Temple of Geek Podcast Interview with Felicia Day

Welcome to the Temple of Geek Podcast. If this is your first time tuning into our podcast, then welcome! The Temple of Geek Podcast has been around since 2012. It is hosted by a diverse group of geeks who take turns geeking out about all aspects of geek culture! On today's episode, we talk with Felicia Day about her new book "Embrace your weird: Face your fears and unleash creativity." We also discuss the second season of her sci-fi comedy podcast "Voyage to the Stars". About our Guest Felicia Day is a geek of all trades. She is a professional actress who has appeared in numerous television shows and films, including Supernatural, The Magicians, and Mystery Science Theatre 3000. She co-starred in Joss Whedon’s Internet musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog which won an Emmy in 2009. Also, she created and starred in the web series The Guild. In 2012, Felicia created a production company called Geek & Sundry that pioneered content on YouTube, Twitch, and other platforms. Her presence and influence in nerd culture is vast. Not only is her influence in geek culture vast, but it's also important. She brings a bright light to geek culture. If you spend too long on Twitter, then you will see that it starts to feel like geek culture is more about gate-keeping or arguing over story arcs. Felicia's positive contributions show us that there is a way for geek culture to be mainstream and taken seriously. Her success is proof that geeks can rise above the petty arguments on the internet. In her new book, Felicia Day shows us that it is possible to carve out spaces for ourselves in a world where there previously wasn't one. Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity Her memoir "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)" is a New York Times bestseller. On this episode, we talk to her about her follow up, a self-help book called "Embrace your weird: Face your fears and unleash your creativity". In EMBRACE YOUR WEIRD, Felicia gives us her personal stories as she walks us through a hands-on guide to finding, rekindling, and enhancing creative passions. It is part guided journal and part imaginative workbook. It Includes Felicia’s personal stories and hands-on experience and offers techniques to get past the hurdles of creativity. These include things like overcoming anxiety, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, criticism, and jealousy. She offers tips to cultivate a creative community. The book comes out October 1, 2019 and will be available everywhere books are sold. Voyage To The Stars One of Felicia Day's current creative endeavors that we discuss with her is "Voyage to the Stars". It is an improvised space comedy set in the year 2263. A group of lovable misfits mistakenly boards an alien spacecraft and find themselves transported through a wormhole to the far side of the universe. The second season follows the crew as they attempt to find their way back to Earth before it is devoured by the all-consuming force known as the Nothing. Season one detailed the misadventures of our group of bumblers played by Felicia Day  as scatterbrained scientist Elsa Rankfort, Janet Varney (You’re The Worst, Stan Against Evil) as the misanthropic A.I. aptly named Sorry, Steve Berg (The Good Place, The Goldbergs) as apathetic technician Stew Merkel and Colton Dunn (Superstore, Key & Peele) as a wholly unqualified Captain Tucker Lentz, who accidentally find themselves on the wrong side of a wormhole. Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds) joins this season playing Nico, a lesbian space alien who finds herself in a complicated love triangle with fellow crew members. Also set to guest star in the sophomore season are Angela Kinsey (The Office), Paul F. Tompkins (BoJack Horseman), Erinn Hayes (Children's Hospital), Jesse Cox (Good Game), Phil LaMarr (Futurama) and Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) among others. On top of all of that, Voyage to the Stars will also be getting a comic book that is set to debut in 2020. You can check out the second season now with 26 episodes rolled out on a weekly basis. https://www.voyagetothestars.net/ You can follow @feliciaday on Twitter, Instagram, or FeliciaDay.com.