The MultiPod

The MultiPod is now also on video! You can watch today's episode on YouTube here. --- Your kids are getting older, moved out or soon to do so, you're divorced and setting up a new life with a new partner. Moving across the continent, and to a new country, no less. You're entering a phase of life full of opportunity, flexibility, change, excitement and a pile of unknowns.  So many options for a mul...

The MultiPod is now also on video! You can watch today's episode on YouTube here. --- Charlotte Petit Noble is an entrepreneurial mother and breastfeeding advocate, originally from France but living in the Los Angeles area for about 15 years. Charlotte's multipotentialite journey includes experiences in marketing, hairstyling and podcasting, before leading to her current focus on supporting breast...

The MultiPod is now also on video! You can watch today's episode on YouTube here. --- My friend Ross joins us today to share his remarkable journey, particularly in the past year, of reasserting control over his health and sense of self. The catalyst for these transformative changes: journaling. Ross has been a regular journaler for a few years, but leaning into it more recently has had an immense...

The MultiPod is now also on video! You can watch today's episode on YouTube here. --- The MultiPod is back, and we've changed. Discover the new format of our long-running podcast, relaunched with a focus on intention and action. The MultiPod remains a resource for multipotentialites, a place where we explore topics and themes that get to the heart of this identity and lifestyle. And we continue to...

Our podcast miniseries comes to an end, with some reflection on the Everything Conference experience, takeaways, calls to action and next steps. With all the business and routine of getting back to every day life, the Everything Conference may feel like a mirage, a fantasy. Did that really happen? Did I dream it? Or in truth, did it just go by too fast and I didn't take the time to appreciate it?...

Our initial ETC series comes to a conclusion with a conversation with the one and only Ned Andrew Solomon, whose life is a wonderful example to multipotentialites, and who was a delightful addition to the Everything Conference .   Ned came with his wife Gina Lynette, a familiar friend to those of us in the Puttyverse and/or at the first ETC . It was an easy ask to get Ned Andrew to come along to t...

Little did I know that just a couple weeks before the Everything Conference , Lindsay Gordon herself was in Montreal for a visit, just up the road from my little town. So our conversation today launches straight into the French language, the experience of English speakers when visiting (particularly the different experience between Americans and English Canadians when in Montreal), and how the Fre...

I crossed paths with Tomoko Ito at the Everything Conference , but not as much as I had hoped to, so The MultiPod comes to the rescue again with a chance to follow up with each other and record a conversation.   Tomoko is now back home in the LA area, where she maintains strong connections to her native Japan. I wasn't aware that she is a business coach for Japanese multipotentialites, which raise...

I've known Heather U-K for over 7 years, she predates me in the Puttyverse by about a year and a half. She's been on the podcast a couple times, we cross paths in huddles and online Offers & Needs Markets , and various groups and discussions.   In fact, we've "known" each other so long that it almost felt like we had already met! But of course, this was another one of those goosebump moments:...

Our series switches now a bit to the post-ETC reality: back home, back to regular routines and just trying to preserve as much of that wonderful spirit as possible.   On the plus side, the audio experience will be much better... I was a little disappointed with the quality of the lavalier lapel mics I bought before the conference, they sounded far more muffled and dampened than they should have. T...

Today is Sunday, August 4th. The Everything Conference has just come to an end.  Or, has it? ---- Yes, we are heading home, or on to our next destination, tomorrow. But in this episode of reflection, post-ETC, I sit down in a quiet corner of the University of Minnesota campus, around 10 o'clock at night, crickets chirping and a gentle breeze blowing past, to start the process of reflection.  One c...

One of the highlights of the Everything Conference for me was to be able to sit down, in person, with Joel Zaslofsky and record a podcast episode together.   We had in fact met already, just over a year ago when he and his wife Melinda came to Montreal, and I popped into town for the better part of a day. We had lunch and explored the city a bit, but it wasn't the best moment to do any recording....

  Our next episode dives into our host city, or I should probably say cities: Minneapolis-St. Paul. Now, technically we are in Minneapolis for the Everything Conference, as the McNamara Center is on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis (side note I don't know if I've ever seen so many Ms and Ns in one place as over this weekend).   But are we obligated to mention St. Paul at least at...

