Crossing The Realms

Arts EN ↓ 6 episodes

Crossing the Realms is a podcast where sisters Andi and Teddi drink beer, dig into women-led fantasy, and analyze characters through real leadership frameworks like CliftonStrengths and transformational theory. We cross worlds and compare themes to figure out what fantasy reveals about power, identity, and being human.

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Crossing The Realms

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Rhysand Has Been Eating Last Centuries (Simon Sinek 🤝 Sarah J. Maas) 21.02.2026 39:19

Crossing the Realms puts Rhysand from Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses in his wingback chair with Simon Sinek's Leaders Eat Last. Andi and Teddi ask how far a leader should go to protect his people — and whether decades Under the Mountain is the answer. ⚠️ SPOILERS: Moderate to heavy for A Court of Thorns and Roses series Rhysand is the most powerful High Lord in Prythian, and he spends...

Fear & Leadership in Fourth Wing: Violet Sorrengail Feels It Anyway 16.02.2026 36:40

Crossing the Realms pairs Susan Jeffers' Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway with the most unlikely dragon rider in fantasy — Violet Sorrengail from Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean series. Hosts Andi Waterhouse and Teddi Tostanoski break down how a girl with a chronic illness, a death wish from her own mother, and a mantra of "I will not die today" ends up embodying every leadership truth Je...

Get Obsessed Before You Run Out of Somedays 12.02.2026 41:38

⚠️ SPOILERS: Light for Between These Broken Hearts and The Flame and the Warren What happens when you stop saying "someday" and start staying up until 3am building something you can't stop thinking about? Andi and Teddi are back after six months — not because they ghosted you, but because Teddi was building a 259-book fantasy database cataloging every series they've ever read (ch...

Fantasy vs. Leadership Books: Why Fiction Is the Better Teacher (Or is it?) 09.02.2026 1:25:30

Crossing the Realms explores why fantasy stories like Fourth Wing, The Witcher, and A Court of Thorns and Roses teach leadership skills better than bestselling business books. Hosts Andi Waterhouse and Teddi Tostanoski break it down. ⚠️ SPOILERS: Light for Throne of Glass , A Court of Thorns and Roses , Fourth Wing , The Stormlight Archive , Lord of the Rings , The Witcher , and Game of Thrones Ca...

When Gods Need Therapy (The Book of Azrael #1) 03.08.2025 43:08

⚠️ SPOILERS: Heavy for The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole, light for Beneath These Cursed Stars by Lexi Ryan Wow. We made it to episode 1 of Crossing The Realms…finally…after only five technical disasters. Today hosts Teddi Tostanoski and Andi Waterhouse are diving into The Book of Azrael (#1 in the Gods and Monsters series) by Amber V. Nicole with all the grace of a dragon in a china shop. J...

Crossing Into Unknown Realms: Our Inaugural Adventure 03.08.2025 30:12

Welcome to Crossing the Realms, where two sisters attempt to merge their love of fantasy books with actual leadership theory. In this inaugural episode, Andi Waterhouse and Teddi Tostanoski explain their slightly unhinged premise: analyzing fantasy characters like business case studies while drinking craft beer. Between sips of Belgian triple and interruptions from Alpine (Andi's Great Pyrenee...