The Urban Exodus Podcast

by Urban Exodus, hosted by Alissa Hessler

March 22, 2024 4:00 pm

We are in the midst of a Great Awakening. In this uncertain world, people are changing course and getting back to their roots. This movement is happening all over the world. This is the Urban Exodus.

Urban Exodus shares honest and inspiring stories of life transitions and transformations. It offers wisdom and practical advice for country dreamers, rural folk, and urban-dwellers alike, who want to feel more connected to the natural world and the purpose and choices in their lives.

Recent Episodes

Live to Learn, Learn to Live: A world explorer plants roots on his ancestral homelands, and hand builds an eco village where he teaches people how to shift towards more earth centric living | Joshua Kwaku Asiedu
8 months ago
Academics leave city life to build a regenerative sheep farm and eco retreat in the Australian bush
8 months ago
Decentralized Life: A hip London restaurant manager leaves city life to hand build a homestead in Belize with her family
9 months ago
Fungi Future: A Boston couple’s road to recovery and Covid leap of faith leads to mushroom farming in rural Vermont
9 months ago
A tech entrepreneur’s climate and Covid motivated move from San Francisco to her husband’s home state of Maine allows for time to reflect, reconnect and start a new chapter rooted in purpose | Grace Chen
10 months ago
An astrocartographer taps into the wisdom of the cosmos, trading New York City for a slower paced, digital nomad life in rural France
10 months ago
Wanderland Wonder: A tech exec finds healing in nature & builds a place where people can reconnect with the wild | Jonathan Weston of @wanderlandusa
11 months ago
A scientist’s backyard growing journey blossoms into a mission to advocate for greater food security through home & community gardens | Ashlie Thomas of The Mocha Gardener
11 months ago
A Modern Shepherd: A Queer musician and textile artist leaves academia for agriculture
12 months ago
Twin sisters of @busyhomebodies homestead in a city apartment during Covid & manifest their self-sufficiency dreams
1 year ago

The Urban Exodus Podcast

by Urban Exodus, hosted by Alissa Hessler

Recent Episodes

Live to Learn, Learn to Live: A world explorer plants roots on his ancestral homelands, and hand builds an eco village where he teaches people how to shift towards more earth centric living | Joshua Kwaku Asiedu

Academics leave city life to build a regenerative sheep farm and eco retreat in the Australian bush

Decentralized Life: A hip London restaurant manager leaves city life to hand build a homestead in Belize with her family

Fungi Future: A Boston couple’s road to recovery and Covid leap of faith leads to mushroom farming in rural Vermont

A tech entrepreneur’s climate and Covid motivated move from San Francisco to her husband’s home state of Maine allows for time to reflect, reconnect and start a new chapter rooted in purpose | Grace Chen

An astrocartographer taps into the wisdom of the cosmos, trading New York City for a slower paced, digital nomad life in rural France

Wanderland Wonder: A tech exec finds healing in nature & builds a place where people can reconnect with the wild | Jonathan Weston of @wanderlandusa

A scientist’s backyard growing journey blossoms into a mission to advocate for greater food security through home & community gardens | Ashlie Thomas of The Mocha Gardener

A Modern Shepherd: A Queer musician and textile artist leaves academia for agriculture

Twin sisters of @busyhomebodies homestead in a city apartment during Covid & manifest their self-sufficiency dreams