Episode 34: Cordell Jacks—Overcoming Injury, Dream Running & Deconstructing Identity

On episode 34 I talk with Cordell Jacks who has recently relocated to Vancouver Island and started a new career as a dream coach. He shares his journey from growing up in a small town in Canada, overcoming family adversity to traveling the world with his partner to tackle huge issues of clean water and environmental sustainability. Cordell got into Ultra-running and Ironman before a series of knee surgeries caused a crisis of self, which brought him to plant medicines, dream work and learning to value being content vs happiness.

“Dreams are a self-correcting system, a way of informing ourselves how to be in better harmony with the world around us, with ourselves, with our relationships. How to evolve or grow past our blind spots.”

— Cordell Jacks

SHOW NOTES

• 4:30 Cordell’s upbringing and family turmoil

• 6:30 Moving abroad for unexpected work opportunity

• 11:00 Getting into running and the motivation behind it

• 14:00 Bedridden for 9 months after multiple knee surgeries leading to depression

• 18:00 First hearing about plant medicines in Mexico

• 28:30 The initial experience of Ayahuasca

• 38:00 Balance in ambition, nature, the Self and awareness of harmony

• 42:20 Chasing happiness vs being content in life

• 50:00 Learning the language of dreams and making it a daily practice

• 52:30 Deconstruction of self-identity and learning to listen and truly trust your path

• 57:30 How to get in touch with our truer self

• 64:00 Children are the greatest teachers, reflection on becoming a father

• 69:00 Moving to Vancouver Island in a rural area, balance of modern world and natural world

• 75:00 Combination of plant medicine and dream lessons

• 80:00 Learning how to interpret dreams and becoming intentionally engaged with them

• 86:45 Dreams are an incredible way that we speak to ourselves and opportunity to self-correct

• 90:00 Cordell’s experience of lucid dream running

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