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Invite Mike Martin for interviews, author talks, library events, book clubs, outdoor programs, and conversations on The Honest Wilderness, frontier history, resilience, outdoor mindfulness, and the wilderness within.

Mike brings together storytelling, nature, history, and lived experience to create honest conversations about identity, purpose, and finding your way forward.

Mike Martin is the founder of Project Mindfully Outdoors and the author of The Honest Wilderness: Finding Daniel Boone and the Frontier Within. His work blends wilderness, frontier history, outdoor mindfulness, storytelling, and lived experience into conversations about resilience, identity, purpose, and the human search for meaning.

As an author, EMT, meditation teacher, and outdoor storyteller, Mike speaks to audiences looking for something deeper than motivation alone — honest reflection, practical grounding, and a renewed connection to the natural world.

Mike Martin joins WILX Studio 10 to discuss The Honest Wilderness and the journey behind the book. He shares how hiking, journaling, and following landscapes connected to Daniel Boone shaped a story about identity, resilience, and healing. The interview also introduces the evolving mission of Project Mindfully Outdoors.

Mike Martin joins Make Mental Health Matter TV for a conversation about The Honest Wilderness, mental health, and life in EMS—exploring resilience, the outdoors, and the experiences that helped shape the book.

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Mike Martin is available for television, radio, podcast interviews, author talks, library programs, book clubs, community events, guided reflection experiences, and outdoor-inspired presentations.

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