In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with his wife Emily for a long-overdue life update - the story of packing up an entire life, leaving Costa Rica, and answering a seven-year call to the Peruvian Andes.

From the expat comfort of Costa Rica to a self-governed indigenous community at 3,000 meters in the Sacred Valley of Peru, this is a conversation about what it actually takes to leap into the unknown - two cats, everything they own, visa battles and all.

We dig into why Costa Rica stopped feeling aligned: the Americanized expat bubble, the highest pesticide use per capita in the world, the mold that comes with jungle humidity, and a cost of living that rivals the West. And we explore everything Peru has opened up: Quechua-speaking neighbours, offerings to the Apus on every mountain trail ...