Feel Free to Deviate

By Jim Turbert

What's Feel Free to Deviate about?

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. Sometimes we get off track... The release schedule is bi-weekly, and the host is a guy named Jim Turbert. *** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Feel Free to Deviate episodes:

09.22.2023
Episode 0051 - Oppie
Am I the guest? Is Oppie the guest? Is Pi the guest? Are all of us simultaneously both the guest and the host? These questions may never be answered, but in this episode I chat with Pi Ai about Christopher...
09.07.2023
Episode 0050 - AI AI AI
Despite long breaks and periods of doubt and despair, I finally made it to episode 50. This is a weird one. The guest, or guests are two different AI bots. The first is one I’ve named Max, and the second is...
08.24.2023
Episode 0049 - Eric Miller
Episode 49 of Feel Free to Deviate features musician and educator Eric Miller. Eric and I were in a band together when we were in high school and were later roommates during my early years in Boston. Since then, Eric...
05.21.2023
Episode 0048 - No Guest
Episode 0048 of Feel Free to Deviate features nobody… It’s a quick explanation of why Jim has recently strayed from the release schedule, and an outline of what you might expect in the future. Topics include:Excuses are like…Dead grass is...
04.20.2023
Episode 0047 - Tom
Episode 47 of Feel Free to Deviate features singing, songwriting, guitar playing creative person, Tom Sturm. Our paths originally crossed in the late 90s when he moved into a house with a bunch of my friends. He’s a musician, but...
04.06.2023
Episode 0046 - Valentina and Giulio
Episode 46 of Feel Free to Deviate features architectural power couple Valentina Fantini and Giulio Margheri. Both of them work for notable Dutch architecture firms and have their own career trajectories. They share their experiences of how they ended up...
03.23.2023
Episode 0045 - Evonne
Episode 45 of Feel Free to Deviate features Evonne Wetzner, Senior Global Marketing Communications Strategist at Oracle, the gigantic software company. Sounds kinda nerdy, but she’s worked in a variety of industries, and she even founded one of the greatest...
03.08.2023
Episode 0044 - Joost
The guest on episode 44 is Joost van der Spek. Joost is a storyteller who mostly writes “stories that translate factual knowledge into an experience that museum visitors will remember.” Basically, he writes the scripts and stories that accompany those...
02.22.2023
Episode 0043 - Eric
Episode 43 of Feel Free to Deviate features Eric Mead. He’s qualified to do many things, but he is currently teaching young people the ins and outs of rigging for 3d animation. As cool as that is, it’s not the...
02.09.2023
Episode 0042 - Rachel
The guest on episode 42 of Feel Free to Deviate is Rachel Carey. She’s an artist. I’ll let her fill you in on what that means, but it’s fairly important to note that she has a “regular” job doing financial...
01.25.2023
Episode 0041 - 26 Days part two
Episode 41 of Feel Free to Deviate is the follow up, or sequel to episode 40, which was a re-visitation of a month long blog I wrote during the final 26 days of my twenties, back in 2005. That’s why...
12.26.2022
Episode 0040 - 26 Days
Today is my birthday, and I recently rediscovered a blog I wrote in December 2005 about the last days of my 20s. Episode 40 of Feel Free to Deviate is a recitation of that snippet of my life. It’s a...
12.08.2022
Episode 0039 - School Daze
High school begins at 12 years old in the Netherlands, and the first year is what they call a bridge year. My daughter and her classmates are in the midst of choosing which high school they will attend next year....
11.23.2022
Episode 0038 - Joris
The guest on episode 0038 of Feel Free to Deviate is techno artist/producer/musician/and DJ extraordinaire, Joris Voorn. He made a name for himself in the early 2000s, and he’s been going strong since. His job and lifestyle have always been...
11.09.2022
Episode 0037 - Holly
The Guest on episode 37 of Feel Free to Deviate is Holly Adams. She’s a performer, voice actor, educator, and several adjacent things. She’s even a clown, but she doesn’t clown around. She is completely embedded and focused on being...
10.26.2022
Episode 0036 - Sarah
***Apologies - If you were among the first downloaders you will notice a technical problem around 25 minutes in. I have fixed it. Please download the file again. You're gonna love it. The guest on episode 36 of Feel Free to...
10.12.2022
Episode 0035 - Outtakes and Mostly Unrelated
Episode 35 of Feel Free to Deviate is an outtake episode that has almost nothing to do with careers. Is that weird? Now that I’m writing this, I think it is. Anyway, first up is an extension of episode 34,...
09.28.2022
Episode 0034 - Justin
The guest on episode 34 of Feel Free to Deviate is Justin Baum. He is the VP of Product at a software company called LeaseUp. He’s also a designer and a user experience guru. He probably won’t like that I...
09.14.2022
Episode 0033 - Florian
Normally I say that Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success, but Episode 33 of Feel Free to Deviate is a sort of rambling and lightly focused discussion of a film...
08.31.2022
Episode 0032 - Adam
Episode 32 of Feel Free to Deviate features musician and sonic consultant Adam Brilla. Adam and his wife Jennifer run a company called Stompbox Sonic. What’s a sonic consultant? You should listen and find out. Spoiler alert: It’s super cool....
08.17.2022
Episode 0031 - Viva
Episode 31 of Feel Free to Deviate features Viva Butler. Viva is a teacher who spent many of her formative years traveling and working in cooperatives and food service, including an indie chocolate company!!! Now she’s a teacher who lives...
08.03.2022
Episode 0030 - Dawn
Episode 30 of Feel Free to Deviate features academic librarian and comics artist Dawn Wing. She’s moved around and changed careers a few times, and recently self-published two comics about Chinese-American women under the banner of her publishing company WaterPigPress.com....
07.20.2022
Episode 0029 - Chris
Episode 29 of Feel Free to Deviate features Chris Nelson. When he was a child he decided that he wanted to be a toy or game designer, and he proceeded to do everything he could to make that happen. Shortly...
07.06.2022
Episode 0028 - Janelle
Episode 28 of Feel Free to Deviate features Janelle Stone. Janelle is and Associate in Training at Orton-Gillingham Academy. As their website says, “The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy...
06.22.2022
Episode 0027 - Ed Revisited or A Very Special Ed
