Follow Your Blissters: The Hero's Journey podcast

Mar 28 2024 15 ep. 72 mins
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Will Gethin, Founder of Conscious Frontiers, explores The Hero’s Journey as a map for living and transformation, interviewing thought leaders and changemakers about their experience of living out The Hero’s Journey in their lives. Mythologist Joseph Campbell, creator of The Hero’s Journey, was famous for his mantra for living ‘Follow your Bliss’, which he later updated to ‘Follow Your Blisters' acknowledging that when you follow your authentic life's calling you’ll inevitably meet considerable challenges and it’s through life’s challenges that we get to overcome our fears and grow.

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