About this episode

Hoppy Quick discusses his journey of chainsaw carving bears and the deeper spiritual insights he has gained over the years.

Hoppy Quick has been chainsaw carving bears in the Catskills since 1979 — but he'll tell you he's not an artist. He's a spiritual being who found himself through the bear.In this wide-ranging conversation, we visit Hoppy at his home in Samsonville — a converted 1951 school bus, a canvas teepee workshop, a crackling fire ring, and a horse named Ginny — and quickly discover that a conversation about whittling wood leads somewhere much deeper.We talk about his 47-year search for the perfect bear face, carving as meditation, and what it means to live in grace. Hoppy shares the story behind the Heart Tribe, his COVID-era community of tens of thousands, and reflects on ego, fear, the divine feminine, AI, and why he believes the path forward is exactly 16 inches — from your head to your heart.As the world seems to be straining at its seams, Hoppy emerges like a bear from the tree line — unexpected, unhurried, and offering a wise and grounding call to our higher selves.

People in this episode

Guest: Hoppy Quick

Topics covered

• chainsaw carving
• spirituality
• meditation
• community
• self-discovery
• art

Keywords

• chainsaw carving
• bears
• spiritual being
• meditation
• Heart Tribe
• COVID-era community
• ego
• divine feminine
• AI

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Catskills, Samsonville, 1951 school bus

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