Episode 19: John Huddart—The Role of Fathers, Indigenous Wisdom & Toolkits for Health

John Huddart is a father, coach, Iron Man and one of my best friends. Since reconnecting with John three years ago and hiring him as my first health coach, both of our lives have changed dramatically. John left Vancouver, trading in 700 sq ft for 45 acres in the Comox Valley where he’s learning to run a farm with his wife while they build a retreat centre for deep healing and growth. John and I are similar in many ways and in this episode he shares some of the big lessons he’s learned from plant medicines, including tobacco, Indigenous cultures, the powerful impact of mens work and how it can deeply heal our society’s issues with the role of fathers, and how parenting is his current endurance sport.

“You’re only ever one cold shower away from a new perspective.”

— John Huddart

SHOW NOTES

• 3:35 Meet John Huddart, my first health coach

• 7:30 Exploring the world through studying documentary film

• 8:30 Charles Eisenstein on how the world is far more beautiful than what’s been presented to us

• 12:05 John’s first experience with large group awareness trainings

• 15:50 Finding a new world view though spirit and the scared with Ayahausca

• 19:00 How changing the inner world begins to reflect in our outer world 

• 23:10 John the endurance athlete, and the evolution of

• 28:30 Building the toolkit for well-being; starting with a green smoothie

• 31:10 The paradigm shift of eating healthy and how big of an impact it makes

• 32:20 You’re only ever one cold shower away from a new perspective

• 36:30 John didn’t like me, and how our growth effects our relationships

• 40:15 Getting into mens work and finding the Samurai Brotherhood

• 48:50 John’s relationship to fatherhood as a father, son and step-son in modern society

• 52:00 Parenting is an endurance sport that requires all of yourself in ways you don’t expect

• 55:00 John’s recommended entry points for stepping into mens work

• 61:46 How can we be motivated by self-love and compassion

• 70:00 Reconnecting to the First Nations culture and wisdom

• 74:10 How John works with Tobacco in prayer and ceremony

• 81:30 Book John’s loving, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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