The Mansal Denton Podcast
73 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago -Lacking confidence in early life, Mansal chased a woman to Europe, which led him to prison. Struggling with shame and confusion of what it meant to be a man, he found his calling with the sacred art of hunting. He now desires to share these practices with more people bridging the gap between masculine and feminine, technology and intuition, materialism and ephemeral.
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#71: Partnering with 20 Acres in Washington - Why I'm Moving Across the Country (Kind Of) (Solocast)
September 12, 2023 16:02 - 35 minutes - 32 MBIn May 2023, I had my first comprehensive visit to the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon). Upon falling in love with the landscape and volcanic Cascade mountains, I purchased 20 acres in Washington state adjacent to friends homesteading next door. Over the next year, I'll be building, moving, and changing many aspects of my life. I'm hoping I made the right decision. This podcast reflects on why I chose what I did and how I see the future partnering with this land.
#70: Russia Recap & Integration - I Visited Russia During War to Track Siberian Tigers (with Jared Nations)
April 11, 2022 15:20 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBI visited Russia after their war with Ukraine started. I traveled into the country & tracked Siberian tigers in what was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. After returning, integration came with some challenges & my good friend Jared Nations asks some questions to allow me to process more thoroughly. Enjoy.
#69: Solocast - History Doesn't Repeat Itself (It Rhymes)
October 12, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBWe've all heard the quote "history repeats itself", but usually there are too many factors for it to repeat verbatim. However, it does come close. I dig into some historical context around the current state of the world and suggest some things to consider in preparing for what the future looks like.
#68: Dan Doty - Coaching Men & Fathers into Greater Capacity
October 05, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBDan Doty uses meditation, somatic awareness, and the wilderness to facilitate transformation in men and especially fathers. He is the co-founder of Evryman where he gained thousands of hours supporting men in developing greater emotional capacity to show up better in the world. He's learned a thing or two about men, about healing, and the wilds of nature.
#67: Taylor Keen - The New Indigenous Narrative to Solve Wicked Problems
September 28, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBTaylor Keen, or "Blueberry", is a man of Omaha and Cherokee cultural lineage and a scholar teaching at Creighton University. In this conversation, we discuss his cultural upbringing within his tribal identities, how the obliteration of indigenous people through disease impacted their culture, and how new findings about north and south American indigenous people suggest new paths for civilization. At the end, he shares a powerful story of his first traditional hunt.
#66: Daniele Bolelli - Tragedy, Tribe and How to Create Your Own Religion
September 21, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBDaniele Bolelli is a historian, podcaster, and philosopher who shares many interests as me. In this conversation, we discuss the compelling communal nature of indigenous Americans, we discuss Lakota leader Crazy Horse, and Bolelli's views on creating religion based off the best that existing establishments have to offer. Bolelli is a frequent Joe Rogan Experience guest along with an immense podcast of his own called History on Fire.
#65: Solocast - Choicemaking in a Covid Vaccine Era
September 14, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBHow do we make good choices in this new era of fear, mandates, and divisiveness? I tackle some audience questions about how to handle the risks we face as a collective. Good choices start from making good sense of the world. I break down some cornerstone concepts for making sense yourself. I also share my own perspective on the state of the world.
#64: Jordan Reasoner - Facing Down Wolves, Bears, and Dark Moments of Life
September 07, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBJordan Reasoner is a friend, backcountry hunter, and he has undergone a transformation in the past few years. In this conversation, we discuss some of the more compelling encounters with wolves and bears in the backcountry, but transition into even tougher challenges Jordan faced with his businesses and relationships only a short time ago.
#63: Nathan Smith - How to Move More Effectively in Any Endeavor (aka: Sacred Movement)
August 31, 2021 10:00 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBNathan Smith is a movement specialist. Beyond ample time spent hunting, skiing, and rock climbing, he is a MovNat Level III, ELDOA Level III, and CHEK certified. He knows movement. In this conversation, we cover core concepts of movement and how to take action. Towards the end, we have a special treat that we share about Sacred Movement. Alongside Nathan Smith is Matt Kinneberg, another movement specialist who has helped to create the Sacred Movement program and is an integral part of the ...
#62: Solocast - How (and Why) to Use Nature Symbology to Guide Life
August 24, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBWe are facing a "meaning-making crisis" according to John Vervaeke. I have faced the challenge of modern civilization by incorporating eco-spiritualism from my mentor into my life. I pay attention to the nature surrounding me and allow the symbology to guide and influence my actions. This episode records a particularly interesting encounter with a rattlesnake and how you can also incorporate this type of symbology in your life.
