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Click here to send a text to Christian and DougRelive the magic of Volkswagens in film and life as we kick off with a nostalgic journey back into cinematic history with our special guest and dear friend Kelly. Ever wondered about the thrill and trials of owning a vintage car? We share personal tales of keeping a classic Volkswagen Bug alive, with its quirks and the community it fosters. From a Buick's throttle cable misadventure to the art of driving stick on an 85' Fiero, these stories reflect the resourcefulness required to maintain these beloved machines. High school friendships forged over repair struggles and the dream of a Volkswagen Westfalia bus come alive, enriched by the discovery of a pristine 1966 Volkswagen bus and familial influences that shape our automotive passion. Our conversation ventures across the globe as we explore the distinctive driving culture in Japan, where obtaining a license is a prized achievement. Personal stories about navigating the bustling streets of Tokyo on a motorcycle or a Honda Stream spotlight the unique aspects of Japanese car life. Kelly is a veteran who boldly transitioned to entrepreneurship, sharing his journey from military life to running a successful business. His story of resilience and adaptability offers inspiration, as we celebrate his achievements and the vibrant Florida weather that makes his work all the more enjoyable.#vw #vwbug #vdub #farfegnugen #carsloved #everycartellsastory #everycarhasaculture #toallthecarsivelovedbefore #podcast #carcastRemember to Follow/Subscribe and visit https://linktr.ee/carsloved to find all of our episodes and latest content.

