Oct 30, 2026 · 1 hr 43 min · 17 segments
Matt Allen is a lifelong Coastside local whose story runs from 90s skateboarding and local bands to wilderness survival, wolf tracking, and 25 years teaching special education. From rafting the Grand…
All right, so you've made some pretty significant changes in direction over the years.
How do you know when it's time to move on from
Something Tom Brown taught me to refine and just figure out the difference between just a gut feeling that's false and a true communication that's offering guidance.
But I also, in a simpler way, when you feel yourself having to force yourself to do something rather than it pulling you, like you're just... just want to do that thing like you're more excited about doing that thing than anything else and it doesn't take effort to get you to get yourself to do that activity and sometimes you're pulled towards a direction and you're so passionate and then you slowly start to shift and like well i'm i'm actually more into this now like this that season has passed and i'm gonna shift over to a different passion but luckily I've had several it's like I I'm lucky enough to have had more than one some people struggle to find even one thing that they just love doing and are passionate about yeah But yeah, seasons shift, and I've noticed if you're having to force yourself to do it, it's not your thing anymore, and hopefully something else, maybe simultaneously, just outpulls it, and you just start doing one thing more and the other thing less.
Yeah, I feel like that's a common thread that I've... caught on to listening to you and reading the bio that we got from you.
That's a great way to describe it.
Yeah.
And I mean, speaking of the next chapter, you know, you've watched half and Bay and Algonada change over the decades, but what do you miss most about the, the old coast side? And what do you think that people today don't understand about what it used to be like?
And being a kid during that time, it was such an opportunity to discover adventure and come of age and test yourself and just grow and connect with friends.
What was the second part of the question? Just what do you think people today don't understand about what it used to be like?
All right, so you've made some pretty significant changes in direction over the years.
How do you know when it's time to move on from
Something Tom Brown taught me to refine and just figure out the difference between just a gut feeling that's false and a true communication that's offering guidance.
But I also, in a simpler way, when you feel yourself having to force yourself to do something rather than it pulling you, like you're just... just want to do that thing like you're more excited about doing that thing than anything else and it doesn't take effort to get you to get yourself to do that activity and sometimes you're pulled towards a direction and you're so passionate and then you slowly start to shift and like well i'm i'm actually more into this now like this that season has passed and i'm gonna shift over to a different passion but luckily I've had several it's like I I'm lucky enough to have had more than one some people struggle to find even one thing that they just love doing and are passionate about yeah But yeah, seasons shift, and I've noticed if you're having to force yourself to do it, it's not your thing anymore, and hopefully something else, maybe simultaneously, just outpulls it, and you just start doing one thing more and the other thing less.
Yeah, I feel like that's a common thread that I've... caught on to listening to you and reading the bio that we got from you.
That's a great way to describe it.
Yeah.
And I mean, speaking of the next chapter, you know, you've watched half and Bay and Algonada change over the decades, but what do you miss most about the, the old coast side? And what do you think that people today don't understand about what it used to be like?
And being a kid during that time, it was such an opportunity to discover adventure and come of age and test yourself and just grow and connect with friends.
What was the second part of the question? Just what do you think people today don't understand about what it used to be like?
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