Press & Podcasts — Matthew Kessi, Author of The Wild Cure
Press & Podcasts
I love a conversation that has room to go somewhere real.
I’ve brought this work to audiences of hikers, travellers, seekers, and people navigating the second half of life. The thread is always the same — what the Natural World has to teach us about ourselves — but the doorway changes depending on who’s listening. That’s the part I enjoy most.
If you’re producing a show or an event, I’d love to hear from you.
Recent Conversations
On why The Wild Cure matters in the second half of life
Zestful Aging — March 2026 · listen
On returning to Nature to heal
Hopening 2.0 — February 2026 · listen
On how to connect with Nature on every trip
The Thought Card — December 2025 · listen
On going deeper with Nature on the trail
Jennie Hiking Podcast — July 2025 · listen
On grounded travel, and staying connected while moving
Veggies Abroad — December 2024 · listen
On spiritual experience, and what happens when you stop explaining it away
How I Made It Through with Bernadette Thompson — April 2024 · listen
What I Speak About
The Forgotten Medicine — why reconnecting with the Natural World restores calm, clarity, and creative energy, and what the research actually shows.
The Kinship Questions™ — a six-question framework for moving from visiting Nature to being in relationship with it.
Practical Mysticism — holding the sacred and the useful at the same time, without asking anyone to believe anything.
When Insight Isn’t Enough — why people who understand their own patterns perfectly often can’t change them, and what does work.
Befriending the Shadow — using the Natural World as a safe container for the parts of ourselves we were taught to hide.
From Corporate to Calling — twenty-five years in airline management, a layoff, and what came after.
I’m comfortable with grief, burnout, midlife reckoning, and the messy middle of change — and equally comfortable keeping it grounded and practical for a general audience. Tell me about your listeners and we’ll find the right doorway.
Bios
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Matthew Kessi spent twenty-five years in airline management before becoming a nature-based mentor and shamanic practitioner. He’s the author of The Wild Cure, and his friends call him the human version of a magic mushroom.
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Matthew Kessi is a nature-based mentor, shamanic practitioner, and author of The Wild Cure: The Forgotten Medicine to Restore Calm, Clarity, and Connection. After twenty-five years in airline management, he now guides private mentorship, forest bathing walks, and retreats in the Pacific Northwest. He lives in Seattle.
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Matthew Kessi helps people stop running from the parts of themselves they were never taught to love, using the Natural World as both mirror and medicine.
Raised on an Oregon dairy farm and later travelling through more than sixty countries during twenty-five years in airline management, he left the corporate world eight years ago to train in a lineage of shamanic practice. He’s the author of The Wild Cure and the creator of the Kinship Questions™, a framework for moving from visiting Nature to living in relationship with it.
He leads private mentorship and guided forest bathing from his home in Seattle.
Press Materials
High-resolution photos, cover images for The Wild Cure, and a one-page overview are available on request.