Prepared for Adventure with Marley Parker, Evolutionist

I’m back with another guest episode and revealing the answer to a mystery for long-time listeners (listen for the moment 12 minutes into the show). Marley Parker is a science communicator and an adventurer who can frequently be found exploring the deep ocean and climbing mountains.Marley is the fifth guest with a background in SciComm, a realm that frequently attracts Renaissance People, as we discuss during the episode. It combines analytical math/science with creative artistry. We discuss how we strive to live expansive lives of check boxes, not multiple-choice answers. If you’re a complex, multi-passionate or you once were and want to get back to that, sign up for my newsletter for Renaissance People. There’s where I share updates on this podcast, my experiments in expansion and opportunities to work with me one-on-one to help you confidently live an expansive life, whatever that means for you.Promised Show Notes Materials (take a drink):Sign up for my newsletter to get updates on my podcast and what’s happening in the Renaissance People Community.What’s this Renaissance Mindset I keep talking about? This “quasi-manifesto” episode explainsWork with me to Find Your Golden Thread and explain your wide-ranging backgroundEp. 9: A Mind for Memory with Brian Skellenger, SurvivalistEp. 10: The Forever Revolution with Jenni Gritters, Multi-PassionateWhy Curiosity Beats Perfection — Lessons from the Deep with Marley Parker (Blue Collar | White Coat podcast)Nautilus Ocean Exploration Trust and their Science Communication Fellowship Program (for educators)Association of Science Communicators (ASC)ASC Mentorship ProgramThe Growth of Growing playlist YouTubeAwe Psychology (WONDER) with Dr. Dacher Keltner (Oligies podcast)Marley’s website Follow Marley on Social Media:LinkedIn | InstagramA few things Marley and I discuss:Why Jill-of-all-trades and Versatilist align with Marley’s freelance career but how her mantra aligns with an Evolutionist identityMarley’s niche in the field of science communicationOcean Exploration Trust and their Science Communication FellowshipMarley’s special connection to Connecting the Dots with The Renaissance PeopleGetting into the field of science communicationThe importance of mentorship, community and human-to-human connectionHow social media impacts science communicationThe kinds of people found on research vesselsAn elegant answer to “what do you do?” with a caveatImprov GameOff on a Tangent – Why self-care is critical for Renaissance PeopleRapidish Fire QuestionsPreparing for adventures in harsh, remote environments like the ocean and mountains.Marley’s unique way of going down a rabbit hole Quotes from the episode:(Marley) One of my mantras over the course of especially my freelance career as a freelance science communicator has been "the future is unpredictable." That's one mantra. And, you have to just figure it out as you go, and that we are always learning and growing and evolving.(Marley) I specialize in documenting ocean science and specifically ocean science research expeditions. So as a professional photographer and videographer, I often join teams of marine biologists and oceanographers and other deep sea scientists, and I will go out to sea with them for several weeks at a time and document and produce stories about the research that they're doing in the deep ocean. So it is a very niche thing. It is not something that fits very succinctly into one title, like I said earlier. But it is a phenomenal job, and it's also a job that I did not know existed until about a decade ago. So it's been a wild but very fulfilling journey.(Marley) I've interviewed so many oceanographers, people who study the sea floor. And their go-to example is we know more about the surface of the moon than we know about the bottom of the ocean.(Sara) Yep!(Marley) And at this point, we even know more about the surface of Mars than we know about the ocean floor on our own planet! So lots of things like that just to be able to get people to kind of raise their eyebrows and say, "Oh, wow, that's crazy."(Marley) The biggest, common denominator with anybody working on a ship is we're all very adventurous people. You cannot work on a ship and not be driven by a spirit, like a fundamental spirit of adventure. Ha! We are literally going thousands of miles offshore, sometimes sailing across the entirety of an ocean, very, very far away from home. It's people who are absolutely willing and not only willing, but keen to get out of their comfort zone and go explore and to go find and see things that other humans have never seen before. So yeah, that very deep, profound sense of adventure and exploration is a huge part of working at sea.(Sara) And that love of adventure and new things and being curious absolutely matches, like you said, with my definition of the Renaissance Person.(Marley) I think one of the biggest challenges for Renaissance People is they invest a lot of their energy and their personality and their value goes into the work that we do. And so it can be sometimes hard to differentiate between your work and yourself. And so doing things like gardening or going on a hike or being outside or whatever it is just a really good way to reconnect with yourself and to maybe not be thinking about work and not be thinking about all of the projects that you wanna do and all the ideas that you have. Just be here now, be in the moment and enjoy yourself and take good care of yourself.Follow me, Renaissance Woman Sara Kobilka, on LinkedIn, where I put most of my social media energy, Facebook and Instagram.If you’re extra curious, check out Renaissance Woman Consulting to learn more about some of the many types of work I do.And should you care to support the production of this podcast, I’d love it if you’d buy me an oat milk cappuccino, my caffeinated beverage of choice.This podcast is hosted and edited by Sara Kobilka.Theme music is by Brian SkellengerPodcast distribution support provided by K.O. Myers of Particulate MediaMentioned in this episode:Free NewsletterSign up for my free Newsletter for Renaissance People to stay updated on this show, learn about my expansion experiments, and find opportunities to work with me and engage others in the Renaissance People Community.