web01.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:29:53 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Track Your Life with Boyd Varty - Episodes Tagged with “Safari Guide” https://trackyourlife.fireside.fm/tags/safari%20guide Thu, 12 Sep 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 The personal collective http://trackyourlife.fireside.fm/s4-e6 5d7e0aaa-cc9e-4be1-b33a-215e7d2c2bd2 Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0200 Boyd Varty full 4 Boyd Varty 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. 12:13 no 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. There is a strangely universal truth that the more in touch you are with your own unique personal essence, the more what you have to say becomes universally meaningful. The most private things are the most universal things. Any type of trying to be commercially successful or thinking about the end user while you work will kill an artist's freedom. Yet if you are a storyteller, you want the story to be listener friendly. I always think about how a listener could put their own story into my stories. This is not a rule but rather an orientation. Like a compass, I point personal story towards a subtextual, universal story. A story always has an archetypal core. Mentioned in this episode Londolozi - https://boydvarty.com/retreats/visit-londolozi/ Learn more about the Tsalala pride at Londolozi - https://blog.londolozi.com/2021/12/07/the-legacy-of-the-tsalala-pride/ Timestamps (3.30) The Tsalala pride (06:43) Universal energies (08:42) Living with severe depression and anxiety 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, personal collective, African bush, lions, lioness, depression, universal energy, universal truth, Londolozi, safari guide, lion tracker 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.

There is a strangely universal truth that the more in touch you are with your own unique personal essence, the more what you have to say becomes universally meaningful. The most private things are the most universal things.

Any type of trying to be commercially successful or thinking about the end user while you work will kill an artist's freedom. Yet if you are a storyteller, you want the story to be listener friendly. I always think about how a listener could put their own story into my stories. This is not a rule but rather an orientation. Like a compass, I point personal story towards a subtextual, universal story. A story always has an archetypal core.

Mentioned in this episode

Londolozi - https://boydvarty.com/retreats/visit-londolozi/
Learn more about the Tsalala pride at Londolozi - https://blog.londolozi.com/2021/12/07/the-legacy-of-the-tsalala-pride/

Timestamps

(3.30) The Tsalala pride
(06:43) Universal energies
(08:42) Living with severe depression and anxiety

Resources:

Online Courses:

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

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

]]> 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.

There is a strangely universal truth that the more in touch you are with your own unique personal essence, the more what you have to say becomes universally meaningful. The most private things are the most universal things.

Any type of trying to be commercially successful or thinking about the end user while you work will kill an artist's freedom. Yet if you are a storyteller, you want the story to be listener friendly. I always think about how a listener could put their own story into my stories. This is not a rule but rather an orientation. Like a compass, I point personal story towards a subtextual, universal story. A story always has an archetypal core.

Mentioned in this episode

Londolozi - https://boydvarty.com/retreats/visit-londolozi/
Learn more about the Tsalala pride at Londolozi - https://blog.londolozi.com/2021/12/07/the-legacy-of-the-tsalala-pride/

Timestamps

(3.30) The Tsalala pride
(06:43) Universal energies
(08:42) Living with severe depression and anxiety

Resources:

Online Courses:

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

Come to Africa. Visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

]]> How it started http://trackyourlife.fireside.fm/s4-e0 99d983aa-4710-4246-a60a-e768521d3032 Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:30:00 +0200 Boyd Varty full 4 Boyd Varty 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. 9:26 no A person who can tell a story is gifted with the ability to help people understand and feel. A truly brilliant storyteller is structuring awareness - they are an instrument for meaning. This is why storytelling - an ancient shamanic art - is magic. This podcast series emerged out of a time when I had retreated back into the wild african bushveld, after three years of almost endless travel. I wanted to disappear for a while. I have come to think of anonymity as one of life’s deepest gifts. Almost instinctively, after a period of time, I found myself chasing stories again. This is how I became a Story Hunter. Timestamps (3:34) Martha Beck: Creative people bounce (06:48) Going back to the wild 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. Learn more about the work of Dr Martha Beck: https://marthabeck.com/ 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. story hunter, storytelling, Shamanism, Shamanic art, martha beck, ancient art form, oral tradition, african bushveld, anonymity, wilderness, safari guide, londolozi A person who can tell a story is gifted with the ability to help people understand and feel. A truly brilliant storyteller is structuring awareness - they are an instrument for meaning. This is why storytelling - an ancient shamanic art - is magic.

This podcast series emerged out of a time when I had retreated back into the wild african bushveld, after three years of almost endless travel. I wanted to disappear for a while. I have come to think of anonymity as one of life’s deepest gifts. Almost instinctively, after a period of time, I found myself chasing stories again.

This is how I became a Story Hunter.

Timestamps

(3:34) Martha Beck: Creative people bounce
(06:48) Going back to the wild

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.

  • Learn more about the work of Dr Martha Beck: https://marthabeck.com/

Resources:

Online Courses:

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

Come to Africa - visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

Links:

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This podcast series emerged out of a time when I had retreated back into the wild african bushveld, after three years of almost endless travel. I wanted to disappear for a while. I have come to think of anonymity as one of life’s deepest gifts. Almost instinctively, after a period of time, I found myself chasing stories again.

This is how I became a Story Hunter.

Timestamps

(3:34) Martha Beck: Creative people bounce
(06:48) Going back to the wild

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.

  • Learn more about the work of Dr Martha Beck: https://marthabeck.com/

Resources:

Online Courses:

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

Come to Africa - visit Londolozi

Join Boyd’s community:

Links:

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