rewilding.

coach. creative. nomad.

re·wild /rēˈwīld/:

A conservation effort aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and wilderness areas. To restore (an area of land) to its natural uncultivated state.

This concept is one that we can also apply to ourselves. “Human Rewilding” is to reinstate and recover our natural or untamed state of being. It is the process of unlearning much of modern conditioning and remembering who and what we really are.

It is the accidental journey I have found myself on, and intend to share with you as I continue to discover it.

Where it started

Welcome!

You may know me from my Instagram, where for nearly a decade I shared teachings, lessons, and reflections to a following of tens of thousands. Or you may know me from the podcast I’ve hosted for 6 years, now with nearly 2M downloads. Or you may have worked with me in my signature coaching program, STA. Or you may know me from YouTube, where I share my worldly travels weekly. Or you might know me from Substack, where I write essays on our relationship with our selves, environments and technology to thousands, regularly.

Or, your might be new to me and my work. A brief introduction to what I do:

I’m Taylor Gage, a coach, entrepreneur, and creative. My public facing work has always mirrored my inner life, passions, and path.

The earliest iteration of this space was a blog launched in 2012 about beginning strength training for women, and finding a nutritional and holistic path to wellbeing that differed from the mainstream American guidelines, borne from my own transition from a decade-long pack-a-day smoker and drinker/partier into the world of physical health.

Over the last decade my focus has slowly evolved inward from physical wellbeing, into mental, emotional, and spiritual terrain, and for the last five years I have worked as a mindset and life coach in a business I built from scratch into a successful, six-figure enterprise, before shutting the better part of it down and walking away from it all. My work lately has been with women who are particularly hard on themselves, who tend to carry the world’s expectations, who have lost their access to their own body, intuition and self trust — helping them live a lighter, more aligned life, while being kinder and more compassionate with themselves.

I am a coach, writer, podcaster, filmmaker, public speaker, workshop/seminar host, and teacher. I am a sailor, nomad, philosophy nerd, consciousness explorer, and student of the world, who is living slowly and simply in my floating tiny home.

Where it’s going

In the fall of 2020 my husband and I sold our home and just about every single thing we owned and moved aboard a sailboat, opting out of comfort and the illusion of security in favor of adventure, challenge, and a simpler life, away from capitalist empty promises and conventional cultural pursuits. Building a business on Instagram meant that in 2020, when I became disillusioned by social media culture and made the difficult decision to close my account, the better part of my business went with it.

With no prior experience to speak of, we sailed from Seattle to Mexico, and plan to continue traveling indefinitely as we document our life aboard with weekly videos on YouTube. Our lives are now intimately entwined with the rhythms of the sun, moon, and sea, and we are both audience to and participant with the magic of nature herself.

While I am still coaching and publishing regular podcasts, my newsletter is a recently revamped venture that I’m quite excited about, where my curiosities, moments of clarity, and open ended questions all meet — a place to explore all that fascinates and captivates me about the human experience, our role within and as nature, our relationship to ourselves, our minds, technology, the cosmos we inhabit, and beyond.

You can work with me or follow along with me here: