Side Quest Stories — Dr Oli Delgaram-Nejad

Podcast

Side Quest Stories

Long-form stories and side-roads

Side Quest Stories is a home for work that doesn’t fit neatly into a single category: reflective stories, conceptual detours, and slower discussions that are allowed to stay ambiguous. The aim is not to simplify experience into a lesson, but to hold it long enough for its texture to emerge.

“Not everything valuable is a main quest.”
Format: long-form episodes (audio + video)
Focus: stories, reflection, meaning, detours
Use: listen straight through, or dip in

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What you’ll find here

Episodes are less about “explaining” and more about staying with something—an idea, a memory, an oddity— long enough for it to become intelligible. Some are narrative; some are analytical; some are just human.

If you want a clean takeaway, you may not always get one. If you want work that respects uncertainty and doesn’t rush toward closure, this is the right place.

Boundaries

  • This podcast is reflective rather than instructional.
  • It does not provide medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice.
  • It does not offer personalised guidance or individual interpretation.