About
Who Austen Is
For a long time, I moved through life the way most people do. Doing what was expected. Following the path that was already laid out. Checking the boxes and calling it progress, while somewhere underneath it all, realizing I wasn't actually inside my own experience. I was just moving through it.
At some point, curiosity took over. Not as a strategy. Not because I had it figured out. Just as a way of actually paying attention.
That shift changed everything.
I started asking better questions. I started paying attention to how life felt, not just how it looked on paper. And I realized that real growth, the kind that actually changes you, doesn't come from thinking harder or optimizing more. It comes from experience. From showing up. From staying curious long enough to let life reveal something.
The Everything Experiment™ grew out of that realization.
I'm Austen LeTourneau, an explorer, speaker, and documentarian of the human experience. This is my ongoing attempt to live, observe, and share what I find along the way.
The Philosophy Behind It All
The core belief behind all of this is simple:
Experience reveals identity.
We don’t discover who we are by thinking harder, we discover it by engaging with life, trying things, staying curious, and being present for what unfolds.
The podcast, the conversations, the writing: all of it is a place to reflect on that process openly, honestly, and without pretending there’s a finish line.
Life itself is the experiment.
What The Everything Experiment™ Is
The Everything Experiment is an ongoing exploration of life after autopilot, shared through conversations, reflections, and real-world experience.
It lives primarily as a podcast: weekly episodes that follow curiosity wherever it leads, into culture, creativity, work, rest, identity, and the everyday moments that quietly shape how we live.
But the podcast is just one expression of a larger way of engaging with the world.
There are also Field Notes: short dispatches from the journey, written when something is worth capturing. There are live conversations and speaking engagements that bring these ideas into rooms. And there is a growing body of work that treats life itself as the terrain and curiosity as the compass.
No formulas. No prescriptions. Just honest exploration.
What We Explore Together
Each episode is a space for curiosity-driven exploration: sometimes solo, sometimes with guests, always rooted in the same underlying question:
what becomes possible when we actually pay attention?
The conversations span culture, creativity, travel, identity, mindset, and the moments in everyday life that reveal more than we expect. Some episodes go wide. Others go deep into a single idea, experience, or exchange.
There are no tidy conclusions here, just honest exploration of life as it’s actually happening.
Who This Is For
This isn't built for a specific type of person or a specific stage of life.
It's for anyone who's felt, at some level, that there's more available in their daily experience than they've been accessing. Anyone who's curious about what changes when they stop going through the motions. Anyone who appreciates a conversation that doesn't rush to a conclusion.
If you believe life is worth exploring, not just managing, you'll find something here.
Beyond the Microphone
Alongside the podcast, I share Field Notes: short reflections, observations, and behind-the-scenes moments from the journey.
Some come directly from conversations on the show. Others come from life as it's unfolding in real time: a thought that didn't fit in an episode, a question worth sitting with, something noticed along the way.
It's all part of the same exploration: staying curious, staying connected, and learning out loud.
Speaking & Live Conversations
The ideas explored on the podcast also come to life through speaking engagements and live conversations.
In talks and workshops, I share stories, insights, and moments gathered through The Everything Experiment, inviting audiences to reconnect with curiosity, presence, and what makes life feel meaningful again.
Join the Experiment
You don’t need to change your life overnight. You don’t need a plan.
All you need is curiosity, and the willingness to pay attention.
If that resonates, you’re already part of the experiment.