#5 - Emily Becker - What A Well Travelled Life Can Teach Us About Death

In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Emily Becker to explore what it means to build a life completely off the script. After travelling to Colombia in her late teens to live with a nun, Emily became obsessed with the wider world. That curiosity took her into the Peace Corps in rural Mozambique, hitchhiking across Africa, and eventually into a handmade life as a ceramic artist and doula in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. They talk about what freedom really is beyond money, how travel shattered her conditioning, and what living close to the land has taught her about food, community, and responsibility. Emily shares stories of hitchhiking with goats, teaching in a colonial system, learning new languages, and navigating the tension between service and saviourism. They also explore how plant medicines opened her to real gratitude, how facing death dissolved her fear, and why spiritual growth now looks like making art, tending relationships, and choosing pleasure without apology. If you’ve ever felt the pull to leave the familiar behind and create a life rooted in meaning, this conversation will speak to you.Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ ⁠⁠Follow Emily's Socials:⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠Follow Matt Blanco's Socials:⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube