This is an exciting month of news and happenings around The Safari Way!
Please check it out and, as always, I would LOVE your feedback and thoughts on how to make things better and more valuable. This month specifically, I am requesting feedback around some things we are stirring about. 
In this month’s edition…
- Invitation! – Book Launch Party, February 25th
- Invitation! – Virtual Launch Party & Interview, March 13th
- Interest check – African Safari, weekend retreats, and more!
- How can I help you live your epic adventure?
YOU’RE INVITED TO MY
Hey, are you around Minnesota on Sunday, February 25th? If so, I would LOVE to see you for my Book Launch Celebration!
Many of us are gathering from 3-5 pm @ the Uncommon Loon Brewery in Chisago Lakes to eat appetizers, have a few drinks, meet some cool people, and celebrate together the launch of “Do the Unright Thing: Memoir of a People Pleaser.”
So many people have had a part to play in it – so I want to thank them, but also just have a reason to pull cool peeps together.
That’s where you come in!
If you are planning to stop by, I would appreciate a quick email telling me how many are coming so I can make sure we have plenty of apps! Hope to see you there!
JOIN ME ONLINE FOR A
You’re invited to join my virtual launch party on March 13th at 6pm Central time!
This will be part of my interview with Twinflower Books.
Follow the Eventbrite link to reserve your spot today!
If you are part of my Author Community, you will receive your book in the mail or at the live launch event on February 25th – otherwise, if you don’t have a copy yet, you can order it when you sign up for the free virtual event.
LEARNING, RETREATS, and AFRICAN SAFARI!
Every week I meet more people who are excited about approaching life, work, and leadership The Safari Way – recognizing that, as Helen Keller said, “Life is either an epic adventure, or it is nothing at all.”
Therefore, I am doing an interest check to see who is ready to take The Safari Way to the next level. I am not looking for commitments, but I am looking for interest at this point in three different options:
OPTION 1: The Safari Way Video Course
This is being created as a self-paced series of videos, exercises, and workbooks to help you practically apply the “Big 5” of the Safari Way to different areas of your life. This includes Choosing Your Experience, getting the Right Peeps in Your Jeep, doing the Unright Thing, pausing to Take in the View, and learning to Embrace the Adventure. With each area, I will dig deeper into examples of how people are applying it in their lives and provide you tools that will help you do the same!
OPTION 2: The Safari Way Weekend Retreat
Using the same framework as the video course, I am looking at having a live, in-person gathering likely in July in Minnesota. We would spend Friday evening to Sunday afternoon sharing meals (and lots of snacks), building relationships, and reflecting on each of the Big 5 components of The Safari Way in different areas of our lives. Participants would have the option of staying on-site (large AirBNB or rented retreat center) or commuting each day from their home or other place they are staying.
OPTION 3: African Safari
Yeah, you heard it right! Spend one week in East Africa (likely Ruzizi Tented Lodge at Akagera National Park in Rwanda) watching elephants, lions, zebra, giraffes, hippos, wildebeests, and the nearly 1,000 species of birds they have.
Perhaps we will take nighttime boat rides looking for Nile crocodiles and even morning walks to hear the park as it comes alive. We would plan the trip together, but that’s the general idea.
As part of this experience, we would meet together as a group to go over all the details, but also to talk about how we can approach the safari experience in a way that will give us insight into happiness in other areas of our lives. Each participant will get a customized safari journal with all the details of our trip with opportunities to reflect and record thoughts from the experience. We will come together as a group later to relive the excitement and discuss what we have learned about ourselves through the adventure. I will take care of all the details – you just pay and enjoy!
Those are my early thoughts and I’m looking for your level of interest on any of them. To help you give feedback, here are some rough ideas of timing and potential costs (note that these are not final and may change significantly):
Video Course: $150-200; expected to be available by April or May at the soonest
Weekend Retreat: $400-500 (minimum 10 people); earliest this would happen would be June or July of this summer
African Safari: $5,500-$6,500 (all inclusive from getting in-country to leaving) PLUS flight to Rwanda, medical costs, passport, souvenirs (additional $2,500-$3,000). I am considering a trip this August if enough interest, and then perhaps annually each summer.
I would love to know your interest level, especially with the retreat and safari to know if I should start pulling details together for this summer! 🙂
Many of you I met at speaking events – we connected, you shared feedback, you bought the book, or perhaps some other way we found each other. And some of you I have known quite a long time!
Either way, my question for you is this: are you living the safari way?
If so, I would love to hear about it. If not, I would love to help.
Drop me a line either way and let’s stay connected. We are now peeps in each other’s jeeps; so maybe it’s time to sit a little closer to each other.
Thanks again for all the support – thrilled to be with you on this Epic Adventure!
Steve Fredlund,
The Safari Dude
Life is an adventure. Make it epic.
Shoot me an email, connect on LinkedIn, subscribe on YouTube, consider coaching, find me at a conference, or whatever makes sense in your world.
About The Author
Steve Fredlund is The Safari Dude. As a professional actuary in human resources analytics, he uncovered surprising factors that enhance employee engagement, and work enjoyment; key elements for effectiveness, enhanced retention, productivity, and organizational success.
Minnesota to Rwanda, nonprofit to corporate, start-ups to Fortune 500 companies he brings to your event thirty years of leadership success. Steve’s personal safari mission is to help great leaders and their teams enjoy an epic safari by getting the right peeps in their jeeps and in the right seats.
