Boyd's books:
https://boydvarty.com/book/

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

]]> 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.

There is an intimacy to tracking. To walk in an animal's footsteps all day is to know that animal on a different level. And the beginning of a transformation and a deeper understanding of our own agency in the world. Tracking takes us on a journey of mastery and perseverance that challenges us to question the crafting of our experiences in the pursuit of what it means to truly be alive.

Mentioned in this episode:

  • The San people is the broad term for the name of many clans that make up the Bushmen. I will refer to the people I met with the term Bushmen because that is how they asked me to refer to them.

Timestamps

(02:24) The alertness to lion tracking
3.37 - Archetypal energies of tracking
08.58 - Different worlds
10.22 - Finding the lions

Resources:

Online Courses:

Discover Boyd's books:
https://boydvarty.com/book/

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

]]> Simplicity is abundance http://trackyourlife.fireside.fm/s4-e2-2 1d306488-6a77-4abb-8c12-e522f4fbf38a Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0200 Boyd Varty full 4 Boyd Varty Imagine a time when nature was our storehouse. When we knew how to share and to simply be. We knew we didn’t need much for our expedition to the Kalahari. For the Bushmen people, food surpluses are not prominent, as the environment itself acts as a storehouse - imagine a sense of deep psychological abundance and knowing you will always be provided for. 9:47 no Imagine a time when nature was our storehouse. When we knew how to share and to simply be. We knew we didn’t need much for our expedition to the Kalahari. For the Bushmen people, food surpluses are not prominent, as the environment itself acts as a storehouse - imagine a sense of deep psychological abundance and knowing you will always be provided for. Simplicity is abundance and the desert calls for a beautiful simplicity. I always know when I'm in an important experience because the experience itself starts to constellate new thought processes. I start to daydream about how to ignite the collective psychological abundance in our culture. What can we do to instill a sense of abundance in people? I don’t know what we will find on our expedition - but I am excited about simplicity. I hope with the Bushmen people, I can touch an older way of life that might teach me how to live in this one. Mentioned in this episode: The San people is the broad term for the name of many clans that make up the Bushmen. I will refer to the people I met with the term Bushmen because that is how they asked me to refer to them. -- Boyd makes reference to the book Boiling Energy, by Richard Katz (https://www.amazon.com/Boiling-Energy-Community-Healing-Kalahari/dp/0674077369) Timestamps (4.26) - Learning about the life of the Bushmen people (6.14) - Modern life structures (7.41) - Simplicity in the desert Resources: Online Courses: Become a Story Hunter - Sign up for the Story Hunter Online Course. (https://boydvarty.com/story-hunter-online-course/) Uncover the track of your life through the Track Your Life Online Guided Retreat. (https://boydvarty.com/course-listing/) Discover Boyd's books: https://boydvarty.com/book/ Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi (https://boydvarty.com/retreats/visit-londolozi/) Join Boyd’s community: Follow the journey - Subscribe to the Track your Life Podcast and never miss an episode. Sign up to Boyd’s newsletter. (https://boydvarty.com/contact/) Follow Boyd on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/boyd_varty/) X (https://twitter.com/BoydVarty) Visit Boyd's website (https://boydvarty.com/) for more. Boyd Varty, Story Hunter, storytelling, Kalahari, abundance, simplicity, Tracker Academy, Alex van den heever, Londolozi, adventure, storehouse, camping Imagine a time when nature was our storehouse. When we knew how to share and to simply be.
We knew we didn’t need much for our expedition to the Kalahari. For the Bushmen people, food surpluses are not prominent, as the environment itself acts as a storehouse - imagine a sense of deep psychological abundance and knowing you will always be provided for.

Simplicity is abundance and the desert calls for a beautiful simplicity. I always know when I'm in an important experience because the experience itself starts to constellate new thought processes. I start to daydream about how to ignite the collective psychological abundance in our culture. What can we do to instill a sense of abundance in people?
I don’t know what we will find on our expedition - but I am excited about simplicity. I hope with the Bushmen people, I can touch an older way of life that might teach me how to live in this one.

Mentioned in this episode:

  • The San people is the broad term for the name of many clans that make up the Bushmen. I will refer to the people I met with the term Bushmen because that is how they asked me to refer to them.

-- Boyd makes reference to the book Boiling Energy, by Richard Katz

Timestamps

(4.26) - Learning about the life of the Bushmen people
(6.14) - Modern life structures
(7.41) - Simplicity in the desert

Resources:

Online Courses:

Discover Boyd's books:
https://boydvarty.com/book/

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

]]> Imagine a time when nature was our storehouse. When we knew how to share and to simply be.
We knew we didn’t need much for our expedition to the Kalahari. For the Bushmen people, food surpluses are not prominent, as the environment itself acts as a storehouse - imagine a sense of deep psychological abundance and knowing you will always be provided for.

Simplicity is abundance and the desert calls for a beautiful simplicity. I always know when I'm in an important experience because the experience itself starts to constellate new thought processes. I start to daydream about how to ignite the collective psychological abundance in our culture. What can we do to instill a sense of abundance in people?
I don’t know what we will find on our expedition - but I am excited about simplicity. I hope with the Bushmen people, I can touch an older way of life that might teach me how to live in this one.

Mentioned in this episode:

  • The San people is the broad term for the name of many clans that make up the Bushmen. I will refer to the people I met with the term Bushmen because that is how they asked me to refer to them.

