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  • Physical, mental, and emotional toughness with Greg Everett

    Physical, mental, and emotional toughness with Greg Everett
    2026/10/19

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    Greg Everett is the founder of Catalyst Athletics, a longtime weightlifting coach, and the author of Tough: Building True Mental, Physical, and Emotional Toughness for Success and Fulfillment. He is known for helping athletes develop not just strength, but the identity and emotional resilience to sustain it.

    Joel Van der Loon speaks with Greg Everett about the deeper side of toughness, moving beyond physical grit into emotional self-awareness, identity, and purpose. Greg explains why the hardest challenge for many people is being alone with their own thoughts, and why true resilience requires more than discipline or athletic ability.

    We discuss how childhood conditioning, coaching relationships, marriage, fatherhood, and even solo time in the wilderness shape the way men respond to stress, success, and failure. Greg also shares how he helps athletes rebuild their sense of self so their sport supports their life, instead of defining it.


    Key topics

    • In this episode: why emotional toughness matters just as much as physical and mental toughness
    • Greg explains how solitude strips away distraction and forces buried thoughts and regrets to surface
    • The difference between performative toughness and the quiet confidence of truly capable people
    • Why many athletes are held back by old coaching wounds, self-worth issues, and identity built too tightly around sport
    • How Greg uses the ideas of character, capability, capacity, and commitment to help athletes grow
    • Why success should be defined by personal growth, not just medals, money, or outside approval
    • How marriage and fatherhood can become daily training grounds for emotional regulation and self-awareness
    • Why women, friction, and close relationships often reveal what men most need to work on
    • The value of getting out into the woods, sitting alone, and journaling to take a life inventory
    • Greg’s view that a meaningful life is built by contributing more than you consume

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    1 時間 9 分
  • Energy healing, somatic release, and what it means to live in flow with Eva Müller

    Energy healing, somatic release, and what it means to live in flow with Eva Müller
    2026/10/09

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    Joel Van der Loon and Eva Müller explore energy healing from a practical, experience-led perspective. Joel shares his own intense somatic releases and spiritual transformation after divorce, while Eva explains how she works with high vibrational divine energies to clear stuck emotions, expand the system, and support healing.

    We discuss why energy work is difficult to understand until it is felt, how childhood conditioning and stored emotion shape adult life, and why both speakers see present-moment awareness as central to healing. The conversation also covers intuition, vibration, God, and how Eva’s group-based work is designed to support ongoing transformation.

    Visit Eva's website www.nextelevations.com to receive energy healing transmissions to improve your life.

    To learn more about Eva, book private sessions, our receive free meditations visit https://www.em-healing.com/

    Timestamps

    00:00 - Joel introduces Eva and frames energy healing as a real, lived experience
    03:11 - Joel describes full-body release, chakra work, and somatic clearing
    05:45 - Eva explains how she transmits high vibrational divine energies
    07:25 - Clearing stuck emotion, ancestral patterns, and past life influences
    08:48 - Life energy, chakras, and why openness creates flow
    10:55 - Mysticism, direct experience, and why the present moment matters
    13:17 - How energetic blockage can become physical illness
    15:25 - Resistance, surrender, and staying aligned with life
    16:19 - Why the mind drags people into past and future
    18:24 - Energy available now versus self-created obstacles
    20:45 - Childhood conditioning from ages one to seven
    23:04 - Triggers, stored pain, and subconscious belief systems
    25:01 - Why somatic healing matters more than insight alone
    27:22 - Eva’s path into energy work and early experiences of silence
    29:39 - Working beyond the mind and feeling energy in the body
    33:12 - Energy as vibration, information, and transformation
    35:07 - Reality as a mirror of inner vibration
    38:46 - Atoms, nonmatter, and the vibrational nature of reality
    40:23 - Nature, high vibration, and emotional states
    44:08 - Clearing low vibrational emotions versus processing them mentally
    45:41 - Why triggered states lose power once the system is cleared
    46:37 - Fast-track healing through high vibrational energies
    47:36 - Sitting with emotion instead of suppressing it
    49:32 - Joel asks about channeling and guidance
    51:09 - Eva describes channeling energy and receiving information as knowing
    52:34 - Hands, intention, and developing a personal framework
    54:48 - Healing unfinished emotional energy from childhood
    56:49 - Why the mind is a small part of the human system
    57:19 - How thoughts are formed from energy and stored information
    58:40 - Why thoughts disappear when the system clears
    60:06 - Sensitivity, boundaries, and tuning into energy only when needed
    66:27 - Eva’s view of God, creation, and the divine mother
    72:19 - Eva explains her offerings and group-based energetic work
    74:11 - Free Thursday meditation, guided practice, and Q&A
    76:34 - Why she works with groups instead of one-on-one sessions
    78:30 - Closing thanks and invitation to explore the work

