What if the reason so many of us feel disconnected, exhausted, or unfulfilled has less to do with our individual lives and more to do with the culture we're living in?

My guest today is Luke McLaughlin, founder of Holistic Survival School, where he teaches ancestral earth skills as a way to help people reconnect with themselves, each other, and the natural world.

Luke left a promising career in education to follow a calling into the wilderness. What began as teaching survival skills eventually became something much bigger: helping people remember what it means to be human.

We get into the grief of things we never received, why our old ways of coping can eventually hold us back, and how rituals, community, and time in nature can help us rebuild what's missing.

We also explore what it means to follow your soul, why feeling alive isn't always about feeling good, and Luke's fascinating 400-year plan to build a culture that will outlive him.

This conversation goes well beyond surviving in the woods. It's about what we're actually trying to survive in modern life.

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Instagram: @luke.holistic.survival.school

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