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Welcome to Live Free Ride Free, where we talk to people who have lived self-actualized lives on their own terms, and find out how they got there, what they do, how we can get there, what we can learn from them. How to live our best lives, find our own definition of success, and most importantly, find joy. Your Host is New York Times bestselling author Rupert Isaacson. Long time human rights activist, Rupert helped a group of Bushmen in the Kalahari fight for their ancestral lands. He's proba ...
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Ep 15: Craig Foster - My Octopus Teacher & Amphibious Soul
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If you haven't watched the film My Octopus Teacher, then stop reading this right now and go to Netflix. (Trailer here on YouTube) An extraordinary work, which chronicles the relationship between South African diver and director Craig Foster and, yes, a wild octopus, the film won an Oscar and rightly so. The link between man and nature shown in the …
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Ep 14: Ginny Jordan - Therapist, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
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There are people out there in the world who make good things happen. The good things you see on your news feeds - not the doom scrolling. The good documentaries you might have watched, the projects fighting climate change, AIDS, human rights abuses and the like - its often easy to forget that there are actual individuals behind the scenes making th…
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LFRF Ep 13: Kansas Carradine - Circus Cowgirl
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That the Carradine family is a Hollywood dynasty is common knowledge. Less known is that one of its scions - Kansas Carradine, daughter of legendary actor David Carradine (Kung Fu, Kill Bill et al) has become possibly one of the most self actualized people of her generation and is going around the world helping others to do the same. Kansas Carradi…
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Ep 12: Sukie Baxter - Whole Body Revolution
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Many of us dream about - or at the very least wonder about - the phenomen of becoming a YouTuber. Actually making a living out of content creation. Many of us also dream of being able to positively influence the lives of others this way and spread knowledge of healing and well being for the common good while, well being successful. Sukie Baxter, wh…
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EP 11: Diana Ellbaum - Beluga Tree Production
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Have you ever dreamed of being a filmmaker, a producer? A storyteller of the screen? We all have at some point -anyone who consumes screen entertainment hankers at some point to be the one making the content. Yet how to even get started? Even in these days of YouTubers and independent film making platforms where movies made on cell phones get sold …
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Ep 10: Nick Ross - Art History Abroad
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Have you ever heard of the Grand Tour? If you haven’t, you’ve certainly benefited from it – in the 18th and 19th centuries young artists, composers and aristocrats from northern Europe, most especially England and Germany, used to tour the great cities of Renaissance Italy, adventuring in all sorts of dissolute ways but also learning the Classics a…
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To live free and ride free you don't have to be a celeb. You don't have to be changing the world in an obvious way. The non-obvious, the non celebrity pathway is just as powerful but oft overlooked. With that in mind I feel it's very important to balance the extraordinary ways in which we have seen guests on the podcast live self actualized lived w…
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Ep 8: Sofia Valenca - Valenca Equestrian Academy, Portugal
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Have you ever gone looking for treasure. And found it? Like many who go looking for gold, the first clues came through offhand comments, snatches overheard conversations that somehow struck a resonance, a chord, in the gut. I had embarked upon a journey to the centre of the Old Masters tradition of dressage. At first, I didn't know that was what I …
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Ep 7: Sammy Leslie - Castle Leslie, IRE
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Living free and riding free - it's one thing to do it. It's another thing altogether to provide a whole universe that allows others to do it. Castle Leslie in Ireland is that place. A thousand acres and a castle, an equestrian tourism paradise, a place people go to disappear into the hills and forests of the border region, a research and learning s…
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Ep 6: Lisa Diersen - Equus Film Festival
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Film Festivals are something one reads about all the time. We accept them as institutions that drive the movie business in the same way that we take for granted music festivals and literary and other arts festivals, as things that exist almost as geological features of the landscape. Or at least the cultural landscape. What many of us don’t know is…
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Ep 5: Linda Tellington Jones - TTouch
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Linda Tellington Jones is a true legend. In the horse world, in the world of human healing, in the world of dogs, in the world in general... TTouch, an easy, effective way of resetting the nervous system for animals and humans, is a global movement. Linda's 22 books on the subject have been translated into multiple languages and have sold uncounted…
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John Mitchinson is a true man of mystery. You may have been hanging out with him for years and don't know it. Many of you out there have been watching TV, reading books, discovering stories that John Mitchinson has created, or published, or influenced, or written...without his name being on them. Have you watched the hilarious, clever, cult BBC Sho…
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If there is someone who typifies what it means to quite literally Live Free and Ride Free, it is online equestrian and nervous system celebrity Jane Pike. Born in Australia, and growing up first on woolly ponies in Tasmania, then on the Australian show pony circuit, Jane has taken a circuitous route through many branches of life, all of which culmi…
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EP 2: Warwick Schiller Founder Journey On Podcast & Attuned Horsemanship
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A legend and ueber-influencer in the horsemanship community, in the years since COVID Warwick Schiller has become much much more. In addition to creating one of the first and most successful online libraries of horse training videos, Warwick’s Journey On Podcast exceeded a million downloads quite a while ago and is on it’s way to stratospheric heig…
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Ep 1: Sir Tim Smit Founder Eden Project & Lost Gardens of Heligan
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Sir Tim Smit is a legend. Knighted for his ecological and economic contribution not just to Great Britain, but the international community at large. Sir Tim is famous for having founded Cornwall's Lost Gardens of Heligan, and the Eden Project in which the public can visit working rain forests under glass domes and truly learn the importance of ecol…
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Pilot Podcast - Live Free Ride Free with Rupert Isaacson
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Here on our pilot episode of the Live Free Ride Free Podcast, we talk about the nature of success and self-actualization - what this means, not just in terms of money and career, but in terms of personal happiness and fulfillment. Our host Rupert Isaacson, tells his story from doing manual labor as an illegal immigrant to running his own successful…
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