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    1 時間 20 分
  • Finding Your Life’s Purpose with Joel

    Finding Your Life’s Purpose with Joel
    2026/09/28

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    Joel Van der Loon shares a solo episode on purpose, vulnerability, and the process of uncovering what he believes the soul is here to learn in this lifetime. He explores how childhood conditioning, fear, and unconscious beliefs can block clarity, and why inner honesty, meditation, and time in nature matter for anyone trying to live more authentically.

    In this episode, Joel reflects on the tension many men feel around vulnerability, the role of intuition in decision-making, and the difference between chasing external expectations versus listening to inner guidance.


    Timestamps

    (00:00) Opening the episode and why vulnerability matters
    (00:40) Why men struggle to share cringeworthy or sensitive feelings
    (01:53) The listener question that inspired the episode
    (03:20) Intuition as the way to recognize truth
    (04:44) Early signs of passion and life force
    (05:26) Family influence, vocation, and choosing passion before money
    (06:25) Independence, selfhood, and not being shaped by fear of failure
    (07:06) Passion as energy and the soul’s compass
    (08:01) Childhood conditioning and how beliefs get programmed early
    (08:58) Why self-doubt must be questioned and challenged
    (09:27) Thoughts, reality, and the first step toward purpose
    (10:08) What he means by life’s purpose and the soul’s lessons
    (10:39) Inner peace versus performative spirituality
    (11:39) How purpose affects relationships, work, and emotional state
    (12:08) Restlessness, authenticity, and midlife purpose-seeking
    (13:36) Finding yourself by doing the hard work honestly
    (14:45) The Boyd Vardy idea of knowing the destination without knowing the route
    (15:15) Surrender, trust, and resisting the need for control
    (16:10) Why inner guidance creates more peace than ego control
    (17:06) Easy path versus right path
    (17:34) The fog analogy, stepping stones, and moving without full certainty
    (18:32) Signs, synchronicities, and bodily affirmation
    (19:06) Deprogramming the mind through consistent work
    (19:36) Why mindset alone is not enough and the body stores emotion
    (20:35) Somatic work, energy healing, and releasing stored emotion
    (21:05) Buddha, suffering, and the chatter of the subconscious mind
    (22:02) Meditation and the idea of higher wisdom or the superconscious
    (22:43) Simplicity over overcomplicating spirituality
    (23:11) Why 2027 is framed as a major turning point
    (24:25) How to meet confusion, agitation, and misalignment
    (25:10) Stepping into fear and acknowledging it instead of avoiding it
    (25:39) Taking stock in solitude and deciding what needs to change
    (26:08) Closing thoughts, feedback, and the future direction of the podcast
    (27:06) Nature, meditation, and inner tranquility as recurring themes
    (27:37) Outro and call to subscribe and share


    Notable quotes

    “Passion to me is just an energy flow through your body.”

    “Your life's purpose is your soul's purpose.”

    “The most important thing that you can do right now in your life is to step into fear and let go of anything that does not serve.”

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    27 分
  • Jamie Bowles of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

    Jamie Bowles of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
    2026/09/25

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    This episode breaks down how Oregon wildlife management actually works, from agency structure and habitat biology to wolf conflict, roadkill, and mule deer decline. Jamie Bowles from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife also shares how traditional bowhunting shaped herunderstanding of animals, predators, and the discipline required to hunt ethically.

