The Quest Within

In this episode of the Quest Within, I talk with my friends Zach, Elle, and Sam who I all met through the 2D Con community on our way to Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee, WI. We all have different offshoots of nerdy communities that we are involved in, and they all converge in a beautiful way. In any case, I asked them about how their adjacent communities have helped them throughout the years and we end on a really good note of how amazing the 2D Con community itself is, which is something I haven’t really talked about too much on this podcast.

Thank you to them for having microphones and being ready to chat! Enjoy episode 17!

TINA!

Thank you SO much for your time and for telling your story about how Guild met you in one of your darkest places in life and gave you the resources you needed to overcome your mental health struggles and begin to SUCCEED!
Your story is so important and will help others to not only seek out help if they need it, but to show them that they are not alone whatsoever.

Thank you to Guild Services, my charity partner for enabling this interview and I look forward to a continued partnership with you guys to keep transforming lives. 

LET'S GOOOO!

The Midnight Gospel is an animated special set to a podcast on Netflix. It goes through really deep topics like loneliness, death, and good/bad drugs. I binged the entire thing in one night with Rachel Silberman (Episode 010) and we immediately recorded a live reaction to it, so forgive us if our thoughts seem scrambled.
I highly recommend seeing this at some point yourself, but for now, enjoy the discussion and our extrapolation of the information found within!

MY CHARITY PARTNER LET ME INTERVIEW THEIR CEO! I'm SO happy and excited to bring you this video. It shows how the work that Guild does is SUSTAINABLE and how they have a plan to continue to deliver their mental health, employment, AND housing services through this really terrible economy. The wholistic nature of their services is why I LOVE Guild and wanted to form a connection and partnership with them, so I hope that it just makes you understand the WHY of all of what I'm doing. Trish is such an AMAZING person and an executive that I absolutely RESPECT, (which is rare)! THANK YOU to Guild and thank you to all my Patreon supporters who are roundaboutly supporting the work that Guild does for people!

Enjoy y'all!

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:00:40) Part One

(00:22:09) Sponsored by Guild

(00:24:01) Part Two

I met Pierce some years ago through the video game music scene and we've been friends for a while. He is a member of my Patreon community and is just a wonderful human being. Like seriously, I wish more people were like him and then the world would be a better place haha. Anyways, he read my book and developed a myriad of notes around chapter five, which talks about Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5 and how he was an artist exploited by someone in power, Madarame. We have an amazing discussion about power, changing systems, and late-stage capitalism. 

Our discussion went so long that i put it into two parts, and this is part two of that discussion. For Part One, see the previous episode.

Enjoy!

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:21:53) Sponsored by Guild

(00:23:45) Part Two

I met Pierce some years ago through the video game music scene and we've been friends for a while. He is a member of my Patreon community and is just a wonderful human being. Like seriously, I wish more people were like him and then the world would be a better place haha. Anyways, he read my book and developed a myriad of notes around chapter five, which talks about Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5 and how he was an artist exploited by someone in power, Madarame. We have an amazing discussion about power, changing systems, and late-stage capitalism. 

Our discussion went so long that i put it into two parts, so you'll have to catch the second half next month! Enjoy for now!

(00:00:00) Sponsored by Guild

(00:01:38) Part One

(00:23:07) Part Two

In this episode, I talk with Rachel Silberman, the mastermind behind Fables and Flames, a romantasy (book) convention based here in Minneapolis, MN. We talk about her journey through bi-polar, the fact that she taught herself how to have empathy (a lost skill in this day and age) and how anyone can change. There are some deep topics in here that might be disturbing to some listeners (suicide and death), so discretion is advised!

(00:00:00) Guild

(00:01:38) Intro - Living through Manic Episodes

(00:31:47) Part Two - UFO's and How to Level Up in Life

This one was all over the place but SO fun. It was really interesting to get a glimpse into the mind of my good friend David, AKA Pika, AKA DJ Tonedeaf who has Bipolar and once in a while, a manic episode. This conversation was as fun as it was informative and I'm so grateful to have chatted in this manner with Pika! We also have a discussion about UFOs, chemicals of various varieties (Pika has ingested a loooot of them hahaha) and how to gain the most EXP in the video game that is life.

PS I don't know what happened with the microphone I was using, but some of the audio came out wierd, something I only realized in post, so please bear with me! I got a new mic literally the day after, so this shouldn't be an issue ever again.

(00:00:00) Sponsored by Guild

(00:01:37) Part One

(00:24:40) Part Two