Ep 171: Rewilding the Human Spirit: Survival, Wildcrafting & The Return of Earth-Based Wisdom with Jess Caldwell
The Way Forward with Alec Zeck
Alec Zeck
4.8 • 829 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Alec is joined by Jess Caldwell, founder of Wildkind Outdoors, to explore the shift from fear-based prepping to empowered self-reliance through nature-based survival skills. They discuss how wilderness immersion, solo experiences, and confronting fear reshape our relationship with challenge, simplicity, and self-trust. Jess shares the importance of seeing nature as a partner, the fundamentals of short- and long-term survival, and how rewilding reconnects us to our human spirit.
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Follow Jess on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wildkindjess/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, |
| 0:04.0 | and |
| 0:05.0 | The I had this moment about a year and a year and a half ago where I was interviewed by John Stockton, the former NBA basketball player, who's like the all-time leading assist man in the NBA, and I think he still has the record for most steals in a career in the NBA. |
| 0:53.1 | He had a podcast with this guy named Ken Rutgers, |
| 0:57.7 | who's a former offensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers, |
| 1:00.8 | and it was like a health freedom-related podcast |
| 1:02.6 | that they interviewed me on a year and a half ago. |
| 1:04.8 | I had this moment afterwards, |
| 1:06.6 | because they interviewed me about virology, |
| 1:08.3 | because I've just found myself diving really deep |
| 1:11.0 | into that. I give lectures on it. I've traveled across the world talking about it. But I was like, |
| 1:16.8 | had you told me five years ago, maybe even like three and a half years ago that I would be |
| 1:22.3 | interviewed by John Stockton and the topic he'd be interviewing me about was virology. |
| 1:28.8 | You literally can't even make that up. |
| 1:30.7 | No, you can't. |
| 1:31.4 | That's not like the most random thing ever, right? |
| 1:34.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah, but it's just where life takes you. |
| 1:36.6 | When I was in before high school, I was really into basketball. |
| 1:40.3 | And I went to Terry Porter's basketball camp. |
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