IN THE BUSH Podcast - Détails, épisodes et analyse

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Joel sits down with intuitive healer Amanda Mahalik.

In this episode:

Psychic, medium or intuitive healer? Amanda explains the differences and why she prefers "intuitive healer."
How a reading feels. For Amanda everything starts as a feeling, and the words, images and sounds follow.
Staying grounded and keeping boundaries as an empath. Amanda says you can turn the volume up or down.
Amanda's path: a metaphysical store as a teenager, then a three-year clairvoyant intuitive healer program at about 20. She has been doing this work for around 17 years.
Awareness and energy. Joel shares how he places his awareness elsewhere to send healing energy, such as to a friend's kidneys.
Channeling and intention. Amanda talks about 15 years of vocal channeling and how an invocation helps you tune in.
The Akashic Records and the collective unconscious.
Spirit guides: what they are, how to connect with them, and how to use discernment. Guidance from a guide carries love and support, never control or ego-flattery.
Synchronicities and signs, including Joel's owl encounters.
Where humanity is headed: facing fear, staying compassionate, and remembering that nothing is set in stone.

Visit Amanda's website to schedule an intuitive reading and explore her group offerings.

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Physical, mental, and emotional toughness with Greg Everett

Épisode 68

lundi 19 octobre 2026 • Durée 01:08:30

Greg Everett is the founder of Catalyst Athletics, a longtime weightlifting coach, and the author of Tough: Building True Mental, Physical, and Emotional Toughness for Success and Fulfillment. He is known for helping athletes develop not just strength, but the identity and emotional resilience to sustain it.

Joel Van der Loon speaks with Greg Everett about the deeper side of toughness, moving beyond physical grit into emotional self-awareness, identity, and purpose. Greg explains why the hardest challenge for many people is being alone with their own thoughts, and why true resilience requires more than discipline or athletic ability.

We discuss how childhood conditioning, coaching relationships, marriage, fatherhood, and even solo time in the wilderness shape the way men respond to stress, success, and failure. Greg also shares how he helps athletes rebuild their sense of self so their sport supports their life, instead of defining it.

Key topics

In this episode: why emotional toughness matters just as much as physical and mental toughness
Greg explains how solitude strips away distraction and forces buried thoughts and regrets to surface
The difference between performative toughness and the quiet confidence of truly capable people
Why many athletes are held back by old coaching wounds, self-worth issues, and identity built too tightly around sport
How Greg uses the ideas of character, capability, capacity, and commitment to help athletes grow
Why success should be defined by personal growth, not just medals, money, or outside approval
How marriage and fatherhood can become daily training grounds for emotional regulation and self-awareness
Why women, friction, and close relationships often reveal what men most need to work on
The value of getting out into the woods, sitting alone, and journaling to take a life inventory
Greg’s view that a meaningful life is built by contributing more than you consume

Energy healing, somatic release, and what it means to live in flow with Eva Müller

Épisode 67

vendredi 9 octobre 2026 • Durée 01:19:34

Joel Van der Loon and Eva Müller explore energy healing from a practical, experience-led perspective. Joel shares his own intense somatic releases and spiritual transformation after divorce, while Eva explains how she works with high vibrational divine energies to clear stuck emotions, expand the system, and support healing.

We discuss why energy work is difficult to understand until it is felt, how childhood conditioning and stored emotion shape adult life, and why both speakers see present-moment awareness as central to healing. The conversation also covers intuition, vibration, God, and how Eva’s group-based work is designed to support ongoing transformation.

Visit Eva's website www.nextelevations.com to receive energy healing transmissions to improve your life.

To learn more about Eva, book private sessions, our receive free meditations visit https://www.em-healing.com/

Timestamps

00:00 - Joel introduces Eva and frames energy healing as a real, lived experience
03:11 - Joel describes full-body release, chakra work, and somatic clearing
05:45 - Eva explains how she transmits high vibrational divine energies
07:25 - Clearing stuck emotion, ancestral patterns, and past life influences
08:48 - Life energy, chakras, and why openness creates flow
10:55 - Mysticism, direct experience, and why the present moment matters
13:17 - How energetic blockage can become physical illness
15:25 - Resistance, surrender, and staying aligned with life
16:19 - Why the mind drags people into past and future
18:24 - Energy available now versus self-created obstacles
20:45 - Childhood conditioning from ages one to seven
23:04 - Triggers, stored pain, and subconscious belief systems25:01 - Why somatic healing matters more than insight alone27:22 - Eva’s path into energy work and early experiences of silence29:39 - Working beyond the mind and feeling energy in the body33:12 - Energy as vibration, information, and transformation35:07 - Reality as a mirror of inner vibration38:46 - Atoms, nonmatter, and the vibrational nature of reality40:23 - Nature, high vibration, and emotional states44:08 - Clearing low vibrational emotions versus processing them mentally45:41 - Why triggered states lose power once the system is cleared46:37 - Fast-track healing through high vibrational energies47:36 - Sitting with emotion instead of suppressing it49:32 - Joel asks about channeling and guidance51:09 - Eva describes channeling energy and receiving information as knowing52:34 - Hands, intention, and developing a personal framework54:48 - Healing unfinished emotional energy from childhood56:49 - Why the mind is a small part of the human system57:19 - How thoughts are formed from energy and stored information58:40 - Why thoughts disappear when the system clears60:06 - Sensitivity, boundaries, and tuning into energy only when needed66:27 - Eva’s view of God, creation, and the divine mother72:19 - Eva explains her offerings and group-based energetic work74:11 - Free Thursday meditation, guided practice, and Q&A76:34 - Why she works with groups instead of one-on-one sessions78:30 - Closing thanks and invitation to explore the work

