Welcome to the Outsiders Journey Podcast: A place for those who, somewhere in their life, just can’t do things like the other kids do.
Every week, I’ll have fresh shows featuring either my head emitting tales from my varied experiences with the edges of life, or interviews with those I consider fellow travelers on the road to “not normal living” sharing theirs.
My intention is to entertain and inspire you, as well as give you the tools and insight necessary to lead an Outsiders Life in a healthy fashion, or to help you maximize the expression of that one little part of you that lives outside the rest of your experience.
That Was Me, Now You
You see life differently, in at least one key area. Probably more than one.
You are on to something that few around you can see or understand. You’d like to develop it further.
- Maybe it’s in the form of a current part-time project or hobby
- Maybe it only exists in the abstract as a paradigm-shifting idea
- Maybe it’s just the desire to build something larger than yourself that will benefit many…if you only knew what parts of yourself to use
Whatever it is, you’d like it if–at minimum–just one other person agreed with you that this thing of yours should be pursued.
Whether you’re someone who’s simply uncomfortable with “the way things are” and wish for more, or someone itching to share a well defined idea but can’t get greater exposure—you’re in the right place.
Because those are my problems (and opportunities) too. And this entire site is how I’m making use of it all. And the Outsiders Journey Podcast is my journal of how the whole thing’s panning out.
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Episodes
OJ POD: EPI-44: Reinventing Yourself From the Outside In: Jason Leister
Frequently, we're told to work on our Inner Selves to get the Outer World to look as we'd like. (That's a rough oversimplification of the advice but you get the ...
OJ POD: EPI-43: The Chop Wood Carry Water Method for Getting Clients: Jason Leister
This is really all about Doing The Work. And it is something I struggle to do with any sort of consistency. In this site, I do loads of work, constantly ...
OJ POD: EPI-42: The Slipper Is Dead. Long Live The Slipper!
The slipper came back. I don't know where the last one went. I don't know if this one's the other half of a pair. I don't know why it is ...
OJ POD: EPI-41: Membership Thingies
Outsiders Journey was always intended to be a membership site, from Day One. Changing its meat from "me-based" to "we-based" has always been the plan. But making it so has ...
OJ POD: EPI-40: My Absence
Where have I been? Well, this absence took me to the same place any other does: straight to the bowels of Internet Hell. OK. It's not that tragic. But it ...
OJ POD: EPI-39: I Have A Growth
Hope that doesn't look like a nipple. Because it's a mole. A growth. On this guy's face. OK! Nipple disclaimers aside, let's get back to the issue of my growth! ...
OJ POD: EPI-38: It Takes Guts To Be Me: Part II
Been an interesting few weeks since we last met! The stuff that has made up the gap between podcasts is varied and spread wide. The fight to deal with it ...
OJ POD: EPI-37: The One Thing
Just keeps getting more far out as I clarify my One Thing to the world and myself! My mind gets too busy for its own good many times. It's an ...
OJ POD: EPI-36: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
There's a metaphor and a literalization embedded in today's title! Across the last 4 days, I've been locked inside a whirlwind of technical chaos. Most of this has turned out ...
OJ POD: EPI-35: New Kid In Town!
Took my youngest stepson to the airport today. He's just launched Phase Two of his young adult life by moving to a new town, and we think he's off to ...
OJ POD: EPI-34: Save Me, Please!
What a slipshod affair, lately. This title should have been directed at myself, as I attempt to keep up with what I've recently built. I keep running out of time ...
OJ POD: EPI-33: Ignorance, Thy Name Is Ken
We are not "here". Not really. We are puttering about in the Past and living dreamily in the Future. But there is only Now Went a little Eckhart Tolle on ...
OJ POD: EPI-32: Turtle Leaves Shell
(David Attenborough speaking.) "The grizzled male turtle slowly peaks his scarred head out of his weathered shell. He knows danger may await, yet his need to do right by others ...
OJ POD: EPI-31: A Bloody Mess: The Mess Of Success
Success comes only to those who are willing to fight all those who stand in its way of becoming a reality. What "those" things are and how you actually "fight" ...
OJ POD: EPI-30: You Should Have Your Head Examined If You Choose To Skip This Episode
(I reuse the following opener due to the critical nature of this post.) With the utmost respect I say the following: "If you're an Outsider and you skip this post, ...
OJ POD: EPI-29: I Just Want To Be A Jew
With the utmost respect I say the following: "The Jews in my life have always had a profound impact on my thinking, directly and indirectly." I'm gonna be honest: mostly ...
OJ POD: EPI-28: What-No Gravy?
Sometimes, we ask for more than we can handle in one sitting. Then we add even more to our plate. Like extra gravy. Gravy's tasty...until you've had too much. You ...
OJ POD: EPI-27: Kicking Puppies
Ho-oooo! Now that's an incredibly jarring start to a podcast episode Ken, n'est-ce pas? Yeah. It is. But quite a few helpful, hilarious, and insightful stories are rooted in my ...
OJ Pod: EPI-26: NSA Will Make Your Beard Grow Longer!
This is, of course, hogwash. But I made a promise to my NSA chiropractor that I'd use that title in my next post. (Marcus! I stuck to my word! You're ...
