Stories From

Bozeman & Beyond

Kendall Youngblood

Van life, minimalism, unschooling, pleasure as a compass

Kendall Youngblood is a recovering achiever who walked away from a six figure salary over six years ago. Since then, she has been exploring the transformative power of choosing pleasure.  She and her husband of 19 years and their two teenage daughters are “unschoolers,” meaning they learn by following their passions and interests. They are also unlearning the cultural stories that no longer serve people or the planet. They gave up their home a year ago to travel the world. They made it through 26 of the US states living in a 24’ RV (160 square feet of living space!) before the virus inspired their current chapter—putting roots down on a farm and yoga retreat in the forests of Oregon.

 

Kendall’s recommended resources:

Kendall’s blog

Generative Council

Grind culture

Outschool 

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (book)  by Adrienne Maree Brown. Powerful, inspiring, pleasure-filled textbook. “…what we practice at the small scale, sets the patterns for the whole system.”    this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen.

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (book) by Charles Eistenstein.

The Nap Ministry
The Bishop of Naps. “Rest as resistance.”

Is Unschooling the Way to Decolonize Education?   (article)
Explains the history of school and the opportunities of unschooling to create a more just world for all. “For parents who have embraced this approach, the challenge is to change not just how we educate and learn, but to transform the interior and exterior landscapes of our lives.”

Bayo Akomolafe  
I love Bayo’s writing, but I love his speaking more. Listen to any podcaster that has interviewed him. “The times are urgent. Let’s slow down.”

How to Challenge White Supremacy Through Rest (article)
Great article about the origins and impacts of grind culture. “We’ve internalized white supremacy work culture in toxic ways like: rewarding hustle and grind culture, equating our productivity to our self-worth, normalizing burnout, glorifying stress, prioritizing work over family, and etc”

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EPISODE #100 - JOHN MCPHEE

on writing, teaching, exploring

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. After seven years at Time magazine, he moved to The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. A Fellow of the Geological Society of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was awarded in 1999 the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (Annals of the Former World).