Feel Free to Deviate

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 at and maintains a retreat in the Berkshires with her partner and a tiny activist who happens to be her daughter. We talk about her circuitous journey towards uncertainty, but also how walking the proverbially walk has generally served her well over the course of her life. 

Topics include:

• Food cooperatives and the surrounding culture
• Making chocolate
• Vagabonding
• Home schooling
• Teaching and the need to better serve kids in middle school
• Teaching and covid
• Living off the grid
• So much more!

For more information about the retreat where Viva lives and works go to https://www.temenosretreatcenter.org/

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. You can find me at https://feelfreetodeviate.com or on Instagram @feelfreetodeviate 
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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. She does a wonderful job of balancing her job and her artistic practice. 

• Topics include:
• Chinese-American feminist heroes!
• Tien Fu Wu
• Tye Leung Schulze
• Education
• No child left behind
• Library stuff
• Comics and Zines
• So much more!

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. You can find me at https://feelfreetodeviate.com or on Instagram @feelfreetodeviate 
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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 after graduating from MassArt he mostly achieved his goal by landing a job working for a company that is synonymous with board games, and now he’s working as an independent game designer/inventor. Side note: he also seems to live a happy and well balanced life. It’s a fun episode. 

Topics include:

• Board games and the board game industry
• Focus and determination
• Realizing childhood goals
• Sandwiches
• A magical ride in a Mini Cooper
• Marshfield, MA
• So much more!

Check out Chris’s portfolio website to see some of his work: https://cnillustration.myportfolio.com/

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. You can find me at https://feelfreetodeviate.com or on Instagram @feelfreetodeviate 

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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 when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia.” Janelle also tells me about how she started her career in the fashion industry working as a fabric specialist with music/fashion mogul/impresario Sean ”Puffy” Combes and also the founding fathers of fancy pants, Brooks Brothers. Big pivots from P-Diddy to reading kiddies. Good stuff. 

You should go to https://ortonacademy.org for more information and resources. It sounds like they are doing good work.

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. You can find me at https://feelfreetodeviate.com or on Instagram @feelfreetodeviate 

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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 the state of the podcast, the state of the Jim, and the state of my psyche on the eve of potential employment.

You can find Ed and procure audio editing and post production services from him at https://boomkaas.com. 

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. Find Free to Deviate on your favorite podcast app, and new episodes are released every other Thursday. Visit https://feelfreetodeviate.com for more information. Feel Free to Deviate and host Jim Turbert can also be found on Instagram and Facebook @feelfreetodeviate. 

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Feel free to send inquiries to [email protected]

Also go to https://feelfreetodeviate.com/feel-free-to-donate if you are feeling generous and want to contribute to the production of Feel Free to Deviate. No pressure. Uh… Not much pressure.

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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, and he has a few degrees. The important thing isn’t really what he does, but how he got to where he is, and how he acquired all of his knowledge. It’s about his approach. He’s disciplined, has strong views on education, and has never stopped learning, both inside and outside of the traditional education system. We probably could have talked for several more hours, and someday we will again.

Topics include:

• Jim Turbert’s job search
• IT
• Being an arborist
• Homeschooling
• The education system in general
• Whether or not college degrees are necessary
• Physical fitness and finding time to work out
• BMX bikes and 29 inch cruiser frames / wheelies!
• A little bit of ADHD
• So much more!

Shayne’s companies.
https://independent-connections.com or IndyConn

https://www.terranorthcorp.com - that’s the tree one. 

Some homeschooling resources are

https://portal.ct.gov/SDE/Homeschooling/Homeschooling-in-Connecticut.   https://wildkinwandering.com/nature-homeschool-curriculum/ https://www.time4learning.com 

https://www.homeschool.com/resources/ another great resource 

You can can also find Shayne on Instagram @shayne54 - 

https://www.instagram.com/shayne54/

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. Find Free to Deviate on your favorite podcast app, and new episodes are released every other Thursday. Visit https://feelfreetodeviate.com for more information. Feel Free to Deviate and host Jim Turbert can also be found on Instagram and Facebook @feelfreetodeviate. 

https://instagram.com/feelfreetodeviate

https://jtfanclub.com

https://jimturbert.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/turbert/

Feel free to send inquiries to [email protected]

Also go to https://feelfreetodeviate.com/feel-free-to-donate if you are feeling generous and want to contribute to the production of Feel Free to Deviate. No pressure. Uh… Not much pressure. 

Sound editing by Ed Mubarek at https://boomkaas.com

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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 love of music and photography his entire adult life, and I think that’s quite an accomplishment. It takes a lot of perseverance to do that, or maybe it’s single-mindedness. It’s a photo-centric episode, but don’t go thinking that the episode isn’t for you just because you don’t work in photography. There are plenty of universal nuggets of wisdom for everyone.

