The Mansal Denton Podcast
by Mansal Denton
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.
Episodes
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#70: Russia Recap & Integration - I Visited Russia During War to Track Siberian Tigers (with Jared Nations)
I 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...
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#69: Solocast - History Doesn't Repeat Itself (It Rhymes)
We'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.
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#68: Dan Doty - Coaching Men & Fathers into Greater Capacity
Dan 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…
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#67: Taylor Keen - The New Indigenous Narrative to Solve Wicked Problems
Taylor 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...
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#66: Daniele Bolelli - Tragedy, Tribe and How to Create Your Own Religion
Daniele 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...
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#65: Solocast - Choicemaking in a Covid Vaccine Era
How 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...
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#64: Jordan Reasoner - Facing Down Wolves, Bears, and Dark Moments of Life
Jordan 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...
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#63: Nathan Smith - How to Move More Effectively in Any Endeavor (aka: Sacred Movement)
Nathan 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...
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#62: Solocast - How (and Why) to Use Nature Symbology to Guide Life
We 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...
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#61: Dave Scott - How Wildlife Tracking Changes the Mind & Perception
Dave 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,...
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#60: Mallory Jacks - Friends For Life: How (and Why) to Transition from Romantic Partner to Soul Fam
Trigger 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...
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#59: Karl Dettmann - Personal Freedom & Land Stewardship
Karl 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…
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#58: Garrain Jones - How to Create Your Own Reality (Whether in Prison or Malibu)
Garrain 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...
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#57: Christine Hassler - How to Foster the Feminine (and Why it Matters)
Christine 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...
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#56: Will Taegel - What is your viewfinder for morality?
Will 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...
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#55: Stories From the Wild - The 1st Sacred Hunt
In 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…
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#54: Paul Chek - Embodied Shamanism for the Modern World
Paul 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....
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#53: Hallie Rose - A Feminine Perspective for Helping Men Heal
Hallie 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...
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#52: Dr. Keith Witt - Integrating Aspects of Self and the Masculine Warrior and Healer Archetypes
Dr. 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...
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#51: Gili Oren - Reclaiming the Healthy Killer Archetype: From Middle East Combat to the Sacred Hunt
Gili 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...
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#50: Jason Digges - Conflict Equals Energy: How to Build Emotional Intelligence with Authentic Relating Games
Jason 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...
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#49: Luke Storey - Applied Spirituality: Letting Go of Control and Touching the Divine
Luke 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...
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#48: Tim Koelkebeck - How Expectations of Outcome Reflect Being Untrue to Ourselves (P2)
Tim 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...
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#47: Tim Koelkebeck - The Art of Being: Ways We Bypass Present Feelings (P1)
Tim 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...
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#46: Stories From the Wild - Redemption on the Mountain (Nat Eliason)
Nat 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.
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#45: Gregory Kelly, ND - Controversial Anti-Aging Tools and How to Build Resilience
Gregory 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...
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#44: Stories From the Wild - The Wisdom of Wounding an Animal (Chris Marhefka)
Chris 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...
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#43: Laird Schaub - Using Intentional Communities to Build Deeper Connection and Intimacy with People
Laird 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...
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#42: Stories From the Wild - Dieta: Jungle Rite of Passage
This 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...
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#41: Jim Garrison - Aligning Heart, Mind, and Impact with Gorbachev's Right Hand Man
Jim 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...
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#40: Stories From the Wild - The Necessary Sadness of Hunting (Peter Griffin)
On 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…
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#39: Stefanos Sifandos - Using Shadow Work as a Rite of Passage to Find Your Purpose
Stefanos 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…
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#38: Stories From the Wild - How to Carry Burdens with Respect (Jordan Bowditch)
Jordan 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...
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#037: Michael Cazayoux - Addiction and Nature as Therapy
Addiction 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...
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#037: Cal Callahan - From Financial Trading to Unlearning with Humility
Cal 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...
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#036: Stories From the Wild - Ingenuity and Peaceful Transference
On 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...
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#035: JP Sears - Comedy as Medicine and Following the Next Track
JP 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.
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#033: Stories From the Wild - Humility, Failure and Leaning into Sacrifice
Stories 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…
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#032: Tyson Yunkaporta (Pt 2) - Becoming One With Nature and Listening to Her Wisdom
As 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...
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#031: Tyson Yunkaporta (Pt 1) - Aboriginal Teachings: Rites of Passage for Men, Community, and Personal Agency
Tyson 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...
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#030: Tah Whitty - Rated R: Somatic Expression of Racism, Victimization, and Huachuma as a Power Plant
Tah 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...
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#029: Stephen Cope - Dharma: Your Life's Path and The Great Work of Your Life
I 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…
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#028: Dr. Thomas Cowan - A New, Non-Conspiratorial Perspective on COVID
Dr. 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...
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#027: Jordan Reasoner - Backcountry Hunting as a Portal to Greater Consciousness
Jordan 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...
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#026: Will "Star Heart" - Spirituality and Leadership in a New Era for Humanity
Will 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...
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#025: Dr. Keesha Ewers - How Unresolved Psychological Trauma Impacts Our Bodies
Dr. 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...
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#024: Dr. Keith Witt - Integral Theory as a Psychoactive System
Dr. 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…
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#023: Peter Griffin - The Family Guy: Building Community in a Modern World with Men's Group and Co-Housing
Peter 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...
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#022: Dr. Michael Kessler, DC - Mapping Heart-Rate Variability on Chakras, Meridians Ayurveda, and More
Dr. Michael Kessler is a functional medicine practitioner and doctor of chiropractic who has teamed up with Dr. Javdat Karimov to create the HeartQuest software. This heart-rate variability (HRV) software uses frequencies from the heart to map out various eastern medicine practices. They map HRV...
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#021: John Cole - Human Design As an Experiment in Astrology (and How to Get Started)
Most people are averse to astrology and for good reason. But Human Design is different. Never claiming to be Truth, it is instead a template to experiment living life based upon the time, date, and location of birth. Given that the moon can alter water on Earth significantly, it would make sense...
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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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