If you want to live a life according to your values, not fear, you're in the right place. I am going to give you a detailed look at how you can do this for yourself, but I will also show you how not to do this. Lots of people are talking about this idea of living life according to their values, not fear. I want to really inspire you, highlight the way that you can do this, and also show you how it cannot be done so well. I'll actually give you some personal experiences. Hopefully, my goal here is to inspire you to live a life where your values lead the way and fear no longer makes your decisions. Your fear is no longer in the driver's seat; you are. If that's good for you, let's go.  Hello, my name is Kimberley Quinlan. I'm a marriage and family therapist. I, myself, have struggled for many years with anxiety. In little ways, anxiety just took away the things I wanted, took me away from doing the things I wanted, showing up the way I wanted, and learning how to live a life according to my values, not fear, has literally changed my life.  Now, my hope here is that I can explain this to you. There have been times where my clients have said, “I'm hearing about this idea of values, but it literally doesn't make any sense to me. Like, how would I navigate that?” So my hope here is to make it nice and clear, give you some clarity and some directions so that you too can live your life according to your values and not fear.  Now, the thing to remember here is that this idea of values has probably been spoken about in many different modalities, but the one that's really popular right now that people are talking about is a type of therapy modality called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. What they do is they talk about values as this idea of principles that govern how you want to act. Again, it's not being perfect. It's principles that are going to guide you.  Now, unlike just setting goals, values are never fully accomplished. They're something that involves continuous behaviors. They're small baby decisions and little pivots that you are going to make throughout your entire life, and they guide your choices and your decisions according to the person that you want to be, the kind of person you want to see yourself as, or that you identify with.  Now, often when we're talking about values, the biggest question I get asked is, “How do I determine these values?” Let's just stop for a minute and just talk about how we're going to apply this.  As you probably already know, fear is a very, very good motivator, and it's a driver of behaviors. Let's say you're just walking along or you're at home enjoying your day, and then you have a thought or a feeling of danger, like what if something really bad happens? For you, it will be a specific thought or feeling, but for the sake of just making this really broad, basically, your brain has interpreted, “There might be something wrong. There could be danger. Bad things could happen. I feel uncertain about the future.”  When that happens, our natural human instinct is to fight that fear, run away from that fear, freeze in that fear, or go into people-pleasing mode. We call it the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn response. This is a normal human reaction. We all do it. It's nothing to be ashamed of. It doesn't mean that you're wrong or bad.  If there was actual danger, if there was somebody who was intruding on you or making you uncomfortable and that you were in danger, this 5Fs, the FFFFF approach, is a very appropriate response to being in danger. But when our brain tricks us or sets off the alarm, the danger alarm too fast or inappropriately, we often perceive there to be danger, and we go into a response where we respond to that fear as if it is a real danger, and before we know it, we've completely gone in the wrong direction from the way we wanted our day to be.  Again, I might be dropping off my children at school, and I might have the thought, “What if something happens to them today?” I have to make a decision in that moment whether I'm going to respond to that fear, that thought, that feeling as if it's fact, or if it is just a thought, a feeling, or an experience or sensation.  The first step here is being able to stop and identify when fear is showing up and identify then, “How do I want to respond?” And that's where your values come in.  What I'm going to encourage you to do once you've finished listening to this is go onto Google or whatever search engine you use and Google ‘Values List PDF.' There are hundreds of them, and they're going to give you a list of all of the different values that you then may want to think about as things that can guide you in the direction that lines up with the way you want to show up in your life.  Again, think of it like a crossroads. You're going up to this crossroad; there's a stop sign. The stop sign says, “There could be danger here.” You have to make a decision. Am I going to take a right or a left, which doesn't matter, towards fear and trying to resolve that fear, or am I going to make a left where I act according to my values? On these lists that you've Googled, you will see an extensive list of ways in which you can respond right now. Some examples of values would be patience, kindness, strength, integrity, and honesty. That's just a few. Like I said, there's hundreds of these. And then you can start to decide for yourself which value you want to lead with your step forward. What do they say? Put your best foot forward. That's what we're talking about here—the value that you pick is going to be the one that helps you in the long term, is the most skilled response, and is the one that lines up with who you want to be and how you want to be. Again, think of it through the lens of the one-year-old or the three-month-old you. What would you want that person to do? And that's how we can then start to choose values over fear. So, so important now.  A lot of people get overwhelmed with the list. Let me help you get clear on how to determine the values that you're going to choose. Number one, pick values that have always led you in the right direction. Do a little inventory on when was the time that I really showed up for myself, or I showed up in a way I wanted to in an uncomfortable situation. What was one of the values that led me in the right direction? Often, with patients, I'll ask them, “What was a time where you really had to muster through a really difficult time?” And they'll think about, “Oh, there was this one time where there was this one sort of emergency, or I was running a marathon.” I'll say, “Okay, great. You were able to achieve that. What were the values that got you through that uncomfortable time?” And there it falls very quickly without even looking at the list. It could be some values that matter to you or that have been effective for you.  Another option is, pick values that give you a sense of purpose that helps you look in the long term, not just with short-term relief, but long-term accomplishment, long-term mastery, and long-term relief. In addition to that, pick a value that feels like it serves you in the ‘you-est you' you can be. I know that's a funny way. I say that with my patients all the time, like, “What's the ‘you-est you' that you can be? What value would lead you towards the ‘you-est you' that you can be?” Because we're all different and we all show up in different ways. We have different strengths and different challenges. So we want this to be very specific to you.  But there is an important thing to remember here. There are no “right values.” You are going to look at this list. And as I did when I first started doing this work, I was like, “Oh my gosh, which ones should I pick?” Often, and this is one of the problems that I found, when I looked at them, I ended up with this long list of all the things I wanted to be. I was like, “Check, check. Yes, I want to be that. Yes, I want to be that. Yes, that's a value of mine. Yes, that's a value.” It was kind of like a want-to-be list. I had basically highlighted the majority of the values on the list. They were all important to me.  But what we're talking about here is, yes, they might be all important to you, but the goal is just pick two or three to start with. What we want to do here is pick two or three that will help you with this specific struggle or problem that you're working through. If it's fear and it's anxiety, well, let's work on that. But if you're going through a medical condition, a family issue, a relationship issue, or an academic issue, you can then make a decision on, “What are the two or three values that will help me get through that particular problem?” Another issue that often people ask me about is that theyre getting overwhelmed with this idea of “I want all these things in my life.” What we end up doing is using this idea of values as a way to fix their humanness, that these values work can become a breeding ground for perfectionism. This was the case for me. I was like, “Yes, a good person would check off that one,” and “I wish I was more generous. Yes, I'll check that off.” It really just ended up making me feel guilty about who I was. I was really picking values based on what I thought a “good person” would pick.  We want to move away from that because, yes, you're going to look at this list of values as I did and be like, “I want to be all those things. I want to show up in those ways all the time, every day.” But the truth is, you're a human being. You're a messy human being, as am I, and we don't want to overload ourselves with values and these ideas in a way that just is a way of being perfectionistic, hyper-responsible, and overly moral. We want these values to guide us towards being the person we want to be, but we don't want to pick them with this idea that we have to fix our humanness. We're still going to be human. We're still going to make mistakes. We're still going to hurt people and say things that we wish we didn't, and we can still go and repair that and show up as best as we can and be the best that we can. But please don't use values as a way of raising the level so high and the expectation so high that you are destined to fail and destined to feel bad about yourself. We want to be as compassionate and realistic as we can as we do this valued work.  The solution is to be gentle and kind as you peruse these values. Maybe you need to put your pen down and your highlighter down and just take a second to acknowledge that you might not be in a season where you can choose the “good Samaritan” values. You mightn't be in a season where you can choose some of the values on the list. I know when I was really sick from a chronic illness, and I looked at this values list, generosity was a big value that showed up where I was like highlighting, “Yes, I want to be more generous.” But I wasn't in a season where I had the capacity to give back. I was in a season where I needed help from other people. And so I had to stop in that moment and look at the list and say, “Given the season I'm in, which of these values will help me recover?” I had to work through a little bit of self-judgment and a little disappointment and sadness that I wasn't in a season where being generous was the priority, at the top of the list.  