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Chasing Lights—an Alaskan Childhood
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Chasing Lights—an Alaskan Childhood

Hosted by Gunnar Branson · EN · 21 episodes

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21
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The frontier is an exciting adventure when imagined, but what is it like when it's lived? How does a young family from Philadelphia make Alaska home? I grew up under the Northern Lights in temperatures that ranged from -60 degrees to +80 degrees Fahrenheit. Wild animals like bear, moose, eagles, and caribou were common, mountains were epic, winters were cold, summer sun went through the night, and the Northern Lights were frequent. But it was also strangely ordinary...and awesome.

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Gunnar Branson hosts Chasing Lights—an Alaskan Childhood, a arts show with 21 episodes published.

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Chasing Lights Conversation with Henry Chamberlain

Sep 21, 202545m0

What if leadership requires kindness? The world can not be controlled. That is an obvious understatement, as human beings are far too small and powerless to have total control. It is challenging to keep that simple truth

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Chasing Lights Conversation with Joshua Harris

Sep 17, 20251h 4m0

The book version of Chasing Lights will be released in early 2026. It tells the story of his childhood under the Northern Lights in Alaska where the small things, the ordinary lives lived in an impossibly big world under

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Chasing Lights Conversation with Joshua Harris

Sep 16, 202548m0

What are your Chasing Lights Stories? After finishing the podcast of Chasing Lights and as the book version is prepared for release in early 2026, author Gunnar Branson sat down with Joshua Harris to ask him about his Ch

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Chasing Lights Conversation with Zeb Bradford

Sep 16, 20251h 10m0

Part of the Chasing Lights Conversations podcasts, I sat down with a good friend and colleague Zeb Bradford. In his work life, he is Metzler Real Estate's Chief Investment Officer, but outside of work he has led a fascin

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Chasing Lights Conversation with Marc Royer

Sep 16, 202548m0

What are your Chasing Lights Stories? After finishing the podcast of Chasing Lights and as the book version is prepared for release in early 2026, author Gunnar Branson sits down with Marc Royer to ask him about his Chas

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Chasing Lights - Forward

Jun 24, 20227m0

Why did I write a story about childhood "under the lights"? The reasons are complicated, but the stories are interesting. Find out why.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 1

Jun 17, 202238m0

I didn't start life in Alaska, but I ended up there pretty quickly. How? Listen here to the story of how my family went north for the first time.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 2

Jun 10, 20223m0

How much can you escape what you left behind? How much does it follow you? The family starts their life as Alaskans.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 3

Jun 3, 202236m0

What does it take to get through winter? Tough for everyone, Alaskan winters are especially difficult on the body and the soul...but there are moments that fill the darkness.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 4

May 27, 202223m0

What is Spring like in Alaska? It's so different that Alaskans don't call it Spring.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 5

May 20, 202230m0

When does the light come back? When can I trust the warmth to stay? Summer finally comes and "the real Alaska" outside of Anchorage beckons.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 6

May 13, 202231m0

Why is there so much garbage? Even if one leave's civilization behind, the trash just follows you. But is that a bad thing?

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 7

May 9, 202232m0

What about the other road out of town? Instead of just the Kenai Penninsula, the family started to explore the country to the North of Anchorage, and even the Bush.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 8

May 7, 202236m0

What is it like to live in the Bush? It is not always what one might expect. Of all the experiences of the Bush, the most challenging and most beautiful may be the silence.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 9

May 6, 202224m0

What about hunting and fishing? A big part of life in Alaska, it's never as simple as it seems and learning to understand and accept violence can be a lifetime journey.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 10

May 1, 202235m0

How long before someone belongs in Alaska? It's surprising, where someone turns around and realizes that all that strange and frightening stuff is now normal. Normality creeps up, even as one complains about things being

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 13

May 1, 202200

Life is unfair. What can we do about it? There wasn't that much more time before I left Alaska. Like alot of people getting about to start life alone, the inequities of life became more apparent to me.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 11

Apr 29, 202228m0

What is it like to fly? People fly alot more in Alaska than elsewhere. What is it like to take off in a blizzard or land next to a mountain? What is it like to fly 4,000 miles away for the first time alone?

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 12

Apr 24, 202223m0

What is hip? The question asked by Tower of Power in 1973 was on my mind as I started two amazing jobs my senior year in high school.

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Chasing Lights - Chapter 13

Apr 22, 202230mEp. 13S1

Life is unfair. What can we do about it? There wasn't that much more time before I left Alaska. Like alot of people about to start life on their own, the inequities of life became more apparent to me.

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