Thoughts In Transit

Extra Miles. First audio-only TiT episode. No numbered episode releases this week. This one started with a question Shaah had been sitting with all morning. This is our first audio-only episode, and we're marking it as a bonus release since there is no numbered episode going out this week. Between building Better Moves and family business, TiT took a backseat. We also have not logged much drive ti...

We leap and the net keeps appearing. This one opens on Yani. Her first non-apparatus dance performance in over a decade, part of an underground house party / music film. The week before it, she was in anxiety and panic attacks over a conversation she needed to have about race in a creative space where she was the only person of color. She describes it as the most healing creative collaboration she...

Yani quit her job. This is the episode where we sit with what comes after that. We're in the middle of it. Not the tidy recap version. The actual middle, where the boxes aren't all unpacked and the answers haven't arrived and the path is more feeling than plan. This conversation goes there without pretending otherwise. A book found her while she was unpacking. Zen and the Art of Making a Living. A...

Shaah has said he was done with art probably a dozen times. And every single time, something pulls him back in. This was filmed in early April, right as we were starting Thoughts in Transit, which is itself proof of concept. We did not plan this conversation. We never do. But we ended up somewhere that felt necessary. It starts with Alice in Wonderland. Specifically the scene where Alice tells Hat...

First Wednesday that was not a drive to work. It's Yani’s first week out and she reflects on how the body responds when survival mode lifts. Panic attacks, all the voices, the questions. And then how it shifts. We open on the practical stuff: AI tools, task lists, scheduling systems, what works for a neurospicy brain and what absolutely does not. Shaah ran a test comparing the same prompt across t...

The past couple of weeks have been a lot. Yani's showcase. Decisions made and plans set in motion around her exit from her job. The habits and systems Shaah has been building quietly crashed as his focus shifted to making sure Yani was good. Not a complaint. That's the nature of marriage, partnership, family. Healthy relationships in general. We pause the outside world to nurture the one within. T...

This is the one that makes rooms go silent. But first an acknowledgement: We're late with this one. The past week explains why. If you caught our bonus episode, Bodies of Creation: Initial Intentions , you know where things are. Yani put the vision on record, said out loud what Bodies of Creation actually is and what she wants it to become, and that same day she submitted her two weeks notice at h...

Bonus drop. A major milestone. If you watched "Something's Changed" and / or saw any of the related IG or TikTok posts related to the “Becoming” showcase, you already saw some of what Bodies of Creation is. Those photos Yani shot for the showcase promotion are some of the work she is talking about in this episode. We recorded this conversation in the car because it’s our current favorite spot to s...

We didn't film after the show. We stayed in the moment, took a drive through the city to let ourselves feel it, and came home. This is the day after. Neither of us particularly wanted to be on camera. Shaah had been thinking about something, how the best documentary moments are often the ones where the subject doesn't want to be there. How that discomfort is exactly where the story lives. So he tu...

We recorded this the day before Mother's Day. We start with a story about our chaotic trip to the creek. Phone went bloop, mic charging case chased the drink, and Zen who just wasn’t with ANY of it. The Force forced us to JUST rest. Shinanagins aside, Shaah recapped a breakthrough moment with his mother last week. Yani discussed moving through her own arc unpacking several of her own circumstances...

In this episode we get in the car knowing exactly what we need to talk about. I had already sent Yani the links days before. There's a little sadness in her voice when I bring it up, and honestly, it makes sense. Three months of the most consistent writing she'd put in since 2023, and the platform she chose to build on turns out to be structured in a way that profits from content that is fundament...

This was originally episode 1 before we decided to leave Substack. It's even up on YouTube. More on that in next week's episode. That one requires more than the conversation we had on the car. I've been doing some research to provide some extra value with it. While I finish preparing that here's the original Substack article text for this epsiode We have conversations like this all the time. We ju...

🎥 Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube, Spotify or by joining the HFR Family on Patreon. Links at the bottom Thoughts in Transit - Two people, one pup, a car, and everything the road shakes loose. Episode 1 Thoughts in Transit is a raw, uncut conversation series from House of Fluid Reflections. No agenda. No script. Just us in the car with Zen, following whatever thread the ride dec...