Finding Your Life’s Purpose with Joel

Épisode 66

lundi 28 septembre 2026 • Durée 27:17

Joel Van der Loon shares a solo episode on purpose, vulnerability, and the process of uncovering what he believes the soul is here to learn in this lifetime. He explores how childhood conditioning, fear, and unconscious beliefs can block clarity, and why inner honesty, meditation, and time in nature matter for anyone trying to live more authentically.

In this episode, Joel reflects on the tension many men feel around vulnerability, the role of intuition in decision-making, and the difference between chasing external expectations versus listening to inner guidance.

Timestamps

(00:00) Opening the episode and why vulnerability matters
(00:40) Why men struggle to share cringeworthy or sensitive feelings
(01:53) The listener question that inspired the episode
(03:20) Intuition as the way to recognize truth
(04:44) Early signs of passion and life force
(05:26) Family influence, vocation, and choosing passion before money
(06:25) Independence, selfhood, and not being shaped by fear of failure
(07:06) Passion as energy and the soul’s compass
(08:01) Childhood conditioning and how beliefs get programmed early
(08:58) Why self-doubt must be questioned and challenged
(09:27) Thoughts, reality, and the first step toward purpose
(10:08) What he means by life’s purpose and the soul’s lessons
(10:39) Inner peace versus performative spirituality
(11:39) How purpose affects relationships, work, and emotional state
(12:08) Restlessness, authenticity, and midlife purpose-seeking
(13:36) Finding yourself by doing the hard work honestly
(14:45) The Boyd Vardy idea of knowing the destination without knowing the route
(15:15) Surrender, trust, and resisting the need for control
(16:10) Why inner guidance creates more peace than ego control
(17:06) Easy path versus right path
(17:34) The fog analogy, stepping stones, and moving without full certainty(18:32) Signs, synchronicities, and bodily affirmation(19:06) Deprogramming the mind through consistent work(19:36) Why mindset alone is not enough and the body stores emotion(20:35) Somatic work, energy healing, and releasing stored emotion(21:05) Buddha, suffering, and the chatter of the subconscious mind(22:02) Meditation and the idea of higher wisdom or the superconscious(22:43) Simplicity over overcomplicating spirituality(23:11) Why 2027 is framed as a major turning point(24:25) How to meet confusion, agitation, and misalignment(25:10) Stepping into fear and acknowledging it instead of avoiding it(25:39) Taking stock in solitude and deciding what needs to change(26:08) Closing thoughts, feedback, and the future direction of the podcast(27:06) Nature, meditation, and inner tranquility as recurring themes(27:37) Outro and call to subscribe and share

Jamie Bowles of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Épisode 65

vendredi 25 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:28:05

This episode breaks down how Oregon wildlife management actually works, from agency structure and habitat biology to wolf conflict, roadkill, and mule deer decline. Jamie Bowles from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife also shares how traditional bowhunting shaped herunderstanding of animals, predators, and the discipline required to hunt ethically.

In this episode, Joel and Jamie discuss the realities of managing wildlife as a public resource, why habitat fragmentation matters so much, and why “ballot box biology” frustrates working biologists. Jamie also explains how traditional archery changed the way she hunts and how that experience made her a better biologist.

