Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the old fashioned on purpose podcast. So here

in the podcast, we've talked a lot about nature over the years and our

connection to nature and kind of how we fit into the natural world as humans.

But more often than not, for obvious reasons, we talk about that through the

lens of agriculture and regenerative farming and cultivating the land on our

little homesteads. But as I learn more about this and my understanding

broadens, I'm really starting to understand that that's just the beginning.

And you could absolutely argue that there is a connection to nature that we have

as humans that goes much deeper and is much more ancient than even the

connection that we find in a garden. And that is kind of that wild connection

that we have to the land and to animals. And so I would venture to say, I don't

think I've ever talked about fishing here on the podcast. But I'm excited to

talk about it today. And I have with me Connor Sullivan and he's probably

one of the best people we could have on to talk about this topic. He's an author,

he's an angler, he's fished all over the place. He lives in Alaska with his

family. And Connor, you have a pretty impressive resume, if you will. So I'm going to let

you give us a little bit of an introduction. Sure. And thank you, Abby, on

Jill. This is at a real privilege to be here talking today.

Yeah, my name is Connor Sullivan. I live here in Southeast Alaska, my wife,

Renee, or three beautiful children. You know, I kind of grew up, you know,

since my first memory was a fish and put it that way. I grew up

putting my rod in my hand here, and I've fished across our entire country.

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