Episode 00: The Trailer

Suzie Sherman 0:00

This is And The Next Thing You Know. It’s a podcast about how our lives go exactly not as we planned them. I’m Suzie Sherman, and through a series of missteps and mistakes and disappointments, and serendipity, and beautiful surrender to the flow of my life, I’ve landed here behind a microphone, and I’m going to have conversations with people about exactly that. How we slip on a banana peel sideways through our lives, and no matter how hard we cling to our plans for college and career and relationships and creative goals, and how we cling to the narratives about the inevitable triumph of our own hero’s journey. It’s actually the disruptions in our lives, the unforeseen illnesses, the deaths of people we love, our breakups, radical shifts in our career paths, serendipitous run-ins with old acquaintances, that one side of that one album that inspired us to come out to our families. Or like that screenwriting class, I took a community college that inadvertently somehow made me apply to a grad program in psychology. Or that time that I tore off the flyer tag for the room for rent, and ended up living in that apartment for longer than I’d ever lived anywhere else in my life.

Suzie Sherman 1:18

It’s these tangents that throw us in a different direction, and force us to inhabit these beautiful, messy, trauma filled, disappointing, gorgeous, sexy lives, despite ourselves. You have some and the next thing you know stories too, don’t you? Of course you do.

Suzie Sherman 1:38

We are And The Next Thing You Know. Find us at nextthingpodcast.com also find us at nextthingpod on Facebook, and nextthingpod at gmail dot com. Find me at soozenextthing on Instagram and Twitter. That’s s o o z e next thing. Send us your And The Next Thing You Know story, even if it’s a tiny, subtle thing that shifted your life in a different direction. It’s really easy to do, just record a voice memo on your phone and email it to nextthingpod at gmail dot com. Our beloved banana peel image is by Max Ronnersjö. You can find his artwork at max ronnersjö at Tumblr. Don’t worry, I will spell that in the show notes. Our theme song and interstitial music is by Jon Schwartz. You can find him at schwartstack at twitter. I’ll also list that in the show notes. Thanks, everybody. We’ll talk soon…barring some yet unknown catastrophe or serendipity that leads me astray.

Posted September 3, 2019

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