Rachel Fell and I have been looking for new ways to respond to failing systems in proactive and generative ways, and we invite you to listen/watch and to ask for your help in letting people know about our new initiative – Existential Tetherball.

Existential Tetherball (noun, game, brand new ‘podcast’) is an examination and interrogation of how we interpret our realities. Your hosts, Rachel Fell and Gordon Smith, are professional neurodivergents who show up to do away with dogma and convention. Divergent minds with trickster energy, Gordon and Rachel are here to step, wrestle, and dance their way into whatever comes next.

Saturated in meta-sensibility, Existential Tetherball asks questions. Together with our guests, we reflect and learn, making space for curiosity and creative connections. Our guests and listeners are intense, complex, and sensitive people who prefer curiosity to conclusions. Existential Tetherball is a refuge and playspace for neurodivergent, existentially-minded people seeking community.

The mistakes that got humanity into this polycrisis will not usher us into a more hopeful future, so we’re curiously questioning in this liminal space between the old and new worlds. We enter each episode through a portal – a word or concept – our ‘tether.’ (So far our tethers include Neurodivergence, Story, Pilgrimage, and more.)

We are at YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. Have a listen and share your take on the podcast with your networks, clients, etc. You are also welcome to use any of the language you find in this post. Your willingness to listen, share, like, follow, subscribe, etc. would mean the world to us.