Latest Side projects Podcast Episodes
Matthew Evans on creative lessons from farming and cooking
Routines & Ruts - May 17, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsMatthew Evans is a former chef and food critic, turned Tasmanian smallholder, restaurateur, food activist and star of the SBS television series Gourmet Farmer alongside his family. We talk about what happens when productive work loses its meaning, daily life on the farm and how there is always ...
Special episode: There is no one way
Routines & Ruts - May 10, 2020 09:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThere is no one way to navigate a pandemic. This routine-collage and slice of creative life during COVID-19 showcases these differences as well as unifying reflections. Bringing together over 60 difference perspectives – from dozens of listeners and more than thirty artists and creati...
Creativity in a pandemic: There is no one way
Routines & Ruts - May 10, 2020 09:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThere is no one way to navigate a pandemic. This routine-collage and slice of creative life during COVID-19 showcases these differences as well as unifying reflections. Bringing together over 60 difference perspectives – from dozens of listeners and more than thirty artists and creatives I’ve ...
Kira Puru on gentle routines, frugality and making mistakes
Routines & Ruts - May 03, 2020 09:02 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsPerformer, photographer, visual artist, DJ and vocal powerhouse Kira Puru discusses mental health, navigating the logistics of living through a pandemic and sometimes curling up like an armadillo, giving yourself leeway to be overwhelmed, balancing the artistic and the political, frugality, mist...
Jen Gotch on overcoming productivity-shame and embracing inconsistencies
Routines & Ruts - April 26, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsUpdate: As racist and bullying behaviour has come into light since the recording of this episode with Jen Gotch, it is important to add the caveat that this behaviour is not endorsed or supported. Open to listening and learning on this, and my thinking around leaving the episode up (...
Kylie Lewis on finding new routines, self-compassion and collective vulnerability
Routines & Ruts - April 19, 2020 07:39 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsIn this conversation, coach and consultant Kylie Lewis talks about navigating our days imperfectly, how it’s normal to have ‘horizontal days, taking it one moment at a time, self-compassion, collective vulnerability, boundaries during this time, comparison, and aiming for enough. * * * Thank ...
Luke Currie-Richardson on creating your own measures for your day, career, and life
Routines & Ruts - April 12, 2020 07:02 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsIn Luke Currie-Richardson's own words, he may not know what he does for a living, but he knows why he wake up in the morning. In this conversation, Luke delves further into this idea of it’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it, navigating the loss of work during this time, his thoughts ...
Sarah Jane Adams on inevitable uncertainty, self-sabotage and joy
Routines & Ruts - April 05, 2020 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsSarah Jane Adams is a self-made antique jewellery dealer, designer and became an international model in her sixties, responsible for the #mywrinklesaremystripes social media movement celebrating the beauty in ageing. We talk about how her daily life resembles a sliding tile puzzle toy, how the...
Jai Long on being intentional over busy, letting go, and recognising privilege
Routines & Ruts - March 29, 2020 10:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsJai Long is a photographer, educator and creative entrepreneur. We talk about being impactful rather than busy, how we are all wired differently, not putting your spark out for other people, the complicated relationship between money and the idea of designing your life, failure, fear, and so muc...
Samuel Leighton-Dore on a tiered routines, toxic masculinity and detaching from creative success
Routines & Ruts - March 22, 2020 09:10 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThere’s a quote going around on from Glennon Melton’s book, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed and it reads: “You have been offered the gift of crisis. As Kathleen Norris reminds us, the Greek root of the word crisis is "to sift", as in, to shake out the excesses and leave only...
Samuel Leighton-Dore on a tiered routine, toxic masculinity and detaching from creative success
Routines & Ruts - March 22, 2020 09:10 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsGold coast based artist Samuel Leighton-Dore is a satirical cartoonist, a painter, ceramic artist, filmmaker, a regular contributor for SBS Sexuality and author of the graphic novel 'How to be a big strong man'. In this conversation, Samuel share his three-tiered approach to balancing various ...
006 - Strange Times are Here Questioning all the Things
Becoming a Solo Founder - NodleStudios - March 20, 2020 18:30 - 7 minutesThe world is a strange place right now. Work continues almost normally, although I worked from home the entire week this week instead of the normal 2 days at home and 2 days in the office. As the US has been bracing for the impact of Covid-19 a number of things changed over the past we...
Beci Orpin on the upsides of busyness, freelancing and resilience
Routines & Ruts - March 15, 2020 08:44 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsBeci Orpin does her best work when she is busy, With a creative career spanning more than twenty years, the Melbourne designer, artist, and illustrator has left her colourful fingerprint on countless projects, from books and homewares, to regular art exhibitions, and collaborations with celebrat...
005 - Jumping Out of the Airplane Before the Parachute is Ready
Becoming a Solo Founder - NodleStudios - March 13, 2020 20:00 - 14 minutesIts Friday march the 13th. I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has a fair bit on my mind right, as the US braces for the Coronavirus its difficult to focus on other things that suddenly feel a lot less important. I did want to record this episode today though because even though we...
Pip Lincolne on heartbreak, wobbly routines and solitude
Routines & Ruts - March 08, 2020 07:16 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsPrioritsing yourself isn't selfish, says writer, crafter and blogger behind Meet Me At Mikes, Pip Lincolne – but it sure can be difficult. In this conversation, Pip opens up about the difficult period she faced after the end of a 23-year-relationship – and the book it has since inspired, When...
