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IN THE BUSH is where wilderness survival, hunting and ancestral knowledge meet something deeper. Hosts Cole and Joel go beyond the how-to of bushcraft and nature connection, diving into the psychological, spiritual, philosophical, and energetic threads that run through it all. Each episode is a real conversation — unhurried, curious, and willing to get deep — with guests ranging from accomplished experts in their fields to some of the most interesting people you've never heard of.
Host: Cole Wilks
Cohost: Joel van der Loon
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Send us Fan Mail Joel sits down with intuitive healer Amanda Mahalik. In this episode: Psychic, medium or intuitive healer? Amanda explains the differences and why she prefers "intuitive healer."How a reading feels. For Amanda everything starts as a feeling, and the words, images and sounds follow.Staying grounded and keeping boundaries as an empath. Amanda says you can turn the volume up or down.Amanda's path: a metaphysical store as a teenager, then a three-year clairvoyant intuitive...
Send us Fan Mail Greg Everett is the founder of Catalyst Athletics, a longtime weightlifting coach, and the author of Tough: Building True Mental, Physical, and Emotional Toughness for Success and Fulfillment. He is known for helping athletes develop not just strength, but the identity and emotional resilience to sustain it. Joel Van der Loon speaks with Greg Everett about the deeper side of toughness, moving beyond physical grit into emotional self-awareness, identity, and purpose. Greg expl...
Send us Fan Mail Joel Van der Loon and Eva Müller explore energy healing from a practical, experience-led perspective. Joel shares his own intense somatic releases and spiritual transformation after divorce, while Eva explains how she works with high vibrational divine energies to clear stuck emotions, expand the system, and support healing. We discuss why energy work is difficult to understand until it is felt, how childhood conditioning and stored emotion shape adult life, and why both spea...
Send us Fan Mail Joel Van der Loon shares a solo episode on purpose, vulnerability, and the process of uncovering what he believes the soul is here to learn in this lifetime. He explores how childhood conditioning, fear, and unconscious beliefs can block clarity, and why inner honesty, meditation, and time in nature matter for anyone trying to live more authentically. In this episode, Joel reflects on the tension many men feel around vulnerability, the role of intuition in decision-making, an...
Send us Fan Mail This episode breaks down how Oregon wildlife management actually works, from agency structure and habitat biology to wolf conflict, roadkill, and mule deer decline. Jamie Bowles from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife also shares how traditional bowhunting shaped herunderstanding of animals, predators, and the discipline required to hunt ethically. In this episode, Joel and Jamie discuss the realities of managing wildlife as a public resource, why habitat fragmentatio...
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