Enjoy 8 minutes of sound medicine brought to you by the Peruvian Amazon and its wild inhabitants.

Tapiche Conservation Reserve North of Iquitos is an amazing place if you are interesting in seeing some top notch jungles, hike deep, and see more monkeys than you know what to do with.

Sign up for a week in the jungle if your heart craves something green and wild.

https://www.tapichejungle.com

Discussed are things like: adventures in Peru, crazy taxi drivers, nocturnal monkey research (hunting for monkey poop), topical conservation ideas, the perks of real-estate investment and USA First time home buyer program, and a rant about purpose.

Article on brain plasticity and travel 

(I meant to say Rally Racing in the taxi bit at the beginning!!!)

In this conversation time capsule, we hear from Ryan Forster, Founder and Humble Bee Steward of the Kaua'i Bee Team (KBT). KBT is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicating to stewardship and conservation of the feral bees of the Island of Kaua'i. 

Ryan has always found joy in the little creatures of the rivers since a young boy, and after traversing through some different roles in the professional golf world, he decided to say Fudge it, I'm going to jump out of this wasteful polluting industry and change my life around. Ryan thereafter dedicated his life to the bees and is now painstakingly taking care of over 100 hives on his own!!!! 

We learn the reality of being an entrepreneur chasing their dream, the ups and the downs, and we also hear one of the most magical stories of the successful return of the Leaf Cutter Bee.

Kaua'i Bee Team donates their honey, some of the finest on the planet due to its unique squeeze driven process, to hospice patience and hospitals. I believe that the Kaua'i Bee Team has some of the best practices, vision, and heart as an organization and they may be one of the eminent sanctuaries for bees in the near future as populations across the globe continue to struggle.

Thank you for the support of this podcast, and for checking out the Kaua'i Bee Team story.

-Jamie

Our guest Grant Conner, founder of Nuggetsbygrant.com, is the eminent gold nugget retailer on the internet. He operates in a niche where gold seekers can purchase location specific gold nuggets of various sizes and shapes for their collection. In our discussion we discuss real life things like fighting addiction, following our dreams despite familial critisism, and deconstruct what an entrepreneur actually means in this day and age. Grant also founded a charity for clean water which he rallies the support of 1% of sales from his company and fellow gold and jewelry companies to provide clean water projects to villages around the world. He says, if we all can get down on one knee and have gold on our fingers, we should be able to solve the global clean water issue.

In this episode, we interview Danielle "Yiz" Yzaguirre, a full-time cosmic astronaut dedicated to the exploration of self, the cosmos, and the interweavings of earth, humanity, and the spirit that connects it all. Yiz created a career in the aerospace industry and made a very successful go at it, but her heart was missing something. It was this pain that guided her to take a massive jump into her dream life - offering her creativity, impeccability, and attention to serving the world through spiritual studies.

She is currently working on building her platform, Soulful Sorcery, where her first creation is the Soul Share Cards. A game that invites people to pick 44 questions that stimulate self-discovery and vulnerability. You will learn more about the Soul Share Cards, a powerful story about overcoming familial judgment, and a life of heart overflow.

We are pleased to have had this discussion with Yiz, and I hope that it touches your life in a way that inspires you also.

Keep going for your best life my friends, Fudge it... you only get this one shot, so jump.

Jamie

Enjoy 11% off her Soul Share Cards by following this link, or locating her Etsy Page by googling "Soul Share Cards" and enter BIGLEAP at checkout.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SoulfulSorcery?coupon=BIGLEAP

After a deep dive into a disco party here in Kauai, the gang and I went all in and came out feeling very uplifted, successful, and full of newly found wisdom. 

This episode explores some of the highlights of some of the ideas born from this dance fever induced dream.

We explore the concept of following your "passions over everything" and I introduce the lighthouse collective, and invite you to carry this light with us throughout the world.

Thanks for joining, thanks for having fun and living your dreams.

Jamie

This episode is perfect for when you are doubting yourself, or complaining way to much. 

Let this message shake your reality back into your prime.

We are in this together, and you are blessed beyond your understanding.

You f*ing got this.

Thanks for tuning in.

In this first feature length episode, Riccardo "Rick Now Rick" Marino joins us on Fudge It Just Jump to endow us with his experiences living his wholehearted existence based around adventure. Riccardo is an adventure photographer, journalist, garden builder and outdoorsman to the max. He is currently base camped in the redwoods of California, he and his Gal are loading up to head off in their van to travel the country, and maybe further! 

We discuss the importance in believing in oneself, just going for it, and explore some philosophy of the dreamers mindset.

Thank you for listening!

In this Pilot Episode the host Jamie Akens drops in and shares the concept of this show and some backstory. Fudge it Just Jump is a combination of the "Fake it til you make it" and just saying, F-It, I'm going to go for it even if it doesn't make a lot of sense. The rational mind keeps us from doing great things, and what if we could muster up enough courage to go fit it - how would our lives look? Jamie recently made a leap of his own, leaving the comforts of his stable job, mortgage payments, and family and friends close by to pursue a live on a tropical island to study modern online business and dive deeper into the world of mushrooms. 

In this podcast series we will interview some interesting people who have made the leap into their wildest dreams, and explores the ups and the downs of their story. We also will chat with people who are considering taking a leap, and gather their questions to ask the experts.