NO MAP INCLUDED

We're always somewhere in the middle, between a high and a low, an ending and whatever comes next, without a plan for any of it. No Map Included is a podcast and essay collection built for exactly that: conversations with filmmakers, artists, entrepreneurs, psychologists, and people who've lived through their own unexpected turns. Each episode explores a question through someone else's lived experience. Each essay stays with that conversation a little longer, sitting with what's still unresolved once the mic turns off.

WHAT KEEPS COMING UP

  • Identity, Interrupted

    Conversations about identity after something ends, a career, a role, a version of yourself you used to recognize. About living in the gap before the next one arrives.

  • Film, Independent

    What it actually takes to build a film from nothing, grant applications, pitch decks, zero-budget decisions, and the moments where momentum brings as much vulnerability as progress.

  • Career, Unscripted

    What a creative career costs, in burnout, in every yes you say, in the space between what you're recognized for and what actually feels aligned. No template, because there isn't one.

  • Loss, Unresolved

    On the futures that never happened, the identities that quietly ended, and what it means to keep going after something's gone. What's true after, without the resolution.

  • Next, Uncertain

    On the space between one chapter and the next, when the old plan doesn't apply anymore and the new one hasn't shown up yet. Momentum without a map.

THE CONVERSATIONS