#61: Dave Scott - How Wildlife Tracking Changes the Mind & Perception
August 17, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBDave Scott is the founder of Earth Native Wilderness School east of Austin, TX where he teachers thousands of children and adults primitive skills, survival, and wildlife tracking. He is one of the best wildlife trackers in the world. His background as a child participating in search and rescue, his military experience, and his immersion into the wild have given him a new perspective on life in modern civilization.
#60: Mallory Jacks - Friends For Life: How (and Why) to Transition from Romantic Partner to Soul Fam
August 10, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBTrigger warning: being friends with a long-term intimate partner comes with triggers. Mallory Jacks and myself (Mansal) were in a 4-year romantic relationship together. We traveled many places, lived together, shared many experiences, and separated in January 2020. Since then we have faced many challenging moments, but have always come back to love. This completely authentic conversation provides context and a reason to maintain deep relationships.
#59: Karl Dettmann - Personal Freedom & Land Stewardship
August 03, 2021 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBKarl Dettmann has a 120-acre vineyard in Wisconsin, which has taught him much about life and partnering with the land. He also travels across the country in his RV, spends harsh winters in Texas, and generally seems to live a life of personal freedom. His story is an inspiring reminder we can be in deep relationship with land while not being tied down to any one spot.
#58: Garrain Jones - How to Create Your Own Reality (Whether in Prison or Malibu)
July 27, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBGarrain Jones is quickly becoming a good friend. He's recently transplanted from California to Austin and we dive into our shared stories about spending time in prison, what we learned about our own sovereignty, and how to use it to continue serving others. Garrain talks about how he walked away from a Ludicrous record deal and how he went from living on the streets for years to abundance.
#57: Christine Hassler - How to Foster the Feminine (and Why it Matters)
July 20, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBChristine Hassler is an OG coach. She has helped thousands of men and women as a life and relationship coach. In this episode, we focus on her own relationship to femininity, how men can foster a relationship with that polarity, and why it is so meaningful for a man to do so. We wrap up speaking about how to navigate expectations in relating with others.
#56: Will Taegel - What is your viewfinder for morality?
July 13, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBWill Taegel, "Star Heart", is one the wisest men I know and has had the largest influence on my personality and work. He straddles two worlds, the indigenous ways of being and psychological/scientific research. This conversation is a walk we had on May 23, 2021 discussing morality, where it comes from, and how to relate to it in Earth's new era.
#55: Stories From the Wild - The 1st Sacred Hunt
March 29, 2021 21:45 - 18 minutes - 21.4 MBIn 1905 Teddy Roosevelt traveled to Oklahoma to participate in a wolf hunt with famed Comanche chief, Quanah Parker. The significance of this hunt, for myself and the mission of Sacred Hunting, is explored through the wisdom of Paul Chek, Will Taegel "Star Heart", and my own experience with kambo. Find out why bridge walkers like Quanah Parker are so compelling today and how we can learn from him.
#54: Paul Chek - Embodied Shamanism for the Modern World
March 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 77 MBPaul Chek is a man who I'd consider to the top 3 wise male elders that I have had the privilege of connecting with. He's the founder of the CHEK Institute, which is a holistic health institute helping to support patients with a wide array of ailments and teaching practitioners how to do so. Included in his philosophy is the soul, unconscious mind, and many non-materialist philosophies and practices. Aho!
#53: Hallie Rose - A Feminine Perspective for Helping Men Heal
March 02, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBHallie Rose is an author, speaker, and coach who is currently working with men through her Conscious Man program. She brings a unique perspective in supporting men through trauma and limiting beliefs. Her podcast, The Thought Room, includes insightful conversations on a wide range of topics to be more fully immersed in the human experience.
#52: Dr. Keith Witt - Integrating Aspects of Self and the Masculine Warrior and Healer Archetypes
February 16, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBDr. Keith Witt is an integral psychotherapist with over 65,000 sessions of 1 on 1 therapy. He has chosen the path of the warrior and healer, spending much of his youth engaged with martial arts and therapy work. He is a wise elder and one with whom I resonate with deeply. We discuss how the masculine is drawn towards violence and how to integrate it in a healthy fashion.
#51: Gili Oren - Reclaiming the Healthy Killer Archetype: From Middle East Combat to the Sacred Hunt
February 02, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBGili is a former Isreali Defense Force (IDF) operative who participated in numerous military operations in his young adult life. He spent many years first numb to the trauma the war caused and then started to open, process, and heal through somatic work (in the body) and other men's work. Most recently, Gili participated in a Sacred Hunting trip where his intention was to connect with the killer archetype again, but in a healthy and integrated way.
