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Some of the topics that we cover in this episode are:

• The Eternal Foundation / Source
• Grounding
• Purpose
• The Relational Field: Co-Creating from Authentic Being
• Nature vs Culture
• Innate Essence 
• The Flow of Creation
• Internal Referencing vs External Referencing 
• Nature vs Culture and being disconnected from our Innate Knowing
• How the agreements of culture can leads to confusion about who and what we are
• The Three Phases of The Gift Process:
• • RECEIVE — Discover your Gift. Understand the effortless path of Inspiration that lays before you. All life has an innate gift. It is the law of nature. Discovering and sharing our gift is an effortless process when you know-how. Our culture tells us that we are not enough and to look outside of ourselves to become whole. But your innate being knows better and your Gift is ready to guide and nourish you to realize your full potential. 
  • NOURISH — This crucial step is often overlooked and is missing in all aspects of our education systems and western culture. Learning to nourish from our innate gift/power is the difference between a master and a novice. In this Phase, you learn to turn-inward and Receive all the brilliant, powerful aspects of yourself that you naturally carry and allow the essence of your being to continually fill you up with all the resources you require. This step gives you the innate knowing of your value and worth magnetizing to you the opportunities you desire. 
  • SHARE — Once the internal Resourcing is in place we begin to overflow with our innate Gift and share it in effortless balance and sustainability.  We naturally start to bear fruit and SHARE from our Inspiration. Learning to share from overflow teaches you how to listen to your Gift and let it guide you through the in’s and out’s of Sharing Your Gift With The World. 

Ruben has a Jiu Jitsu fight this Friday August 21st at Fight 2 Win Dallas, which you can stream live on FloGrappling.com

Some Topics Discussed:

• Santa Fe, the good, the beautiful and the challenging
• Ruben’s journey to combat sports, martial arts and jiu jitsu
• DIY Boxing on the basketball courts
• Learning how technique often beats size and strength
• First being introduced to brazilian jiu jitsu via the documentary Choke featuring Rickson Gracie
• Learning his first two BJJ techniques informally from a friend: arm bar from bottom guard and scissor sweep
• Intuitively using that arm bar on his bigger cousin during an impromptu wrestling match
• Still not formally training BJJ, but arm barring fools whenever he got the chance
• Joining a band, getting carried away with partying and drinking, and getting called out for having a beer belly as a teenager
• Wanting to get in shape and having the light bulb go off to learn to fight and get into shape at the same time
• Finding Undisputed Fitness, and his first real martial arts mentor, Tait Fletcher
• Hitting that arm bar in his first formal BJJ class
• Having things finally start coming together as he started seriously training in martial arts
• Training and competing and how it naturally began raising the bar for his health and wellness, which created positive feedback loops that helped him feel better, raise his self-esteem and get out of debilitating pain he had lived with for years
• Developing personal authority when so called authority figures give poor advice
• Creating meaning and purpose, and specifically through a practice rooted in adversity
• Jiu jitsu and practicality over theory

Some topics discussed:

• Working at a library in high school and recognizing similarities between christianity, buddhism, taoism, parables and how they applied to 
• Flow state and being Present in outdoor activities
• Violence as a tool to be used with discretion rather than it using you
• Coming to a deeper understanding of Taoist ideas through becoming a sniper i.e. becoming one with nature to blend in because lives depend on it
• Learning to be comfortable being uncomfortable from an early age
• Being unique and not adopting an identity or path from the external world
• Apprenticeship and experientially dense education vs information dense education
• Learning with high stakes, i.e. Life and Death
• Effective communication as a key to flow in relationship and teamplay
• Duality of Violence and Peace
• Incorporating body language consciously into communication
• How suppressing negative emotions creates patterns in the body by locking up tissue
• How body language relates to physical performance
• Using body language to facilitate win-win situations
• Practicing a spiritual practice versus embodying, integrating and living a spiritual practice

Some topics we discuss:

• The effect of not having a strong/healthy male role model while growing up
• Physical Abuse, Acting out and finding identity through “being cool” and partying
• Writing as a creative outlet for self-directed healing 
• Developing emotional awareness
• Dealing (or not dealing) with abuse, trauma, tragedy and loss
• Going from casually selling drugs to moving millions of dollars worth of cannabis
• The Ultimate Saturn Return: Going to Prison at 30
• Being accountable and truly taking responsibility for your actions and mistakes
• The road to redemption, training and learning to coach and be a leader while in prison
• How to lead and build a team that continues to grow and evolve
• Creating a welcoming and supportive growth environment
• Learning to train adaptive athletes - Movement Unlimited

Some topics that we cover:

• Hunting as a Spiritual Pursuit
• Hunting and Conservation, protecting wild animals and wild places for those still “within the womb of time” (full Teddy Roosevelt quote below)
• Being open to changing your mind/beliefs, growing and evolving
• Connecting to our Essence to unwind the false personality
• Starting a journey of self-awareness and healing to reclaim our Essence
• Acknowledging, identifying and taking responsibility for transforming trauma and releasing baggage
• Finding outlets and support as men for being vulnerable and giving voice to what needs to be felt, processed or resolved
• Depression, anxiety, suicide and social stigma around mental/emotional health & wellbeing
• Living with trauma response patterns far after the traumatic events have ended
• Having compassion for ourselves where we come up short
• Reconnecting with our true nature / inner child
• Finding and creating supportive containers to do this type of work 

Jarrett's Article In Outdoor Life: https://www.outdoorlife.com/alone-together-father-son-hunting-story/

Full Theodore Roosevelt Quote that Scott butchered in the show:

“Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the ‘the game belongs to the people.’ So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”

<p>Our close friend Joerael Numina (website: www.joerael.com and Instagram @joerael_gangthewolf) joins us on the podcast to discuss his visual art practice and its complex universe. Some topics that we cover include:</p>

• Finding The Path as an Artist
• Graffiti Culture
• Ethics within an "illegal" Counter Culture
• The Medicine of Graffiti
• Complexity in Art, Culture, Relationships and Communication
• Holistic Approach to Creating Public Works of Art
• Raving as a Path to Healing
• Cultivating Change via Compassion, Conviction, Respect & Action

<p>Our good friend Scott Picard (www.scottpicard.com) joins us on the podcast to discuss his passion for using the body and movement to gather insight into the myriad complexities of the human condition. The first half of the podcast covers this work and the second half we talk about Scott's experience of nearly dying of kidney failure and his journey back from death's door. Some topics that we cover include:</p>

• Personal Transformation
• Addiction: Alcohol & Sex
• Sexual energy
• Pain
• Going into the dark, the murk, the shadow, the jungle
• Terror and fear while staring death in the face and being willing to die
• The power of Love when fully given and fully received
• What it feels like to have multiple friends offer to give you one of their kidneys and the emotional roller coaster of having it not work out on multiple occasions
• How a friend’s willingness to risk her life to save Scott’s lead to the early detection of cancer in her body
• Coming together as a community to save a life and building faith in humanity through times of crises
• Finally matching with a donor and what motivates someone to donate a kidney