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Director, writer, and teacher Michelle Milne joins us this week to talk about making creative work over time, moving to and from Portland, her award-winning show Brontë by Polly Teale, and how the process of immigration is like finding home. You can learn all about Michelle on her website https://mappingtheterrain.wordpress.com.

Part 2 of Jodi Sweetman’s episode on her incredibly successful Kickstarted board game, Sol: Last Days of a Star. In part 2, we talk about what it really takes to make a successful fan-funded campaign, and taking an idea from the concept phase to reality. You can learn more about Jodi and Sol: Last Days of a Star at facebook.com/ElephantLabsGames/.

Producer and creator Jodi Sweetman comes on for our first 2 part episode! We talk about her incredibly successful Kickstarted board game, Sol: Last Days of a Star, creating original content in the digital age, and what it takes to run a Kickstarter campaign. We also talk about Stefan Sagmeister and Ben Nabor’s film “The Happy Film”, with showings currently happening across the country. You can learn more about Jodi and Sol: Last Days of a Star at facebook.com/ElephantLabsGames/, and more about “The Happy Film” at thehappyfilm.org.

Writer, podcaster, and co-founder of Proud & Disgusted Elizabeth Martin comes in to talk about her love (and hate) of writing, her beginnings in journalism, and the importance of travel. We also talk about her in-progress novel “Fleeting East”. You can get more of Elizabeth on her website elizabethgracemartin.com, and listen to her give advice every week on her podcast I’ve Only Been Wrong Twice at iveonlybeenwrongtwice.com.

Scott Palmer joins us to talk about being in, and running, a theater in Oregon. We also talk about moving to and from a small town, working on Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, and falling in love with Shakespeare. You can learn more about Scott and Bag&Baggage Productions at http://bagnbaggage.org/

On our very first episode ever, we talk to Stephen Kozik about baseball. Stephen is a creative director, baseball player, and all around frenemy, and he teaches all of us about what makes a good game of baseball, and why we should like to learn about things that are complicated. You can learn more about Stephen at http://stephenkozik.com/