OJ Pod: EPI-25: Thai Food, The Adult Video Store, And My Chiropractor
Fighting hard through a rather persistent case of "Marc-itis". This is the term I came up with to describe the pleasant, yet useless-for-work state of being I sometimes enter after ...
OJ Pod: EPI-24: Dry As The Desert 13 Years This Month!
Hit a major milestone this month: 13 years sober! In a way, this event is no big deal to me. I don't struggle to stay sober. But...13 years is 13 ...
OJ Pod: EPI-23: Oz And Orlando-Art For Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican brothers Osvaldo and Orlando Marmolejos crossed paths with me at a less than desirable moment in each of our lives. We all made it out of that situation ...
OJ Pod: EPI-22: Not Even Applesauce Can Stop Me
So I cheated tonight. Sue me. I also flew in the face of the SEO gods and risked this page's ranking high in Google. Who cares? I simply needed to ...
OJ Pod: EPI-21: Confusion, Clarity, Expansion
"What am I supposed to do next? If I figure that out, how am I supposed to build it? Once it's built, where am I taking it? What if 'it' ...
OJ Pod: EPI-20: The Life Of A Supporter
I tarried a hair today. I have excuses. But hearing excuses is not why you hired me. Sigh. So I'm hammering away at these keys and jumping back and forth ...
OJ Pod: EPI-19: Some Hermit-ing Must Be Done
Maybe I should have used a pic of my posterior, instead of a guy in a cave for this one. Because I'm gonna do some soul-barin' here today. And this ...
OJ Pod: EPI-18: En Garde Future Guests!
Met a nice guy who sometimes stabs people for a living! OK. He fences. Ha! Much nicer. And what a nice guy! We met as fellow practice members of my ...
OJ Pod: EPI-17: When It All Blows Up
Other people's maelstroms are bumping into my rainbows, lately. There are a handful of folks having very bad days of varying degrees, seemingly all around me. Some are having melt ...
OJ Pod: EPI-16: Shooting For The Bottom
Grim image, right? Doom, death, quitting, ending it all... i.e. HOLDING STILL! There is no such thing as "holding still" in the human experience. There is only death and growth ...
OJ Pod: EPI-15: Get To The Root Of It All
In my Human Design Report, my Root Center is defined. This report has clarified something about myself that I've always known, to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the ...
OJ Pod: EPI-14: Human Design
Human Design is a relative newcomer to my stable of "things that made everything better". I recently began reviewing my report; the info derived from where I was born and ...
OJ Pod: EPI-13: Get Me Outta Here!
Unbelievable. I'm detecting a theme. The act of persevering, testing, stumbling, getting back up and soldiering on seems to be uppermost in my mind these past so many episodes. When ...
OJ Pod: EPI-12: Dream Fulfillment Is Not For The Weak
As you attempt to build out your potential bright and shiny future, some snags will inevitably arise. Many, many snags for most of us. Many. Do you have what it ...
OJ Pod: EPI-11: “But The Solar Eclipse Is Starting!”
What's holding you back from being greater than your current circumstances would suggest? What is slowingeth thy roll? It's not too hard to routinely find a reason for not completing ...
OJ Pod: EPI-10: A Meditation On Cheese
Not everyone is blessed to have a cheese-filled morning every day; a sublime experience upon awakening that has allowed me to do much of what you witness here right now ...
OJ Pod: EPI-9: The Man Behind The Throne
Some of us work best behind the scenes; in support of the superstar who already has an established presence, mission, product or gift to share with the world, yet lacks ...
OJ Pod: EPI-8: Get Your Head Outta Your Nether Regions
Live the metaphors with me people! That one to your left is a clean stand-in for "nether regions". Follow? I wanted desperately to use a pic of a guy with ...
OJ Pod: EPI-7: Have My People Call Your People
Being an Outsider is often a lonely and confusing affair. You know you're on to something. But how to present it? How to even pick what "it" is, should you ...
OJ Pod: EPI-6: Kenspiration or The Danny Trejo Effect
One of the hardest things for me to translate from real world to digital, has been the effect I sometimes have on people when they're with me in person. I ...
OJ Pod: EPI-5: My Chiropractor Can Kick Your Chiropractor’s Ass!
We're all Outsiders here, right? Well how about an entire Outsider service? I practice a form of chiropractic called Network Spinal Analysis, or NSA for short. NSA trains you to ...
OJ Pod: EPI-4: I Think I Peed A Little!
A little bit of confidence goes a long way. I failed to mention this in the episode above but, around 5 years ago or so, it became clear to me ...
OJ Pod: EPI-3: The Ascension Celebration
Back in '99, out of sheer frustration from working shitty jobs, I and a coworker developed an entire event called "The Ascension Celebration". It was a huge gathering of people ...
OJ Pod: EPI-2: Projects: Freelancing, Partnerships, and Mad Demi-Gods
As an Outsider, you might feel like holding a "normal" job is a bit too constraining...or downright impossible. You're ready to get to work and start doing whatever it takes ...
OJ Pod: EPI-1: What Will The Journey Require Of You?
The question is, really, "What must you overcome to get wherever it is you're supposed to be in life." Where you're supposed to be. Not where you want to be ...
OJ Pod: EPI-0: What Is The Outsiders Journey?
This is the first episode of the Outsiders Journey Podcast. As such, I was gently trying to find my voice, i.e. comfort level with the situation. I'm a loud guy, ...