Arno Gazo

Arno Gazo is a French-born explorer, mindfulness practitioner, and the founder of Away Expedition, a platform dedicated to helping people reconnect with their inner truth through nature-based experiences.

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Hilmarie Hutchison

Arno Gazo

Founder, Away Expedition Creator of Immersive Desert Journeys & The Silent Box

Arno Gazo is a French-born explorer, mindfulness practitioner, and the founder of Away Expedition, a platform dedicated to helping people reconnect with their inner truth through nature-based experiences. After building a financially successful real estate business in the UAE, Arno chose to step away from achievement-driven living and immerse himself in silence, nature, and self-discovery.

His work revolves around immersive 24-hour desert journeys, silent walking practices, and The Silent Box — a portable nature-inspired activation designed to bring the transformative power of stillness into cities, offices, malls, and events. Arno’s approach blends adventure, awareness, and mindful surrender, guiding people to access clarity, peace, and intuition by disconnecting from mental noise and returning to the essence of being.

About this Episode

Arno shares the inner shift that moved him from material success to a life rooted in awareness and purpose. After reaching financial freedom through real estate, he stepped into the unknown with “an empty cup,” letting go of metrics, milestones, and external validation. That journey sparked the creation of Away Expedition, where he now leads one-on-one 24-hour desert immersions designed to help people reconnect with themselves.

We explore how the desert becomes a profound teacher — a place where you cannot escape, where acceptance replaces resistance, and where silence reveals the truths our busy minds drown out. Arno explains why grounding through breath, observation, and stillness leads to deeper insight, and why so many people struggle to slow down in a world of noise, speed, and comparison.

He also introduces The Silent Box, a six-minute nature simulation that brings sensory calm into urban environments. Arno shares how this compact experience helps people face fears, reset mentally, and access a glimpse of the awareness they would gain in the desert — making it an accessible tool for workplaces, events, and public spaces.

We discuss how living in harmony with nature fosters authenticity over appearances, why intuition becomes louder when external influence fades, and how micro-actions can help even the busiest high achievers cultivate presence. Arno also talks about his two “green pill” moments: the first as an intern longing for freedom, and the second when he finally reached financial independence and realized it still wasn’t the ultimate goal.

“I connect people with nature to help them feel calmer, clearer, and more alive. ”

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“Every journey starts with one step.”
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Show highlights

The greatest teacher I found is silence and nature. It taught me to find truth within, to listen to what I've not been able to hear because of the opinions of others. We might call this intuition. -Arno Gazo Click To Tweet

“I’d rather invest in someone who vibrates good energy and inspires communities instead of someone making millions selling weapons.”

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“Instead of being angry, sad, or depressed because of the situation, we learn to center ourselves, observe, and accept reality as it is. And then the immersion is, and the more we surrender.”

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