EP22: Ret Taylor: Finding Purpose Through Nature

Description

What would you do if grief forced you to see exactly how little time you might have left?

Ret Taylor joins host Justin Weidenfeld to talk through his mother’s death, the last wishes he never got to ask about, and how that experience led him to take severance seriously as both a vision quest phase and a turning point in how he meets loss, legacy, and money. He shares how walking his mom’s laps under a harvest moon became a quiet practice of healing through nature, how her cancer journey shaped his work with Natural Remedies, and why he eventually shifted from selling products to guiding people in the wilderness. Through stories about vision quests, nights spent saying goodnight to the moon, and hard questions about how many years might remain, Ret invites listeners to uncover the buried treasures in their own lives and to start talking about what they want long before anyone loses their voice.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Why Talk About Death And Money On Currency Of Grief

02:08 Meet Ret Taylor And His Work With Vision Quests

05:40 Wynn’s Cancer Journey And The Stroke That Changed Everything

14:36 Regretting Unspoken Last Wishes And Why Early Conversations Matter

21:56 Harvest Moon Grief Rituals And Healing Through Nature

37:03 Presence Twenty One Years Left And Permission To Stop Playing Small

45:02 Vision Quests Severance And Finding Buried Treasures In Nature

54:03 Using The Moon And The Natural World To Stay Connected After Loss

Links:
Book: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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