outside is Magic
A podcast about the intersection of creativity and the outdoors. Each week features honest conversations with creatives inspired by the outside world.
outside is Magic
Latest Episodes
Why Your Process Doesn't Have to Look Like Anyone Else's | Cait Oppermann
This conversation got me fired up. Cait Oppermann is a photographer and creative director in Brooklyn who runs her own studio, FLOWERS, and she's spent her whole career quietly refusing the standard playbook.Cait moved to New Y...
How Steve Crandall Built an Entire World Out of a BMX Bike
Steve Crandall is the founder of FBM, the BMX brand he started as an inside joke and an art project that turned into a bike company. Today he runs RadShare, a grassroots nonprofit out of Richmond, Virginia that gets kids on bikes and keeps thei...
Why Being a Beginner Again Matters with Michelle Wilcox
Meesh and I have known each other a long time. Mutual friends, overlapping rides, the kind of friendship that started by crossing paths in the same places and got real once we both landed in Portland. We come at this work from the same spot ...
When the Path You're On Stops Feeling Like Yours — Max Young
Max Young and I came to this conversation from the exact same spot. Two senior creatives, a decade-plus in, standing at the same crossroads and asking ourselves the same questions. What kind of work do we actually want to be doing now? What sho...
She Spent 12 Years at Patagonia. Then She Built Her Own Brand. | Laura kinman
Laura Kinman spent 25+ years in the outdoor industry, and she didn't plan to start a brand. Then, in October 2024, she was laid off from Patagonia while flying home from Vietnam. She calls it the day she "won the lottery."In th...