Welcome to Episode 33 of  The Pursuit of Enhancement Podcast.

This week on the podcast is part 2 of my conversation with Laura from Fresh Evoke.

If you missed part one make sure to go and have a listen after today's episode.

For those that didn't catch last week's episode let's recap on what Fresh Evoke is and it's mission.

Fresh Evoke is a website that will make it easier for you to find mind opening events that give you a sense of community and fill you with inspiration to make positive changes in your life. These events could be anything from a sustainability talk, a holistic festival, to a healing circle.

Fresh Evoke wants to help you meet new people that inspire you and encourage you to pursue the stuff that gets the fire in your belly roaring. You should feel full of inspiration and energy everyday. Fresh Evoke hopes to play a small part in helping you achieve that.

Last week we spoke about Laura's journey and the genesis of Fresh Evoke.

This we talk about

-Some events that have had a real impact on Laura's path
- The merits of attending such events, how it can be so impactful to your life, it's direction and reframing what you want your life to look like.
- The economic system, reinventing it, reassessing what we want out norms to be and not having our value based solely around our economic output.
- The importance of intergenerational communities.
- Getting back that energetic, enthusiastic feeling that you had as a child, and 

Overall this discussion is a reminder that we can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are, or, we can decide for ourselves and spend our lives inventing something better.

Leave a comment and let me know what stood out for you. If you’d like to take it one step further and could take the time to write a review that would be amazing. Getting reviews is what really makes the difference to increasing the visibility of the podcast.

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Thanks for listening, I will catch you next week..

In the mean time remember to

Work hard on yourself.
Be Kind.
Stay humble
And smile often.

The Pursuit of Enhancement

#33 Laura Tyley Pt 2/2 – The Urgent Need For Change!

Welcome to Episode 34.

This week I have the pleasure of being joined from California, by Timber Hawkeye.

Timber Hawkeye is the bestselling author of Buddhist Boot Camp and Faithfully Religionless and host of The Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast.

He prescribes gratitude as medicine for people to heal themselves from the inside out, inviting the best version of you to resurface. This inevitably leads to the true meaning of success (being happy), and significantly better health (mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual). Timber's intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life, by sharing mindfulness-enhancing techniques that anyone can relate to and implement in their daily lives.

A few years ago Timber traveled the United States and stayed with different host families. In that time he observed that as a culture we tend to cover our eyes and then cry that it is dark. After a few months the pain in his heart become too much to bear, he wanted to surround himself with people who were at least consciously aware of our habitual tendency to self destruct. So he moved into a zen monastery, completely off the grid with no mobile or phone connection.

After a year at 2 different temples he realised he was of no benefit to the world if he kept himself tucked away at a monastery. He recognised in all of us that there is hunger for inner peace, for tranquility, for that inner conflict to stop. He envisioned a very simple guide to being happy, be grateful because gratitude has a way of turning what we have into enough and that is luxury, that is being rich.

In the episode we talk about

- Life lessons
- His journey and experiences and what led him to those moments and events
- Unlearning some of the things we’ve picked up along the way
- Seeking a simple and uncomplicated life
- Taking time to discover why you believe what you do and also questioning some of it rather than just going our entire lives doing what we’ve always done and expecting different results.
- Letting go of our suffering, our past and not being the victim and always looking for someone to blame.
- His books Buddhist Bootcamp and Faithfully Religionless.

The main theme of our conversation is about unlearning, letting go and relearning. Letting go of the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, not playing the victim and being free. When we stop playing the victim, who are we then? That is the key and centres around much of our conversation.

I hope you enjoy it.

Leave a comment and let me know what stood out for you. If you’d like to take it one step further and could take the time to write a review that would be amazing.

Full show notes bit.ly/buddhistbootcamp

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I have a special mid week announcement coming next week so stay tuned for that.

In the mean time remember to

Work hard on yourself.

Be Kind.

Stay humble

And smile often.

#34 Timber Hawkeye Pt 1/1 – Struggle Is Not A Requirement!

What’s up everybody and welcome back to the pursuit of enhancement, my name is Peter Ledwidge and I’m your host.

I’m coming to you this week with a special mid week announcement. It’s something that has been on my mind for a while and it’s with a heavy heart that I make this announcement and it is not a decision that I have made lightly.

For the last few months, life has been getting increasingly hectic and at times overwhelming. Keeping the podcast running and being able to give it the energy that I envisioned and that it, my guests and you the audience deserve has become increasingly difficult. 

There is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to bring an episode to air, So after much deliberation I have decided to take a break until I can give it my full focus again. With life being busier I've found it more and more of a challenge to devote to the podcast with timelines getting tighter and tighter and I've really been feeling the pressure

Out of respect for myself, the guests and you the audience I'd rather wait until I know I can give it my best rather than producing work which that is at 60 or 80% of what it should be.

So for now I’m sad to say that this will be the end of season 1 and I will be returning next year when I will have the time I need to devote to the podcast and produce work at a level that it deserves.

I’d like to take this time to thank so many people that have made this possible.

Thank you to the guests who have been on so far. I was overwhelmed by the response and the openness to tell their story. I now feel like I have 15 new friends in my life

When I decided to start this podcast I didn’t know what to expect and It turned out to be more than I had anticipated 

Thank you so much to all you guys who have listened, left comments, given feedback. It has been amazing to hear how the episodes have impacted you. That was all I ever wanted, to impact people in any small way that could help them in their lives that is what makes it all worth it.

Make sure to subscribe to me on instagram www.instagram.com/thepursuitofenhancement, I will be staying active on there while I’m away. That’s where I will announce when season 2 will be coming back and share details of future guests too.

So for now thank you so much. Have a great rest of the year and I'll speak to you in 2019, renewed, and revitalised and who knows where I'll be recording from. Exciting times are ahead. 

That's it from me for now. I'm Peter Ledwidge, this is the pursuit of enhancement podcast, I'll catch you next year. In the mean time remember to
Work hard on yourself
Be kind
Stay humble
And smile often.

Special - Announcement - End of Season 1

Welcome to The Pursuit of Enhancement Podcast.

I have moved platforms. To catch the latest episodes please go to https://anchor.fm/thepursuitofenhancement

Each week I sit down to talk in-depth with guests that push the boundaries of conventional living, driven by the singular pursuit of being on an unrelenting quest to continually expand the horizons of their body, mind and spirit.

The aim is to learn more about them and from them; their story, the work they are doing, the highs, the lows, the triumphs, the heartaches and everything in between.

Success isn’t a straight line and it isn’t pretty, even if it may look that way on social media. I want to find out all that has gone into getting my guests to where they are today

I hope that with these conversations there may be someone that gives you the spark, inspires you or stirs something within you that will give you the courage to take a chance on you.