Come with me! At least for a while. I’ve no idea where it will end, or how long it’ll take to get there … as is the want of a Vagabond.  We will be exploring the power of vibration ... and how and why your brain and body are literally impacted by it … and evolved to be so. But also how your vibrations affect the life and lives of those around you.  It will be an interactive journey … if you want it to be. This episode focuses on reliability and the importance of reliability in relationships as the foundation of trust, friendship and love.  To read the blog that accompanies ..read more

Dr Beau Lotto explains how we’re wired to trust and how remarkable it is that most of us are unaware of how omnipresent it is in our lives.  Right now, while reading this, you are probably sitting in a chair of one form or another. Before sitting, did you check to make sure it’d take your weight? Why not? Because your brain trusted it would. If you’ve never considered this before, then pause and consider the hundreds … if not thousands of actions and situations that you experience every single day in which your physical and emotional well-being … indeed your life … is placed in the hands ..read more

Dr beau Lotto discusses how inspiring people not only express themselves in words, they manifest those words in action.  How we respond to a situation is our own making. When you find yourself in a challenging context … ask yourself these questions: “Do my actions increase or decrease the effort I have to make, or am I transferring my effort onto others?” “Do my actions increase or decrease my personal responsibility for the context that was created, or am I transferring my responsibility onto others?” “Do my actions take ownership of their result, or am I transferring the consequence (bl ..read more

Dr beau Lotto explains how what defines a good leader is how she/he leads others into uncertainty … into the dark. Good leaders … powerful leaders … empower. It’s how one uses power that matters (for good and evil) ... toward a lover, towards friends and family ... towards those in one’s institutions … and, yes, towards yourself. Do you use it to protect, care and enable or disable, dominate and control? Are the qualities of leadership the ones that you’d like to be ‘normal’ in the future, as they will become the way-of-being from which future perceptions will be created? Leadership is not res ..read more

Dr beau Lotto explores the risk of possible self honesty created by returning from an adventure. ‘The Return’ is a critical part - if not the most essential part - of adventure. When you return, your brain can experience the cognitive dissonance between the newer, nascent, questioning self and the more familiar, more established self who was left. What’s fascinating is that the older self - who seems to have all the answers, waits for your arrival with open arms like a loyal friend ... keen to reestablish its place in the hierarchy of things.  In my return there is the opportunity to not ..read more

Adventure, as in life, needs a reason and so essential is ‘the reason’ for our vitality that the human brain is perceptually sensitive to its authenticity in yourself and in others. So essential is ‘the reason’ for our vitality that the human brain is keenly perceptually sensitive to its authenticity in yourself and in others. When perceiving it in yourself, the more authentic you feel (with true honesty) the stronger will be your self-esteem, even more so than your perception of power. So it’s not power that empowers you. It’s your authenticity.  ..read more

Adventures are not like a holiday. Holidays are planned to minimise risk. We consider the different possible destinations. We choose. We go. We stay. We return. By actively choosing to create a context of uncertainty, you are choosing to disrupt the old ecologies of the past and in doing so create the true freedom of choice. This is what an adventure does. It shepherds you into a new state of being. Sandbars are bridges into that risk. They enable the risk to be taken … and in doing so allows someone to embrace the uncertainty of themselves with courage and agency. Each of us can be a sandbar ..read more

We don’t train and then live. We train by living. We don’t overcome our fear of uncertainty and then step into it. We don’t first overcome our pain before stepping forward. We get in shape along the way through the exercise of living. Adventures are hard and at times we get sore and lost in mind, spirit and body. In this time of COVID we’ve all seen - and indeed throughout history we are here because of … those who stepped forward … first. Into the fire … first. Into the protest for the freedom and dignity of others … first. Into compassion within conflict … first. Today we call some of t ..read more

All adventures begin in the same way: They begin with leaving. Looking back is why leaving is hard … because we know that it will require letting go. We can often experience the fear, uncertainty and confusion when considering ‘letting go’ … but also clarity and expansion on the other side of it. And why we need a certainty from which to bridge into Not-A.  What can be that bridge?  Love. Love helps us leave.  To read the blog that accompanies this podcast, click here ..read more

At the moment, many of us are experiencing the consequences of uncertainty in the form of disrupted sleep, awkward dreams, possibly negative realisations about one’s beloved, parent, child, friend, work, experiences of illness or the devastation of finances … or all of the above. Grinning in the face of it will not make these realities go away.   The aim of this podcast is to demystify adventure. ‘De-grandize’ it. Democratize and humanize it… in order to lower its bar of entry for all of us. 'Moving through life with a tilt’ is first and foremost ... movement. More deeply, it’s being tilt ..read more