Explore with Lori Ference

In May 2023, Debbie Bulten etched her name in mountaineering history by accomplishing what many thought impossible. Scaling the heights of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, and seamlessly tran…

Debbie recounts breathtaking moments on Lhotse, Everest, and Denali, the hardships endured, and the indescribable feeling of standing atop these formidable giants. 

Debbie's indomitable spirit and ten…

Bad soil? You can still have good crops.

Dry conditions? Water has a memory. Learn why this is important.

Tatas'juanna opens part two of our “Getting to the Root”  conversation talking about his  battl…

In the first of this two part conversation with Hopi-Tewa holy man, Tatas’juanna, we go all over the map from how to handle difficult people  knocking  on your door  to defying gravity in the Grand C…

Explore with Lori Ference is a new series  featuring conversations with adventurers and  illuminators. It  will be available on YouTube and all the major podcasting apps. 

My first guest will be Tewa-…

Back from a trip to Prague, Ainé and I catch up to talk about an unexpected discovery she made regarding her Celtic (Irish) ancestors originating from the Kingdom of Bohemia, the predecessor to the C…

About 3 years ago, I started researching my family tree with a free trial month on Ancestry. That small step led to connecting with relatives I never knew existed, finding out important details about…

It's such an honour and a privilege to spend time with someone in their final days or weeks or months because that's when you see the person for who they really are. ~ Jennifer Faraone

In January of 2…

Tamra, her fiancee, Terry and their dog Oonah divide their time between the Bitterroot Valley and a cabin on the Flathead Indian Reservation, situated on on the banks of the Flathead River, surrounde…

In this episode I speak with Sylvia Warren and Aine Dee of Our Humanity Rising, an inclusive virtual gathering of brave souls ready to engage in a bold quest to clarify, focus, and optimize their eff…

Most of us are not aware of the extent to which we are out of our bodies. We live in a culture that’s very heady. We are very cerebral about everything. We live more in the possibility rather than th…

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• We can be fit and be unhealthy
• Accomplish more by doing less - focus on what's most important and forget the rest
• Constructing a company with remote team members
• Writing as a gratifyin…

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I …

Episode Highlights

• Looking at dementia differently
• The mind's mastery of time
• Finding power by facing fear head-on
• Simplified choices in exceptional situations

Books and Films Mentioned in the Episode

• The …

Whenever a seesaw presents itself, you know that both ends are wrong. - Frank W. Butterfield

Episode Highlights

• How to deal with impossible people
• The importance of willingness
• Considering trust in a who…

For the first time on the podcast, I get behind the mic without a guest and talk about my experiences on the road less traveled including how this podcast happens, tales of woe, heartbreak and redemp…

​I love Lost Soul. I would go back every year if I could. It is one of the nastiest races that you would never believe is as nasty as it is. Lost Soul is the first race that I ran as 'Me'. - Bobbi N…

I'm not trying to be something I'm not. This isn't a choice. - Bobbi Nicol Coté

While recovering from an injury after running the Tuscobia Winter Ultra 2015, barefoot ultrarunner Bob Nicol, was about …

In each and every one of us, there's the capacity to do amazing things - Ray Zahab

Ray Zahab and Stefano Gregoretti will run 2,200km (1,375mile) across Namibia with the primary goal of using satellite…

Logic is terrible for analysis of the questions of who I am and where I am going - Frank W. Butterfield (Paul/The Communion of Light)

This discussion with Master Channel, Frank W. Butterfield is one o…