Ryland's passion for photography and love for the outdoors enabled him to travel extensively to connect with people through concepts like freedom and meaning. He is a professional photographer, published author and he hosts retreats with like-minded people. Ryland shares the following nuggets of life wisdom: connect with the world around us we have a lot in common let go of attachments freedom is breaking away from constraints open up and listen questions are better than answers get curious about everything everybody has a gift to share practice listening to ourselves and to others with curiosity human connection is a driver to freedom tags: Ryland, Hormel, photographer, designer, storyteller, sociological artist, story, stories, that, empower, empowering, empowerment, inspire, inspiring, inspiration, encourage, encouraging, encouragement, hope, light, podcast, Sean,