You can still be a respectful, compassionate person while you work on whatever struggle you're working on. Absolutely. It doesn't mean we're giving you permission to not be a good person. But we have to be able to prioritize and bring things up to the top, but without discounting or thinking black and white that because they're not at the top, that makes us a bad person. Just because I couldn't put generosity at the tippy top of my list and priorities for values didn't make me a bad person. It just meant that because I was in this season, I had to reprioritize values to get me through this season so I could move on to being in the next season, which might have generosity at the top.  Here is a pro tip with this, and I talked about this before. Find one area that you want to improve, and pick one to two values that might help you course-correct. Just do a small pivot. We don't want to overcorrect. We want to do just a very slight course correction to start.  Today, we're talking about choosing values over fear. In this case, it might be a small value. Something that's there for you that will help you face that fear. That being said, let me also say, if your fear is really loud and really aggressive and it's hitting you from every angle, you might need to pick a value that's actually very, very, very important to you, the most important to you, and have just that one thing. Often, and here's an example—but please, I don't want you guys to feel you have to use this or feel like you're a bad person if you don't use this—a lot of my patients put family at the top of their values when they're talking about managing their anxiety. If they have an anxiety disorder that's taken so much from their life, they might say, “My kid is my highest value. And so when fear shows up, I'm going to imagine a picture of my kid, and I'm going to move towards that fear because that allows me to be with that kid,” or that partner or that parent.  Other people might say, “My career matters to me so much that when fear shows up, because I want that career so much, I'm willing to be uncomfortable. I'm willing to ride some big, big waves of discomfort. I'm not going to choose fear anymore when I get to that crossroads; I'm going to choose that one really important fear.” Underneath, there might be a smaller one like compassion, hopefully. But again, you get to choose. You get to choose what's right for you. This is your journey. Please do not let anybody tell you what your values should and should not be.  Now, one of the reasons that I was so committed to doing this episode today was that I recently have come upon a realization about values that I didn't know were there, which is that sometimes your values can compete. Now, I talk to my patients about this all the time. That wasn't the part that shocked me. Let's talk about what that might look like. Often, people get confused. “Well, if I have these values, what if they compete with each other?” Let me give you a personal example.  For me personally—but please don't use this as your values unless they line up with your values—I highly value, number one, work ethic and discipline. It is a huge part of how I was raised. I love the fact that I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very, very disciplined. It is something I hold as a very high priority, has gotten me through some very difficult times, and has allowed me to have the life that I am trying to create. My second value is compassion, and I'm still working on that. It doesn't mean I'm perfect at it, but it's still a high value. The third is family—my family. My husband and my children are probably the most important things to me above all. The fourth is my mental health. Now they're in order, but depending on the day, they will switch, as I've talked to you about before. But then patients will often ask me if I share that: “But that doesn't make sense. If work ethic is a value, but family is a value, how do I make both of those happen? Does that mean I have to choose to be a stay-at-home mom and be with my family? But if I go to work, obviously, I'm not valuing my family. They're competing with each other.” Some people will say, “I really value rest, but I really value exercise or being strong. How do I make room for both of those? They're competing.”  The thing to remember here with values is, it's not always, as I said, in the same order. Throughout our day, because we have to be flexible, we can make room for multiple values at a time, and we can find balance within these values. I can show up to work or right here today and give everything I have, and then still show up for my kids later on. It doesn't mean I have to give my whole attention to that one value all day, every day, consistently at a hundred percent. Because I value compassion, some days that will mean I take a break, or I value mental health means I don't have a strong work ethic or be with my kids. I take a drive, I go to the beach, or I take a walk and have some time to myself.  It's important to recognize that while it might feel like these values are competing, it's not. It's about us finding a balance of using them to guide us, but not, again, making them perfect.  Any time, when we're using these values, when we're going overboard with them, we want to catch our rigidity in making them the only thing that we do, the only way we think, and the only way we act. We want this to be a flexible, moving target. As we said, values are never finished. They're never completed. They're something that we are constantly checking in with ourselves. What do I need? The most beautiful, compassionate question—what do I need? And using values to guide us, not fear—values. Allowing those values to decide what's important to us, decide how we want to show up, and decide what the future me would want me to do.  Now, this is where I have gotten stuck, and here is where I've found a-- how would I say it? A problem. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's just me. But I want to bring it up in case this is true for you too. Now, I've already shared with you my core values. There's work ethic and discipline, compassion, my family, and my mental health. These are all incredibly important to me, depending on the season, the day, the hour, and the minute. But I realized recently that work ethic, while it's one of my biggest values, is actually partially fueled by fear. I'm holding it as a value, but it's actually a partial fear response. Let me explain.  Often, and this is something I want you to look out for, fear will dress up as values and pretend to be values when really it's just fear. Think of it as a Halloween costume. Fear is like, “Oh, I know how to trump this system. I'm going to dress up as a value and show up in Kimberley's life (or in your life), and I'm going to pretend I'm a value, but I'm actually really fear. I hope she doesn't catch that I'm actually in a costume and I'm actually really fear. And so I'm going to see if this works.” I do genuinely value work ethic and discipline. Like I said to you before, it has really given me so many beautiful things in my life and has allowed me to show up and serve you guys, and it's been wonderful. But when I was with a client, we were talking about this exact problem, and I asked them a question, which was, if that value—when we're talking about values—if that showed up, what would the non-anxious, trusting version of you do in this moment? And they realized that it was not the values they'd been working on. And then I thought, “Oh my goodness. I'm going to actually check in with myself on this, because if I asked myself, what would the non-anxious, trusting version of myself do in this moment, a lot of the time it wouldn't be work ethic and discipline.” I realized that a small part of my work ethic and discipline is coming from a place of fear that if I don't stay disciplined, that if I don't hold my work ethic, everything will fall apart and bad things will happen.  This stopped me in my tracks because—again, I want to reinforce this—my values were being tricked by fear. Fear was actually leading a part of that important value, or maybe I could say it was coming in and taking advantage of that value, and it might do that for you as well.  And so what I want you to think about when you're looking at values—and again, please don't put pressure on yourself that you have to get this perfect. It's a work in progress. I've been doing this work for a decade, and only now I'm realizing this—is slow down and just check in on “What would the non-anxious, trusting version of myself do in this moment?” I think that is where we can actually really get to the crux of “What are your values?” Again, they will be ever-changing. Again, we will be forgiving and kind to the fact that we're still messy human beings. We don't have to get it perfect. But it did open me up to realizing a value that I didn't know was so important to me.  When I asked myself this question, I actually realized that the answer is playfulness and stillness—these two values that I've never really relied on. As I look back at my PDF of values, I've never highlighted them. When I asked myself this question of what would the trusting version and the non-anxious part of me do, playfulness and stillness was the value that rose up to the surface. It was a beautiful moment. I actually cried. Now, from that, and I'm actually going to tell you a little bit of my news, I thought to myself, how could I implement playfulness and stillness into my life where I still value work ethic, compassion, family, and mental health? Into my mind came the image of a Volkswagen bus. Do you remember the old hippie buses? We call them Kombis in Australia. That was what showed up for me. Like, if I could show up in my business from a place of playfulness and stillness, I wouldn't be working from this office. I would be working from a 45-year-old Volkswagen bus. And so I did. I did exactly that. I went and bought a Volkswagen van. It's a 1985 Volkswagen Westfalia. I love, love vintage cars. I am actually a car person. I don't know if you know that about me, but I love vintage cars, and I never allowed myself to really think about doing this. I've loved them forever. I've looked at them forever. I've wanted one forever, but I've always thought, “That's not high on my priority list right now.” Until I realized that if I'm going to move towards trusting myself and honoring this bigger piece of me, playfulness and stillness have to come up on that list as well. So if you live in Los Angeles and you see a gold Volkswagen Westfalia—it has, like I said, 195,000 miles on it—if you see one of those driving around Los Angeles and you see me, please beep your horn. That will be me driving around and parking my van at a beautiful place and working from there from now on, and that is my hope. That is my hope for myself, and I hope that you can use values to discover who you are so that you can be the ‘you-est you' you can be. I love the idea of implementing values into recovery. That is why I think act is so important as a complementary treatment to anxiety. I think that with some care, compassion, and some thoughtfulness, you too can identify the values that are important to you and learn to live and act from those values, not fear. I hope that has been helpful for you today. I have had so much fun chatting with you about values. I am sending you so much love. Do not forget, it is a beautiful day to do hard things. I will see you next week. Have a wonderful day.

