“The village is just as important, if not more important, than the home.” – d'Arcy Lunn
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Do you enjoy funny, well-traveled, and inspiring people?
Yeah, me too. Which is why I'm so stoked to present d'Arcy Lunn for your listening pleasure/insight/grooviness.
I was introduced to d'Arcy (pronounced “Dar-cee”) by Donnie Maclurcan of the Post Growth Institute and, ever since then, he and I have been members of the Mutual Appreciation Society.
More than that, our conversation was dazzling … and I believe you'll agree.
This fella has so many amazing stories (some of them from the world's most remote places). And now you get his first-hand report of what it's like to live on $1.50 U.S. a day, how the battle to eradicate polio is going, and much more.
I was privileged to spend time in developing countries … and that's where I got to see humans be human. – d'Arcy Lunn
If you're looking to hone your attention to intention, discover how someone builds a self-sustaining tiny house in fourteen days, why crazy is the new normal, and want to understand one of the simplest, most powerful formulas on the planet, give this episode a few laps around your grey matter.
And speaking of matter – I'm 100% serious about this – you matter. I matter. And according to d'Arcy:
We're all just as important and insignificant as everyone else. – d'Arcy Lunn
You're about to Learn …
- How d'Arcy lived on $1.50 a day … for five weeks … cycling around North America.
- Why active, global citizens are so content (and how you can be one too).
- How to hone your “attention to intention.”
- Why crazy is the new normal.
- How d'Arcy built a solar-powered, self-sufficient tiny house in fourteen days.
- How d'Arcy educated 30,000 people with 400 presentations over 14 years.
- Why individualism gives him the heebie-jeebies.
- How to use the powerful formula: Gift + Passion = Change.
- How Brunei's students are helping immunize Pakistan's students against polio.
- The value in connecting via empathy instead of sympathy.
- Why d'Arcy thinks I'm a “wonderful piece of fertilizer.”
- The 1,000 km walk around Japan that sparked Teaspoons of Change.
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Resources and Items Mentioned in This Episode:
- Websites:
- Happy, Simply
- Teaspoons of Change
- Normal Life in the Life of Lunny
- The Global Poverty Project
- Live Below the Line
- Resources:
- D'Arcy's Bio and Portfolio
- Polio Points
- Videos
- D'Arcy on Social Media:
Topics
- [05:56] d'Arcy's seeds of awesomeness
- [09:46] Not following the “garden path” to start exploring your own back yard
- [12:51] The richness of learning from other cultures
- [18:58] d'Arcy's insight from giving 400 presentations across the globe
- [22:26] Building a self-sufficient tiny house in fourteen days
- [26:19] Where just enough meets plenty
- [29:53] Experiences and organizations about eradicating polio
- [36:14] The Global Poverty Project and their wonderful projects
- [44:00] Allowing for maximum human contact and impact
- [44:57] Teaspoons of Change
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Joel, do you have a donate button somewhere? I would like to give you a gift for all the inspiration your blog has provided since I found it.
There is no donate option on Value of Simple right now. But I will debut a Patreon support channel in late January 2015. I just sent ya an email, Claire, but thanks for being willing to help. It means a ton to me and I need people like you to help me sustain – and even step up – what I’m doing with Smart and Simple Matters.
Joel, thanks so much for the chat and mutual learning, information and inspiration! One other link and org I’d like to share with folks is the Jump Foundation! a youth empowerment org doing amazing stuff all over the world – http://jumpfoundation.org
Cheers, d’Arcy.
Oh, yeah. We didn’t get to chat about The Jump Foundation! I dig what they’re up to and I hope people see your comment so they can check it out for themselves.
Hey Joel, I often listen to podcasts while hiking or walking the dog and then forget to comment afterwards … d’Arcy is a force of nature. We need to clone him. I also have a suggestion for an episode.
My husband is scoutmaster for our son’s BSA Troop and I am one of the Assistant Leaders. It is a backpacking troop that does some kind of weekend outing every month, mostly backpacking but also snowshoeing, skiing, cycling, etc. The boys are are all really great kids (good students, involved in sports, extracurricular activities, etc.) but I and the other parents do struggle with how to keep our kids off their gaming systems and phones. Given a choice on how to spend free time, they overwhelmingly end up in front of a screen. Even out in the middle of the gorgeousness of the high sierra talk turns to video games. It seems every teenage boy I know does this. I believe you mentioned having a gaming hobby that perhaps did not serve you in the past. How can we engage our young men with real life and not virtual killing sprees or minecrack? I am not interested in being a helicopter parent, but in teaching them how to self-regulate and enjoy the rewards of simple life without screens and electricity.
Thanks for the shout out Mims and I think your connection to Scouts is a good one!
When I present at schools they are often looking to me for ideas to engage more with people and the planet and I think Scouts is a great example and reference – thanks for the reminder (being an ex-Scout myself!).
Cheers, d’Arcy.
I’d be comfortable with a bunch of d’Arcy clones roaming the world and making it a better (and more fun) place. And thanks for the suggestion for a future podcast episode. I have some poorly formed thoughts about your situation – partially informed by my video game obsession as a youth – but you deserve a coherent plan if I’m going to address the whole “kids love their screen time even when the beauty of nature is staring them in the face … just hoping that someone will stare back.”
Hi Joel and folks, Just an update on the Polio Points website – new and very improved so anyone anywhere can sign up to earn, reward, match or receive Polio Points –
Big thanks! d’Arcy.
Thanks for keeping us in the loop, my man!