Life|Hunter More than the Hunt Podcast
Life|Hunter is a 15-20 minute audio podcast that brings hunting, fishing, and the great outdoors together with meaningful life lessons. Each episode explores how the challenges, skills, and experiences in the wild connect to personal growth, resilience, and success in everyday life. Whether you’re a seasoned hunter, an angler, or just someone who appreciates nature, Life|Hunter delivers real stories, practical wisdom, and a fresh perspective—one adventure at a time.
Episodes
Host Anthony VanGrinsven reflects on a pre-dawn ridge near Rochester and shows how time in the wild reshapes leadership and productivity. He draws three lessons—pause, observation, and rhythm—that turn busy activity into deliberate, effective action.
This episode explains how slowing down, noticing small signals, and working in natural cycles improves decision-making, team leadership, and personal energy management.
In this episode Anthony VanGrinsven explains why the most important tool a hunter carries is their mental state. He breaks down how patience, presence, and emotional control shape decisions in the woods and how those same skills translate to handling uncertainty, failure, and pressure in everyday life.
Listeners will take away practical lessons on mastering thought patterns, staying calm under pressure, and using resilience and awa...
Host Anthony VanGrinsven examines how hunting — from ancient hunters to modern families — teaches self-reliance, patience, and responsibility. He reflects on hunting as a means of provision, stewardship, and preparation for those we care for.
The episode closes with three takeaways: build practical self-reliance, plan and practice patience to provide, and accept responsibility that shapes both family and community.
On this episode Anthony VanGrinsven uses hunting as a metaphor for life to show that success rarely happens overnight — it’s the product of long, unseen preparation, discipline, and patience.
He outlines how preparation builds confidence and resilience, shares three practical takeaways about unseen effort and lasting success, and encourages listeners to trust the process during quiet seasons of work.
Host Anthony Van Grinsven reflects on how hunting, fishing, and morning moments in nature reveal a sense of God’s presence and bring a deep, practical peace.
He shares three takeaways—presence as a doorway to clarity, humility as guidance, and gratitude as a multiplier—that translate into better leadership, relationships, and everyday living.
In this episode Anthony VanGrinsven explores how wild food becomes family memory and moral education, from the moment a harvest comes home to the work of quartering, cooking, and telling stories at the table.
He shares practical steps—include your kids, label hunts with recipes and dates, set aside a family cut, and share with neighbors—and three takeaways: visible work creates value, stories season memory, and sharing ...
Anthony VanGrinsven recounts a crisp pheasant hunt and draws simple, clear life lessons from the morning: a missed shot can be a rehearsal, overlooked places often hold opportunity, and small wins build steady character.
This episode of Life|Hunter — More Than The Hunt explores how everyday moments in the field translate into practical wisdom for life beyond hunting.
Anthony VanGrinsven shares the origin and ethos of Life|Hunter, explaining why the podcast was built for meaning, growth, and impact rather than financial gain.
He draws parallels between hunting and creating: preparation, patience, and intentional execution lead to lasting rewards — personal growth, relationships, and real-life impact.
In this Thanksgiving special, host Anthony VanGrinsven offers a short, unscripted reflection connecting hunting metaphors to life’s heavy seasons — pausing in the garage or the woods, acknowledging struggle, and finding quiet gratitude.
He shares three takeaways: slow down and notice what’s present; every season teaches even when it yields little; and gratitude sharpens your view of what matters. A brief, heartfel...
Anthony VanGrinsven walks listeners through a morning hunt in Onamia to show how the land speaks through tracks, scrapes, and silence. Through one day in the woods he teaches how tracking sharpens awareness and offers life lessons beyond the hunt.
Three clear takeaways: everything leaves a mark, context matters more than content, and learning the language of silence can guide your choices.
Anthony VanGrinsven shares a reflective early-morning story from the woods to show how nature’s slow rhythms can teach us to value stillness, patience, and inner connection when life feels stuck.
He explores three takeaways: stillness is sacred preparation, renewal can’t be rushed, and staying connected to the wild within restores purpose and clarity.
Listeners are invited to step outside, slow down, and trust the timin...
In this episode Anthony VanGrinsven explores the deeper meaning behind the hunt — focusing on respect, remembrance, and the responsibility that follows taking an animal. He argues trophies are not measurements of conquest but chapters of personal and family stories that teach patience, humility, and gratitude.
The episode highlights three takeaways: respect the life you take, treat trophies as memories not scores, and commit ...
Host Anthony VanGrinsven reflects on responsibility to land and wildlife, telling the story of a restored marsh and how hunter-funded conservation brings habitats back to life.
He shares three takeaways: give more than you take, legacy outlives trophies, and transparency builds trust—with stewardship framed as gratitude in action.
Ultimately, the episode urges hunters to protect what feeds them and to live like the wild depen...
Host Anthony VanGrinsven shares a personal elk-hunt story to highlight the power of preparation: months of unseen training, gear checks, and mastering fundamentals that turn a missed opportunity into a planned victory.
He breaks the lesson into three takeaways—front-load your effort, master the basics, and plan for the unexpected—and challenges listeners to identify their own “hunt” and commit to the quiet w...
Anthony VanGrinsven takes you into a crisp October afternoon in Onamia, Minnesota, where sitting in a tree stand becomes a lesson in stillness, patience, and restraint.
Through one quiet hunt, he shares three takeaways: be fully present, let things unfold in their own time, and recognize that some moments are meant to be lived rather than captured.
Welcome to Life|Hunter, more than the hunt podcast, where we take lessons from the wild and apply them to everyday life. In this episode, host Anthony VanGrinsven shares a personal hunting story about enduring bitter cold in a deer stand and the lesson of perseverance it taught him. He discusses how staying the course, remembering your purpose, and growing through adversity apply to hunting and everyday challenges.
Anthony offers t...
In this episode of Life|Hunter, host Anthony VanGrinsven shares a submitted story about an elk hunt that turns into a lesson on real leadership. Stranded in thick mountain fog, a seasoned hunter steps up to steady his anxious group, demonstrating how calm decisiveness, planning, and empathy can guide people through crisis.
The episode explores practical takeaways: step up even when scared, have a vision and backup plans, and lead w...
In this episode, Anthony VanGrinsven recalls his first deer hunt and the quiet lessons it taught about patience, legacy, and leadership. Through family stories and a day in the woods, he shows how small, steady choices shape who we become.
Lessons here apply beyond hunting—to parenting, mentoring, and everyday life. Reflect on who’s watching and what trail you’ll leave behind.
Host Anthony VanGrinsven shares a hunting story that becomes a life lesson about the "wind" we carry — the energy, attitude, and presence that reach others before words do.
Through a missed encounter with a ghost deer, he explains how checking and managing your personal wind—calm, confidence, curiosity—changes outcomes and relationships in both the woods and everyday life.
Anthony VanGrinsven recounts a marsh morning where a sudden wind shift blew up a planned duck hunt and turns the story into a lesson in adaptation and resilience.
He shares practical takeaways — control what you can, train flexibility, and keep backup plans — and shows how those field tactics apply to work, relationships, and life.
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