#60 Erich Streichsbier on Project Quiver
Erich Streichsbier is a master bowyer and proprietor of Sparrow Bows based in Northern Austria. He lives in a 250-year-old farmhouse along the Czech Republic border and carves magnificent bows in a beautiful workshop that he built by hand. He uses digital methods to research and recreate historical bows, analyzing metrics such as vibration behavior, construction methods, and specific tensile weights.
#59 Per Friden on Project Quiver
Per Friden is a bowyer based in Sweden who has been carving bows for nearly ten years. He is also a forest manager tending to 3000 hectares of Swedish public land, and feels fortunate to spend so much of his time among trees. Per and his bows can be found on Instagram @nordic_selfbows.
#58 Simon Kehl on Project Quiver
Simon Kehl is a master bowyer based in Buhler, Switzerland. He has been making selfbows and laminate bows since 2014, blending physics with aesthetics to make increasingly faster and more beautiful bows. He sells his bows under the brand of Selfbow.ch.
#57 Jake Fenwick on Project Quiver
Jake Fenwick is a full-time bowyer based in Sackville, New Brunswick, on the east coast of Canada. Jake has a long and diverse history of bow making, which dates back to 2011 and includes mentors from around the world. Through his family business known as Fenwick Bows, he specializes in historically-accurate English longbows and warbows.
#56 Stefan Tim on Project Quiver
Stefan Tim has been hand carving traditional bows for two decades in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Under his brand, Bamboo Bows, he crafts and sells traditional Japanese Yumi bows and stunning horn bows that combine bamboo, wood, and horn. Stefan is also passionate about history and teaches history at a local high school.
#55 Jamie MacDonald on Project Quiver
Jamie MacDonald is a world-renowned bowyer who carves primitive bows primarily from Pacific yew. He is most known for his English longbows, which he and his wife Jenna meticulously craft under the brand name of Ravenbeak Natureworks in Powell River, British Columbia.
#54 Pete Woodland on Project Quiver
Pete Woodland is an incredible bowyer based on Vancouver Island in British Columbia where he carves and teaches under the name of Heritage Bows. In addition to his passion for bow carving and archery, Pete is obsessed with bonsai, the Japanese art of growing miniature trees, and has dozens of bonsai trees growing on his property.
#53 Chuck Loeffler on Project Quiver
Chuck Loeffler is a professional bowyer specializing in the replication of sinew-backed and self wood bows of North America and around the world. For more than 30 years, he has been meticulously conducting research of materials, methods, and construction of ancient bows and arrows.
#52 Weylin Olive on Project Quiver
Weylin Olive, husband and father of two, is a professional bowyer based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Through his company, Swiftwood Bows, he sells world-class handmade primitive bows, offers bow carving workshops, and provides content for amateur bowyers.
#51 Correy Hawk on Project Quiver
Correy Hawk is a professional bowyer who comes from a long line of outdoorsmen. He grew up in a small village in Southeast Nebraska, where, along with his siblings, he was raised to hunt, fish, forage for wild foods, and navigate the wilderness. His father put a bow and arrows in his hands as soon as he could understand their utility.
#50 Jake Roussos on Play, Smiling, and Empowering Children
Jake Roussos is on a mission to help people live their best lives by living his best. Early on he found a powerful tool that was available to him wherever he went and in any interaction: his smile. Since then, he has been positively impacting others through the simple gesture of a genuine a smile.
#49 Terry Bullman on Martial Arts, Compassion and Balance
Terry Bullman has been a fighter most of his life. As an only child growing up on a farm in North Carolina, he used to watch martial arts movies and dream of fighting like Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee. He began training on his own, and then with clubs and gyms to earn black belts in Taekwondo, Karate, and Krav Maga.
#48 Kasper Allison on Slowing Down, Conscious Movement, and Sex
Kasper is the founder of Kinecion, a training method that focuses on helping people reduce pain by learning how to re-connect with their bodies, not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally. With more than 2 decades of experience, he has helped countless clients, personal trainers, and physical therapists.
#47 Mark Wolynn on Inherited Trauma, Family Constellations, and the Impacts of a Pandemic
Mark Wolynn is an expert on inherited family trauma and the author of the book, It Didn’t Start With You. His research and perspectives on trauma provide immense opportunities for healing, not just for the individual, but for generations to come.
#46 Paula Reid on Adventure Psychology, Human Capacity, and the Power of Choice
Paula Reid is a courageous adventurer who is forging a career in applying Positive Psychology to help other adventurers and leaders optimize their performance. As someone who has experienced extremes of skiing to the South Pole with a debilitating leg injury, she is no stranger to adversity and how it can impact outcomes.
#45 Mikki Willis on the Antidote to Plandemonium, Darkest Hour Healing, and Standing for Truth
Mikki Willis earned overnight fame (and notoriety) in 2020 when he released his short film “Plandemic”, which ironically went more viral than the virus it is about. Somehow, what amounted to an interview between Mikki and scientist Judy Mikovits ended up setting society into a whirl.
#44 Jon Turk on Myth, Magic, and Love
Jon Turk returns to Salish Wolf for another episode, this one on his new book Tracking Lions, Myth and Wilderness in Samburu. In this discussion, and in his book, Jon demonstrates how myth has shaped humanity, catalyzing the formation of tribes, creating power dynamics, and eroding the concepts of unity.
#43 Kim Barta on Shadows, the Perpetuation of Trauma, and Shamanism
In this episode, Kim Barta casts light on some of our most hidden aspects, our shadows. Kim is an internationally-recognized psychotherapist, coach, and spiritual guide with extensive experience in shadow work and spectacular results in his psychotherapy practice. According to Kim, the risk of not recognizing and integrating them is not fully fulfilling our destiny.
#42 Benjamin Fox on Astrology, Fulfilling Destiny, and Interconnectivity
Benjamin Fox is back on Salish Wolf with an enriching and fascinating conversation about astrology. This is an area where I have very little knowledge and experience, and Benjamin expertly guides my skeptical and curious mind through the universe of astrology – and what a complex and telling universe it is.
#41 Jordan Wylie on the Power of the Paddle, the Edge of Life, and Knowing Your Why
Jordan Wylie is not good at one thing in particular: being idle. This man does life-threatening adventure like most people go to the store. When Covid restrictions put a halt to his attempt to run 10 marathons in the 10 coldest places on the planet, Jordan rapidly switched plans to attempt to circumnavigate the United Kingdom on a stand up paddleboard. To add to the extreme level of difficulty in this quest, Jordan had to first learn to paddleboard, in less than 7 days.