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Eugene Joe

June 8, 2018 by johnnoltner

Eugene Joe is a Navajo sand artist who lives near Shiprock, New Mexico. At an early age, Eugene’s grandfather helped him discover his gift of art. His grandfather would send the boy to meditate on a nearby hill and say, “You have a gift that’s inside of you. Go there and find it.” “Your creator gave you a special tool in your life. To find that is to learn how to face the reality of life.” In the time of wagons and horses and […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: art, creativity, creator, discipline, focus, gift, meditation, nature, New Mexico, shiprock

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Amy Cordova

November 21, 2017 by johnnoltner

Amy Cordova sees her work and her life as inseparable. She is a visual artist, writer, and educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Amy has been creating art for as long as she can remember and finds the combination of art and nature to be transforming. She sees hope in children and her work calls on adults to wake up to the wonder, beauty, and potential that she believes young people embrace intuitively. “When I write I want to make […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: art, belonging, calm, creativity, nature, New Mexico, santa fe, storytelling

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Taylor Bond

October 9, 2017 by johnnoltner

Taylor Bond lived the life that he thought was expected of him. He worked as an electrician for 10 years before, he says, he “freaked out,” sold all of his possessions, and bought an RV. Now he lives in Moab, Utah, works for just over minimum wage at a local climbing shop, and climbs rock towers in the desert. “Everybody wants what they can’t have. The grass isn’t always greener.” When I’m stressed out, or work’s going wrong, or I’m having […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: activity, climbing, focus, generosity, happiness, moab, nature, outdoors, stress, utah

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Brandon Sheehan

June 6, 2017 by johnnoltner

Brandon Sheehan was born near Venice Beach, California. He says he grew up with sandy toes and salty lips. He studied fire ecology in college and worked for the forest service fighting wildfires. Brandon grew up Jewish, but eventually studied Tibetan Buddhism and was a resident at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee, Montana where he cast statues of the Buddha and helped create a shrine at the base of the Mission Mountains that is visited by people of many […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: arlee, compassion, grace, happiness, kindness, love, meditation, montana, nature

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Chris Brixey

February 20, 2017 by johnnoltner

Chris Brixey works as a paramedic, a ski patrol, and a wilderness EMT. He says that’s how he puts bread on the table and beer in the fridge. Some of Chris’s earliest and fondest memories are of pulling into a campground with his family and spending time outdoors. He says that a lifetime of satisfying experiences in the mountains have driven him to want more. “Every action has a root cause in either fear or love.” The mountains have always […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: eavaluate, leavenworth, nature, outdoors, problem, rest, simplicity, solution, washington

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Sheila Goldtooth

January 22, 2017 by johnnoltner

Sheila Goldtooth teaches Navajo culture and philosophy at Dine College in Chinle, Arizona. She also works as a traditional healer for the Navajo Nation. Her interest in healing began at a very young age when she saw her uncle do the work. She apprenticed with him and now performs ceremonies and blessings for people to help bring them back into balance and harmony, particularly for young people who struggle to balance the pressures and competing demands of western and Navajo societies. […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: arizona, balance, children, chinle, culture, harmony, healing, Hogan, listening, native american, nature, Navajo, philosophy, traditional healing

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