Boyd Varty: Following The Track Of Your Life and Creative Process in The Digital Age

Boyd Varty (@boyd_varty on Instagram) is a storyteller, life coach and a tracker born and raised in South African wilderness at Londolozi Game Reserve.

His podcast series, 40 days and 40 nights, is the most impactful content I’ve experienced this year. In it, Boyd explores the archetype of the mystic in nature, how consciousness changes outside of the structures of modern life, and what it means to be wild.

We discuss: 

• Boyd’s top lesson from living in a treehouse in the wild for 40 days 
• How to create space for a different system of intelligence to unfold
• Being a conduit for nature’s wisdom 
• Boyd’s content creation process
• Taking notes as a way to connect to the Divine
• Restoring the land
• Being a creator and an artist in the digital age
• The vital part of the famous Joseph Campbell quote that’s often left out
• The power of discipline
• Letting go of societal norms to step into your wild nature
• Going beyond the playbook of “success”
• Feeling alive and expansive as an indicator of moving closer to your purpose
• Boyd walks us through the 4-step process that’s been the most profound teacher in his life
• How to question and reframe your limiting beliefs
• Podcast as an opportunity to broadcast your frequency
• Boyd’s personal approach to boundaries with Instagram 

Connect with Boyd Varty: 

• boydvarty.com
• @boyd_varty

Mentioned:

• The Lion Tracker’s Guide To Life by Boyd Varty
• Cathedral of The Wild: An African Journey Home by Boyd Varty
• Boyd Varty’s TED Talk, “What I learned from Nelson Mandela” 
• “Form to leave form.” – Josh Waitzkin
• The Work of Byron Katie

How to track your life, according to Boyd Varty:

• 1. Tune into your body 
• 2. Let your curiosity guide you 
• 3. Identify limiting beliefs 

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• 85: Dr. Andrew Weil – Expanded Consciousness, Breathwork & Matcha

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• Subscribe, rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Follow the podcast on Spotify

Quotes by Boyd Varty: 

• “The wildest journey you’ll ever go on is to get in touch with your unique gift, essence and medicine, and then start expressing it in the world. When you find that and start sharing it, you are deeply connected with that same creative force that is the natural world…. Being engaged in the truest nature of your work is a way to be in tune with nature.”
• “What expands you and makes you feel alive?”
• “There is nothing wrong with you.”
• “Inspire by living.”
• “A podcast is an opportunity to broadcast your frequency.”
• One of the art forms is to give over how you think you should do something, and allow the retreat [or insert any other project or business] show you what it wants to be.”
• “When you create enough structure, it gives you the space to leave structure. Somehow discipline is a doorway to being free.” 
• “One of the art forms is to give over how you think you should do something, and allow the retreat [or insert any other project or business] show you what it wants to be.”
• “When you create enough structure, it gives you the space to leave structure. Somehow discipline is a doorway to being free.” 
• “If you let social media be the place where you draw what the quality of your work is, you’re mostly going to get hurt as an artist… Put your work out into the world, and then move forward.”
• “There is a powerful force born of nature that wants to heal that is naturally abundant and wants to express itself in new ways.”
• “There’s the playbook of how other people got successful, and then there’s something deeper. Give up all the things you “should” do to be successful and things that other people do, and really sit with what is being asked of you.”
• “One way to know what’s being asked of you is that it feels both exciting and scary, but it makes you feel more alive.”
• “Following the feeling of life takes courage.” 
• “You don’t need to be better. You just need to be you. Letting yourself be you is the thing you’ve always been looking for.”
• “Notice what happens in your body instead of living up in your head.”
• “Let your curiosity guide you.” 
• “You don’t need the whole plan. You just need the next thing you have to do.”
• “Modern day activism is to make a different life up for yourself and create a different way of being.”
• “Social media is a place to give, not to get.”

Transcript of this podcast episode with Boyd Varty: