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- Season One Review (part 2) with Taylor Roark
This week’s adventure is the second of our two-part Year in Review! Our host, Taylor Roark, walks through the last 24 episodes and offers lessons learnt on starting, building and maintaining this podcast show.
A lot of podcasts have episodes that are dated and mainly relevant to the time and day they were recorded. Not so with The Adventures of Self! These conversations were crafted to be timeless insights into the adventures of self-discovery and self-expression.
Sometimes, it can feel overwhelming or challenging to know where to start and which show or shows will be relevant to you (the Listener). That’s why we’ve created this Year-End Review to outline each of the episodes so you can decide which show (or guest) speaks to you and your situation.
Taylor breaks the review in 6-episode blocks lifting the lid in between the episode reviews for an overview of the good, the bad and the authentic insights that made this first year possible!
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Adventures Of Self
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self
ABOUT THE HOST
Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.
Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”
CONTACT METHOD
Website: https://www.galliant.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/
Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@galliant.life
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
1 hr 20 min - Season One Review with Taylor Roark
This week’s adventure is the first of our two-part Year in Review! Our host, Taylor Roark, walks through the first 30 episodes and offers lessons learnt on starting, building and maintaining this podcast show.
A lot of podcasts have episodes that are dated and mainly relevant to the time and day they were recorded. Not so with The Adventures of Self! These conversations were crafted to be timeless insights into the adventures of self-discovery and self-expression.
Sometimes, it can feel overwhelming or challenging to know where to start and which show or shows will be relevant to you (the Listener). That’s why we’ve created this Year-End Review to outline each of the episodes so you can decide which show (or guest) speaks to you and your situation.
Taylor breaks the review in 6-episode blocks lifting the lid in between the episode reviews for an overview of the good, the bad and the authentic insights that made this first year possible!
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Adventures Of Self
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self
ABOUT THE HOST
Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.
Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”
CONTACT METHOD
Website: https://www.galliant.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/
Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@galliant.life
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
1 hr 24 min - Being Unstoppable – with Shaun “SF” BanksThis week's adventure is taken in the company of Shaun “SF” Banks, the creator of Camp Warrior King which helps thousands of youths in the metro Atlanta area gain exposure to activities they would not normally have. He has been working in youth and personal development for nearly 15 years and is the founder of the You Can Have It All youth conference and magazine, he is the author of three books, ‘Persevere, Overcome, Win’, ‘Raising Extraordinary Kids’ and ‘Be Unstoppable Living Life’. Shaun and Taylor talk about what it means to start your own business, how to find what you’re passionate about and turn that into a life that you choose for yourself and how to help kids with things like influence, exposure and confidence.1 hr 6 min
- Five Seal Secrets – with William BranumThis week's adventure is taken in the company of William Branum, a former US Navy SEAL with over 25 years of military service. As with many war veterans, William has suffered from numerous physical injuries and psychological symptoms that negatively impacted his quality of life and wellbeing.1 hr 2 min
- A Storied Life – with Jeff FettyThis week's adventure is taken in the company of Jeff Fetty, one of the most interesting, varied and eclectic men Taylor has ever know and spent time with. Jeff is an inspiration to Taylor to be quirkt, outlandish and to live by one’s heart. Jeff has been a blacksmith for 30-40 years and has worked for huge clients including Tom Clancy, The Whitehouse and Yves Saint Laurent. As well as this he is a photographer, a traveller and he has an irreverent reverence for being alive on this planet right now.1 hr 11 min
- Step Up To The Plate – with Rev. Jim Lewis
This week's adventure is taken in the company of Reverend Jim Lewis who has served in the clergy of the Episcopal Church for over 50 years. Before joining the church Jim was an infantry officer in the US Marine Corps. His career over the last 50-60 years has taken him from war to God and everything in between.
Jim discusses his storied career as an activist and what it means to have faith and integrity on the world today.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- I grew up in the church and had positive and interesting experiences in the church. Coming into ordained ministry was in my heart and mind even before signing up for the Marine Corps, it was clear to me that’s what I should be doing.
- I needed to connect the pastoral ministry has to be connected to what I call the prophetic ministry – dealing with and speaking up for the social and systemic issues right outside the door of your church in your community.
- We were right in the middle of the ‘text-book wars’ where the right wing and the Ku Klux Klan attempted to take away school text-books that were extolling multi-racial, multi-cultural values. Me, my wife and my children had to stand up to some very violent protests, I had to move out of my house a couple of times, my life was threatened, my family was protected by police. This was my first experience with right wing religion and politics wedding and I learned a lot quickly, and I see it very much active now.
