Episode 1: David Wolinsky and "existential adriftness"

I came up with the idea for this podcast at a weird spot in my life, give or take. I’ve been mostly freelance since about November 2015, but I’ve had some bigger contracts or close to full-time engagements in that span that helped with the consistency of bill-paying and life-living. I had one of those from September 2018 until May 2019, and I lost it right around Memorial Day at the beginning of this summer. Since then I’ve been a mix of hustling and adrift. In this episode, the first of The Blunder Years podcast, David Wolinsky is going to call this “existential adriftness.” A lot of males go through it -- and women too -- and it’s not commonly discussed as much as it should be. That was part of the reason I set out to even do this podcast. I’m probably not going to make much money off it, although down the road, let’s hope. But I hope you’ll see it as a series of interesting conversations about all the things that come into -- and out of -- our lives as we grow up and find ourselves.

In this conversation, you’ll hear about sitting in bathtubs drinking wine, getting free drinks at airport bars, golden retrievers wearing dress shirts, the two paths of life for a man over age 32, old man Improv, cricket emojis on lead generation efforts, whether work-life balance really exists, and whether your 30s are the period where you start to think you deserve more.