This is a very special episode of Feel Free to Deviate. Ed Mubarek from episode 5 is back to talk about the cumulative effect of little things becoming big problems and getting ghosted by potential collaborators. We also talk about...
06.08.2022
Episode 0026 - Shayne
Episode 26 of Feel Free to Deviate features Shayne Flaherty. He is currently the CTO for an IT management company called IndyConn, but to say he’s an IT guy would be selling him short. He’s been a professor, an arborist,...
05.25.2022
Episode 0025 - Arne
Episode 25 of Feel Free to Deviate features Arne Reimer. He’s a photographer and music lover who teaches and makes books. Currently he’s working as a researcher for an Austrian publisher. He’s managed to make a living by merging his...
05.11.2022
Episode 0024 - Andrew
Episode 24 of Feel Free to Deviate features Solar Business Development Manager, Andrew Whitehead. He sells solar panels, but he got there by way of an arts education and a stint in the New York real estate market of the...
04.27.2022
Episode 0023 - Christina
Episode 23 of Feel Free to Deviate features Christina Willis. I met her when she was a physics major at Wellesley College. Now she is a laser scientist who works for a quantum computing company who is not afraid to...
04.13.2022
Episode 0022 - Todd
This is my favorite kind of episode... The guest on episode 22 of Feel Free to Deviate is an old friend named Todd Hennig. We were in a band together when we were in high school, and since then Todd...
03.30.2022
Episode 0021 - Michael
Episode 21 of Feel Free to Deviate features award winning high school English teacher Michael Switek. Michael is beloved by his students, and valued by his peers, some of whom were former students. How cool is that? The kids love him,...
03.16.2022
Episode 0020 - Gretchen
Episode 20 of Feel Free to Deviate features Gretchen Licata. Gretchen is the facilities director of the Pioneer Valley Regional School District in western Massachusetts. She’ll tell you exactly what that entails, but I will tell you that it’s a...
03.02.2022
Episode 0019 - Thomas
Episode 19 of Feel Free to Deviate Features Thomas Margolf. Some know him as chip music artist firestARTer, or as Frau Holle, but now he is mostly know as the owner and proprietor of XOR Electronics and maker of NerdSeq....
02.16.2022
Episode 0018 - Kei
Episode 18 of Feel Free to Deviate features Dr. Kei Otsuki. We met when I first moved to the Netherlands, and we were students in the same Dutch class. Her title is Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Utrecht...
02.02.2022
Episode 0017 - Jason
Episode 17 of Feel Free to Deviate features x-ray technologist Jason Kelley. He lives in Portland, Oregon and happens to be an old friend of mine. I think this episode is a fine example of a searcher finding what he...
01.19.2022
Episode 0016 - Scott
Episode 16 of Feel Free to Deviate features Scott Patrick Wiener, but I usually call him Scott or Ween. He works for an organization called YouthBuild that focuses on teaching young people construction skills and facilitates the building of houses...
01.05.2022
Episode 0015 - Anna
Episode 15 of Feel Free to Deviate features Anna Wronsky. She is the Dean of Teaching and Learning at a school in Istanbul, but she’s also been an art teacher and a costume designer for the opera. I met her...
12.22.2021
Episode 0014 - Judy
Episode 14 of Feel Free to Deviate features Judith Black, but I call her Judy because I know her. Judy was the photography professor at Wellesley College for 25 years, including the 7 years that I worked there. She’s a...
12.08.2021
Episode 0013 - Giuliana
Episode 13 of Feel Free to Deviate features Giuliana Funkhouser. Giuliana is a trans-disciplinary artist who “combines digital code and synthesized audio with field recordings to produce story-driven installations.” I met her long ago when I first started working at...
11.24.2021
Episode 0012 - Ben
Episode 12 of Feel Free to Deviate features Ben Licata. He’s an old friend who currently makes his living as a tattoo artist. We talk about how his illustrious career began in the tobacco fields of Hadley Massachusetts, and how...
11.10.2021
Episode 0011 - Melissa
The guest on episode 11 of Feel Free to Deviate is Melissa Woods. She runs Trued Apparel, which is a sustainably sourced fashion company that caters to goths. Well, not exclusively goths, but to anyone who likes to wear comfortable...
10.27.2021
Episode 0010 - Esme
Esme Valk is the guest on this landmark tenth episode of Feel Free to Deviate. She is a Pikler Pedagog. You probably have no idea what that is, so I’ll give a brief introduction, and Esme will clarify many of...
10.13.2021
Episode 0009 - Naomi
You know how sometimes you hang out with someone who is super nice and positive, but you feel like they are trying to convince themselves that they are nice and positive? Well, that’s not her. She is a genuinely light,...
09.30.2021
Episode 0008 - Jonas
This episode features Jonas Wulff: Doctor of Computer Vision! He’s a super genius who wants to make computers see. I suppose that either sounds awesome or terrifying, but seeing as you are probably listening to this podcast on a tiny...
09.16.2021
Episode 0007 - Robin
Episode 7 of Feel Free to Deviate is a conversation with Robin Chase. She was a teacher for 20 years, some of which she was miserable due to a less than favorable work environment. After some soul searching and encouragement...
09.02.2021
Episode 0006 - Tomasz
This episode features Tomasz Kaye. He makes anti-political propaganda films. You may be thinking, “What the hell does that mean, and how the hell does one get a job doing that?” Well, that’s why I asked him to be a...
08.19.2021
Episode 0005 - Ed
Episode 5 features Ed Mubarek, who is an old friend of mine. We’ve know each other since high school, we’ve lived with each other, played in bands together, and stuff like that. He’s a super smart guy, is very well...
08.05.2021
Episode 0004 - Dave
Episode 4 of Feel Free to Deviate features David Teng Olsen! Dave is an old friend, and he talks about how he found his way to being an artist and a professor despite never thinking of becoming a teacher and being...
07.22.2021
Episode 0003 - Bjorn
This episode features Bjorn van Spengen. Bjorn was one of the founders of Fotomat, which is the company I used work for. He left the company around the same time as me, pivoted, and started working for a bigger company...
07.22.2021
Episode 0002 - Rebecca
This episode is a conversation with Rebecca Simons, whom I used to work with at Fotomat. I asked her to be on the show because she is adept at finding ways to get paid while working on things that she loves...

