The Outpost Podcast

How storytelling and world building relate to each other and work together as key components of a strong narrative experience. Come weave narrative with us on the Outpost podcast. 01:10 - Community Question: The journey from idea to execution is hard  - "The Shower Principle" 14:16 - Community Question: You can work on your creativity whenever/wherever 20:40 - Main Topic: Storytelling VS World Bui...

Perfection Vs. Excellence  / Determining Value of Board Games / Finding Your voice 02:10 – Community Question: Is the final push toward excellence a good use of time? 13:02 – Community Question: What determines the value of a board game?  18:30 – Main Topic: Finding your voice 36:00 – Lacey’s Getting-It-Together methodology

How do analog vs. digital tools affect creativity?    1:19 - The “no accent” memo 1:22 - Is using GameFound as an alternative to Kickstarter good for the industry?  8:26: - Is the O-Neb team mostly alike or very different? 12:30 - Main Topic Begins: What are the differences between Analog and Digital creativity 35:11 Digital tools can be really distracting

What gives a creative endeavor charisma? Is it subjective? Tackling what x-factors the team explores how humans are hardwired to detect excellence.    2:39 - What’s the point of slip-n-slides?   6:05 - Are we moving away from Kickstarter?  8:47 - Main Topic - Charismatic Products and Creators  22:58 - Derick sings, “A new hole.”

17:57 - I’m a storyteller - board games  24:16 - Wrinkle City 27:10 - Giant cheesecake trap  30:00 - Favorite house-rules for Vindication

Do you need a mentor? Is it even worth it? What does even having one look like?    After listening to this, we’re curious about your take. How has having a mentor helped you? Does having a mentor make you better enough to recommend it to others?   5:35 - Professional break taker 19:15 - Tank of dead fish  21:17 - Mentos defined 47:51 - Can you reach excellence without a mentor?

Look we have been gone a while and just like a car that hasn’t been driven in 8 months we had a rocky start. After the group got Theresa to be more than present everything went perfectly.   3:09 - Lacey implies her kids are still alive 14:21 - Theresa requests burn cream 36:56 - Do you have an obligation to share what you create? 57:29 - Emotional-support polar bears.

Sometimes improving ourselves is just too dang hard. Sometimes we lack the where-with-all for genuine improvement. It's moments like these where all we can attempt to do is just suck less. Tom, Theresa, Marc, and Lacey break down their trials and errors.

Agility, adaptability, flexibility - these are not inborn skills. Right? The O-Neb fam unpacks the importance of being agile.

4:10 Tom stares blankly at the wall with the refrigerator open eating olives  14:55 The team plans on how they are carefully annoying 34:31 The book, How to Win Friends and Influence People is summarized as, “Just listen to people and shut up.” 

How do you feed the machine of your creativity?   The team tackles their individual challenges to consume content to inspire them. We also talk about what we avoid. Are you similar? 

We're tackling that gap between comfort and success.    What happens when we leave our comfort zone? How can we manifest opportunities and push our projects to the next level? The team identifies how to embrace that discomfort and get to that next level. 

With the team spending so much time working remotely, what discoveries have we made?    We dive into fears, bad habits, and a deeper understanding of who we are. Have you found out the same things about yourself? 

With a huge focus on work revolving around maintaining passion - how can you do it?    The team tackles how to define passion, and then how they create space to cultivate their excitement for projects. 

How does a personal brand drive your success?    Derick and Mark get candid and share their journey working with clients and managing Blue Blazes . Expanding on that the team explores how charismatic brands invite others in and they share. 

We're exploring all the warning labels that should accompany the creative life.    So what are the hidden pitfalls? What dangers await those living a creative life? Dive in and tackle this issues with us. 

From extra body parts to reflecting on our need to extend grace, the team is at it again.  Entitlement culture. Is this a new thing? How do we view this as a challenge to conquer this within ourselves? How does this need affect how with our internal dialogue? 

Whew. It's been a while and the Outpost has recorded a new podcast. As the team brushes off the rust of not recording in a while, they tackle their self-care and the importance of working with pain to frame their creativity.

What’s the morality of time travel?  Are we wise enough to wield time travel responsibly? We had a lot of fun delving into the perils of traveling through space and time. Tune in as we dive into our favorite tales of time travel and the important lessons this genre teaches.

What's the importance of having a thick skin?  Marc, Lacey, Derick, Mark “Daffirmation” Daffron lightly chatting about psycho-savage driving, our passions, and the importance of developing a thick skin.

What makes a healthy community? What is the purpose? Why should you pursue it? What brings people together?  It's an awesome time with some community questions about personal injuries -- join us!  *Hey, friends. This episode was recorded before COVID-19 hit and in it we discuss food washing habits. Obviously times have changed. Please refer to current recommendations from health officials regardin...

What does it mean to be an adult?  Marc, Lacey, Tom, and Derick explore creativity and the meaning of work. Why do we do what we do? Why does it matter? And then close things off with a discussion about what it means to be an adult, and (re)learning how to be a kid. 

Creativity throughout our lives changes in how it's expressed. Once creative people become parents, then what happens? Is their creativity sucked out of them? Does it grow superpowers? Lacey, Marc, Mark, and Theresa explore how parenthood caused them to explore creativity while raising children.

What is world-building, and are there secret methods to getting it right?  (There are always secret methods, and they rarely get it right.) Lacey, Marc, Theresa, and Tom dive into this, your mailbag questions, trusting your own imagination, and producing garbage. It's been a few weeks. We've missed you. 

Trashed vocal cords, cell phone destruction, and World of Warcraft round out a deeper discussion on finding healthy versions of yourself amid a culture that amplifies your own worst instincts. Really though, WOW players, you are needed. Help a lost fire mage find its forever home.