About
What This Is
The Everything Experiment™ is a living exploration of what it means to step out of autopilot and fully into life.
It isn’t a framework to follow or a set of answers to adopt.
It’s an ongoing process and life philosophy centered around engaging with the world through real experience, curiosity, and presence — and documenting what unfolds along the way.
At its core, this project is grounded in one simple belief:
Life reveals itself through experience.
Who I Am
I’m Austen LeTourneau — a documentarian, speaker, and explorer.
For much of my life, I was doing everything “right” on the outside.
I was productive. Structured. Moving forward.
But underneath it all, something felt off.
Life worked, but it didn’t feel fully lived.
The Shift
Eventually, I realized the issue wasn’t my life — it was how I was living it.
Like many people, I had slipped into autopilot.
Routine replaced curiosity.
Efficiency replaced presence.
Over time, life became something to manage instead of something to experience.
The Everything Experiment began as a personal decision to re-engage.
Not to escape my life — but to finally step more fully into it.
To follow curiosity into unfamiliar places, disciplines, and conversations.
To move toward experience instead of abstraction.
And to see what real engagement revealed along the way.
My Role In The Experiment
I don’t approach this as an expert with answers.
I approach it as a participant.
I’m learning in real time — showing up, paying attention, and sharing what unfolds as experience does its work. Sometimes that brings clarity. Sometimes it brings uncertainty. Often, it brings insight that couldn’t have been planned in advance.
That’s part of the experiment.
This project isn’t about mastery or self-improvement.
It’s about presence.
It’s about choosing to engage, even when outcomes are unclear.
What I Do
Today, I document my pursuits through film, writing, and conversation — letting my curiosity lead me into honest discoveries.
That might mean immersing myself in unfamiliar cultures, training in new disciplines, or taking on challenges that push me beyond comfort and routine — using lived experience as the method to explore identity, understanding, and what it means to fully engage with life.
What This Is Really About
While this project follows one person’s journey, it isn’t about one person.
It’s about what becomes possible when we step out of routine and back into engagement — with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us.
The goal isn’t for anyone to copy what I do.
The hope is that the work creates space for reflection.
That it invites a simple, honest question:
What might change if you followed your curiosity a little more deliberately?
How This Lives In The World
The Everything Experiment unfolds through documented experiences, reflections, conversations, and moments of exploration — sometimes quietly, sometimes publicly.
It also finds expression through shared conversations and speaking, where curiosity, presence, and lived experience become something we explore together in real time.
There’s no “right answer.”
No instruction.
Just an ongoing commitment to learning from engagement.
