Before It's Too Late
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Shannon Prince comes from a family with a rich relationship to the natural world. Her Cherokee ancestors were skilled at using plants to heal the deepest of wounds, and Shannon grew up with the understanding that nature could — quite literally — save you.
But her family’s eco-literacy had been stripped away over the generations, and by the time Shannon came along, there wasn’t much left to teach her.
Yearning to rediscover forgotten knowledge, Shannon traveled across the world, to a place where ancient traditions were more intact than her own.
On this episode, she shares her story. It’s a story that takes us from Houston, Texas, to the remote meadows of Outer Mongolia. And it explores the surprising things that can happen to us on a personal level, when we attempt to preserve a way of life that’s slowly being stripped away.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 0:14.0 | Support for this episode comes from Earth Hero, the one-stop shop for everything sustainable. |
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| 0:29.8 | The products they sell are sourced, manufactured, and shipped in a way that protects our |
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| 0:41.4 | the coupon code out there at checkout. Again, that's earthhero.com coupon code out there. |
| 0:50.1 | And now, onto to our story. |
| 0:57.2 | We all have our reasons for going outdoors. |
| 0:59.4 | Some people go for the sublimity. |
| 1:01.4 | For others, it's about the stoke. |
| 1:05.4 | Some of us go to find ourselves or lose ourselves. |
| 1:08.5 | And all of those reasons are completely valid. |
| 1:12.6 | But for Shannon Prince, it was different. For her, going out there was about holding on to memories from generations past, |
| 1:18.6 | about making sure beautiful traditions aren't forgotten. |
| 1:22.6 | Her story takes us from Houston, Texas, to the remote meadows of outer Mongolia, and it shows us the |
| 1:28.5 | surprising things that can happen to us on a personal level when we attempt to preserve a way of life |
| 1:33.9 | that's slowly being stripped away. I'll let Shannon take it from here. |
| 1:42.6 | When my grandmother was a little girl, her brother accidentally chopped her head open. |
| 1:47.0 | She'd been playing close to where he was splitting wood and she got into the path of his axe. |
| 1:54.0 | My grandmother managed to stagger to the house where her own grandmother, Missouri, lived. |
| 2:00.0 | Missouri saved her from bleeding to death and where her own grandmother, Missouri, lived. Missouri saved her from bleeding |
| 2:02.3 | to death and closed her head back up by sealing the wound with ashes from the fireplace. |
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