#50: Jason Digges - Conflict Equals Energy: How to Build Emotional Intelligence with Authentic Relating Games
January 26, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBJason Digges is the founder of ART International, an Authentic Relating Training company that helps facilitators use this framework for greater emotional intelligence. In this podcast, Jason discusses the premise of his book Conflict = Energy including numerous embodied exercises and tools. We discuss the foundation of connection and application for interpersonal growth.
#49: Luke Storey - Applied Spirituality: Letting Go of Control and Touching the Divine
January 19, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBLuke Storey is a friend and the host of the Life Stylist podcast where he interviews experts in biohacking, health, and spirituality. He is one of the youngest 50 year olds I've ever spent time with and this podcast explores his path from addiction in his mid-20s to his recent avoidance and final acceptance of plant medicines for his own healing, integration, and growth. This was a deeply personal podcast for Luke, which ends in tears of joy and gratitude. Enjoy.
#48: Tim Koelkebeck - How Expectations of Outcome Reflect Being Untrue to Ourselves (P2)
January 12, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 31 MBTim Koelkebeck is a unique thinker. Although he is Harvard educated, worked with the Pentagon, and started Silicon Valley startups, his gifts are currently on display in how he approaches being in the world and the current civilization paradigm. He uncovers new layers of conditioning that keep modern humans unhappy and unexpressed. In part 2 we discuss how the expectation of future outcomes is altering our capacity for true self-expression.
#47: Tim Koelkebeck - The Art of Being: Ways We Bypass Present Feelings (P1)
January 05, 2021 11:00 - 49 minutes - 48.2 MBTim Koelkebeck is a unique thinker. Although he is Harvard educated, worked with the Pentagon, and started Silicon Valley startups, his gifts are currently on display in how he approaches being in the world and the current civilization paradigm. He uncovers new layers of conditioning that keep modern humans unhappy and unexpressed.
#46: Stories From the Wild - Redemption on the Mountain (Nat Eliason)
December 29, 2020 11:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBNat Eliason has attended two Sacred Hunting experiences before it was even named as such. In his most recent experience, Nat acknowledges the redemption he experienced successfully killing an elk calf providing the group with meat. Hear his story from the wild mountains of Colorado.
#45: Gregory Kelly, ND - Controversial Anti-Aging Tools and How to Build Resilience
December 22, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBGregory Kelly is a naturopathic doctor (ND) and the lead formulator at the Neurohacker Collective. He has worked extensively with the U.S. Navy, with his own private practice, as a professor, and now in the private sector. He works closely with Daniel Schmachtenberger formulating products like Qualia, Eternus, and others. In this episode we discuss his favorite new anti-aging modalities and some controversial options, the congruence gap, and resilience.
#44: Stories From the Wild - The Wisdom of Wounding an Animal (Chris Marhefka)
December 15, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 69.1 MBChris Marhefka has been hunting for many years. He started originally hunting with friends, had recent experiences that put him off to hunting, and gave it a last chance with Sacred Hunting. In his experience, he was able to reframe hunting and anchor new memories and wisdom. One poignant experience included wounding an animal that taught him many lessons. We dig into his experience hunting elk in Colorado. Chris is a close friend a facilitator of men's work and CEO of Training Camp for the ...
#43: Laird Schaub - Using Intentional Communities to Build Deeper Connection and Intimacy with People
December 08, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes - 87.4 MBLaird Schaub is an intentional community and co-housing expert who has over 40 years of experience. At age 24 he founded his first intentional community and has participated in the facilitation and formation of over 150 communities. In this podcast we discuss the value of living with other people in more intimate settings, the wide range of intentional community structures, and how to align your living situation with people who value the same things. Nobody ever said it would be easy, but it...
#42: Stories From the Wild - Dieta: Jungle Rite of Passage
December 01, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 57.4 MBThis week is about a recap of my 9 day dieta. A dieta is a process of connecting to the spirit of a particular plant, in this case a teacher plant called chiric sanango. It is done in combination with a master plant, ayahuasca. In the jungle, a dieta is one of the most important processes for leaders to go through. It includes weakening the physical body to attain wisdom and guidance from spiritual realms.
#41: Jim Garrison - Aligning Heart, Mind, and Impact with Gorbachev's Right Hand Man
November 24, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 52.1 MBJim Garrison is an educator and wise elder with a long history of activism. He spent years working alongside Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev being the last foreign visitor to the Kremlin before the transition. He worked alongside global leaders for decades to solve global challenges. The last two decades of his career have been centered around Ubiquity University, an accredited university that aligns the mind (as most traditional education) with the heart and the capacity for social impact.
