Brad Orsted - Take It Outside

Brad Orsted - Take It Outside

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Brad Orsted - Take It Outside episodes

  • A New Dawn

    Join me on this episode as I recall my battle with prescription medicine and how a good Doctor saw something wild in me early. 

    15 min
  • The Crow Sweat Hot: Part 2

    Please join me on Take It Outside for Part 2 of 'The Crow Sweat Hot', where I enter a centuries old purification to try and deal with the loss of our daughter, Marley. In the heat, I hear words of wisdom in an ancient language that guide me through my first sweat lodge. There are visions of Marley as the Earth falls away and parting lessons that took years for me to fully realize. See you there!! 

    Huge thanks and shout out to Dr. Shane Doyle and Jason Baldes for the song! A'ho! 

    15 min
  • The Crow Sweat Hot: Part 1
    Please join me on Season 2 Episode 2 of, Take It Outside! A podcast about healing in nature after tragedy. On this episode, I seek healing in the centuries old ceremony of sweat lodge, and find myself being welcomed by the Crow people of Montana. Things are about to get very real as I see my first sweat lodge, and the Crow holy man who will run the ceremony. It was the first time I wasn't proud to say I lived in Yellowstone. Please join me on this journey of healing. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🏔 HUGE thank you to Dr. Shane Doyle and Jason Baldes for the song. A'ho!
    24 min
  • The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

     On this episode, Brad reads, The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, as his birthday present to Yellowstone. Happy Birthday Yellowstone National Park - you're 149 - and looking fine! 

    11 min
  • A Seam in the Wild

    Please join me for a brand NEW Season 2 of Take It Outside! A podcast about healing in nature. On this first episode of Season 2, I'll explore one of my first experiences in the wild, where wolves captivated my attention long enough to keep the misery de jour at bay. Sharing the landscape with one of Yellowstone's top predators, held me in the moment, and provided my first break on a long, and arduous journey of despair, after losing Marley. But where was that seam in the wild that had allowed me to escape my pain momentarily? And could I go back?

    12 min
  • A Grizzly Conferment - (Part ll)

    Join me on part two of 'A Grizzly Conferment' as a chance encounter with an apex predator has me wondering if maybe I don't want to die at all - I just don't know how to live. 

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    14 min
  • A Grizzly Conferment - (Part l)

    Hear how a close encounter in the Wild, helped me realize I didn't want to die - I just didn't know how to live. When face to face with an apex predator that could oblige my suicidal fantasies, how will I act? Join me on another episode of Take IT Outside! 

    19 min
  • The Wild Came Creeping In

    On this first full episode of, Take It Outside, we arrive at our new home in Yellowstone National Park, with wolves howling somewhere in the distance. While my days are spent tracking and photographing the wolves of Yellowstone, including the infamous '06 female (832f), at night the sadness and alcohol creep back in to fill the void from losing our daughter, Marley. While there is beauty and wildness all around, I just couldn't shake the misery that haunted me both day and night. A flashing chance is snatched away, and things are coming to a head in the world's first national park. 

    27 min
  • Segment Three: Descent in Madness
    In this 18 minute episode, I'll complete the 3-part series of how profound tragedy struck our family in the summer of 2010, and how my mom's role in our daughter's death sent me into a very dark place of depression, addiction, and suicidal fantasies. Just as the gathering darkness seemed inescapable, we move to one of the wildest places on the planet - Yellowstone. Thank you for joining me here on, "Take It Outside"
    19 min
  • Segment Two: Dark Blue
    Warning: This episode covers very sensitive and emotional subject matter.
    In this episode of Take It Outside - I'll do my best to remember a time I tried so hard to forget. A falling from grace, as the unthinkable happens, and our world is turned upside and shattered. This episode is about 18 minutes long, so please find a comfortable place, and follow along on this segment titled, Dark Blue.
    For Marley and everything Wild - 
    Brad
    18 min

About Brad Orsted - Take It Outside

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After the tragic death of our daughter, Marley, I descended in a looping hell of madness, guilt, grief and addiction. I numbed my heartache and PTSD with prescribed pharmaceuticals, and drowned them with alcohol. Then a twist of fate found me working as a wildlife photographer/filmmaker/guide while living in Yellowstone, and the wild came creeping in...