Topics include:

• Photography and photo nerd stuff
• Making photo books
• Self publishing
• Buying records at thrift stores
• Teaching art students
• Meeting Ornette Coleman
• Jazz and jazz legends
• Townes van Zandt
• Cycling in Boston, sometimes without shoes
• Being an exchange student
• Getting out of your comfort zone
• Very old roommates
• Self promotion
• Recognition is good
• So much more!

Arne’s website is https://arnereimer.de
This is his book site - http://www.americanjazzheroes.de/
This is an exhibition that he recently co-curated - http://kunstraum-nestroyhof.at/aktuell/ausstellungsansichten-cover-art-33-1-3-144/
This is his monthly radio show - https://www.ndr.de/kultur/sendungen/Round-Midnight-Jazz-Heroes-auf-NDR-Kultur,jazzheroes130.html < most of the images on the site are not his.

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. Find Free to Deviate on your favorite podcast app, and new episodes are released every other Thursday. Visit https://feelfreetodeviate.com for more information. Feel Free to Deviate and host Jim Turbert can also be found on Instagram and Facebook @feelfreetodeviate. 
https://instagram.com/feelfreetodeviate
https://jtfanclub.com
https://jimturbert.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/turbert/

Feel free to send inquiries to [email protected]

Also go to https://feelfreetodeviate.com/feel-free-to-donate if you are feeling generous and want to contribute to the production of Feel Free to Deviate. No pressure. Uh… Not much pressure. 

Sound editing and post production by Ed Mubarek at https://boomkaas.com

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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 mid to late aughts. Listen to him verbally paint a detailed picture of how his career evolved, in an artful combination of deliberate and fortuitous moves to various jobs in various places. 

Topics discussed:

• Sausage and old butchers
• Having triplets
• The solar industry
• Criticizing one’s parents
• New York real estate
• Theater kids and arts education
• Guns and Nerf and Texas
• Other stuff too

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. Find Free to Deviate on your favorite podcast app, and new episodes are released every other Thursday. Visit https://feelfreetodeviate.com for more information. Feel Free to Deviate and host Jim Turbert can also be found on Instagram and Facebook @feelfreetodeviate. 
https://instagram.com/feelfreetodeviate
https://jtfanclub.com
https://jimturbert.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/turbert/

Feel free to send inquiries to [email protected]

Also go to https://feelfreetodeviate.com/feel-free-to-donate if you are feeling generous and want to contribute to the production of Feel Free to Deviate. No pressure. Uh… Not much pressure. 

Sound editing and post production by Ed Mubarek at https://boomkaas.com

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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 learn new skills for big career pivots and intense hobbies. 

Check out Christina’s book, Sustainable Networking For Scientists and Engineers at https://sustainablenetworking.net or https://spie.org/christinawillisbook for a free direct download. 

You can also find her on Twitter @willischristina

And you can learn more about her company at https://coldquanta.com/ 

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. Find Free to Deviate on your favorite podcast app, and new episodes are released every other Thursday. Visit https://feelfreetodeviate.com for more information. Feel Free to Deviate and host Jim Turbert can also be found on Instagram and Facebook @feelfreetodeviate. 
https://instagram.com/feelfreetodeviate
https://jtfanclub.com
https://jimturbert.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/turbert/

Feel free to send inquiries to [email protected]

Also go to https://feelfreetodeviate.com/feel-free-to-donate if you are feeling generous and want to contribute to the production of Feel Free to Deviate. No pressure. Uh… Not much pressure. 

Sound editing and post production by Ed Mubarek at https://boomkaas.com

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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 has gone on to play with many bands like Great Collapse, Nations Afire, Death By Stereo, and Heckle, and he’s toured all over the place. He’s even gotten to play and tour with some of the heroes of his youth, which is a dream for many budding young (and old) musicians. That said, his path was not free of obstacles, and he still needs to work a normal job, but I look at him as someone who deftly balances his family, his passions, and his career. This episode is full of personal anecdotes and reminiscences. Despite many of them being rooted in the music world, I think the message and meaning can be applied universally. 

Check out Todd’s woodworking on his website: https://2020woodworks.com/, or look for him on Instagram @toddhennig.

Feel Free to Deviate is the podcast about people, their careers, and their relationships with success. My name is Jim Turbert, and I am the host. Find Free to Deviate on your favorite podcast app or visit https://feelfreetodeviate.com for more information. Feel Free to Deviate and host Jim Turbert can also be found on Instagram and Facebook @feelfreetodeviate. 
https://instagram.com/feelfreetodeviate
https://jtfanclub.com
https://jimturbert.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/turbert/

Feel free to send inquiries to [email protected]

Sound editing and post production by Ed Mubarek at https://boomkaas.com
“Intro” music by Foam ©1994 Caleb Cutler, Eric Miller, Jim Turbert, and Todd Hennig

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