#40: Stories From the Wild - The Necessary Sadness of Hunting (Peter Griffin)
November 17, 2020 11:30 - 40 minutes - 64.2 MBOn this episode of Stories From the Wild, I interview my close friend Peter Griffin who attended a Sacred Hunting experience for his first trip. In the experience, he successfully killed a female hog, which was a profound and life-changing experience as he recounts. We discuss and share the sadness that arises in the process of killing an animal and the necessity of tapping into this archetype for being a part of the Earth. Hopefully, this provides context for what it's like for a total begi...
#39: Stefanos Sifandos - Using Shadow Work as a Rite of Passage to Find Your Purpose
November 10, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 68.1 MBStefanos Sifandos is a relationship coach, facilitator, and friend. In this episode, we discuss how our wounds, shadows, and fears get in the way of finding our true mission and purpose. Stef shares his own past rife with sexual trauma, anger, violence, and ultimately, the integration of his shadow when caught in infidelity. He has alchemized his wounds and pain into a coaching and facilitation practice helping thousands of men and women relate with themselves and each other.
#38: Stories From the Wild - How to Carry Burdens with Respect (Jordan Bowditch)
November 03, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 58.1 MBJordan Bowditch is a good friend and self-described "conscious bro". He's co-founder of Kinda Conscious humor videos. He shares his process of hunting an aoudad replete with self-doubt, fear, courage, sadness, and elation. He finished that hunting excursion with an epic, challenging hike with the weight of the entire animal over his shoulders. In the challenges of carrying that load, he received even more life lessons. Jordan is a great storyteller and this podcast is a vivid representation ...
#037: Michael Cazayoux - Addiction and Nature as Therapy
October 27, 2020 10:30 - 38 minutes - 64.5 MBAddiction comes in many forms and flavors. For Michael Cazayoux, it started early and involved numerous substances. After years of rehabilitation, Michael is one of the few who have been able to return to recreational use of some substances with a newfound series of practices that keep him in integrity. He is a close personal friend who has grown considerably during his relationship with addiction and is now creating live experiences in nature to facilitate growth for others.
#037: Cal Callahan - From Financial Trading to Unlearning with Humility
October 20, 2020 10:00 - 39 minutes - 65.7 MBCal Callahan is a friend who had a long and successful career as a financial trader. But at a certain point, he wasn't happy and didn't feel authentic in his role. He did what few successful people really know how to do: get out while he's ahead. Cal has a humble perspective on life, which is refreshing and rare for someone in their mid-40's. A reflection of that is The Great Unlearn podcast that he hosts. If you feel "stuck" in a career position, I highly recommend checking out his wisdom.
#036: Stories From the Wild - Ingenuity and Peaceful Transference
October 13, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 35.6 MBOn this episode of Stories From the Wild, I discuss a wild goat hunt where I needed a bit of ingenuity to get the job done. The biggest revelation is what I learned about death and how my perspective changed from witnessing the death of this animal. The Stories From the Wild series is meant to provide context for what hunting can be through my and other peoples' experiences. Listening is great, but hopefully, it provides motivation to get into the field and grow yourself.
#035: JP Sears - Comedy as Medicine and Following the Next Track
October 06, 2020 12:00 - 52 minutes - 86.4 MBJP Sears is a comedian and friend hosting Awaken with JP and Ultra Spiritual. He’s hilarious in person and in his videos, but he’s also a deep thinker about life, purpose, and fulfillment. This was a great conversation on his back porch that everyone can appreciate.
#034: Mark England - Processing Emotions & Empowering Oneself Through Language
September 29, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 81.9 MBMark England is the founder of Procabulary and Enlifted where he certifies and coaches people in the language they use. The language we use informs our behavior and our behavior informs our language. In this episode we dive into how integral the language we use can be, some tangible ways to shift our language to be more empowering, and the sinister words and phrases that prevent us from taking responsibility in our lives.
#033: Stories From the Wild - Humility, Failure and Leaning into Sacrifice
September 22, 2020 11:00 - 24 minutes - 38.1 MBStories From the Wild is a new series I have created to share my and other hunting stories. The purpose is to tell stories about the wild places we go while hunting and to share how hunting can be a spiritual practice for those who are inclined to view it that way. This particular hunt involved an intimate encounter with a young female deer for whom I will be forever grateful.
#032: Tyson Yunkaporta (Pt 2) - Becoming One With Nature and Listening to Her Wisdom
September 15, 2020 11:30 - 41 minutes - 66.8 MBAs an indigenous person of the Apalech Clan in Australia, Tyson Yunkaporta has experience hunting and tracking beyond the reductionist practice that includes “skills” and “knowledge”. Rather, he discusses how to become more connected to the land, one with the land, and part of it rather than an observer or bystander that must impose our will. This second part of the interview with Tyson Yunkaporta is especially important for anyone looking to re-connect to Earth and all that means mentally, ...
