Lizness School Side Quests!
Satellite Sisters
Mudbath Productions
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Another special episode of Lizness School for Satellite Sisters listeners. Two of our side questers on this episode are longtime Satellite Sisters - both stand-up comic Mary Warwick and educator Tara James. You may know them both from the Satellite Sisters Facebook group!
Side Quests are a key pillar of Lizness School. Today on Season 2 Episode 20, 3 listeners share their side quest stories with us. Thank you to Corey DuBrowa, Mary Warwick and Tara James.
More on Corey's music writing:
Corey's current book “An Ideal For Living” https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
Fast Company, Corey in “day gig” mode: https://www.fastcompany.com/user/coreydubrowa
Rolling Stone, the most clicked-upon thing he's written in the music world:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/live-report-north-by-northwest-110891/
Corey's new book coming out Spring 2026 is "Twelve Tunes From Urban Bohemia: Portland's Musical History in Song"
For more on Mary's stand-up comedy, go here: https://www.marywarwickcomedy.com/
More on Mary Warwick at Erma Bombeck's Writer's Workshop
If you want to connect with Tara James about her vision to provide free college counseling to high school students who need it, email us at liznessschool@gmail.com and we will forward.
We are still interested in YOUR side quests, so email us with the deets! Voice memos are welcome, too. liznessschool@gmail.com
If you are new to Lizness School, we suggest you listen to Season 1 to hear all about Liz's year as a Stanford Fellow. Everything from Neuroscience and Chinese History to Pickleball! Plus a great community experience with her fellow DCI Fellows.
Season 2 is about how she puts her lessons to work in the wild with the help of her millennial mentor Leah Sutherland.
To listen to Liz +. Leah's recap of Lizness School Season 1, go to our FINALE here.
For more on Liz Dolan, go to LinkedIn
For more on Liz's work in podcasting, go to Satellite Sisters
Follow Lizness School on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
On Instagram, follow the show at https://www.instagram.com/liznessschool/ and follow Liz at https://www.instagram.com/satellitesisterliz/.
Follow Producer and Millennial Mentor Leah Sutherland @leahhsutherlandd on Instagram and Leah Sutherland on LinkedIn.
To email Lizness School with your own voice memos/questions/thoughts/suggestions for Liz or Leah, use liznessschool@gmail.com
The Distinguished Careers Institute is a unique program for late career people. Fellows are graduate students at Stanford University, able to take classes in any area. Complete information here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Lizness School Season 2, Episode 20, people. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Liz Dolan, the Liz and Lizness, joined by my millennial mentor, Leah Sutherland. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, Leah. |
| 0:13.6 | Hi, Liz. |
| 0:15.2 | We're both excited about this because today's episode is all about side quests. |
| 0:20.6 | And we've been talking about side quests |
| 0:23.0 | since season one, because the Lisbon School podcast is itself a side quest. And Leah taught me, |
| 0:31.7 | as my millennial mentor, that all the young ins, like herself, have learned from video games |
| 0:37.3 | that a good side quest is just as good as actually following the main storyline. |
| 0:42.3 | So here we are. |
| 0:43.4 | Here we are. |
| 0:44.2 | And we put out the call to all of you a month ago asking you to write in and tell us about some of the side quests you're on. |
| 0:52.1 | So some of the side projects you've undertaken just for the joy of it |
| 0:55.8 | to stretch yourself creatively, make some kind of meaningful community contribution, whatever you're |
| 1:01.0 | into. And you know, I have often thought that maybe the reason we all get so grumpy about our day |
| 1:06.8 | jobs is that we expect too much from them. We just want our jobs to give us all of our life |
| 1:13.9 | satisfaction or your work satisfaction anyway. And you know what? Your job may not be able to do |
| 1:20.7 | all of that. That's what a side quest is for. What other kind of satisfaction work or creative or whatever? So we got lots of |
| 1:31.5 | great answers and today we will share three. One is a lifelong creative passion that has been |
| 1:38.7 | nurtured in parallel to a very demanding corporate career. So that's Corey. One is a surprising middle-aged fling with |
| 1:48.2 | stand-up comedy of all things that has really panned out, right? Mary. Yeah. Killing it. Mary |
| 1:55.5 | killing it with the late in life stand-up comedy. And the third is a personal vision of using professional skills and experience |
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