{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Smoke Trail","title":"The Smoke Trail: S2 E51: Stop the Boat, Pull the Rope Trauma as Propulsion, Prayers as Waypoints, and Easeful Abundance with Dalton Follows","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/eb4ab591\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5108,"description":"THE SMOKE TRAIL  |  SEASON 2  |  EPISODE 51\n\nStop the Boat, Pull the Rope\n\nTrauma as Propulsion, Prayers as Waypoints, and Easeful Abundance with Dalton Follows\n\nMetadata\nEpisode: S2E51\nTitle: Stop the Boat, Pull the Rope\nSubtitle: Trauma as Propulsion, Prayers as Waypoints, and Easeful Abundance with Dalton Follows\nGuest: Dalton Follows, Coach, The Alchemy Network (Denver, Colorado)\nRuntime: 1:24:57\nRecorded: Remote, Sedona to Denver, August 2026\nRelease: TBD (September 2026)\nGuest links: https://thealchemynetwork.com  |  https://www.linkedin.com/in/daltonfollows/  | https://www.instagram.com/daltonfollows/\nAlternate titles: The Rope Is a Propeller: Dalton Follows on Alchemy Coaching  |  Half the Words, Twice the Presence: A Conversation with Dalton Follows  |  Abundance Is Easeful: Dalton Follows on Trauma, Elders, and Purpose\nGuest Bio\nDalton Follows is an Alchemy Coach at The Alchemy Network. A brand and identity expert, Harvard graduate, and somatic meditation teacher, he supports mission-driven leaders and specializes in onboarding clients and building their Success Maps. His purpose: to amplify compassionate leaders. His vision: a safe world. His legacy statement: his family embodied ease and enthusiasm. Dalton is an Enneagram 9w1, is newly married, and lives in Denver.\nEpisode Hook\nSmoke and his friend Dalton Follows met at a plant medicine ceremony in Asheville. This is the conversation they meant to have under a tree in a Denver park. Dalton grew up outside Toronto, won what he calls the Good Boy Olympics, played lacrosse at Harvard, lost his eligibility, found Eastern philosophy and art, ran spiritual programming for an ultra-high-net-worth membership community, and now coaches leaders at The Alchemy Network alongside his mentor Jean-Pierre LeBlanc.\nThe two men trade stories about the trauma that builds high achievers and the trauma that high achieving creates. Dalton offers the boat metaphor at the center of alchemy coaching: every rope trailing...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GLQIccuHv_JUEWKoEIFMJBnneGY8IDvT3pA_q5BOBe8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85OTEx/YjI1YTJmZmU3NjQz/YTZhZjRlYjllZjMw/M2U1Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}