The Great Detour
The Great Detour
Podcast Description
The Great Detour™ is a podcast about embracing life’s unplanned paths. These defining experiences—whether they bring challenges, lessons, or new opportunities—have one thing in common: they guide us toward self-discovery and growth. Join host Jess Prudhomme and her guests as they share vulnerable and inspiring stories of lives that didn’t go according to plan and the growth and meaning they found along the way. Featuring practical advice and strategies from experts and those who’ve “been there,” these conversations will empower you to navigate life’s transitions with resilience, trust the process, and rewrite your own story as your most authentic, empowered self.Learn more at www.thegreatdetour.com. Follow along on Instagram @thegreatdetour. Have your own detour story to share? Email it to: mystory@thegreatdetour.com.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of resilience, personal growth, and self-discovery through the lens of life's unplanned paths. Episodes include discussions on embracing authenticity, community power in movement, and creating inclusive opportunities, such as the transformative impact of Dubset Running Collective and the mission of Able Athletics to support children with disabilities.
The Great Detour™ is a podcast about embracing life’s unplanned paths. These defining experiences—whether they bring challenges, lessons, or new opportunities—have one thing in common: they guide us toward self-discovery and growth.
Join host Jess Prudhomme and her guests as they share vulnerable and inspiring stories of lives that didn’t go according to plan and the growth and meaning they found along the way. Featuring practical advice and strategies from experts and those who’ve “been there,” these conversations will empower you to navigate life’s transitions with resilience, trust the process, and rewrite your own story as your most authentic, empowered self.
Learn more and share your own detour story at www.thegreatdetour.com.
Follow along on Instagram @thegreatdetour.
In this episode of The Great Detour™, Jess speaks with Ray Martin—entrepreneur, award-winning business leader, and author of Life Without a Tie. At the height of his career, Ray experienced a profound unraveling: the end of his marriage, the loss of his father, and a decision to step away from the company he co-founded with his partner. What began as a six-month sabbatical turned into a 14-year journey across 28 countries and four continents.
Ray shares how he slowly rebuilt his life from the inside out—shifting from structure to surrender, and redefining success through intuition, service, and inner peace. He and Jess explore the unraveling of identity, the discomfort of letting go, and how sometimes the path forward isn’t something you plan—it’s something you feel your way through.
They also talk about Ray’s ten guiding principles for navigating uncertainty, how he found clarity through mindfulness, and what it means to live from a place of alignment rather than expectation.
This episode is especially for anyone sitting in the in-between—questioning what’s next or wondering who they are without the old titles and ties.
About Ray Martin:
Ray Martin, aka The Daily Explorer, is an entrepreneur and award-winning business leader. As a coach, mentor, facilitator, speaker, writer, and mindfulness teacher, he is a torchbearer for greater human consciousness.
He courageously explores both his external and internal world daily in pursuit of greater insight and wisdom about life, for himself and others.
He created the Calling All Angels Foundation and runs marathons to raise money for causes he believes in, which have included an orphanage in Nepal and an elephant sanctuary in Thailand..
Whatever he does, his mission is to bring more joy and happiness into the world.
Learn more about Ray Martin and Life Without a Tie:
Website: https://lifewithoutatie.com
Learn more about The Great Detour™
Website:www.thegreatdetour.com
Instagram: @thegreatdetour
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