FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
FAR OUT chronicles the shared human experience of returning home to ourselves.
What does it mean to heal and follow life’s guidance?
How do we cultivate faith and connection?
What meaning do we find and give in the experiences of being human?
Always in a casual, humorous and real way, you’ll hear about Alasdair and Julie-Roxane’s ongoing journey, others’ stories as they navigate healing, meaning and connection in our current world & impactful conversations with guides and thought leaders that have dedicated their lives to the important work of restoring wholeness for ourselves and the world around us.
We’ll explore our human stories through the lens of ancient spiritual traditions, shamanism and archetypal work.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 67 minutes
- Episodes
- 226
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2023
Going to a nudist camp with my mother-in-law?!
Listen and explore:
- Julie-Roxane asks a very strange question---at least it was to her American husband.
- What's weird about going to a nudist camp for the first time in France with your mother-in-law?
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The art of creative waiting
Listen and explore:
- What the myth of Sleeping Beauy can teach us about embracing change
- What's hard about creative waiting
- How Disney's recreaton of Sleeping Beauty demonstrates the West's misunderstand…
Why we're failing to retire early
Listen and explore:
- Why Alasdair has not retired early
- What the FIRE philosophy is in a nutshell
- The potential (hidden) costs of FIRE
- Unhealthy reasons to adopt a FIRE philosophy
- The role of work an…
Grappling with social media
Listen and explore:
- The 3 questions Alasdair asked himself that led to leaving social media last year
- The different ways Alasdair and Julie-Roxane thing about social media
- What happened when Julie-R…
Navigating change: staying with hard conversations
Listen and explore:
- The big change happening in our life
- How we enter into difficult and uncomfortable conversations with each other
- Some of the tools we use for communicating mindfully
- The differen…
Trekking the Himalayas - Chapter 2: Generous humans and wild beasts
Listen and explore:
- How this trek felt a lot like walking through time
- How money seemed to be changing the culture we were walking through
- The difference between our sense of time and "Nepali-time"
- …
Trekking the Himalayas - Chapter 1: A one-man tent & a shitty map
Listen and explore:
- Where we came up with the idea
- How ill-prepared your cohosts truly were for this journey
- Massive Nepali cockroaches
- The bus ride from hell
- Some of the characters we met in a remo…
Living in Californian suburbia VS. living in a caravan in rural France
Listen and explore:
- Why it's important to pay attention during transitions
- What we are appreciating about caravan life after 2 months in the US
- The challenges of caravan life
- The differences in cult…
Understanding each other: how we use personality tests to better communicate
Listen and explore:
- Why use personality tests?
- 3 personality tests we recommend
- How we use them in every day life
- An example of a situation we navigated using what we learned from the MBTI
- How perso…
Returning from the Hero's Journey
Listen and explore:
- Enrollment is now open for our Yosemite Wilderness Retreat 2020 (www.rippleoutretreats.com)
- Our listener Mike's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/scrambledeggs411/
- The power of…
Embarking on the Hero's Journey
Listen and explore:
- Alasdair rants about the struggles of running an eco-friendly business
- Enrollment is now open for our Yosemite Wilderness Retreat 2020 (www.rippleoutretreats.com)
- Introduction to…
Wrapping up Yosemite: Walking into the Wilderness
Listen and explore:
- The birth of an idea: that fateful day at the Rock
- The challenges of planning an event like this
- JR's difficult decision
- The highlights of the retreat
- Alasdair's biggest takeaway …
Reclaiming my body: Going off birth control
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Life update: getting ready for the Yosemite retreat
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JR's story with Birth Control
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How the Pill works
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The Trade-Off: there is always a risk when you temper with the natural…
Going through life's thresholds (with Danny van Leeuwen)
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The importance of holding space and being there when others cross thresholds.
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The way Danny and his family chose a back to the land life
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"You've come a long way buddy": Dann…
The introvert's dilemma
Listen and explore:
- What does it mean to be introverted or extraverted?
- Alasdair’s and JR's challenges growing up as introverts in an extraverted society.
- Alasdair and Julie-Roxane’s MBTI types.
- The…
Getting conned and giving gifts
Listen and explore:
- Alasdair and Julie-Roxane survive a high-speed auto collision
- A moral dilemma at a truck stop in France. Babies are involved.
- Did we get conned?
- Could we have approached the situ…
What you eat is not who you are (JR's food story)
Listen to this episode and explore:
- How Julie-Roxane first became vegetarian
- What motivated her to go vegan
- What Julie-Roxane noticed soon after going vegan
- The social difficulty in eating different…
Garbage in, garbage out (Alasdair's food story)
Listen and explore:
- Why what we eat can be such a divisive issue.
- How managing a business caused Alasdair to begin experimenting with diet.
- The moment that drastically changed Alasdair’s diet (and l…
Our wedding story + what it cost $$$
Listen to this episode and explore:
- What we wanted and didn’t want for our wedding
- A play-by-play of the wedding planning: rings, notary contract, wedding outfits, invitations, why France?, Champagn…
Are we afraid of being dragged back into the system?
***Listen to this episode and explore: ***
- 4.08 Life update: Experimenting with a different work schedule
- 6.14 Life update: Rocky Racoon
- 8.25 An interesting question
- 11.56 The short answers
- 11.24 Wh…