- I joined the Marine Corps in the 1960s to protect the country from Communism and be a patriotic American. I was sent to South-East Asia (Laos and Cambodia, not Vietnam) in what’s now called the Secret War that was full of lies, just like we’ve been lied to about Afghanistan and Iraq.
- People say we’ve got enough problems in our community here, how can we be interested in foreign wars? You’ll get interested quickly if they start coming for your sons, daughters, husbands to go fight in those wars. Do we have to wait for that?
BEST MOMENTS
‘The homeless have not missed a free meal at my church every day, since we started serving them in 1974-5. The problem is the number of people living on the street has only got larger and larger.’
‘There was opposition from businesses who didn’t want these people in their neighbourhood, but they were already living on the street in the neighbourhood.’
‘Community is a social construct that we create.’
‘The amount of money spent of these wars and the amount of deaths has to be engaged by the faith community.’
‘Step up to the plate, do what you have to do, and try and be faithful – not even right. There’s never anything done by one person.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Adventures Of Self
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self
ABOUT THE GUEST
For more than 50 years, Rev. Jim Lewis has been addressing the social issues of the local communities he has served as an Episcopal priest. He has organized parishes and communities in Maryland, West Virginia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Delaware to address health care for women, child care, AIDS, prison and criminal justice issues, capital punishment, war, gay issues, housing, and racial issues.
Rev. Lewis served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps before joining the clergy and has been active in war and peace issues ever since. His travels on peace missions have taken him to Cuba, Central America, Libya, Jordan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine.
He has practiced civil disobedience around coal mine issues, U.S. involvement in war in Central America and Iraq, and poultry labor issues. Active in anti-death penalty work, Rev. Lewis was one of the founders of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty in North Carolina.
He received the West Virginia Governor's Martin Luther King Jr. “Living the Dream” award in 1991 and was honored in Delaware by Pacem in Terris in October, 2001, as “A Peacemaker Among Us.” He holds an honorary doctorate from the Virginia Theological Seminary.
Lewis has been a regular contributor to a number of newspapers and has authored several books, including, West Virginia Pilgrim (Seabury Press), The Gulf War: The Churches & Peacemaking (North Carolina Council of Churches). He contributed to Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War (Chalice Press). He authored a chapter, “Grasshopper Power,” in the recently published book, Workers' Rights as Human Rights (Cornell Press) which focuses on workplace safety and the role of community organization in bringing about change in the food production system.
ABOUT THE HOST
Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.
Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”
CONTACT METHOD
Website: https://www.galliant.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/
Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@galliant.life
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
1 hr 18 min - Creating As Orientation with William Whitecloud
This milestone, fiftieth adventure is taken in the company of Taylor’s friend and mentor In creative orientation, William Whitecloud, the international bestselling author of three books including his latest, ‘The Secrets of Natural Success’, which gives you the secrets to succeed with your natural innate talents, ability and genius.
The pair have a hero’s journey of a conversation about adventure, self-discovery, self-expression and how to create your own destiny, your own life using alchemical principles and creating as an orientation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
There is some kind of obvious need to physically go further than what you know. We’d never have evolved from the valley we were in of we weren’t curious. Technologically, geographically and biologically – how we’re grown and how strong we are – we’ve developed that through adventure, curiosity and exploration.
Every human being has something in common, we’re all born on the wrong track in life. By that I mean we come into life, have experiences and figure out what it is, we also have negative experiences and learn to avoid them. Those ideas will cause us to take on an idea of who we should be, to protect ourselves, but that’s not in line with who we really are.
We get our need of danger, excitement and risk from jumping out of an aeroplane, watching a horror movie. It’s quite easy to get your thrills vicariously in this modern world. You can get a great sense of satisfaction from following a sports team, when they lose, you’re upset but when they win, you’re the hero despite not ever playing for them.
The hero’s journey: A child is born of a powerful lineage and get lost/hidden from who they are, living a mediocre life until they are restored to live out their greatness. We’re not meant to stay on the wrong track in life. But most people don’t live out their journey, most are living out their shadow life, accommodating their ego.
Often the painful, torturous experiences of initiations, which look horrible and cruel. But, whatever happens was to drive in the teaching of the group, so you never forget the teaching.
BEST MOMENTS
‘I still think the biggest adventure is the adventure of oneself.’
‘Men would rather go to war, kill or be killed, than face what is dysfunctional or limited about themselves.’
‘The refusal of the call is the conditional nature of taking on the adventure. You’re not in control of the circumstances.’
‘You need to understand the nature of what you’re going through to better go through it.’