"I will never have another vagabonding journey that compares to that first one -- even though I have since traveled to far more exotic parts of the world -- in part because there's something special about embarking on a long-term trip for the first time." --Rolf Potts In this encore episode of Deviate, Rolf and his old friend Jeff Nienaber talk about their 8-month van trip across North America back in 1994, how they prepared for it, and how it differed from current-day #VanLife excursions (5:30); how they exercised on the road, and how the conditions and travel-hacks of van journeys were different for two young men in 1994 (23:30); the route they took through North America, what happened along the way, and how they kept daily journals recounting events (36:00); the experience riding with cops in Houston, celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans, volunteering at a church in Mississippi, meeting girls in Florida, and seeing New York for the first time (51:00); the experience of staying at a Trappist monastery in Massachusetts for one week (1:14:30); visiting National Parks in the American South, Northeast, and West, and memorable books read along the way (1:28:00); and why the trip was life-changing (1:42:00). Van trip preparation and planning links: Digital nomadism (travel lifestyle) #VanLife (travel lifestyle) Composting toilet Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon (1982 book) On the Road, by Jack Kerouac (1957 book) Travels With Charley, by John Steinbeck (1962 book) Vanagon (Volkswagen van) Volkswagen Westfalia (camper van) Trangia (alcohol-burning camp-stove) A (literal) photo album from my 1994 van vagabonding trip (blog post) Links regarding early months of the 1994 trip: 924 Gilman Street (Berkeley punk club) Northridge earthquake (1994 earthquake) "The Mystical High Church of Luck" (Salon essay about Las Vegas) Lollapalooza (music festival) O. J. Simpson murder case (1994 media incident) USCGC Northwind (Coast Guard icebreaker) Bourbon Street (historic street in New Orleans) The Geto Boys, by Rolf Potts (2016 book) Fifth Ward (Houston neighborhood) Cops (TV show) Canton (town in Mississippi) In His Steps (Mississippi Christian outreach ministry) Waffle House (southern restaurant chain) Savannah State (historically black university) Debbie Does Dallas (1978 pornographic film) Tompkins Square (New York park) Trappist monastery experience links: St. Joseph's Abbey (Massachusetts monastery) Trappists (order of Catholic monks) Thomas Merton (Trappist monk and writer) Memento Mori (existential expression) Chant (1994 Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos album) Compline (end-of-day church service) Links regarding the final months of the 1994 trip: Ocala National Forest (protected area in Florida) Shenandoah National Park (Virginia wilderness area) Mount Washington (tallest mountain the northeast U.S.) Arches National Park (Utah wilderness area) Fisher Towers (photogenic cliffs near Moab, Utah) Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey (1968 book) Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (1855 poetry collection) The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham (1944 book) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M Pirsig (1974 book) Uinta National Forest (protected area in Utah) Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming wilderness area) Glacier National Park (Montana wilderness area) Pike National Forest (protected area in Colorado) The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel's 2017 album Lumber. Note: We don't host a “comments” section, but we're happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at deviate@rolfpotts.com.

