The MultiPod

The MultiPod returns with our first episode of 2024, entering our 7th season - not that we've ever really measured it that way! Our episodes and seasons float on the breeze and settle into your podcast apps whenever the mood strikes and inspiration beckons, which over the past 6 years has been quite frequent. Our breaks are rarely too extended, and now we're back with the first of a series of conv...

Many Puttypeep will recognize Marta Giani from her coaching sessions over the past couple years, where members of the community helped her gain experience while also having the opportunity to talk about their options and challenges for jobs, careers and, really, life in general. Thanks to the help and support of her fellow Puttypeep, Marta is now on the verge of entering a new phase of her own car...

Those of you Puttypeep who have been around for a couple years or more may recognize the term, "Evidence of Now," from regular Forum posts, back in around 2021. They were part of a wonderful initiative to encourage multipotentialites to write, consistently and regularly, about interesting topics of their choosing, in a straightforward and accessible way. What had started in Medium eventually evolv...

Esther Bennett embarked on an entrepreneurial life a few years ago, delving into coaching fellow entrepreneurs with their businesses. She relishes the challenge of taking ideas to the next level, identifying strengths and helping people transform, to make the most of their potential.   Her own challenge however came down to learning how to focus on specific ideas and offers for her own business, w...

Amongst a busy few months of activities this year for the MultiPod crew, co-host Ted managed to get to a live event in June of 2023, the Camp Indie conference in Kent, Connecticut. Bringing location independent-minded folks together, there was a lot of crossover between the Location Indie and Puttyverse communities, with numerous folks there members of both. One of whom was Colleen McGraw, part of...

The date was April 19, 2020, and a brand new member sat down in The MultiPod chair to introduce himself and his fascinating backstory.   He was known as Ti0, and he was not even three weeks into his Puttyverse journey. The episode was titled, " Finding the Ability to Deal with the Unknown ," an apt title not just reflective of Ti0's life changes but the state that we were all in at the time, 1 mon...

Today's episode of The MultiPod is a very special one, a rare opportunity and a moment a long time coming: host Ted sits down with Puttyverse stalwart Sónia da Veiga, live from her house in Portugal! Ted and family are coming to the end of a 3 month voyage, mostly in Portugal, slow travelling and learning about the country, its history and its people. It's tricky though as a traveller to really ge...

The MultiPod hits its milestones: 100 episodes, coinciding with our 5th anniversary week since launching the podcast in January of 2018. To celebrate, the original band gets back together. Ted and Vanessa are joined by Sandrine, Sara and Mike, reconnecting for the first time in years. The episode is full of updates of what we've all been up to, news - including two marriages - career and business...

We enter the 5th Anniversary week of The MultiPod, starting with Episode #099, published 5 years to the day from Episode #001 (What Does Multipotentiality Mean to You). Episode 99 welcomes Deb Bilger, and quickly evolves into a conversation on "place," a common theme here over many episodes. Deb and co-host Vanessa both live in Edmonton, Alberta, and even co-host Ted spent a few short months there...

Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence take centre-stage in today's episode of The MultiPod, and it's framed around the challenge of building and shaping a career in those (and similar) fields, while maintaining a sense of control over your life, and balance between your interests and values. Melissav is on this road as we speak, having embarked on a career in fascinating scientific discipl...

From Zambia via The Puttyverse Here in the Puttyverse we have always enjoyed connecting people together from around the world, in different time zones, languages and cultures, and The MultiPod is no exception. We're delighted today to welcome Mapalo, our first guest from Zambia, to share her story of being born and growing up in the US, but then moving to her family's native Zambia only later in h...

Today we welcome to the podcast Dee, our new Pop Up Friend . Dee is the type of Puttypeep who seems like she's been around for ages, and yet somehow only joined the community just a few short weeks ago. Her profile is a wonderful and diverse mix of interests, passions, commitments, projects, businesses, studies and new beginnings. Co-hosts Vanessa and Ted chat with Dee today about as many of those...

