The MultiPod is an independent podcast exploring the ideas and profiles of the world’s first community of dedicated multipotentialites, the Puttyverse. Multipotentialites (a.k.a “multipods”) have diverse interests, skills, and creative outlets – making us capable of success in just about anything.
Our cultures and global economy today demand creativity and flexibility, and more people are creating purposeful lives from the intersections of various pursuits. Join us every other week to share in the amazing journeys of our Puttyverse members.
Show co-hosts – Ted, Sara, and Vanessa – are constantly exploring what’s important in the wide world of multipotentiality. In each episode, they profile at least one member of the Puttyverse and discuss themes like work ethic and productivity, mental health, jobs vs. careers, languages, simplicity, and rituals.
Do you have questions or suggestions for the show? Feel free to contact the team.
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The MultiPod Team
Ted Cragg // Producer and Co-Host
Ted is a budding podcaster, aspiring entrepreneur, musician, writer, traveler, and guide. He’s inspired by outliers, adventurers, individuality, and making the most out of life. Plus, he’s a happy husband and father of two.
Vanessa Hennessey // Co-Host
Vanessa lives and breathes podcasting as a co-host, producer, and editor. She also loves travel, yoga, community-building, her pets, and her partner (a fellow podcaster).
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Producing Batman and Earth Day Podcasts: Creating to Help Others Create with Sven Sommer – The MulitPod 094
How does a content producer balance their own need to create, plus the ongoing tasks of running a business? Sven Sommer has some solid experience to share, and a surprise story or two.
Interests are like Particle Clouds of Opportunities with Deepti Kannapan – The MultiPod 093
As Deepti Kannapan says, your interests are like particle clouds, each with their own components and distinct features. As these start to clarify and solidify, find a theme or direction that pulls everything together. Look for overlaps. Use this to help you with those big decisions and in finding purpose in what you do.
Finding the Job That’s Right for You – The MultiPod 092
Where should I work? It’s perhaps the #1 question for many multipotentialites at some point, and an ongoing challenge. The Puttyverse Job Search Support Group has helped many puttypeep make the leap to full-time employment … and here’s how they did it.
Puttyverse 10th Anniversary: 100 Years in Internet Time – The MultiPod 091
The Puttyverse hits its 10th anniversary! It’s founder, Emilie Wapnick, and Connections and Operations Guy, Joel Zaslofsky, return to The MultiPod to chat about the big milestone. We go back even before the Putty doors first opened on April 17, 2012, to when Puttylike the blog was building followers and fans, and it became clear that the opportunity and need for a community was there. The rest, as they say, is history.
Empowering Women in a Patriarchal Society with Eden Tadesse – The MultiPod 090
Eden Tadesse joins us to share her remarkable life story, which is very much only at its beginning. One of 12 children, including 9 daughters, born into a very patriarchal society in Ethiopia, Eden grew up with a father who chose to raise his daughters as “fierce, bad-ass women,” empowering them to pursue their dreams, believe in themselves, and not let anyone or anything stand in their way.
Puttycomps Part 2: On Travel, Self-Discovery, Being Brave, and More Jellyfish! – MultiPod Extras
Puttycomps #6: The audio version! The MultiPod brings you the latest Puttyverse compilation project, this time featuring audio, and showcasing fun stories and creative recordings from members of The Puttyverse itself. Part 2 brings you four more neat puttypeep joining host Vanessa in expounding on all sorts of multipotentialite questions.
An Illumination of What It is to Be Multipotentialite with Jessica Tudos – The MultiPod 089
Special guest Jessica Tudos sits down with co-hosts Cristy and Ted to share the story of her amazing multipotentialite life, knowing instinctively even from a young age that she couldn’t just do the “one thing.” Even after committing to something as incredibly intensive and driven as Olympic-level gymnastics. How did Jessica make the transition from an all-consuming activity to pursuing all kinds of other interests and opportunities?
There’s No Wrong Way to Multipod with Sarah Hockett – The MultiPod 088
Can you have three businesses at once, and live the multipod dream of variety, control, and fulfillment? Sarah Hockett is doing that very thing and finding that balance. But it hasn’t come easily or quickly, nor without a fair share of obstacles and vulnerability along the way.
Hat Collecting with Lacey Artemis – The MultiPod 087
Hat Collecting is a talk show that talks to multipotentialites, much like The MultiPod, but with a different twist: host Lacey Artemis focuses on the many different metaphorical hats we wear. What are these careers and hobbies, and who are the people that combine them together? Because no one does just one thing and everyone has a story.