***We're back in Zoom interviews because of the Big C*** Jennifer Jackson, Registered Nurse, future Psych and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Blogger with Living Genuinely Ginger, joins me to discuss working as an RN in the NICU, why new mothers need more mental health and support resources offered to them, how her challenges during her 20s inspired her to do the inner work and live a more balanced life, the inspiration to buy a Volkswagen Westfalia, and why you should be very particular about who you spend your time with in episode 142.

A Colombian family of four packed their bags and placed them in their 1981 Volkswagen Westfalia to take a life-changing trip along the Pan-American Highway.

A Colombian family of four packed their bags and placed them in their 1981 Volkswagen Westfalia to take a life-changing trip along the Pan-American Highway.

In this episode, Claire will be your trail guide while exploring her perspective of vanlife with her guest South Burton. Claire and South have traveled many miles in her 1991 Volkswagen Westfalia and have learned different ways to understand the vanlife lifestyle along the way. They speak on everything from where to park at night, to staying hydrated, finding showers, sustainability, finances, the vanlife community, cooking on the road and finding time for themselves while sharing such a small space. They share their advice on how to choose the proper rig depending on preferences, staying aligned with your passions while on the road and finding your own Healthy Trails along the way. To learn more information on Healthy Trails visit: www.healthytrails.net Claire's Instagram: www.instagram.com/clairelawlor Healthy Trails Instagram: www.instagram.com/healthytrails South's Instagram: www.instagram.com/southburton

Get to know Regular Car Reviews host Nick Roman as speaks he speaks with Joe about how RCR got started, how he met Mr. Regular, and his writing process. Nick is promoting a Regular Car Reviews mini-documentary on the Volkswagen Westfalia; it is heartfelt, authentic, and has high production values. Watch it here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb7eMKf497g). While you are on YouTube make sure to checkout Limited Time Roman. Follow @JoeQCar on Twitter and Instagram

Get to know Regular Car Reviews host Nick Roman as speaks he speaks with Joe about how RCR got started, how he met Mr. Regular, and his writing process. Nick is promoting a Regular Car Reviews mini-documentary on the Volkswagen Westfalia; it is heartfelt, authentic, and has high production values. Watch it here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb7eMKf497g). While you are on YouTube make sure to checkout Limited Time Roman. Follow @JoeQCar on Twitter and Instagram

#1: Validation SeekingWhile your creative brain is too proud to beg for validation, it is not above manipulating other humans into “stumbling” on your work by “mistake.”When unsuccessful, you may find yourself resorting to increasingly obvious tactics, such as leaving your laptop open on the dining room table, laughing out loud, or the classic “posting work to Facebook and then batch-liking your entire news feed in the hopes of digital reciprocity.”Solution: Seek your own validation.#2: CatastrophizingAnxiety is just creativity flipped upside down and when your carousel of horrors gets spinning, you can start to lose touch with reality.Despite your best efforts to calm the fuck down, your creative brain pulls you toward Facebook, where you message anyone who is even vaguely qualified to diagnose your problem. You instantly regret hitting “send” and start brainstorming ways to assure your friends you are not completely crazy.Solution: Write down three DIY solutions before asking for help.#3: Creative ADHDMmmm. There's nothing your creative brain loves more than starting new projects. In fact, you collect them like Pokemon cards.Hand-coded WordPress plugins, clever logo redesigns, advertising campaigns for imaginary clients, trap beats, 4-minute mile training plans, tiny house schematics…it's all very impressive. Except that you never finish any of it and no one trusts a single word out of your mouth other than “hello.”Solution: Pick one thing and do it every day for a whole year.#4: Making Rash DecisionsAs a creative person, your superpower is seeing things differently. This allows you to make decisions quickly, while others drag their feet, but it can leave you vulnerable to the whims of shiny object syndrome.“If only,” your creative brain says. If only we had that $2,000 guitar. If only we had that granular synthesis plugin. If only we had a designer hoodie and a studio and Volkswagen Westfalia and a German Shepard puppy and ten thousand followers…THEN we could make music.Solution: You already have everything you need.#5: Overestimating Your Time & EnergyYou want to say yes so badly. Because yes means new adventures. Sadly, you are not Elasti-Girl (or Guy) and you can't be everywhere.Actually, you can hardly be anywhere. Yes, you can work eight hours and then go to a networking event and then get drinks with friends and then go home and freelance, but in two months' time you will have transformed into a full-grown burnout zombie.You will drag around moaning “yessss…yessss…” and people will stop inviting you to stuff because they know your “yesss” is a “no.”Solution: Say no first and ask questions later.#6: Going From Zero to a HundredYou spend a lot of time talking to your creative brain, which is fine, but unlike your brain, other human beings require context.When you finally match with someone interesting on OkCupid, it occurs to you only in retrospect that you should not have started the conversation by comparing their artwork to a bizarre abstract painter who was recently recommended to you by a dominatrix.Solution: Start with the weather and then accelerate.#7: Disorganized ConductAlthough you are secretly a genius, your boss and coworkers interpret your tangled exterior as a sign that you do not have your shit together.You struggle with basic tasks like tracking your time and putting cover sheets on TPS reports, but, to be fair, this is not because you're an idiot. Your creative brain is simply not motivated by meaningless bullshit.Solution: Continue to not give a fuck about meaningless bullshit. (:

Several years ago when I wasn't really sure what direction my life was taking, one of the ideas I kept coming back to was getting a Volkswagen Westfalia van and just driving around the country, allowing the universe to put interesting people and experiences in my path rather than trying to follow a specific plan. I hadn't started podcasting yet, nor had I picked up my paint brushes again, so the “what I would be doing to actually support myself” aspect of it was pretty nebulous. Still, I loved the idea and for years it was a running joke between my friend Jude and me. Whenever one of us was dealing with some sort of personal or existential challenge, the other would respond with “well, you could always get a Westfalia van and just drive around.”For Dutch photographer Maarten Rots and his wife Anne, the dream of van life has become a reality. For 6 to 8 months a year, they trade their home in the Netherlands for a Ford Transit camper van and travel throughout Europe, often without a fixed destination. For Maarten, this way of traveling almost by instinct has proven to be the catalyst for some of his most compelling work both as an itinerant solo artist and as a collaborator with other artists he meets along the way.While I know the reality of it is not always as romantic as the way we see it from a distance, I can't say I'm not just a little envious. In this conversation, I caught up with Maarten in Portugal where he was preparing a pop-up exhibit of his work, appropriately titled In Transit, at a local gallery.If you enjoy listening to In Between, please consider leaving a review or rating wherever you listen or sharing it on social media.CONNECTYou can find Maarten on Instagram @maartenrots, or on his website at https://maartenrots.nl. Also, be sure to check out his magazine March & Rock.If you have an interesting story to share, I'd love to hear from you. Email me at talkback@jefferysaddoris.com or connect with me on Instagram @jefferysaddoris.Music in this episode: Take Me Higher (Jahzzar) / CC BY-SA 4.0

Several years ago when I wasn't really sure what direction my life was taking, one of the ideas I kept coming back to was getting a Volkswagen Westfalia van and just driving around the country, allowing the universe to put interesting people and experiences in my path rather than trying to follow a specific plan. I hadn't started podcasting yet, nor had I picked up my paint brushes again, so the “what I would be doing to actually support myself” aspect of it was pretty nebulous. Still, I loved the idea and for years it was a running joke between my friend Jude and me. Whenever one of us was dealing with some sort of personal or existential challenge, the other would respond with “well, you could always get a Westfalia van and just drive around.”For Dutch photographer Maarten Rots and his wife Anne, the dream of van life has become a reality. For 6 to 8 months a year, they trade their home in the Netherlands for a Ford Transit camper van and travel throughout Europe, often without a fixed destination. For Maarten, this way of traveling almost by instinct has proven to be the catalyst for some of his most compelling work both as an itinerant solo artist and as a collaborator with other artists he meets along the way.While I know the reality of it is not always as romantic as the way we see it from a distance, I can't say I'm not just a little envious. In this conversation, I caught up with Maarten in Portugal where he was preparing a pop-up exhibit of his work, appropriately titled In Transit, at a local gallery.If you enjoy listening to In Between, please consider leaving a review or rating wherever you listen or sharing it on social media.CONNECTYou can find Maarten on Instagram @maartenrots, or on his website at https://maartenrots.nl. Also, be sure to check out his magazine March & Rock.If you have an interesting story to share, I'd love to hear from you. Email me at talkback@jefferysaddoris.com or connect with me on Instagram @jefferysaddoris.Music in this episode: Take Me Higher (Jahzzar) / CC BY-SA 4.0Support the show (https://jefferysaddoris.com/#donate)

Several years ago when I wasn't really sure what direction my life was taking, one of the ideas I kept coming back to was getting a Volkswagen Westfalia van and just driving around the country, allowing the universe to put interesting people and experiences in my path rather than trying to follow a specific plan. I hadn't started podcasting yet, nor had I picked up my paint brushes again, so the “what I would be doing to actually support myself” aspect of it was pretty nebulous. Still, I loved the idea and for years it was a running joke between my friend Jude and me. Whenever one of us was dealing with some sort of personal or existential challenge, the other would respond with “well, you could always get a Westfalia van and just drive around.”For Dutch photographer Maarten Rots and his wife Anne, the dream of van life has become a reality. For 6 to 8 months a year, they trade their home in the Netherlands for a Ford Transit camper van and travel throughout Europe, often without a fixed destination. For Maarten, this way of traveling almost by instinct has proven to be the catalyst for some of his most compelling work both as an itinerant solo artist and as a collaborator with other artists he meets along the way.While I know the reality of it is not always as romantic as the way we see it from a distance, I can't say I'm not just a little envious. In this conversation, I caught up with Maarten in Portugal where he was preparing a pop-up exhibit of his work, appropriately titled In Transit, at a local gallery.If you enjoy listening to In Between, please consider leaving a review or rating wherever you listen or sharing it on social media.CONNECTYou can find Maarten on Instagram @maartenrots, or on his website at https://maartenrots.nl. Also, be sure to check out his magazine March & Rock.If you have an interesting story to share, I'd love to hear from you. Email me at talkback@jefferysaddoris.com or connect with me on Instagram @jefferysaddoris.Music in this episode: Take Me Higher (Jahzzar) / CC BY-SA 4.0

