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TEDx Wilminton

A Fully Expressed, Untamed Life Is Practiced, Not Promised

Untamed Today documents it: curiosity-led conversations, original music, and unfiltered storytelling for people who are done living in fragments.

Co-founded by Jesse James and Mike Calva

Jesse & Mike

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Pearse Harris

What the Wall Knows

Pearse is fifteen. She painted two hundred and sixty feet of a children’s pool — and hid a private grief inside the color where no one would ever find it.

Jesse James Ferrell

The Long Way Home to the Studio

What the body says before the mind catches up: Jesse James Ferrell on the son he almost lost, the night he almost stayed lost, and the music that emerged from the silence.

Brené Brown

The Tenacity of Paradox

She has spent two decades inside the most uncomfortable feelings the human animal has, and she refused, on every page, to translate them into anything softer than what they actually are.

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SOUL MESSENGER ARCHITECT

MEET JESSE JAMES

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Jesse James Ferrell is a speaker, writer, recording artist, and bodyworker. He is the co-founder of UNTAMED TODAY, where he conducts every interview and shapes the editorial voice of the brand.

His stages have included TEDx, DEBx, and Global Possibility. His recordings begin releasing across spring and summer 2026 on Soul Frequency Records, the independent label he founded, and each record finds a second life inside UNTAMED TODAY, where song features give the music a place to be understood, not just heard.

His interviews and editorial features have appeared in Vanity Fair UAE, GQ Spain, Vogue Monaco, Forbes Vancouver, and Legendary Arabia. The practice underneath all of it is more than twenty-five years old. UNTAMED TODAY is where that practice now lives in public, at full identity, without the edit.

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Speaking

Music

Bodywork

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Curiosity-led talks rewiring how we listen.

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Soulful music for dancing, healing, and hope.

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Intuitively guided, structurally optimized bodies.

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I've wanted to make music my whole life. The kid who sat for hours inside a song. The teenager who knew he was a singer. The adult who became a bodyworker, a speaker, an entrepreneur, a coach. Every one of them was the long way home to the studio.

The recordings begin in spring 2026. All original work on Soul Frequency Records, the independent label I founded. Pop, soul, reggae, tribal, house, meditation, spoken word.  The genres shift because the emotions do. Each track carries a story I've told from the stage or lived through myself, set to music so it can reach the place a talk cannot.

I make it for the man who has loved hard and lost. For the boy who learned to hide before he learned to sing. For anyone awake at the wrong hour, carrying more than they've told anyone they're carrying. And for the same person, an hour later, dancing. The music is the message I wish someone had played for me at twenty-two.

It is never too late to begin again. Some songs are written. Some arrive when you finally make room for them.

30,000+

hours served since 2001

3,500+

hours of learning since 2001

20+

years of mentoring healers

Jesse's bodywork extends beyond techniques, recipes, and routines. He listens through touch, following the body's intelligence with curiosity, presence, and deep intuitive awareness. Each session becomes a conversation with the tissues, revealing what lies beneath compensation patterns, pain, and the stories woven into the fascia.

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