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Musician • Author • Gatherer

Scott David
Wright

Drumming ancient rhythms into modern hearts. Creating sacred space where men remember who they are.

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15+
Years of Music
Drums, Native flutes & recorded albums
3
Albums
We Two Movement · Solfeggio Mix · Chakra Series
189+
Podcast Episodes
The Observatory with Scott & LaRae Wright
Scott David Wright
A Life in Full

Music. Story.
Sacred Gathering.

Scott David Wright is a drummer, flutist, author, and keeper of sacred space — a man who has spent decades weaving together the threads of rhythm, wild nature, and deep masculine community.

Whether leading a Teepee Tuesday gathering under open skies, facilitating a men's healing retreat, or drumming by firelight, Scott brings a rare quality of presence to everything he touches.

His life is his art: unhurried, rooted, resonant.

Three Dimensions

A Life Well Lived

Scott playing flute

Music

Drums and Native flutes have been Scott's language for decades — instruments that reach beyond technique into something elemental, communal, and alive.

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Love After the Life Is Built book

The Book

Love After the Life Is Built — co-written with LaRae — is a teaching memoir about welcoming love into a full life and the Four Mirrors of Intimacy.

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Gathering crowd

Gatherings

Teepee Tuesday, primitive skills weekends, and men's healing retreats — containers where something ancient and necessary can breathe again.

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About Scott

Scott
Wright

Co-Host · Observer · Musician · Author · Gatherer

A musician, author, and keeper of sacred space — Scott Wright brings decades of lived experience, earth-rooted wisdom, and an uncommon quality of presence to everything he touches.

Scott Wright playing handpan
Scott Wright in Sedona

Scott David Wright — Sedona, AZ

Scott's Story

The man behind
the observations.

Scott Wright spent years as a finance professional — building success in environments that demanded a disconnected, curated self. Like LaRae, he achieved everything the world told him to achieve, and found himself quietly asking whether any of it meant what he thought it would.

That questioning led him inward. Scott began exploring consciousness, awareness, and the nature of the self — reading deeply, questioning everything, and ultimately walking away from the business world that no longer fit who he was becoming.

"Awareness isn't something you arrive at. It's something you practice."

Today Scott co-hosts The Observatory podcast alongside LaRae, where his philosophical depth, gift for asking unexpected questions, and willingness to share his own journey make him one of the show's most beloved voices.

His journey through major life transitions — divorce, belief, identity — has given him a particular sensitivity to the experience of waking up inside a life that no longer fits, and the freedom that becomes possible on the other side.

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The Music of Scott Wright

Sound as a path to presence.

Scott Wright creates music that mirrors the same inner landscapes he explores on The Observatory — consciousness, awareness, and the quiet territory between thought and feeling. His recordings are intended not just to be heard, but to be experienced.

From Solfeggio frequency compositions to the meditative journeys of We Two Movement, Scott's music invites listeners into a deeper relationship with themselves.

In the Circle

Music as Community

Firelit drumming circle
Scott playing flute at beach
Studio with four men
Scott playing flute indoors
Scott David Wright
LaRae Wright & Scott Wright

Love After
the Life Is Built

Embracing the Four Mirrors
of Intimacy


Coming Soon
Debut Book

Love After the Life Is Built

There is a growing population of people — women and men in their forties, fifties, and sixties — who built full lives before love arrived. Full careers. Full identities. Full nervous systems shaped by decades of independence and the quiet strategies that sustained them through years of living well alone.

When love finds them, it doesn't find a blank slate. It finds everything they are. And it holds up a mirror unlike anything they have encountered before.

Love After the Life Is Built — co-written with LaRae Wright — is a teaching memoir organized around an original four-part framework: the Heart Mirror, the Mind Mirror, the Protection Mirror, and the Consciousness Mirror. Discovered not through clinical research or spiritual tradition, but through the lived experience of two sovereign people welcoming love into full lives.

Humble, curious, and experiential. Written not from the stance of someone who has mastered relationships, but from the perspective of someone still learning to look into the mirror. Told from inside an ongoing marriage.

In Scott's Words
"The moment you see it, you can choose something different."
Scott Wright — The Observatory Podcast
About LaRae

LaRae
Wright

Writer · Speaker · Partner in Life & Work

LaRae Wright is a writer, speaker, and explorer of the deeper dimensions of human experience. Her work lives at the intersection of personal transformation, intimate relationships, and the practical wisdom that only comes from having walked through the fire and come out changed.

LaRae Wright
LaRae's Story

The woman behind
the observations.

"There is a growing population of people who built full lives before love arrived. When love finds them, it doesn't find a blank slate. It finds everything they are."— LaRae Wright, Love After the Life Is Built

LaRae's work and life have been shaped by a willingness to go to the real place — to ask the questions that matter, name what is true, and share the journey openly rather than only in retrospect.