What's Feel Free to Deviate about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Feel Free to Deviate episodes:

Episode 0051 - Oppie

Episode 0050 - AI AI AI

Episode 0049 - Eric Miller

Episode 0048 - No Guest

Episode 0047 - Tom

Episode 0046 - Valentina and Giulio

Episode 0045 - Evonne

Episode 0044 - Joost

Episode 0043 - Eric

Episode 0042 - Rachel

Episode 0041 - 26 Days part two

Episode 0040 - 26 Days

Episode 0039 - School Daze

Episode 0038 - Joris

Episode 0037 - Holly

Episode 0036 - Sarah

Episode 0035 - Outtakes and Mostly Unrelated

Episode 0034 - Justin

Episode 0033 - Florian

Episode 0032 - Adam

Episode 0031 - Viva

Episode 0030 - Dawn

Episode 0029 - Chris

Episode 0028 - Janelle

Episode 0027 - Ed Revisited or A Very Special Ed

Episode 0026 - Shayne

Episode 0025 - Arne

Episode 0024 - Andrew

Episode 0023 - Christina

Episode 0022 - Todd

Episode 0021 - Michael

Episode 0020 - Gretchen

Episode 0019 - Thomas

Episode 0018 - Kei

Episode 0017 - Jason

Episode 0016 - Scott

Episode 0015 - Anna

Episode 0014 - Judy

Episode 0013 - Giuliana

Episode 0012 - Ben

Episode 0011 - Melissa

Episode 0010 - Esme

Episode 0009 - Naomi

Episode 0008 - Jonas

Episode 0007 - Robin

Episode 0006 - Tomasz

Episode 0005 - Ed

Episode 0004 - Dave

Episode 0003 - Bjorn

Episode 0002 - Rebecca