Track Your Life with Boyd Varty

Power of the pack

October 24th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  14 mins 55 secs

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

Our first morning of tracking in the Delta starts early - following the tracks of a lonely hyena track with lacklustre enthusiasm. Suddenly, our morning takes an exhilarating turn and the energy of the group shifts, as we find ourselves on the trail of a pack of Wild Dogs - also known as African Wolves, or Painted Wolves.

Simplicity is abundance

October 10th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  9 mins 47 secs

abundance, adventure, alex van den heever, boyd varty, camping, kalahari, londolozi, simplicity, storehouse, story hunter, storytelling, tracker academy

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dispatches from the Boundary Walk

June 12th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  12 mins 2 secs

boundary walk, londolozi, long walk

Notes on Reentry

May 15th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  11 mins 22 secs

awareness, ceremony, decompression, home, integration, lion, lockdown, londolozi, south africa, tracking, uncertainty

The truth is we can’t really plan. We don’t know where this thing lands or ends. There is so much uncertainty as to how to proceed. The art of re-entry from what a tree teaches us is to go slowly.
Track moment to moment. Make everything in your day an event, mindfully tending to it.

Day 39 - Reflection

May 10th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  11 mins 38 secs

anxiety, buddha, ceremony, connection, contemplation, cover, culture, eden, gratitude, jesus, londolozi, love story, mystic, nature, normal, peace, reflection, remember, tree

Covid has been so hard for so many people but it also gave me a glimpse back in time. This reserve has been an empty Eden and I am Adam. What will it mean in 30 years to have lived with wild animals? Will it all be gone or will be wake up? Would you find it very hard to understand if I said that I’m learning to be at peace with both? Wherever we land, it will be there.