‘If you want to make people unhappy and unsuccessful in life, just give them a list of people they should look up to and ways they should be.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Adventures Of Self
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self
ABOUT THE GUEST
William Whitecloud was born in a small African country called eSwatini, where his parents were carving a 35,000 acre sugar and citrus estate out of virgin bushland. Growing up in such a wild and remote part of the world was to influence his character and personality in many ways, but the most enduring effect that time had on him came from being immersed in the supernatural worldview of the tribes people around them. William seemed to live in an enchanted world where a host of entities and elemental forces wrestled each other for control over the fate of every living thing.
He says: Life for me was an endless romp in the Garden of Eden, until I was eight years old, when I was packed off to a succession of Christian orientated boarding schools in the colonial education system. It was forcefully impressed on me that my free spirited nature and heathen superstitions were of no value to the socio-economic machine I was being conditioned to fit into. Ten years later I left school, cured of my innocence and wonder, and thoroughly convinced I had no choice but to find my place within the rational order of Western civilization. But my heart was never in it. I was a conscript, not a volunteer.
His first real job was working for a South African commodity trading company, where his indoctrination into the perception of capital as the prime mover behind life was sealed. In 1983, he immigrated to Australia and switched from trading physical commodities to speculating on global financial money markets. Ironically, his trading mentor in Australia was a highly successful analyst and trader given to using profoundly esoteric methods for predicting market movements. Having his eyes opened to the supernatural phenomena that held sway over these giant markets re-ignited his childhood fascination of hidden forces at play in the world.
Yet this window into the mystical nature of the universe did nothing to free William from his disillusionment with an existence that seemed designed solely to fulfill societal expectations. In quick succession he developed substance abuse problems, lost all his money, his marriage broke down, and he was diagnosed with a supposedly incurable life threatening illness. With his life at rock bottom, his attention turned from merely observing phenomenon at work outside of himself to seeking ways in which he could practically apply magic to create what he truly wanted: a life rich in health, wealth, love and creative expression.
This search brought William into contact with the alchemical principles of Hermetic Philosophy and the ideas of Robert Fritz, founder of Technologies For Creating. Both modalities pointed to the premise that we subconsciously create our own reality and that there is a way in which we can direct the subconscious mind to create the reality we choose. As he delved into these superbly effective principles for reconnecting with and manifesting what is truly important to the human spirit, he made the most startling discovery: that the sad story I just told you about myself was just that – a story. It all really did happen, but it was simply the unfolding of a script he himself had written. Thankfully, this was not the sum total of his revelation. He also discovered that he could make up a new story, one that reflected his true potential. Watching every area of his life rapidly healing and prospering, as he applied his new understanding, confirmed to him what he had believed as a child. Life is magic.
In 1996, inspired by the momentum of my own self-transformation, William founded a program called Living From Greatness, a personalized course dedicated to empowering participants in discovering and living their authentic nature and potential. While continuing to be involved in the LFG program, and more lately the Natural Success project, he has worked one-to-one with thousands of people, coaching them in bringing their dreams into reality. His twenty five-year search to discern the essence of what it takes for people to connect with and live effortlessly from their creative spirit forms the basis of his three books, The Magician’s Way, The Last Shaman and Secrets of Natural Success.
He now live in Santa Monica, California, where he devotes hus time to writing and developing movies, enjoying his family and letting life unfold by magic.
https://naturalsuccessacademy.com/
Instagram: @williamwhitecloud
ABOUT THE HOST
Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.
Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”
CONTACT METHOD
Website: https://www.galliant.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/
Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@galliant.life
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
1 hr 23 min - Symbolism and Story – with Benedict CorkeryThis week's adventure is taken in the company of Benedict Corkery, a podcaster whose life and circumstances are so familiar to Taylor it’s like having a conversation with a younger version of himself.1 hr 9 min
- All That Jazz – with Amy SinhaThis week's adventure is taken in the company of Amy Sinha, who has been a singer almost since the day she was born and went through a lot of difficulty with medical conditions and being quite small and all the things that come along with the confidence of being out front and being a jazz singer.56 min
- Healthcare Corruption – with Robert YohoThis week's adventure is taken in the company of Robert Yoho who retired in 2014 after four decades as a surgeon in emergency rooms and in cosmetics. He is the author of ‘Butchered by “Healthcare”’ about how doctors, Big Pharma and corrupt government are ruining healthcare and, while this is largely a tale of the United States’ healthcare system, it’s applicable around the world today.1 hr 5 min
About The Adventures of Self Podcast
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Tune in and enjoy conversations with ordinary, and extraordinary, people about the adventures of their lives ... as they explore what it means to be self-expressed in this world.
Brought to you by Taylor Roark, founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”