#200 – Waldemar Franco: Finding Flow in Nature & Movement

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Waldemar Franco has led expeditions in various parts of the world, including whitewater kayaking, skiing, mountaineering, free-diving, and cycling. He has also been a pioneer in the adventure travel industry, starting his business in 1993 as an adventure travel guide with a vision of blending amazing adventures with spectacular hospitality and design for his guests.

Waldemar is also a father, a writer, and a teacher, having authored the book "Find Your Wild Flow," a methodology focused on helping men between 40 and 65 years old find a connection with their strength, mobility, balance, and agility.

Learn more about Waldemar here: https://wildflowmethod.com/

0.00: Waldemar’s background and finding white water raftering, mountaineering and guiding

7.30: Why adventure requires physical endurance

12.00: Mobility to stay injury free

20.00: Rituals over Routines

28.00: Raising healthy kids

35.00: Scandinavian philosophy in raising children…

40.00: Why it’s not about the goal but the journey

48.00: Waldemar’s views of money as a tool

54.00: Approaches to risk (and reward)

Until next time, love and good vibes.

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0:00.0	Enjoy the process because that's what it's about.
0:02.4	I don't care if I summited that mountain.
0:04.8	You know, it's the least important thing now in my life.
0:08.4	The journey was amazing.
0:10.3	But I didn't enjoy it that much when I was there, when I was doing it.
0:30.5	I was doing it. A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. Get ready to enter the lion heart with your host Warren Stunning. Valdemair, I am so excited for this because when we were connected, we share two huge patterns.
0:43.3	One of them is trying to stay in shape, you know, the rest of our life.
0:46.9	And I know you're in your mid-50s.
0:48.3	I'm in my late 40s.
0:49.3	And we're really trying to exercise and make that a key part of our life.
0:52.7	But the other thing is just living a life of adventure.
0:55.3	And I always say when all said and done, I want to look back at my life and say, I lived
1:00.2	an unusual life of adventure.
1:01.9	So I think that's so cool that that's a big part of your life too.
1:05.9	Totally.
1:06.5	I resonate with that.
1:08.1	I've lived my life with that vision. And yeah, and I'm with that. I've lived my life with that vision.
1:12.6	And yeah, and I'm still here enjoying it.
1:16.6	I love it.
1:17.8	Well, can you maybe start with a little bit of background about what you do and some of the recent adventures?
1:24.5	Yeah, well, you know, I'm Mexican.
1:27.4	I was born in Mexico City in in 1968, so I'm 56
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