Kerouacs Cruising | Where Off-Grid Living Meets Soulful Awakening

Off-grid life. Spiritual growth. Honest stories from the road.Join international best-selling authors James & Cara Kerouac as they travel the U.S. with their dogs, sharing raw conversations about healing, presence, self-worth, and freedom.Through real talk, off-grid adventures, and soul-expanding interviews, Kerouacs Cruising invites you to wander freely, heal deeply, and live awake.✨ Off-grid living tips✨ Spiritual & emotional growth✨ Stories of awakening + aligned living✨ Guests who challenge the norm and break the moldNew episodes weekly—wherever the road takes us.

Kerouacs Cruising | Where Off-Grid Living Meets Soulful Awakening is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 123 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Kerouacs Cruising | Where Off-Grid Living Meets Soulful Awakening, a society show with 123 episodes published.

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  Episode #19

  I Wasn't Going In | Elk, Ice Lakes, and Seven Days in the Sawtooths

  Sep 15, 202641 minS3

  He wasn't going in. Then he went in. James just got back from seven days of backcountry hunting in the Sawtooth Wilderness with his son. 90 miles down a dirt road, no phone service, nights in the 20s, and more than 55 miles of hiking! He pulled a muscle coming down a cliff. He left his thyroid medication in the base camp tent. He never got the elk. And... he'd do it again tomorrow. This episode is the full debrief: what backcountry hunting actually looks like, what seven days completely off the grid does to a person, and how James accidentally ended up in an alpine lake in his boxers while deciding he absolutely was not going in. And at the end, Cara makes it a Kerouacs Cruising episode by asking the obvious question: what does any of this have to do with the rest of your life? Also, there's a teaser for something new that's been cooking. More on that soon. Check out our Blog for the Full audio version of James's hunting Video. The Reinvention Project is where we do the deeper work. Free class every third Thursday; join the weekly Circle if you want community along your journey, or book a call if you'd rather just talk to us directly. Find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/kerouacscruising Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/kerouacscruising

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  Episode #18

  Love Yourself First | Contemplation, Mindset & Real Change

  Sep 8, 202625 minS3

  It's messy first. That's what nobody tells you about changing your mind. This is the finale of our Mindset Shift series, and we spent it exactly where we should have: in the hard part. Not the inspiration, not the science (though there's some of that too), but the in-between. The grief of leaving the old version. The void before the new one settles. The way the people who love you will sometimes pull you back without meaning to. And the moment when the only thing holding you steady is knowing what actually matters to you. We get into contemplation as a tool (and it's probably not what you think it is), mindfulness and meditation in plain language, the power of building a community around who you're becoming, and why self-compassion isn't soft; it's structural. We started this series in episode 14 asking whether you could change. This episode is the answer to what happens after you decide to try. Series links if you want to go back to the beginning: E14: Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks E15: The One Thing You Can't Stop E17: The Story Isn't Finished Yet Dig deeper into the science of this week's episode in our blog The Reinvention Project is where we do this work with people, not just talk about it. Free class every third Thursday; weekly Circle if you want company in it regularly, or book a call if you'd rather just talk. Find us everywhere: linktr.ee/kerouacscruising Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/kerouacscruising Mentioned in this episode: - Richard Rudd — Gene Keys (contemplation framework): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IWcDKUw0Ic - Theta Brainwave / Programming Before Age 7: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929324000653 - Mindfulness and meditation clinical summary: https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/meditation-and-mindfulness-effectiveness-and-safety

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  Episode #17

  The Story Isn't Finished Yet | The Reticular Activating System and a Blown Engine

  Sep 1, 202629 minS3

  The truck saga is back, and this time we're not calling it bad news. If you've been with us since the engine seized up back in episode 12, you know exactly which flashback opens this one. We're back in that moment... the pops, the shudder, the quote that made both our stomachs drop. This time we used it as the jumping-off point for part three of our Mindset Shift series. We tell you about a farmer whose horse ran away, then came home with a dozen wild horses, then broke his son's leg, then kept that same son out of a war draft. Every time something happened, the farmer said the same thing. Maybe. We get into the actual science behind why your body responds to stress differently depending on what you believe about it (there's a 30,000-person study behind this one), and a part of your brain called the reticular activating system that's been deciding what you notice, and what you don't, since before you could talk. We're still holding the pen on how the truck situation turns out. So far, it's not finished. Neither is yours. Note for clarity: Cara referred to the brain's content filtration system as the "reticulating activating system" throughout this episode. Its correct name is the reticular activating system. Same incredible mechanism, same science, just wanted to name it right. If any of this is something you want real, ongoing support putting into practice (not just something to nod along to), that's what The Reinvention Project is for. A free class every third Thursday, a weekly Circle if you want company in it regularly, or book a call if you'd rather just talk it through with us directly. This episode drew from a body of real research on stress mindset and cognitive reappraisal. If you want to go deeper: Keller et al. (2012) — the landmark 30,000-person study on whether believing stress harms you actually affects mortality: Health Psychology, 31(5), 677–684 Jamieson, Mendes, Blackstock & Schmader (2010) — reappraising pre-exam arousal improved GRE performance: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(1), 208–212 Jamieson, Nock & Mendes (2012) — reappraising stress improved cardiovascular and cognitive responses: JEP: General, 141(3), 417–422 Brooks (2014) — reappraising pre-performance anxiety as excitement: JEP: General, 143, 1144–1158 Crum, Salovey & Achor (2013) — stress mindsets and how they shape the stress response: JPSP, 104, 716 2024 meta-analysis (Scientific Reports) — 44 effect sizes, overall d = 0.23 for reappraisal and mindset interventions on task performance Tedeschi & Calhoun (1996 onward) — the post-traumatic growth framework and PTG Inventory