    In this episode, Joel and Jamie discuss the realities of managing wildlife as a public resource, why habitat fragmentation matters so much, and why “ballot box biology” frustrates working biologists. Jamie also explains how traditional archery changed the way she hunts and how that experience made her a better biologist.


    Timestamps

    00:00 - Jamie’s role as regional habitat biologist
    02:19 - How Oregon’s wildlife agency is structured
    03:18 - District wildlife biologists, assistants, and technicians
    06:03 - Habitat division and Pittman-Robertson funding
    07:01 - What a regional habitat biologist actually does
    08:29 - Access and Habitat plus wildlife habitat tax incentives
    10:15 - Wolf biologists and non-game wildlife work
    11:12 - Game animals versus non-game animals
    13:25 - Why wildlife cannot simply be left alone
    14:48 - Wildlife management is really people management
    17:04 - Why humans and wildlife inevitably conflict
    18:29 - Bear conflicts, low berry production, and human food attractants
    20:54 - Why wildlife is a public resource
    21:23 - Ballot box biology and bear hunting methods
    25:35 - Habitat loss, fragmentation, and migration barriers
    27:29 - Roads, fences, and why fawns and calves struggle
    29:48 - Wildlife corridors and winter range protection
    32:10 - Mule deer numbers and historical decline
    34:32 - Predators are not the only cause of decline
    37:48 - Reporting roadkill with iNaturalist
    38:47 - Wildlife crossings and future conservation priorities
    41:41 - Funding challenges and the need for new conservation models
    43:48 - A hunter’s perspective on nuance and stewardship
    49:01 - Wolves, boundaries, and the reality of dispersal
    51:33 - Jamie’s path into hunting and traditional archery
    55:11 - Learning archery after years in wildlife work
    60:40 - Why traditional bowhunting forces closeness and patience
    62:08 - Building an arrow setup and tuning for traditional archery
    65:18 - Spot-and-stalk, tracking, and the challenge of archery hunting
    70:53 - The first grouse Jamie harvested with a recurve
    73:34 - Redefining success in traditional bowhunting
    76:28 - Adrenaline, shot control, and knowing when to move
    82:11 - Why the full hunt matters more than just the harvest
    86:29 - A first wolf encounter while hunting
    87:57 - Calling elk, hunting with a friend, and a near opportunity
    91:43 - How traditional bowhunting improves her biology work
    97:22 - Trusting intuition, slowing down, and listening in the field
    98:45 - Jamie’s social presence and artwork
    100:05 - Final call for public involvement in wildlife management

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    1 時間 28 分
  • Ryan Levinson on purpose, surrender, and rebuilding identity through adversity