Épisode 319 : La Vanlife c'est quand tu vis ta plus belle vie dans un véhicule aménagé.On a tous en tête l’image du Combi des années 70, mais ce n'est pas que ça... Faites votre valise, aujourd'hui, on vous emmène dans l'univers des #Vanlifers.#vanlife#vanlife, plus qu’un hashtag, un mode de vie !Vanlife, tout un univers. Une image romantique, où la liberté s’exprime au quotidien.Vanlife = ThuglifeC’est quoi la Vanlife ?Le fait de vivre et d’habiter (au court ou long terme), dans un véhicule aménagé.Alors qu’on a tous en tête l’image des Combis Volkswagen des années 70, la vanlife ne fait aucune distinction sur le modèle utilisé. Vous avez aménagé un lit à l’intérieur de votre C3 Picasso ? Le fait que vous puissiez y dormir plusieurs nuits, suffit pour faire de vous un vanlifer.——La VanLife c’est un esprit de liberté qui souffle sur les RS#vanlife : 6,4 millions de posts sur Instagram#vanlifediaries : 1,2 millions de posts#vanlifers : 781k posts#vanlifemovement : 418k postsEn France, le nombre de vidéos mises en ligne autour des vanlifers a augmenté de 50% entre 2018 et 2019En termes de vues, le constat se révèle encore plus frappant, puisque depuis l’année dernière, la thématique a bondi de plus de 180%.——Une ode à l’aventure et à la slowlifeLe Vanlife évoque aussi un certain nombre de tendances contemporaines: un regain d'intérêt pour le road trip américain, une culture de plein air hippie et une vie libre de la tyrannie de la vie sous néon au bureau.——Et puis évidemment il ya aussi une reflexion autour du minimalismeQuand un français moyen consomme 62.000 litres d’eau par an un vanlifer en consomme trois fois mois.Sur la consommation d’électricité même chose, un vanlifer consomme 28 fois moins qu’un français lambda.Le Van Migrateur——Vanlife :Un mode de vie alternatif qui exploseLes français adorent les mondes du van et du fourgon aménagés : en France, le nombre d’immatriculations des vans et fourgons aménagés a ainsi enregistré une croissance de 15 % entre 2018 et 2019, à 9 500 unités.C'est d'ailleurs nettement plus que la catégorie des camping-cars qui n'a connu qu'une augmentation de ses ventes durant la même période (de janvier à octobre) de 3 %, mais avec un volume supérieur, à 24 000 exemplaires.——Attention, le vanlifer n’est pas un camping caristeLes camping-caristes aiment souvent la gastronomie, visiter des lieux touristiques ou voyager à plusieurs équipages, alors que les "vanlifers" sont plutôt des gens en mouvance, qui travaillent dans leur van, vont profiter des activités locales, consommer local.. Le distingo ne se fait pas tant sur l'âge que sur "l'état d'esprit".——Une communauté avec ses codesSi vous êtes un Vanlifer, votre Van se doit d’avoir un prénom. C’est comme ça.——Des vanlifers professionnels qui pensent en mode projetAttacher un nom (et un hashtag) au phénomène a également permis à des gens qui autrement ne seraient que des vagabonds sans racines de faire de leurs voyages une sorte de produit.Les Vanlifers ont tendance à appeler leurs voyages des «projets» et à les décrire dans des termes qui ressmeblent presque à un elevator Pitch susceptible de séduire sponsors ou des investisseurs sur Kickstarter.Et puis aussi le vanlifer est un digital nomade. Exemple avec gregsway——@Voyages VoyagesSon compte instaPhilippe, Il est français lui, enfin vendéen, c’est mieux. C’est un intermittent du spectacle (plus côté régie). Il a pas mal voyagé dans son van Michel et maintenant il y vit à temps plein. Il raconte un peu sa life, il est très actif sur instagram (en story surtout).En Story il est très marrant, il raconte sa vie et montre son quotidien décomplexé de nomade, voir un mec faire sa vaisselle, ça peut être fun :)Son compte youtube est une vraie chaine d’actualités autour de la vie en Van, il part notamment à la rencontre d’autres personnes qui vivent en van, Il a d’ailleurs fait une vidéo sur une autre vanlifeuse qui a bien fonctionné et sinon, en tant que vrai franchouillard il aime allez rencontrer les artisans locauxIl a même une seconde chaine youtube où il fait des lives@desfenetressurlemondeSon compte insta30,7k followersJoana & Eric qui sont Vanlifer depuis 2015En ce moment il voyage entre l’Alaska et la Patagonie dans leur Volkswagen Westfalia de 1984.Originaires de Marseille, ces deux architectes passionnés de voitures anciennes, de randonnée, de nature et de photographie, ont décidé de tout quitter en 2015 pour découvrir le Canada puis les Etats Unis pendant 1 an. Ils ont tellement aimé la liberté que procure la vie en van et le road trip qu'ils ont choisi d'adopter ce mode de vie et de repartir pour traverser l'Amérique du Canada au Panama.—@gregswaySon compte insta72,5 followers instagram162k sur YoutubeGreg qui voyage avec son van Henri, un vieux camping-car Hymer.De son vrai nom Grégoire Kengen. Photographe et vidéaste. Il vit désormais dans son camping-car « Henri », son « studio roulant ». Il voyage actuellement sur les routes d’Europe et partage ses aventures en vidéo, tous les dimanche sur sa chaîne YouTube. On est fan !##@lesmariolestrottersSon compte instaMarion et Anatole, Un petit couple bien sympathique et leur camion léon, avec lui ils traversent l’Afrique depuis 1 anIls ont eu envie de voyager en suivant les aventures d’une famille qui a fait le tour du monde en bateau. Après 4 jours de navigation, pour découvrir le « métier » ils se rendent compte que ce n’est pas fait pour eux, car honnéreux et moins fort dans le contact humain.Ils se sont alors lancés dans le camion aménagé, pendant 1 an ils préparent leur voyage et filment tout, historisant tout et de là nait leur chaine youtube.Par la suite on peut les suivre sur leur compte Instagram lors de leur voyage en Afrique à bord de leur petit camion; Ce qui ressort de ce compte : La liberté et la joie de vivre.1 Highlight story par pays, super ingénieux, ils ont également utilisé le sticker question pour se créer une FAQ !Sa Chaine youtube64k abonnés—Une application : Park4night—Vanlifers autour du mondeUn groupe Facebook d’entraide pour les vanlifers8.200 membres et une communauté très active avec une cinquantaine de post chaque mois.. . .Le Super Daily est le podcast quotidien sur les réseaux sociaux. Il est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs.Nous sommes une agence social media basée à Lyon : https://supernatifs.com/. Nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs.

