Untamed Adventure with Jim Hughes
Jim Hughes is a soul of adventure, play and guidance. He’s a world-class coach, a seasoned explorer and a source of inspiration. Jim has the gift of making me belly laugh one minute, and then quickly shifting into holding space for the deeper, real conversations.
In this episode we discuss Jim’s pathway into adventure, which started from a young age in the English countryside. We learn about his coaching business, Untamed, which helps entrepreneurs get back to real connection and alignment. Then we dive into some of his powerful coaching concepts – Flow not Force, Drive and Contentment, and Wants vs Shoulds.
This conversation is packed with insights, reflections and powerful questions.
I appreciate Jim for his presence and “untamed” nature. He’s a powerful reminder and advocate for finding our way back to our most authentic self.
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"Humans have always chosen the path of least resistance. They've always chosen to maximize their comfort."
"It's not like we are worse human beings, it's just we're taking advantage of what we have created in order to make our life easy."
"Because I didn't know who I was, I was trying to be who I thought others needed me to be."
"And then the more I started to connect with my own feelings, the more I realized actually, wow, I'm really stressed."
"I was trying to engineer the situation and it just wasn't working. There was just evidence after evidence after evidence that this was not the path I should be pursuing."
"I'm now so much more attuned to what the signals may be, where my energy's at with it, whether I should stop, whether I should just listen, whether I should change, whatever. It's so much more relaxing. It's so much more empowering. It's so much less exhausting."
"The fact that I'm content doesn't mean I don't have drive."
"This idea between having ambition but enjoying the journey and being grateful for what I have right now. Which feels like a journey from a place of love rather than from a place of fear, which I think is where a lot of drive comes from."
"When you are doing things for the shoulds, because that's who you feel you need to be in order to be seen, in order to be enough, in order to be successful, in order to be wealthy, whatever... Then you're not in your playground."
"Because you may find that when you're honest with yourself, the need for speed, the need for constant drive, achievement, success, they may slowly fade."
Ali Jafarian
Ali is a creator, seeker and explorer who's energized by guiding people to their truth. He's a family man, entrepreneur, conscious technologist, podcast host and many other things that inspire him to stay curious and learn. He's a strong advocate for nature, adventure, self discovery and testing human capacity.