    Ryan Levinson on purpose, surrender, and rebuilding identity through adversity
    2026/09/12
    Send us Fan MailJoel van der Loon sits down with Ryan Levinson for a wide-ranging conversation about diagnosis, risk, purpose, masculinity, and what it means to keep moving when your body changes. Ryan shares the arc from his mid twenties diagnosis with FSH muscular dystrophy to the decade he spent sailing in French Polynesia, and how those experiences reshaped his sense of self. This episode matters because it goes beyond a success story and gets into the harder question of how to stay oriented when the old sources of identity no longer fit. In this episode, Ryan Levinson shares how his diagnosis in his mid twenties with FSH muscular dystrophy changed the trajectory of his life.Joel and Ryan trace Ryan’s early identity through surfing, skateboarding, and a rebellious streak that pushed against school, family expectations, and conventional career paths.Ryan explains the suicidal moment in college through a mistaken philosophy about living close to death, and how a friend interrupting that night changed everything.The two discuss how surfing, the ocean, and later sailing became spiritual anchors through movement, challenge, and clarity of purpose.Ryan describes how the diagnosis unexpectedly opened doors, shifting how others saw him from lazy or unrealistic to inspirational and capable.They talk through the decision to buy a sailboat and live aboard in French Polynesia for a decade, including the fear, surrender, and transformation that came with leaving the dock.Ryan shares how disease progression has changed his body, his daily capabilities, and his relationship to purpose, protection, and being a partner to Nicole.Joel introduces a spiritual lens around knowing oneself, shadow work, and authenticity as the path to meaning.Ryan reflects on how much of his life has been driven by perseverance, and how he now has to reassess his limits much more frequently. The conversation closes with mutual gratitude, vulnerability, and Ryan sharing where people can find him online. Timestamps00:00 - Brotherly reunion and the energy of deep trust 03:24 - Surfing, rebellion, and the identity Ryan built before diagnosis 06:14 - The college suicide call and the friend who broke through the moment 09:44 - Why it was not about depression, but about anticipation and future fear 11:45 - Feeling trapped by a future with no obvious vocation 13:05 - Surfing as meditation and a spiritual connection to something larger 15:10 - The diagnosis and the first move toward a new path 16:24 - Pressure from family versus a dream of ecotourism and ocean work 17:23 - A doctor’s blunt advice to choose something practical 20:18 - How the diagnosis changed public perception and opened doors 21:17 - Leveraging disability, media, and adaptive sports opportunities 23:54 - Why Ryan and Nicole bought a sailboat and crossed to French Polynesia 25:52 - Surrender, trust, and leaving the dock without knowing the outcome 28:29 - What long passage sailing changes in a person 31:44 - Simplicity, clarity of purpose, and why risk feels meaningful 35:53 - Ryan’s current conflict around purpose as physical ability declines 38:25 - Losing the ability to protect in the way he once could 40:34 - Why Nicole’s capability changes the burden conversation 44:19 - The emotional and psychological work of surrendering masculinity 48:24 - Joel’s view of spiritual awakening as remembering the soul 52:08 - Why the compass shifted before leaving the boat life 55:36 - The physical toll of years at sea and disease progression 60:23 - Metrics, recovery, and adapting daily to what the body can do 63:01 - Constant reassessment before surfing, diving, or physically demanding work 65:32 - What Ryan is most proud of now: perseverance 68:02 - Joel’s challenge that logic can become a trap 69:35 - Why the relationship with Nicole is central to Ryan’s fear 71:14 - Joel’s teaching on knowing God through knowing self and others 75:21 - Untangling the story of self and doing shadow work 77:20 - Hadza, wilderness time, and the progression of spiritual learning 81:10 - Joel’s divorce, grief, and the liberation of brutal self-honesty 84:19 - Ryan on people inventing new stories instead of accepting change 85:46 - Life as floating with the current instead of fighting it 87:21 - Accepting that decline, loss, and change are guaranteed 90:09 - Final gratitude and where to find Ryan onlineSupport the showHuge thank you to everyone who supports In the Bush podcast — if you've been enjoying the show, please consider making a donation to help us keep producing the content you love. Every bit of support helps us keep the mics on and the episodes coming. Thanks for listening, and we'll catch you next time! www.primalskillsacademy.com
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    1 時間 31 分
  • Upcoming training courses with Joel

    Upcoming training courses with Joel
    2025/11/10

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    Joel gives an update about the podcast and also talks about the upcoming courses through his school.

    The holistic fair chase hunting course and the Hadza full immersion adventure are available for booking. spots are limited. please check out www.bushsurvivaltraining.com

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    26 分
  • Rite of passage and Vision quests with Darren Silver

    Rite of passage and Vision quests with Darren Silver
    2025/07/30

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    Darren Silver, MA, is a rite of passage guide, Nature-Connected Coach, ceremonialist, and innovative educator. He has nearly two decades of experience working with ritual, wilderness living skills, and guiding transformational experiences residentially and internationally. A gifted storyteller and apprentice to the old myths, Darren weaves the power of the natural world, vision, and community in devotion to the remembrance of regenerative culture.

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    1 時間 12 分
  • Traditional bow hunting chat with Cole and Joel

    Traditional bow hunting chat with Cole and Joel
    2025/07/14

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    Cole and Joel talk talk about a variety of subjects including hunting with a traditional bow and things to consider with your setup.

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    1 時間 3 分