Surviving Life with Les Stroud

Just before the pandemic some of the biggest names in Bush-crafting and primitive survival met in Alberta Canada and the Bushcraft symposium. Les Stroud was the main keynote speaker and while he was there, they asked if he would host a panel discussion with Dave Wescott, Mors Kochanski, David Halladay and Andre Bourbeau.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is Part One of my interview - well, mostly morning coffee and jam session with the artist known as Aradia.Aradia is a self-produced multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter that brings something with originality and depth to the world of alternative pop. Her progressive building arrangements echo elements of Robyn, Marina, Blondie and Roosevelt - artfully blending nu disco, 80s guitar rock and modern electronica.Born in the New York city metropolitan area and studying music from early childhood, she is after a sojourn to Seattle and Los Angeles where she fine-tuned her craft and her sound, went back to NYC, to focus on live performances and to release a string of anthemic singles. She now continues to do so from Long Island Sound in Connecticut.Music:Car; AradiaM Class Planet; AradiaArctic Mistress; Les Stroud, Bryan Potvin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Surviving life, Les sits down with guitars in hand with singer songwriter Peirson Ross for part one of two parts. They go deep into music and activism along with the writer's process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Through the podcast Under The Influence, host and advertising guru Terry O'Reilly gives you a backstage pass into the intriguing, often insane, baffling and always surprising world of advertising and how it shapes all of our lives. Sitting outside by a fire with Les Stroud and Terry, we get a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes, with our backstage pass to Terry O'Reilly's life itself and to what led him into a vast world, filled with unbelievable stories that have affected us all profoundly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Through the podcast Under The Influence, host and advertising guru Terry O'Reilly gives you a backstage pass into the intriguing, often insane, baffling and always surprising world of advertising and how it shapes all of our lives. Sitting outside by a fire with Les Stroud and Terry, we get a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes, with our backstage pass to Terry O'Reilly's life itself and to what led him into a vast world, filled with unbelievable stories that have affected us all profoundly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Through the podcast Under The Influence host and advertising guru Terry O'Reilly gives you a backstage pass into the intriguing, often insane, baffling and always surprising world of advertising and how it shapes all of our lives. Sitting outside by a fire with Les Stroud and Terry, we get a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes, with our backstage pass to Terry O'Reilly's life itself and to what led him into a vast world, filled with unbelievable stories that have affected us all profoundly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Now going strong into his 28th year as keyboardist and musical director for none other than Billy Joel, Dave Rosenthal is and will always be pure musician. There has never been something for Dave to be – to aspire to. He’s a musician that’s it. But of course that kind of focus combined with no small amount of talent has seen him on stage and in the studios with everyone from Paul McCartney, Steve Miller and Peter Frampton to Cindy Lauper, Steve Vai, Itzhak Perlman and Bruce Springsteen. His life in rock and roll is filled with the stories that so many of us musicians envy. Dave is in the full meaning of the phrase: a musician’s musician. Chatting with Dave gave me an opportunity to ask him about a genre of music that will always hold a special place in my own musical heart; progressive rock.  Directed by Les StroudStarring Les Stroud, Dave Rosenthal  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part One of my wonderfully insightful interview with Canadian comedian and author, Ron James. Ron has just released his first book: All Over The Map; Rambles and Ruminations From The Canadian Road. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Les closes out his discussion with media trailblazer and self proclaimed social warrior George Stroumboulopoulos aka Strombo, this time delving into the hard core realities of today’s bubble wrapped millennials who at the same time are tougher than the generations that came before them, when it comes to inclusiveness and treating others with decency and fairness. A cautionary note that this episode contains explicit language.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this part two of Les’ intriguing chat with author and journalist John Zada, fresh after the release of his book In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond about his search for Bigfoot in Indigenous communities, Les and John go deeper into existence - not of Bigfoot but of humans. They cover truth or bullshit and the decline of the western civilization as well as being blissfully ignorant.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this season one finale of Surviving Life with Les Stroud, Les takes a stab an an entirely new tack and delivers an interesting and compelling monologue, his IMO as he says, about how to handle and deal with trolls and haters on the social media platforms Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and Facebook. He draws an interesting parallel between the platforms and how they should sit within every day life through analogies that make a lot of sense.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The poet, the singer songwriter, the philosopher, the artist Bruce Cockburn is a Canadian Legend. Yet he broke past the international borders to continue as one of the most respected creators in the world. Les and Bruce sit down at Les’ house and talk songwriting, the impact of Bruce’s music and his spiritual motivation. This is part 2 of that discussion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I met Lisa Fenton at the Alberta Bushcraft symposium and was able to pull her aside for an in-depth chat on primitive earth skills/bushcraft skills and life itself. Dr. Lisa Fenton is a lecturer in Outdoor studies at the University of Cumbria, UK. With a background in Ethnobotany, Anthropology and Ethnobiology she wrote her PhD thesis in Bushcraft and its relationship to Indigenous Knowledges.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.