Yossi Ghinsberg: Jungle - The Radical Idea That We Are Not Above Nature & Why Our Survival Depends On It

DNA Of Purpose

This week an old friend of mine who I haven't seen for many years just happened to be in town and dropped into our recording studio. His name is Yossi Ghinsberg, and he is someone who has professionally and personally influenced my life through his insights, ideas, inspirations and even more significantly through the sheer gravity of his presence as one of the world's most powerful storytellers. And trust me when I say this…his story, just like his spirit, is the size of the Amazon.

Yossi’s story began when at the age of 21 he decided to embark on an adventure into In the midst of the uncharted Amazon. After losing his three companions, he faced the jungle alone where for three harrowing weeks he battled to survive against all odds.

Yossi was saved by a tribe in Amazon, and ever since that moment he has shared his story all over the world as an internationally recognized keynote speaker, and as the author of the international best-seller ‘Jungle’. Yossi’s story is also one that today still plays out on the silver screen with 'Jungle' amongst one of the most-watched movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime in various territories around the world. In the movie, Daniel Radcliffe (aka Harry Potter) plays Yossi.

Ten years after his ordeal Yossi returned to the Amazon and made it his home. Working with indigenous forest dwellers for three years they built Cha-la-lan, a model eco-tourism village. Today, he also hosts adventures into the wilderness to walk with others in supporting them to ignite personal transformations that lead to more purposeful lives. If you check out Yossi’s Instagram you can find more information on that. I have included the handles in the show notes.

Yossi's insights, ideas, inspirations and even more significantly the sheer gravity of his presence as one of the world's most powerful storytellers is the reason why I am so excited about today's interview. He has an innate ability to flip paradigms and shift mindsets, and he is deeply passionate about celebrating the natural world. He is grounded in the idea that the world is endlessly abundant, and that life itself is indistinguishable from magic.

Some of the topics we explore in today's episode include.

• The emergence of technology and how that will fundamentally influence what it means to be human.
• We explore universal narratives (such as religion as one example) in order to understand how these stories have in fact disconnected us from the deeper truth - that we are nature. We do not sit above it, or separate from it.
• We explore the power of primal human instinct and body intelligence.
• We unpack how purpose plays out when there is no other choice.
• We also look at why and how we must pursue our gifts in the world, and given Yossi is someone who has nearly drowned twice, faced a jaguar head-on, caught snakes with his bare hands and nearly starved to death amongst other things, he does not speak these words lightly.

So without further delay: Strap yourself in, because we are about to go on a wild adventure with one of the world's greatest thinkers and storytellers. The one and only Yossi Ghinsberg.

https://www.yossighinsberg.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yossi_ghinsberg/

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