Latest Episodes
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Life changing travel experiences (with Ari Shaffir): Walking across Israel
“A lot of people seek out spiritual travel-sites without any ties to a specific religion: When they’re in Israel and they’ll go to the...
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How to write a travel memoir (and how failure is the best teacher)
“Earnest, hard-won failure can teach you as much as anything.” – Rolf Potts Note: For information on the Paris-based Travel Memoir classes Rolf is...
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Strategies and arguments for the simple life (from an off-grid perspective)
This episode of Deviate explores the benefits of minimalism (3:00); changing ones life philosophy and getting rid of bad habits (11:00); pragmatic approaches to...
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American Pilgrim: Revisiting Rolf’s lost Travel Channel Thanksgiving special
“The perception that most Americans have about the original Thanksgiving is very much a Hallmark-card stereotype, where the native people and the colonists came...
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Solo travel: Celebrating the pleasures of (and strategies for) journeying alone
“Savoring is attending to the moment.” – Stephanie Rosenbloom In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Stephanie discuss solitude versus loneliness (3:00); the joy...
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Vagabonding audio companion: Time Wealth and the spiritual texture of travel
“Getting in touch with reality is literally the essence of spiritual life.” – Rolf Potts In this episode of Deviate, Rolf remixes his interview...