The MultiPod is back from its latest summer break, and today's host Ted is joined by Puttyverse polyglot Roby for a fun and thought-provoking conversation that floats through languages, travel, making big career changes, trusting yourself and your instincts and immersing yourself in transitions. Roby hails from Switzerland (the Italian-speaking part ;), and after training as a translator, walked a...

The MultiPod has been on our summer break, but we're getting warmed up again with this bonus episode for you. One of our plans over the next little while is to profile some of the Groups in the Puttyverse, to learn more about them and perhaps give them a boost of attention, a chance to make some announcements, or recognize achievements. The Entrepreneurs group has been up and running for about a y...

Sven Sommers is an audio producer based in Berlin, Germany, helping to lead a team of experts that fosters creativity and brings to life the projects of their clients. They recently put together the German language version of a new official Batman original podcast series, Batman under Toten (Batman Unburied) , which was released simultaneously around the globe in different languages, featuring Hol...

Deepti Kannapan joins The MultiPod today to talk about Multipotentiality With a Purpose, and how to try to piece together all the options and interests that you have, especially as you face major life decisions. Deepti is an engineer, working in the space industry. The company she works for are essentially conslutants to the government, solving problems related to designing and launching spacecraf...

Where should I work? It's perhaps the #1 question for most multipotentialites, at least at some point in your journey, and for many an ongoing struggle and challenge. Even if we find a job we enjoy, that suits our lifestyle and interests, how long will we be able to sustain that? What would happen if, for any reason, the job disappears or stops making sense: what are the chances that you could fin...

April 17, 2012: The Puttyverse (Tribe) officially opened its doors to its first members, and a new experiment was born. Could an online, virtual community survive and thrive without revolving around a specific hobby or topic, but rather something far more transcendental like multipotentiality? What was that term anyway? What would Emilie Wapnick have thought on that day, thinking "Imagine if this...

Eden Tadesse joins The MultiPod this week to share her remarkable life story, which is very much only at its beginning. One of 12 children, including 9 daughters, born into a very patriarchal society in Ethiopia, Eden grew up with a father who chose to raise his daughters as "fierce, bad-ass women," empowering them to pursue their dreams, believe in themselves and not let anyone or anything stand...

What are your thoughts on jellyfish? What's a memory you have of where you changed your mind about something? When's a time that you were brave? When did you realize you were a multipotentialte? and of course, Do you prefer pudding or jello, and why? Five amazing Puttypeep join host Vanessa to bring you their take on these questions, and more thoughts that spring from them, in Part 2 of Puttycomps...

Do we ever "figure it out"? For good and forever? Is that even an attainable or worthwhile goal? Today on The MultiPod, special guest Jessica Tudos sits down with co-hosts Cristy and Ted to share the story of her amazing multipotentialite life, knowing instinctively even from a young age that she couldn't just do the "one thing." Even after commiting to something as incredibly intensive and driven...

Can you have three businesses at once, and live the multipod dream of variety, control and fulfillment? Sarah Hockett is doing the thing, all the things, and finding that balance as we speak. But it has not come easily or quickly, nor without a fair share of obstacles and vulnerability along the way. Sarah has always been a side-hustler, in addition to regular jobs, and was working in non-profits...

Did you know that there is another podcast out there that talks to multipotentialites? It's called Hat Collecting, and we're happy to share it! https://www.hatcollecting.com/ Lacey Artemis is the host, and she is also a renewed member of the Puttyverse, returning to the community in early 2022 after many years away. While The MultiPod starts with the multipotentialite people and gets to know their...

As the calendar ticks over into 2022, The MultiPod bursts into its 5th year of existence since debuting in January, 2018. Here to celebrate is someone who recently fêted his own 4 year Puttyversary: Ryan Cina, a regular stalwart in the forums and the new host of the Fortnightly "accountability" aka social group. Co-hosts Vanessa and Ted welcome Ryan to chat about the Puttyverse experience, includi...

Native Capetonian Levi joins us today on The MultiPod, for a moving conversation on expectations, change, adaptation and perseverance.  Fynbos is a South African plant known for its brilliant colours, rich scent and importance to the water cycle, but also for its life of blossoming, then burning out through brush fires, followed by rebirth. Levi's journey mirrors this experience, as he tells a rem...