Timestamps

00:00 - Jamie’s role as regional habitat biologist
02:19 - How Oregon’s wildlife agency is structured
03:18 - District wildlife biologists, assistants, and technicians
06:03 - Habitat division and Pittman-Robertson funding
07:01 - What a regional habitat biologist actually does
08:29 - Access and Habitat plus wildlife habitat tax incentives
10:15 - Wolf biologists and non-game wildlife work
11:12 - Game animals versus non-game animals
13:25 - Why wildlife cannot simply be left alone
14:48 - Wildlife management is really people management
17:04 - Why humans and wildlife inevitably conflict
18:29 - Bear conflicts, low berry production, and human food attractants
20:54 - Why wildlife is a public resource
21:23 - Ballot box biology and bear hunting methods
25:35 - Habitat loss, fragmentation, and migration barriers
27:29 - Roads, fences, and why fawns and calves struggle
29:48 - Wildlife corridors and winter range protection
32:10 - Mule deer numbers and historical decline
34:32 - Predators are not the only cause of decline
37:48 - Reporting roadkill with iNaturalist
38:47 - Wildlife crossings and future conservation priorities41:41 - Funding challenges and the need for new conservation models43:48 - A hunter’s perspective on nuance and stewardship49:01 - Wolves, boundaries, and the reality of dispersal51:33 - Jamie’s path into hunting and traditional archery55:11 - Learning archery after years in wildlife work60:40 - Why traditional bowhunting forces closeness and patience62:08 - Building an arrow setup and tuning for traditional archery65:18 - Spot-and-stalk, tracking, and the challenge of archery hunting70:53 - The first grouse Jamie harvested with a recurve73:34 - Redefining success in traditional bowhunting76:28 - Adrenaline, shot control, and knowing when to move82:11 - Why the full hunt matters more than just the harvest86:29 - A first wolf encounter while hunting87:57 - Calling elk, hunting with a friend, and a near opportunity91:43 - How traditional bowhunting improves her biology work97:22 - Trusting intuition, slowing down, and listening in the field98:45 - Jamie’s social presence and artwork100:05 - Final call for public involvement in wildlife management

Ryan Levinson on purpose, surrender, and rebuilding identity through adversity

Épisode 64

samedi 12 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:31:21

Joel van der Loon sits down with Ryan Levinson for a wide-ranging conversation about diagnosis, risk, purpose, masculinity, and what it means to keep moving when your body changes. Ryan shares the arc from his mid twenties diagnosis with FSH muscular dystrophy to the decade he spent sailing in French Polynesia, and how those experiences reshaped his sense of self. This episode matters because it goes beyond a success story and gets into the harder question of how to stay oriented when the old sources of identity no longer fit.

In this episode, Ryan Levinson shares how his diagnosis in his mid twenties with FSH muscular dystrophy changed the trajectory of his life.
Joel and Ryan trace Ryan’s early identity through surfing, skateboarding, and a rebellious streak that pushed against school, family expectations, and conventional career paths.
Ryan explains the suicidal moment in college through a mistaken philosophy about living close to death, and how a friend interrupting that night changed everything.
The two discuss how surfing, the ocean, and later sailing became spiritual anchors through movement, challenge, and clarity of purpose.
Ryan describes how the diagnosis unexpectedly opened doors, shifting how others saw him from lazy or unrealistic to inspirational and capable.
They talk through the decision to buy a sailboat and live aboard in French Polynesia for a decade, including the fear, surrender, and transformation that came with leaving the dock.
Ryan shares how disease progression has changed his body, his daily capabilities, and his relationship to purpose, protection, and being a partner to Nicole.
Joel introduces a spiritual lens around knowing oneself, shadow work, and authenticity as the path to meaning.
Ryan reflects on how much of his life has been driven by perseverance, and how he now has to reassess his limits much more frequently.
The conversation closes with mutual gratitude, vulnerability, and Ryan sharing where people can find him online.

Timestamps

Upcoming training courses with Joel

Épisode 63

lundi 10 novembre 2025 • Durée 25:47

Joel gives an update about the podcast and also talks about the upcoming courses through his school.

The holistic fair chase hunting course and the Hadza full immersion adventure are available for booking. spots are limited. please check out www.bushsurvivaltraining.com

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Rite of passage and Vision quests with Darren Silver

Épisode 62

mercredi 30 juillet 2025 • Durée 01:11:58

Darren Silver, MA, is a rite of passage guide, Nature-Connected Coach, ceremonialist, and innovative educator. He has nearly two decades of experience working with ritual, wilderness living skills, and guiding transformational experiences residentially and internationally. A gifted storyteller and apprentice to the old myths, Darren weaves the power of the natural world, vision, and community in devotion to the remembrance of regenerative culture.

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Traditional bow hunting chat with Cole and Joel

Épisode 61

lundi 14 juillet 2025 • Durée 01:03:15

Cole and Joel talk talk about a variety of subjects including hunting with a traditional bow and things to consider with your setup.

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Death, Alignment, and questioning your thoughts with Justin Egliskis

Épisode 60

mardi 24 juin 2025 • Durée 01:12:48

Justin Egliskis is a unique individual with a desire to help people align their energy and feel fulfillment in their lives. His perspective is refreshing and certainly promotes contemplation around how to live life as a better man.