Why wilderness is such an integral part of our wholeness and how cultivating a relationship with the four facets of nature.

We share out recent (heartbreaking) decision to sell the camper and why. In the second half of the episode we process some patterns in our relationship that have been coming up in recent weeks.

They go by many names. Harvard Divinity School calls them the three elements of faith. In his book Recapture the Rapture, Jamie Wheal describes them as necessary ingredients for "meaning 3.0". We reflect on the significance of these three categories of experience and the role they play in a fulfilling life.

Restorative niches (a term we borrowed from Susan Cain) can help us all be more effective, improve the quality of our day-to-day lives and allow us to regularly go beyond the normal limits of our personality.

Julie-Roxane interviews Alasdair on his journey of building Wild Within over the last three years. They discuss partnerships, holding the tension between idealism and realism, business as a spiritual journey, being on track to gross over $100,000 in 2021 after being derailed by the COVID pandemic in 2020, rebranding the company and Wild Within's grand mission and vision.

We share how the last month on the road has been and talk about some of the recent ups and downs of our journey. Along the way we discuss topics like initiation and elders (and the lack of them in contemporary life), our favorite board games, listening to our partner's intuition, the challenges in aligning our lives with something bigger than ourselves and our ongoing experiences working with kambo and shamanic dietas.

Inspired by our recent conversation with Françoise, we sit down to talk about the different ways we've gone about integrating our experiences into ordinary life over the years---from traveling to psychedelic retreats.

Julie-Roxane shares her experience living between two cultures and what it's been like to leave her mother country and formally start the process of immigrating to a foreign land.

Françoise has dedicated her life to guiding others through expanded states of consciousness, particularly with the help of the sacred mushroom. She is the author of the extraordinary book Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth.

Recently Alasdair was asked for advice about starting a business partnership with a friend. After over a decade of business, these are some of the most important lessons he's learned.