Life & Becoming
I Thought I’d Have This Figured Out By Now
A suitcase, several rooms, and a life that refused to follow the original itinerary raise a familiar question: Shouldn’t I have figured this out by now?
Jodi Pickens
Fueled by coffee, powered by sci-fi, and on a mission to do more good in this beautifully chaotic world. Podcaster, storyteller, and unapologetic nerd, boldly going wherever kindness and curiosity lead.
Fandom & Culture
A Case of Chiaroscuro and Everything Between Black and White
Una Chin-Riley enters a black-and-white mystery that reveals how much of life, loyalty, and identity exists somewhere between the obvious answers.
Fandom & Culture
Human Best Friend and the People Who Get Under Our Skin
A gloriously unpredictable Strange New Worlds episode explores the people who challenge us, irritate us, understand us, and become important almost without permission.
Life & Becoming
I Wasn't Going to Make This Complicated
“This will only take a few minutes” is a promise I continue making despite considerable evidence that neither simplicity nor time works that way around me.
Fandom & Culture
The Griffin Incident and the Courage to Keep Exploring
The Griffin Incident sends Strange New Worlds into horror territory and asks what exploration costs when curiosity encounters something genuinely terrifying.
Life & Becoming
By the Time We Notice
The moments that change us rarely arrive with dramatic music. Sometimes they look exactly like every other Tuesday until we finally notice what has shifted.
Fandom & Culture
Valles Marineris and the Courage to Live in the Present
Ancient Mars, time travel, dinosaurs, and an uncertain future give Christopher Pike a difficult challenge: remaining fully present in the life he has now.
Life & Becoming
The Long Way Home
Four rooms, a lifetime of ordinary moments, and the people who filled them reveal that home may not be something we find on a map.
Life & Becoming
An Invitation
A childhood memory of the Enterprise begins a journey through Star Trek, representation, and the future that quietly invited me to imagine more for myself.
Life & Becoming
The Future I Couldn’t Imagine
A quiet Saturday morning leads me back to the future I once expected and the life I could not have imagined from where I was standing.
Life & Becoming
More Than One Thing
Musician, writer, podcaster, coffee enthusiast, dog lover, and unapologetic nerd. What happens when a life refuses to fit inside one convenient description?
Life & Becoming
The Path I Almost Didn’t Choose
I once believed my future could be found on a college schedule. Then one unexpected choice opened a path I had not planned to take.