Today she co-hosts The Observatory podcast alongside Scott, writes about conscious relationships and the examined life, and is completing their debut book, Love After the Life Is Built

Her journey through love, loss, and the discovery of what it truly means to be in relationship with another sovereign human being is the source material for everything she creates.

Scott and LaRae Wright
Scott and LaRae
A Life Shared

Partners in Life & Work

Scott and LaRae share a life rooted in the same values that animate everything they do: authenticity, depth, a willingness to ask the hard questions, and a belief that real intimacy is one of the most demanding and rewarding practices available to us.

Together they host The Observatory podcast, co-author their debut book, and continue to build a shared life — curious, playful, and always looking for the deeper layer.

Sacred Community

Gatherings

Where men come home to themselves

Coming Together

The Work of Gathering

Long before he was a drummer or an author, Scott was a gatherer of people — someone who understood instinctively that human beings need fire, story, skill, and each other.

For years he has created and held space for men and communities to come together in ways that nourish something deeper than the everyday — gatherings where something ancient and necessary can breathe again.

Scott Wright at the Tipi
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🏕️ Men's Healing Retreats

Intentional gatherings in the wilderness where men do the quiet, hard work of coming home to themselves — through silence, ceremony, honest conversation, and the medicine of wild places.

🪶 Primitive Skills Gatherings

Multi-day immersions in ancestral technologies — fire-making, tracking, plant knowledge, shelter, and the quiet confidence that comes from learning to meet the land on its own terms.

🎵 Teepee Tuesday Gatherings

A weekly gathering at Scott's home — men and music under the tipi, a standing invitation to connection, rhythm, and the kind of talk that only happens when people sit together without screens or agendas.

Get Involved

Want to Know More or Join a Gathering?

Gatherings vary in size, duration, and focus. Some are open to new participants; others by invitation. Reach out directly to learn about upcoming events.

Scott & LaRae Wright
The
Observatory

Discovery of Consciousness & Awareness

189+
Episodes
5.0
Stars on Apple
3+
Years

A podcast exploring consciousness, awareness, relationships, and the examined life — hosted by Scott and LaRae Wright. Wide-ranging, honest, and rooted in lived experience.

Scott and LaRae recording in the studio Scott and LaRae recording on the couch
What Listeners Say

5.0 Stars on Apple Podcasts

★★★★★
A soulful, uplifting, and deeply human podcast
"This podcast is something truly special — a living, breathing reminder that growth, healing, and transformation are lifelong journeys. I never fail to shed a tear while listening, but appreciate how fun and real it is as well."
MerryMuffin89 · June 2025
★★★★★
Love this podcast and this dynamic duo!
"Thanks for sharing your wisdom and hearts with us. Love learning from you and all of the great interviews you've shared."
116Car · May 2023
★★★★★
Shining light on conscious living
"I really loved listening — the collective spirit of community and support was so special. Thank you for honoring this new era of more conscious couples and living."
Oakley Jensen · March 2023
★★★★★
A powerful story
"Such a powerful story that will help others know they are never doing this hard beautiful life alone. Love the work you are doing."
Flowers from Heaven · April 2023
The Living Voice

Speaking & Workshops

An invitation to go deeper together

Scott as Speaker

Speaking & Workshops

Scott speaks from lived experience, not theory. Whether addressing men's groups, retreat communities, conferences, or intimate gatherings, he brings the same quality of presence that makes his drum circles come alive — a willingness to go to the real place, to say what needs saying, and to trust the intelligence of the people in the room.

His talks draw on decades of immersion in men's work, primitive skills, music as spiritual practice, and the particular challenges of living an examined life in the modern world.

Scott Wright
Topics

What Scott Speaks On

Men's Work & Initiation

What does healthy masculine initiation look like in a world that has largely forgotten it? Scott speaks from deep personal experience and years of holding space for men doing this essential work.

The Drum as Teacher

An exploration of rhythm, community, and what happens when a group of people surrender to a shared pulse — and what that can teach us about listening, following, and leading.

Primitive Skills & Ancestral Wisdom

The knowledge encoded in earth-based skills is not merely practical — it is psychological, spiritual, and communal. Scott speaks to what we recover when we learn to make fire with our hands.

Sacred Gathering & Community

How do we create spaces where human beings can actually show up fully? What does it take to hold a container strong enough for something real to happen?

Some only begin to recognize their Light in the Darkness
Stop Thinking and Start Feeling
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To inquire about speaking engagements, workshops, or facilitation at your event or retreat, reach out directly.

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Also Worth Exploring

More from Scott & LaRae

A few other places where their work lives and grows:

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The Sunflower Circle

Nature-based homeschool curriculum — eight lessons using sunflower gardening for K–12 learners. A free lesson available.

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The Observatory

Scott and LaRae's podcast — 189+ episodes exploring consciousness, awareness, and the examined life.

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Love After the Life Is Built

Their debut book — welcoming love into a full life and the Four Mirrors of Intimacy. Coming soon.

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