In this conversation I sit down with Christine Lozada, travel content creator and influencer, podcaster, drone expert, pickleball aficionado, cruising rock star and more, who is able to successfully wrap all of this up under one banner: ChristineLozada.com .   Christine and I met at Camp Indie in 2023, and have done some great podcasting exchanges since, including our own miniseries, " How to Star...

This is a Saturday morning check-in from the site of the Everything Conference, the McNamara Alumni Centre, which has been a wonderful setting for our event. I share an update on what we've been up to so far, the pace and rhythm of the event, and what it's like experiencing coming together like this to spend quality time.     The MultiPod @ the Everything Conference miniseries © Quick Edit Podcast...

It's morning outside the McNamara Center, and I sit down with Thomas Beutel. Thomas was a guest on The MultiPod way back in November of 2020, an episode we called " Creative Techniques to Improve Your Creativity ." And Thomas is an amazing creator. He lives to create.   The multipotentialite side of it comes in with all the different things that he creates. Thomas paints, draws, builds, programs,...

Friday morning at the Everything Conference, everyone is here, we've checked in, more hugs and high-fives, picked up our brand new Brag Bags, and discovered the stunning Great Room in the MacNamara Alumni Center. I pop out to the front lawn for a quick pause to catch my breath, and reflect on a whirlwind 12 hours already, all those dreams coming true. We've made it, it's happening and it's incredi...

Thursday, August 1, 5 pm local time: arriving in downtown Minneapolis! I hop off the Metro train next to the big football stadium, and pause for an update in a nice little park, circled by skyscrapers and sights of the city. I was heading to the get-together hosted by John and Mark, after which was the Welcome Party! A little taste of the city before things really got hopping on Friday.   The Mult...

Today is Wednesday, July 31st, and the Everything Conference starts tomorrow! In fact, there are a number of folks already in town, probably hanging out for dinner at this exact moment at Malcolm Yards near the university... hi guys! I'll see you tomorrow! Today is also a good opportunity and timing to give everyone following along a lay of the land, a visual overview of where exactly we'll be, wh...

The MultiPod's co-host, Vanessa Hennessey, joins Ted today in advance of the Everything Conference to chat about podcasting at the conference and to share stories of meeting in person people from the internet. Like Sónia yesterday, Vanessa will be joining us vicariously, following along with the MultiPod's updates and descriptions. Vanessa and Ted talk about capturing the event's immersive nature...

The Everything Conference of 2024 is this weekend! August 1-4, 2024. And The MultiPod will be there!  Co-host and producer Ted Cragg has the great fortune and privilege to attend this year's event. Having missed out on the first Everything Conference, in Portland, Oregon in September, 2019, he is acutely aware of how it feels to not be able to attend, and so he is on a mission to share the experie...

Hannah Cattouse joins The MultiPod today to chat, as we do on this show, about a multitude of topics, including copywriting, her home country of Belize, and her upcoming workshop, "Connect & Convert: How to Write an About Page That Gets Results," which takes place on Saturday, July 13. Hannah and Ted share a professional background as tour guides in their native countries, a skill she taps int...

Today's episode of The MultiPod tackles a subject we've never broached before, in over six years of doing this show:  politics . Puttypeep Joel Corcoran joins us with his perspective from years of working in the political realm, as a patent lawyer in Washington, DC, to working in constituency services in his home state of Oregon, for Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR). Joel and MultiPod co-host Ted circl...

The fabulous Chichi Enu joins us today on The MultiPod to share a classic multipotentialite story: born in Nigeria, then moving to the United States, studying to become a lawyer and passing the bar, becoming a licensed attorney, then shifting to becoming an opera singer, yet with a twist: pop songs sung opera style, which you'll find on her  YouTube channel ! Chichi, Vanessa and Ted sit down toget...

If ever you’ve dreamed of a live event full of multipotentialites, an event of spontaneity, encouragement, wackiness, reflection, creativity and originality (I could go on), know that in August of 2024, your dream will become reality.   The Everything Conference returns this year, after a five year hiatus, bringing multipotentialites together in a space where they don’t have to explain what it is....