Scott Bain · The Angin Group
Five ventures. One through-line: identity, place, and presence are worth taking seriously. Each one independent. All of them connected.
Holding Company
The Angin Group
The holding company behind everything below. Five ventures built around a single idea — that identity, place, and presence are worth taking seriously. Angin is the Indonesian word for wind.
"Present everywhere. Belonging nowhere."
The ventures
Media · Podcast · Newsletter · YouTube
The Reinventionalist
A podcast, newsletter, and video platform for people navigating identity transition. For those who've outgrown the map they were handed. Three episode formats and a weekly newsletter.
Immersive Gathering · Identity Work
RE:CODE Basecamp
Small, immersive gatherings for people ready to do the actual work of reinvention. Not a retreat. Not a conference. A gathering — designed around the RE:CODE Method™ and the Reinventionalist Journey Map.
recodebasecamp.com →Ground Logistics · Curated Travel · Bali
Mandara Bali
Curated group travel and ground logistics in Bali, co-built with Chandra Sahadewa. Not tours. Not transport. A relationship with the island — built over years of operating here.
mandarabali.com →Apparel · Presence · East Bali Poverty Project
Human & Here
A clothing brand rooted in presence. For people who'd rather be somewhere real than perform somewhere digital. Connected to the East Bali Poverty Project through packaging inserts.
wearehumanandhere.com →Food · Community · Ubud
Warung Amprin
A traditional Indonesian food concept anchored in the Amprin family and the Ubud community Scott calls home. Food as relationship. Food as belonging.
Coming SoonThe intellectual architecture behind The Reinventionalist — tools for mapping identity, navigating transition, and reading terrain that has no name yet.
The three dimensions of any reinvention: the landscape you're in, the capacity you're building, and the direction you're moving. Most people only see one of the three.
GPS tells you where to go. A compass tells you which direction you're facing. Most self-help is GPS thinking applied to compass problems.
The map you're using to navigate your life was drawn by someone else — usually before you were born. This framework examines where it came from and whether it's still accurate.
Most change is translation — the same self in different clothes. Transformation is a structural change in identity itself. The distinction matters enormously for what comes next.
A tool for moving between raw observation and meaning-making — and knowing when you've climbed too high, too fast. Essential for self-cartography in uncertain terrain.
The operating system behind RE:CODE Basecamp. A structured process for identity work — built from two decades of emergency services, enactivism, and lived reinvention.