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  Episode #16

  The Unglamorous Side of Chasing a Different Life

  Aug 25, 202613 minS3

  Some weeks the adventure is a moose on a dirt road and a new grandbaby, and the real work is just holding your peace while everything's uncertain. This week we're taking a breather. After two heavier episodes (and before two more), we brought you along on an adventure day out to Lake View, a tiny lakeside community east of Athol, Idaho, winding mountain roads, moose and baby moose, dogs getting knocked over by the waves, and our first clear-sky day since the Spokane fire. We talk about the land we once looked at out here, grandbaby number two, and the honest truth of this season: we're back to DoorDashing after the truck engine, money's tight, and instead of calling it a hard time, we're treating it as a test of whether we actually believe what we teach. Spoiler: so far, we're holding our peace. This is also the episode where we say it out loud for the first time... Kerouacs Cruising and The Reinvention Project are one and the same now. What You'll Hear in This Episode: An adventure day out to Lake View, Idaho (moose, dense rainforest foliage, a lakeside town that feels like an island) Why this region is part of the Washington rainforest, and why we both quietly love it Grandbaby number two, and taking a day off from responsibility to just be outside The big behind-the-scenes shift: The Reinvention Project is now officially a branch of Kerouacs Cruising, not a separate thing How the new monthly free class and the Circle actually work The honest money season, and why we're choosing not to call it hard this time What it means to keep embracing your life when the horizon's uncertain Resources and Mentions: Lake View / Lakeview, Idaho (the lakeside community on Lake Pend Oreille, east of Athol) Lake Pend Oreille Kerouacs Cruising presents The Reinvention Project (the newly integrated one-world) ... the free monthly class is the third Thursday of each month; the Circle community meets weekly The Spokane fire (referenced as the reason for recent smoke; first clear day after it) This is the first episode airing since we made it official... The Reinvention Project isn't a separate thing anymore; it's the deeper room inside Kerouacs Cruising. If the conversations here ever make you want to go further, into your own life, with people walking beside you, that's what it's for. There's a free class once a month (the third Thursday) where you can just come sit in and see how it feels. No pitch, no pressure. Reach out anytime , or here's the link whenever you're ready: kerouacscruising.com/reinvention If you've got someone in your life who's in their own uncertain season and holding on anyway, send them this one. And if you're new here, welcome; we put out something real every week from wherever the road has us parked.

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  Episode #14

  Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks | Neuroplasticity and Epigenetics

  Aug 11, 202635 minS3

  We kick off a short series on the mindset shifts we've spent the last three years actually trying to live, starting with two ideas that quietly rewired how we think about ourselves: your brain isn't done changing at 25, and your genes aren't the fixed hand you were dealt. We also get into two more fringe ideas we've found genuinely compelling: a DNA experiment involving photons and a water crystal study. Along the way: a gratitude practice that actually works, and how Cara talks herself out of a body-image spiral. What You'll Hear in This Episode: Why "your brain is fully developed by 25" turned out to be wrong, and what neuroplasticity actually means The mouse study that changed how scientists think about genes: it's not just what you inherit, it's what gets switched on Why beating yourself up for falling off a new habit undoes more progress than the slip itself Two fringe science ideas we find genuinely compelling: a DNA-photon experiment and a water crystal study The placebo effect, and a real surgery study where sham operations worked as well as the real thing A simple gratitude practice, and why "realists" might just be pessimists with better branding How to start rewriting the story you tell yourself about your own body Resources and Mentions: Adult neuroplasticity / hippocampal neurogenesis: Eriksson et al., "Neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus," Nature Medicine , 1998. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9809557/ The maternal care and gene expression study: Weaver et al., "Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior," Nature Neuroscience , 2004. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15220929/ The placebo surgery study: Moseley et al., "A Controlled Trial of Arthroscopic Surgery for Osteoarthritis of the Knee," New England Journal of Medicine , 2002. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259 The DNA phantom effect: Gariaev & Poponin's original writeup. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281411802_Investigation_of_the_fluctuation_dynamics_of_DNA_solutions_by_laser_correlation_spectroscopy The water crystal study: Masaru Emoto background. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335909571_The_experiments_of_Masaru_Emoto_with_emotional_imprinting_of_water Limitless by Jim Kwik (book recommendation) An open Invitation: This whole series exists because knowing this stuff is the easy part. Living like you believe it, every day, while plenty of the world still runs on the old story, is the actual work. That's the whole premise of The Reinvention Project. If any of this landed, come find us. https://thereinventionproject.podia.com/the-quiet-reinvention-workshop You're always welcome at our campfire. Find the blog , the video , socials , Ko-fi , and how to reach us , all linked

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