Quo Vadis - A Pilgrim's Journey
Quo Vadis is a reflective podcast about following your calling — and what happens when you step into the unknown.
Drawing on myth, psychology, spirituality, and lived experience, the podcast explores the inner journey behind outer adventures. Each episode moves through themes such as transformation, surrender, purpose, fear, and meaning, inspired by Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey.
Hosted by pilgrim, writer, and long-distance hiker Uffe Sveegaard, Quo Vadis weaves personal storytelling with conversations and reflections on what it means to live a life guided not by achievement, but by calling.
While the journey often unfolds through wilderness trails like the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail, Quo Vadis is ultimately about the terrain within and how we return home changed.
This podcast is for listeners drawn to depth, mythic language, spiritual inquiry, and the courage it takes to live a meaningful life.
Quo Vadis - A Pilgrim's Journey
The Anatomy of the Call
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When a person follows a true calling, something remarkable — and very real — happens. The brain begins to change. The body follows. Belief turns into action before willpower even enters the room.
Joe Dispenza calls it placebo. Myth calls it a miracle. I call it the call.
In this episode of Quo Vadis, I speak with spiritual teacher Charlotte Fruergaard about the moment a call ignites. Drawing on Dispenza’s work in You Are the Placebo, we explore how a call can function as a spontaneous neuro-emotional re-coding — a moment where identity and direction are reorganized in an instant.
This is not about planning or reasoning. It is about the arrival of a certainty that can seem entirely irrational from the outside, yet you take it in as naturally as a mother lifts her child.
That is what struck me on the Camino. My own call to the Pacific Crest Trail did not come from logic; it arrived as a fait accompli. Something in me had already moved, and I simply had to live my way into what was already true.