Project Mindfully Outdoors

About Project Mindfully Outdoors

The Honest Outdoors Stories From the Frontier Within The Honest Outdoors is a reflective storytelling podcast hosted by Mike Martin, creator of Project Mindfully Outdoors. Through wilderness, history, personal reflection, and honest conversation, this podcast explores the questions that shape our lives. What happens when the map no longer matches the landscape? Who are we when the labels disappear? How do we begin again when life takes an unexpected turn? Each season journeys through themes of identity, resilience, connection, wonder, purpose, and the lessons hidden along life's trails. Inspired by wilderness, shaped by experience, and grounded in the belief that some of life's most important lessons are discovered beyond the noise, The Honest Outdoors invites listeners to slow down, pay attention, and explore the frontier within. This is not a podcast about having all the answers. It's a campfire for the questions. Hosted by Mike Martin. Creator of Project Mindfully Outdoors. Author of The Honest Wilderness: Finding Daniel Boone and the Frontier Within. New episodes release weekly. Pull up a chair. The campfire is just getting started.

Publisher

Mike Martin

Category

history · society & culture · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Sept 2022

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

8 of 345 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 7 — The Honest Wilderness: When Boone Became the Mirror

   Author Mike Martin shares personal reflections on solitude, grief, and identity, drawing parallels between his life and the story of Daniel Boone from his book, The Honest Wilderness.

2. 

   8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 6 - Boone Trace: Daniel Boone’s Forgotten Road with Dr. John Fox

   Host Mike Martin interviews Boone Trace historian Dr. John Fox, uncovering the forgotten story and preservation efforts of Daniel Boone’s original path into Kentucky.

3. 

   25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 5- Boone Trace: Daniel Boone and the Little Road History Forgot

   Host Mike Martin traces Daniel Boone's forgotten Boone Trace, revealing how this early path profoundly shaped settlement and continues to offer lessons on purpose and lasting impact.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 7 — The Honest Wilderness: When Boone Became the Mirror

Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And the Boone who emerges from the pages is remarkable. He overcomes danger and he survives. He's captured and he escapes. Something goes wrong time and time again, but yet he keeps on going. It's easy to think and see how Boone became an American hero. But when I started researching him, that wasn't the Boone that intrigued me the most because I became interested in the man underneath the legend because the longer that you stay with Boone the more complicated and much more human that he becomes he was a man that knew failure he knew what debt felt like and he knew what it was like to have to build something and lose it He knew what it was like to leave home and come back changed. […]

Who has been a guest on Project Mindfully Outdoors

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• John Fox
• Lindsey Carnick
• Dan Clouser
• Curt Linville

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

19,045

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

27 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

88

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

51

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