Hello, and welcome back to the Shadows Run Podcast!

Today's episode is part 2 of a conversation with author, illustrator, podcast host, ultralight backpacker, and UFO researcher, Mike Clelland. In this half of our conversation, Mike and I dive right back in where we left off in part 1.

• Mike shares more about his research on the connection between owls and UFO encounters
• We talk about the various archetypal representations of the owl across time and across cultures
• Mike shares a handful of stories he has received from others in his research about their powerful encounters
• And then…Mike shares the full story of what he calls his "confirmation event," a fascinating series of synchronicities involving multiple desert UFO encounters, a psychic vision, and culminating with a feeling of clarity about the path he is following in life!

This episode was a lot of fun to record, and thank you to Mike for all the time he gave to this conversation!

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Mike's Website: https://mikeclelland.com/

Mike's Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/389xS095h0og3tr80pst7c?si=223d585194c748c9

Mike's book "The Messengers": https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733980814

Mike tells the story of the "confirmation event" on The Aether podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-aether/id1836168818?i=1000734207433 / https://open.spotify.com/episode/0C0qIQxt6DmqkDxi2MdQ9Z

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Hello, and welcome back to the Shadows Run Podcast!

Today's episode is the sixth and final installment of the WRFI Stories series. The Wild Rockies Field Institute is a nonprofit organization that offers college level field courses accredited through the University of Montana. Their mission is to offer academically rigorous, place-based field courses that develop engaged, informed citizens and strong leaders capable of addressing complex social and environmental issues.

Today's guest is Fiona Monahan, a student on the most recent Restoration Ecology course during summer 2025. Fiona is in school at Reed College in Oregon studying Environmental Studies with a concentration in Biology. They hope to go on to pursue a PhD in Ecology or Lichenology. They are an avid backpacker, river surfer, climber, all-round adventurer, and steward of the world around them!

In this conversation we talk about:

• Fiona's experience hiking the Colorado Trail after high school
• their thoughts on risk and risk assessment
• why they took a WRFI course, and some stories from the field
• the definitions and differences between restoration, conservation, and preservation
• Fiona's thoughts on building community with the more-than-human world
• ...and a lot more

Thank you for joining us!

Wild Rockies Field Institute website: https://www.wrfi.net/

Ways to Support WRFI: https://www.wrfi.net/support/ways-to-give/

WRFI's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wild_rockies/

Women's Wilderness: https://womenswilderness.org/

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Hello, and welcome back to the Shadows Run Podcast!

This episode is part 2 of my conversation with friend and world traveler, Chloe Carnegey. In this half of our conversation, Chloe and I tell the story of our New Zealand hitchhiking adventure from the mountains of the south island to Queenstown, both sharing journal entries we wrote chronicling those days in real-time. We talk about spending New Year's Eve of 2018 on a magical remote property south of Queenstown, and then about Chloe's travels after New Zealand to Costa Rica and Peru! I ask Chloe about her thoughts on gap years broadly and what that year changed in her, and share some of my thoughts as well.

Chloe and I then talk about what she has been up to in the 7 years since we took our gap years, including her path to her undergraduate degree, and more international travel. We finish the conversation talking about where Chloe is at now, looking to pursue work as a birth doula and diving more deeply into her passion for music and songwriting!

I loved this half of our conversation; Chloe has so much wisdom to share about what makes for a meaningful life and the value of following an authentic path, even if it is unconventional. It was so good to reconnect for this conversation, and if you enjoyed part 1 with Chloe I have no doubt you will love the second half as well!

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