#031: Tyson Yunkaporta (Pt 1) - Aboriginal Teachings: Rites of Passage for Men, Community, and Personal Agency
September 08, 2020 11:30 - 51 minutes - 84.2 MBTyson Yunkaporta is a writer and member of the Apalech Clan of aboriginal people in Australia. He is the author of a new book called Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, which is one of my favorite books of the year. In this conversation he discusses how aboriginal men are faced with rites of passage today including time spent in prison. Mansal relates his own time spent in prison.
#030: Tah Whitty - Rated R: Somatic Expression of Racism, Victimization, and Huachuma as a Power Plant
September 01, 2020 11:00 - 56 minutes - 91.7 MBTah Whitty is a trained nurse, a coach, and facilitator of power plants (psychedelics) like huachuma (San Pedro) and psilocybin. He also happens to be black. In this conversation we start with exploring his refreshing views on racism in these tense times (hint: shaming people rarely proves helpful), how victimization can play a role in furthering one’s own oppression, and how Tah facilitates awakening experiences in participants of his experiences.
#029: Stephen Cope - Dharma: Your Life’s Path and The Great Work of Your Life
August 25, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes - 92.4 MBI read Stephen Cope’s book “The Great Work of Your Life” many years ago considered by a friend to be the best book he read that year. Cope weaves stories of Henry David Thoreau, the Hindu text Bhagavad Gita, and numerous other stories beautifully to share how and why following one’s life path is so valuable.
#028: Dr. Thomas Cowan - A New, Non-Conspiratorial Perspective on COVID
August 18, 2020 09:30 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MBDr. Thomas Cowan has a long history of controversial perspectives. He’s identified water as a plausible cause for cancer, he doesn’t believe vaccines are helpful or healthy, and his latest perspective on 5G and COVID had numerous media outlets in arms. But they may have misunderstood and mischaracterized his perspective. This podcast dives into some of the science and a more open-minded, alternative (though non-conspiratorial) view on COVID.
#027: Jordan Reasoner - Backcountry Hunting as a Portal to Greater Consciousness
August 11, 2020 08:00 - 52 minutes - 61.3 MBJordan Reasoner is a lifelong bow hunter who spends a considerable portion of every year hunting for elk, deer, and bear on public land in Montana and the American West. He is also a man who has done deep inner work, expanded his consciousness using various medicines, and thinks deeply about the gifts of the practice of hunting. We talk about masculinity, the medicine of hunting, and the embodied practice that comes with it.
#026: Will “Star Heart” - Spirituality and Leadership in a New Era for Humanity
August 04, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 60.9 MBWill Taegel “Star Heart” is a medicine man and spiritual teacher in the Muskogee/Creek tradition. In addition, he’s an ordained minister, a psychotherapist, and 80 years old so to consider him “wise” would be an understatement. In this podcast, Will reveals his time as part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s congregation in Atlanta, the transcendent and descendant components of spirituality, and what leadership will be required for the new era beyond 2020.
#025: Dr. Keesha Ewers - How Unresolved Psychological Trauma Impacts Our Bodies
July 25, 2020 12:47 - 58 minutes - 66.8 MBDr. Keesha Ewers is a sexologist who has decades of clinical and personal experience with trauma and their impact on the body. Her approach is multidisciplinary mixing Ayurvedic approaches with modern scientific inquiry. She has linked autoimmune disease to undigested anger, low libido to resentment, and others. We discuss how valuable rites of passage are for humans historically and why we need to bring them back.
#024: Dr. Keith Witt - Integral Theory as a Psychoactive System
July 21, 2020 12:31 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBDr. Keith Witt is a psychotherapist and integral theorist. This conversation was powerful because I could feel the transmission of wise-elder energy in my body even through the video call. We discuss what integral theory is and how once you know the system, it is easy to see everywhere. We explore his optimism for the future amid the despair of the world currently. We finish by discussing how one develops a relationship to spirituality and the role of shamanism in our species’ past.
#023: Peter Griffin - The Family Guy: Building Community in a Modern World with Men’s Group and Co-Housing
July 14, 2020 11:45 - 46 minutes - 53.6 MBPeter Griffin is a friend, not the character of Family Guy. He co-founded a men’s group with me (Mansal) and we are now up to 7 members with significant fulfillment, meaning, and the potential for co-housing on the horizon. We highly emphasize how valuable community and a feeling of belonging is for our species despite how challenging it is to quantify its value.