Monarchs In Peril

November 1, 2022 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Gratitude, Inspiration, Life Balance, Self-reliance, Sustainability

The increadible beauty and miracles of our planet are slipping through our fingers. It's time to act. In 2011, I published a book called Rediscovering Your Divine Music (RYDM). The book centered on reconnecting more humans to nature to come to understand our urgent need to find balance for our sustainability on the planet. RYDM [...]

Corporate Burnout and Honoring Your True Self…It’s Trending.

August 29, 2022 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Employment, Gratitude, Inspiration, Life Balance, Self-reliance

I've spent the greater part of the past 30 years of my life working in the corporate world. I’ve worked in high intensity, fast-paced start-up environments, shared great responsibility as a leader on executive teams, and ran my own agency where more often than not, I wore countless hats. I managed to juggle all aspects [...]

Home is A State-of-Mind

June 1, 2022 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Gratitude, Inspiration, Life Balance, Self-reliance

How the New Mexico Wildfires Reshaped My Meaning of Home There’s nothing quite like a massive natural disaster threatening your livelihood to help you prioritize your life and reassess your meaning of home. For 14 days, my fiancé, Heather, and I were evacuated from our property in Black Lake, New Mexico. Our evacuation interrupted 10 [...]

Assistant Position

August 31, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Life Balance, Self-reliance

I need help. There, I've said it. I need an assistant. 4XPEDITION needs to grow and to do so I need some help. I need someone who can handle a variety of different tasks. Someone who is on top of it all. Someone driven, motivated, owns the role and executes. Someone who thinks of tasks [...]

Putting Distance Between You and Your Comfort Zone

August 30, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Life Balance, Self-reliance

Each spring I find myself coming down with a bug. There are never advertisements on the radio for shots that can be taken for what I experience, yet it arrives around the same time each year without fail. My experience becomes an unavoidable desire to spread wings and soar to far-distant corners of this magnificent [...]

Finding Clarity in Unpredictable Times

July 11, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Self-reliance

Creating focus and clarity in your life can oftentimes be a difficult task. Remaining focused is even harder. There are so many options, possibilities, distractions, diversions, and so forth, to persuade us away from core initiatives. In our lives, we embark on many varying 'micro-adventures' that ultimately, with their ups and downs, create the fabric [...]

The Genius of Self-Reliance

March 8, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Self-reliance, Sustainability

I have found there to be such a deeply rooted relationship between our internal evolution of Self with our association as a living, breathing human being within our natural surroundings. I have been pondering this concept of self-reliance and the attraction to societal conveniences lately, all while meeting and interacting with a number of new [...]

Finding Yourself Home Free

March 7, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Overlanding, Solo Travel

In the spring of 2012, I began a discussion with a dear friend of mine roughly outlining an idea to traverse Central and South America by automobile. We would spend 18 months traveling here and there with no particular itinerary other than being sure to reach one of two coastal destinations along the South Atlantic [...]

Pack Light Sleep Right Ultralight Tent Comparison

March 7, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Backpacking, Hiking, Tents, Trekking

A short winter hike in the Coconino National Forest north of Flagstaff, Arizona leads to reflection about living a simple life.