-- Boyd makes reference to the book Boiling Energy, by Richard Katz

Timestamps

(4.26) - Learning about the life of the Bushmen people
(6.14) - Modern life structures
(7.41) - Simplicity in the desert

Resources:

Online Courses:

Discover Boyd's books:
https://boydvarty.com/book/

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

]]> Stories are attention http://trackyourlife.fireside.fm/s4-e2 1c0eebb9-00c5-4132-90e5-61340617964e Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:00:00 +0200 Boyd Varty full 4 Boyd Varty 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. 11:28 no 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. Storytelling is about providing context and meaning. It's a discipline of attention, a way of helping others understand the world around them. Mentioned in this episode Listen to Boyd’s epic account of 40 days and 40 nights spent alone in a treehouse in the wild eastern part of South Africa. https://boydvarty.com/about/40-days-40-nights/ Learn more about Londolozi (https://boydvarty.com/retreats/visit-londolozi/) Timestamps (02:04) Barry, the Buffalo (08:00) Safari storytelling tradition Resources: Online Courses: Become a Story Hunter - Sign up for the Story Hunter Online Course. (https://boydvarty.com/story-hunter-online-course/) Uncover the track of your life through the Track Your Life Online Guided Retreat. (https://boydvarty.com/course-listing/) Discover Boyd's books: https://boydvarty.com/book/ Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi (https://boydvarty.com/retreats/visit-londolozi/) Join Boyd’s community: Follow the journey - Subscribe to the Track your Life Podcast and never miss an episode. Sign up to Boyd’s newsletter. (https://boydvarty.com/contact/) Follow Boyd on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/boyd_varty/) and X (https://twitter.com/BoydVarty) Visit Boyd's website (https://boydvarty.com/) for more. Boyd Varty, story hunter, storytelling, adventure, 40 days and 40 nights, tree house, Londolozi, wild stories, buffalo, tracking, 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.

Storytelling is about providing context and meaning. It's a discipline of attention, a way of helping others understand the world around them.

Mentioned in this episode

Timestamps

(02:04) Barry, the Buffalo
(08:00) Safari storytelling tradition

Resources:

Online Courses:

Discover Boyd's books:
https://boydvarty.com/book/

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

]]> 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.

Storytelling is about providing context and meaning. It's a discipline of attention, a way of helping others understand the world around them.

Mentioned in this episode

Timestamps

(02:04) Barry, the Buffalo
(08:00) Safari storytelling tradition

Resources:

Online Courses:

Discover Boyd's books:
https://boydvarty.com/book/

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

]]> Be someone stories happen around http://trackyourlife.fireside.fm/s4-e1 cf56e8a3-654a-444b-90fd-9574ea647739 Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:45:00 +0200 Boyd Varty full 4 Boyd Varty 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. 11:48 no If you are to become a storyhunter you must live stories. You must find a way to say yes to life beyond the known. Seek out people and places that resonate with things you're naturally curious about. Curiosity will pull you into unknown circles. If you can be in those spaces, adventures will emerge. Make friends with people who will pull your life into stories. Say yes to something you normally wouldn’t. There is a story across town, if you can learn to say yes to life. Timestamps (02:32) The Rift Valley (3.32) Buying motorbikes in Kampala (8.57) Jesse Isla - Time is undefeated Resources: Online Courses: Become a Story Hunter - Sign up for the Story Hunter Online Course. (https://boydvarty.com/story-hunter-online-course/) Uncover the track of your life through the Track Your Life Online Guided Retreat. (https://boydvarty.com/course-listing/) Discover Boyd's books: https://boydvarty.com/book/ Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi (https://boydvarty.com/retreats/visit-londolozi/) Join Boyd’s community: Follow the journey - Subscribe to the Track your Life Podcast and never miss an episode. Sign up to Boyd’s newsletter. (https://boydvarty.com/contact/) Follow Boyd on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/boyd_varty/) X (https://twitter.com/BoydVarty) Visit Boyd's website (https://boydvarty.com/) for more. Boyd Varty, story hunter, storytelling, adventure, Uganda, motorbikes, wild stories, Kampala, curiosity, personal development, journey, If you are to become a storyhunter you must live stories. You must find a way to say yes to life beyond the known.

Seek out people and places that resonate with things you're naturally curious about. Curiosity will pull you into unknown circles. If you can be in those spaces, adventures will emerge.

Make friends with people who will pull your life into stories. Say yes to something you normally wouldn’t. There is a story across town, if you can learn to say yes to life.

Timestamps

(02:32) The Rift Valley
(3.32) Buying motorbikes in Kampala
(8.57) Jesse Isla - Time is undefeated

Resources:

Online Courses:

Discover Boyd's books:
https://boydvarty.com/book/

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

]]> If you are to become a storyhunter you must live stories. You must find a way to say yes to life beyond the known.

Seek out people and places that resonate with things you're naturally curious about. Curiosity will pull you into unknown circles. If you can be in those spaces, adventures will emerge.

Make friends with people who will pull your life into stories. Say yes to something you normally wouldn’t. There is a story across town, if you can learn to say yes to life.

Timestamps

(02:32) The Rift Valley
(3.32) Buying motorbikes in Kampala
(8.57) Jesse Isla - Time is undefeated

Resources:

Online Courses:

Discover Boyd's books:
https://boydvarty.com/book/

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

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