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Boyd Varty (@boydvarty) is the author of The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life and Cathedral of the Wild. He has been featured in The New York Times, on NBC, and in other media and has taught his philosophy of “tracking your life” to individuals and companies around the world.

Boyd grew up in South Africa on Londolozi Game Reserve, which, under his family’s stewardship, has become renowned not only as a sanctuary for animals but as a place where the human spirit could be restored. When Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment, he went to Londolozi to recover.

Please enjoy!

00:00 Start
04:09 Genesis story and a “get on with it” attitude
06:21 Saving a wasteland
08:30 The White Knuckle Charter Company
17:22 Creating a thriving safari business + Shangaan trackers
27:28 Supreme tracker Renias Mhlongo
33:05 Most difficult animals to track
36:25 Protecting oneself in Londolozi
40:31 Boyd's changing tracking process
59:11 What is Ubuntu?
1:01:44 40 days and 40 nights, alone, up a tree
1:15:06 Birds who help humans rob bees
1:26:52 The dos and don’ts of interacting with lions in the wild
1:31:18 The conversation of death + ancient myths
1:37:29 A way out of trauma
1:40:54 What is ceremony work?
1:44:55 “An authentic life infused with meaning is a kind of activism.”
1:46:31 The Work of Byron Katie
1:55:11 Boyd’s First Medicine encounter
2:01:52 Feelings. Nothing more than feelings
2:03:33 Healed by a leopard
2:12:46 The therapeutic value of spending time with animals
2:17:45 Boyd’s Hall of Shame public speaking moment
2:24:06 An invitation to visit Londolozi

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