In this episode, host Leah Gregg and Braden Hoeppner kick back live their best #vanlife in Braden’s 1987 Volkswagen Westfalia. Together they discuss the importance of cultivating feedback and trust in the workplace, and the value of taking your foot off the gas so you can slow down and enjoy the ride. In this episode: - Find out how a coach and mentor helped Braden get his start in marketing - How he’s learned to develop his leadership style and skills - The importance of working as a team and moving from independence to interdependence - How to cultivate feedback from all levels at all times - The role grit plays in meaningful work - The importance of extending 100% trust when you're building your team - Plus, the answer to the question "If you knew then what you know now, what would you say to yourself at the start of your career?" For more see https://info.smartsavvy.com/podcast

It’s the dream of many birders, to travel the US and Canada by car for one entire year, taking in as much of the continent’s birds as you can along the way. It is the reality of Marc Kramer and Eliana Ardila Ardila, the Birding by Bus duo. They’ve spend the whole of 2018 crossing the country in their Volkswagen Westfalia and documenting the whole thing on social media to the delight of those of us who get to follow along. They’re join host Nate Swick from a stop at ABA headquarters in Delaware City to talk about their amazing year and where they'll go from here.  Also, Major League Soccer is pretty great for birds in a couple different ways.  Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Google Play, and please leave a rating or a review if you are so inclined! We appreciate it!

Lending Tree, a leading online exchange based in Charlotte, N.C., connects consumers with banks, credit institutions and other lenders to negotiate the best deals. It also releases studies to provide pertinent statistics to customers. A recent study, tabulated with thousands of transactions, details the top 50 metropolitan areas whose car buyers purchased the oldest used cars. The national average age for a used car purchase is six years old. This vintage Packard, owned by Zane Buck, personifies the varied vautomobiles on display at the recent Pacific Coast Dream Machines in Half Moon Bay, California. All images © Bruce Aldrich/2018. Jen Jones, an autos writer for Lending Tree, is our first guest on episode No. 36 of The Weekly Driver Podcast. Responding to co-hosts Bruce Aldrich and James Raia, Jones provides insight into the survey. She explains why it was done, what the results mean and the surprises Lending Tree discovered while analyzing used car buying preferences. In the second half of the episode, Aldrich and Raia revisit the recent Pacific Coast Dream Machines, the eccentric automotive show in Half Moon Bay, California. Raia interviews Zane Buck and Eva Waves. Buck and his friend Dante DiLallo and the young men's fathers visited the show to not only look at other vintage vehicles but to exhibit Buck's classic Packard. Waves and her family and friends were relaxing near the family's camper van, a vintage Volkswagen Westfalia. She also explain's the Westfalia's interesting background. Eva Waves owns a 1971 Volkswagen Wesfalia. It's one of the most popular vintage camper vans. Like all vintage vehicle owners, Buck and Waves have stories to tell about how they acquired their respective used cars and their reasons for attending Pacific Coast Dream Machines. In addition to its availability on this website, the Weekly Driver Podcast is also available on iTunes, Stitcher and Podtail All episodes of our podcasts are also archived on this website, TheWeeklyDriver.com. We welcome your comments and episode suggestions. Please also consider forwarding episode links to family, friends and colleagues. The Weekly Driver Podcast gets support from www.americanmuscle.com.

Peter Sterling on EXPLORING THE HUMAN JOURNEY! Season 1 Episode 13. Filmed in Sedona Arizona! Hear the Music of the Angels! Peter has written over 16 albums and is an iternationally acclaimed Harpist. Peter talks about how he came to Sedona, lived in a Volkswagen Westfalia and meditated in the canyons of the Red Rocks and communed with the land and the spiritual energy of the ancestors. He details his encounter with the angels and how they taught him to play the celestial music of the higher dimensions with the harp! Peter shares his music, his artwork and his book to help us on our journey through life and how we can tap in to the peace of Universal Consciousness. Find out more about Peter Sterling at http://harpmagic.com Find us online at https://www.exploringthehumanjourney.com https://www.facebook.com/exploringthehumanjourney https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe8ck6ih5UOlZRLi-EJDfJg iTunes http://bit.ly/ETHJpc

Home for John Rathwell and Tracy Guenard is a pretty small space these days: since May of 2016, the Gatineau, Quebec couple has been crisscrossing Canada and the United States in a newly-polished 1991 Volkswagen Westfalia, meeting people and sharing their stories of pursuing happiness. “It’s a beautiful van,” says Guenard. “It’s small — 15 … Continue reading Searching for Sero: “You can’t buy happiness; you need to go find it” →

Home for John Rathwell and Tracy Guenard is a pretty small space these days: since May of 2016, the Gatineau, Quebec couple has been crisscrossing Canada and the United States in a newly-polished 1991 Volkswagen Westfalia, meeting people and sharing their stories of pursuing happiness. “It’s a beautiful van,” says Guenard. “It’s small — 15 … Continue reading Searching for Sero: “You can’t buy happiness; you need to go find it” →