Press & media
Everything you need to book the interview.
Bios at three lengths, the topics I can actually carry for an hour, photographs, and one email that reaches me.
Fast facts
Off-grid homestead, CST (UTC−6)
Health, fitness and holistic lifestyle coaching
Seven types of depletion and the Return Path
Podcast, video, print interview, on-location
Bios · use as written
James Passatore is a holistic health and lifestyle coach who has spent thirteen years living off-grid in the Costa Rican jungle and twenty helping people rebuild their health inside the lives they already have.
James Passatore is a holistic health and lifestyle coach. After a health crisis ended a modelling career across seven countries, he rebuilt on an off-grid homestead in Costa Rica, where he has lived for thirteen years. He is the author of The Depletion Map and the founder of Modern Primal Living.
James Passatore is a holistic health and lifestyle coach with twenty years of professional practice across health, fitness and lifestyle work. He spent his twenties modelling in seven countries, looking like the picture of health while running on nothing, until a health crisis ended that career.
He rebuilt slowly, on an off-grid homestead in the Costa Rican jungle, where he has now lived for thirteen years — a place with no supermarket and no switch on the wall, which taught him which foundations actually hold a life up.
That work became Modern Primal Living: the book The Depletion Map, a free assessment of the seven types of depletion, and a twelve-month app that rebuilds itself around the week you actually have. He coaches a small number of people directly, and hosts a handful on the land each year.
What I can carry for an hour
Why willpower is the wrong frame for exhaustion, and what the seven types of depletion look like in an ordinary week.
What a place with no supermarket and no switch teaches you about rhythm, food, work and rest — and what of it transfers to a city.
Daily Rhythm, Light & Rest, Nourishment, Natural Movement, Environment & Nature, Presence & Connection — and the smallest honest version of each on a bad day.
Integration is the stage nearly every programme skips, and the only one that decides whether any of it is still happening in March.
Selected appearances
Send me the list — show name, host, date, and the link — and this becomes a simple two-column index of podcasts, articles and talks, newest first. Logos only where the outlet allows them.
The kit
Three bios, as written above.
High-resolution headshots and homestead photography, cleared for editorial use.
The Modern Primal Living mark, in both colourways.
Book cover art and a one-page summary of The Depletion Map.
Suggested questions, for hosts who want them.
Booking and interviews
Tell me the show, the format and roughly when. Remote is easy from here; on-location shoots at the homestead need more notice and good weather. I answer these myself.
Thanks — I'll answer within a few days, either way.
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