With people still in the middle of something, and some a little further down the road. Hosted by Scott Bain, a firefighter and paramedic for 23 years, who has since lived abroad and travelled the world, trading stories with people from every walk of life.
About Scott – scottbain.me
I spent 23 years as an urban firefighter and paramedic.
Now I travel the world asking people about their lives: what they’ve learned, experienced, made sense of, and are still trying to figure out.
For centuries, caravans carried strangers across long distances: people with different histories, beliefs, and destinations, sharing the road for a while. At every stop, they traded stories. The Caravan of Souls is a place to keep trading them: what shapes us, what we carry, what stays. We share them through a podcast, a YouTube show, and a newsletter.
Field notes, solo episodes and conversations, recorded in our studios in Bali and the US, and wherever the road leads.
What the show is about →Every life changes over time. Some of it by choice, some by chance, most of it somewhere in between. And some things stay with us through all of it.
The show sits with people inside those stories, wherever they are on the road: just setting out, somewhere in the middle, or far enough along to look back. Solo episodes dig into the questions underneath. Field notes are dispatches from along the way.
The show isn’t about fixing anyone or making another five-year plan. It’s about noticing what’s changing, questioning what we’ve assumed to be true, and staying with a question long enough to see what it’s asking.
The Caravan of Souls Dispatch
Essays and field notes from wherever I am, on whatever I’m still trying to figure out. Sent when there’s something worth saying.
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I read every one. Some become conversations on the show — especially if you’re still in the middle of it.