Annie Louey on building a career in comedy and finding motivation within yourself
Routines & Ruts - March 01, 2020 07:22 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsAnnie Louey is a fresh comedic talent who putting it all into her career and immersing herself in the world of presenting and comedy. In this episode, we talk about how to step into being an artist even when you don’t feel ready, the importance of preparation, setting targets in our career, imp...
004 - What Tech Stack Am I Using For Web App Projects?
Becoming a Solo Founder - NodleStudios - February 28, 2020 16:30 - 19 minutesSome things changed at work this week. Not ready to talk about them just yet, but they will affect my work on NodleStudios projects. It is Friday so I’m at home working through my list of tasks (in GoSelva) currently I’ve got 25 tasks remaining for today. Some of them will get pushed t...
Oliver Burkeman on embracing limitations, stale goals, and unclenching from routine
Routines & Ruts - February 23, 2020 07:15 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis week's guest has spent the last few years delving into the topic of limitations through researching and writing his latest book on time. Oliver Burkeman is a British author and journalist living in Brooklyn. He writes a popular weekly column for The Guardian on social psychology, productiv...
003 - How Do People Balance a Job & Building a SAAS at the Same Time?
Becoming a Solo Founder - NodleStudios - February 19, 2020 11:00 - 8 minutesMaking some progress on GoSelva and OhPeso, but also feeling a tad overwhelmed with all of the things that have to happen in "normal life." Hoping to get OhPeso live in the next couple of weeks and continue to make progress on GoSelva.
Tina Essmaker on not knowing what's next
Routines & Ruts - February 16, 2020 07:57 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsTina Essmaker is a coach, writer and speaker and in early 2017, she had the opportunity to reimagine career and her four burners when she transitioned out of the The Great Discontent, a publication she started with her former husband and business partner. She took what she describes as a gap ye...
Lauren Martin on feeling lost, and finding comfort in the words of women
Routines & Ruts - February 09, 2020 06:41 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsLauren Martin is a writer and the founder of Words Of Women, a labour of love she started when she was searching for something to help herself and other women who were feeling lost. In this episode, Lauren delves into the intricacies of self-initiated work and the thoughtful process behind wri...
Vanessa Marian on embracing failure and being a lifelong learner
Routines & Ruts - February 02, 2020 07:40 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsDancer and movement director Vanessa Marian Varghese describes her career as a succession of failures – trying to start an online homewares store and failing, trying to be an art director and failing. Finishing a law degree but not wanting to pursue it. But when she didn’t know what she was goi...
002 - Launching Landing Pages & Working On Web Apps
Becoming a Solo Founder - NodleStudios - January 31, 2020 13:35 - 11 minutesI talk a few minutes about what I've been working on so far in January of 2020. Launching landing pages for two projects and working on both of them adding features and functionality.
Ryder Carroll on intention over productivity
Routines & Ruts - January 26, 2020 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsAs John Lennon put it, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” As a loyal proponent of the Bullet Journal, I've seen first hand how the immensely popular analog system goes far beyond planning and teaches you to be more intentional with list-making – and life. If ...
Amanda Palmer on blanket compassion, rest and redefining success
Routines & Ruts - January 19, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThis week’s guest is unquestionable gifted in an astonishing array of disciplines – Amanda Palmer is a singer, songwriter, filmmaker, playwright, pianist, author, director, blogger and ukulele enthusiast. It’s easy to compile Palmer’s successes and accredit it all to a perfect, productive creat...
Adriana Picker on burnout and mundane self-care practices
Routines & Ruts - January 12, 2020 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsAdriana Picker has a career many illustrators would pine for – she’s illustrated four books, held numerous exhibitions of her illustrations and paintings, and her list of clients includes Vogue, Gourmet Traveller, Mecca Cosmetics, and T2. Despite the impressive bio and dream projects, Adriana o...
Benjamin Law on time optimism and managing post-project blues
Routines & Ruts - January 05, 2020 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsBenjamin Law is an expert in shifting gears. While he credits his colour-coded iCal for his time-management prowess, after our conversation, I’m convinced his curiosity and energy plays an important role in making Ben one of Australia’s most prolific and beloved writers. * * * Thank you for l...
Clare Bowditch on patience, book writing and ambition
Routines & Ruts - December 29, 2019 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsIn this debut episode of Routines & Ruts, Clare Bowditch discusses taking it one step at a time, the book writing process, and how letting go can bring us the most extraordinary experiences. * * * Thank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If yo...
001 - Hello World - This is the NodleStudios Podcast
Becoming a Solo Founder - NodleStudios - December 23, 2019 22:00 - 3 minutesHello there! This is a very short "intro episode" to allow me to get things set up in iTunes and various other places across the web. I'm Eldon Yoder and I run a small company NodleStudios LLC. This podcast is supposed to be a journal of sorts as I head down the road of becoming a "Solo ...
Introducing Routines & Ruts
Routines & Ruts - December 15, 2019 08:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThank you for listening to Routines & Ruts, a labour of love fuelled by time and curiosity. If you'd like to support the podcast, please share with a friend, or buy the companion book, I Didn't Do The Thing Today. To stay in the loop, sign up to the Madeleine Dore—On Things newsletter. Hos...
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