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Angell Deer for your podcast, page or stage.
Medicine man, author, trained veterinarian and founder of Sacred Paths. Andean Cosmology and Norse Shamanism, land stewardship, grief, purpose, and what it takes to walk away from the empire and build something that feeds life.
He has spoken at Harvard Business School, the French Embassy in New York and Parsons School of Design.
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About Angell Deer
Angell Deer spent more than two decades in leadership roles in luxury retail and sustainability. He reached the top of that world and found it empty. That is where his other education began.
He trained for over twenty years in Andean Cosmology and Norse Shamanism, and for twenty years stewarded The Sanctuary, a shamanic healing center in the Catskill Mountains of New York. He is the founder and executive director of The New York Bee Sanctuary, a non-profit protecting bees and wild pollinators.
In 2025 he moved with his family to La Ferme du Cerf Bleu, an 18th-century farm in Burgundy, France, where they are rewilding 20 acres. From there he runs Sacred Paths, a shamanic school and healing practice.
He is the author of Becoming the Medicine (Balboa Press / Hay House, 2025) and The Sacred Web, writes the Substack Rituals & Rebellion, and hosts the Sacred Paths podcast, with more than 100 episodes.
Recognition
Where he has been heard
Speaker
Harvard, the French Embassy, Parsons
Talks at Harvard Business School, the French Embassy in New York and Parsons School of Design.
2022
Earth Rockstar
Honored at the 2022 Global Concert for Earth.
Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year nominee
Nominated for EY Entrepreneur of the Year.
New York City
NYC Venture Fellow
Awarded a NYC Venture Fellowship under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Booking
Three ways to bring Angell in
Write to info@sacredpaths.earth. Tell us about your show, publication or event and the date you have in mind.
Podcasts
Angell as your guest
Stories from the corporate top floor to the ceremony fire, and practical ways to bring old wisdom into a modern life.
- Ancient wisdom in modern lives
- What shamanic practice actually does
- Personal and collective healing
- Tending land as tending soul
Press & magazines
Angell as your story
Interviews and features on spirituality, healing and the land.
- The journey of a modern-day medicine man
- Spirituality that stays grounded in ecology
- Rewilding 20 acres in Burgundy
- Healing practices from living traditions
Summits & conferences
Angell on your stage
Talks and panels for summits, conferences and organizations.
- Shamanic wisdom in today's world
- Leadership with a soul
- Sacred business and right livelihood
- Building community through ritual
Talking points
What Angell talks about
Talking point 1
From corporate success to spiritual path
Two decades at the top of luxury retail and sustainability, then the realization that success without meaning is an empty pursuit. A story for anyone standing at their own turning point.
Talking point 2
Ancient wisdom for a modern life
What Andean Cosmology and Norse Shamanism have to say about burnout, grief and the search for purpose, translated into practices people can use at home.
Talking point 3
Rewilding land, rewilding soul
Moving a family to an 18th-century farm in Burgundy to rewild 20 acres, and why tending land and tending soul are the same work.
Talking point 4
Sacred space
From his book The Sacred Web: how the spaces we live and pray in shape the inner life, and how to build them with intention.
For hosts
Sample questions
- What was the turning point that made you leave the corporate world?
- You moved your family to a farm in Burgundy to rewild 20 acres. How does tending land change your teaching?
- Many people feel cut off from nature. What simple practice would you give them to start?
- What is the difference between ritual and ceremony, and why do both matter?
- How can ancient wisdom traditions help us through today's ecological and social crises?
- What did leading in business teach you about leading with spirit, and the other way around?
- Spirituality is often sold as a trend. What do people get wrong, and how do they find their way back to something real?
- What does "remembering who we are" mean to you?
Showreel
Watch Angell speak
As a guest
Hear him on other shows
His own channels: the Sacred Paths podcast and the Rituals & Rebellion Substack.
Media kit
Photos and PR kit
Photos of Angell for press use, and the PR kit as a PDF.
Press contact
Let's talk.
Email info@sacredpaths.earth with your outlet, audience and timing.
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