For anyone who's built a zigzag life, started more than they've finished and can't find advice from people standing where they're standing. The algorithm rewards the already-rewarded. Influencers dominate the feeds. The people doing real work get buried. Host Andrea Maurer talks with people flying under the radar, reinventing themselves and building something that matters on their own terms, one step at a time. Real stories and something small you can try this week. The old recipe is gone. We're making it up as we go. Andrea is also the author of Transformative Creativity.
Diana Baur on Ceramics, Reinvention and Building a Life Abroad
Diana Baur went from a US corporate career in interior design to ceramics, painting, a bed and breakfast in the Italian wine hills and a life split between Germany and Italy. In this episode of Flying Under the Radar, Diana talks about the years of corporate burnout that finally pushed her out, the damaged-goods story she had to stop believing and the stray cat in an Italian café that had her husband saying, "the cat's living better than we are."
We also talk about creativity as the thing that hands your agency back, making work for yourself rather than for other people's approval, why she can't stand the word hobby, the panic that put her in the hospital the day she signed for the house, doing the work instead of thinking your way out of being stuck and the small notebook practice Diana still recommends to anyone who feels like their curiosity is trying to tell them something.
Learn more about and connect with Diana Baur:
Website: https://www.baurstudio.com/ (https://www.baurstudio.com/)
Substack: https://baurstudio.substack.com/ (https://baurstudio.substack.com/)
Instagram: @baur.studio
TikTok: @restoring.italy
More from Andrea Maurer: https://transformativecreativity.net (https://transformativecreativity.net)
29 Jun 2026
Dawn Pier on Surfing, Solitude and Leaving the White Picket Fence
Dawn Pier went from Arctic research and an unhappy marriage to surfing, conservation work, real estate and life by the ocean in Baja California Sur. In this episode of Flying Under the Radar, Dawn talks about the wake-up call that changed her life, the white picket fence story she had to stop believing and the wave that made her say, “I am going to learn to surf.”
We also talk about yoga, meditation, codependency, self-trust, building a life outside the expected script and the small practice Dawn still recommends to anyone who feels like something in them is trying to wake up.
Learn more about and connect with Dawn Pier: https://dawnpier.com/
15 Jun 2026
Flying Under the Radar, Episode 2: Sometimes It Rains
This was supposed to be a guest episode. Then the guest came down with head to toe poison ivy, the first backup's internet in Italy quit on her, the next one stopped sleeping and, in turn, being able to put two sentences together, and the one after that turned out to be running a surfing competition in Cabo. So it's just me again, flying solo.
In baseball they call this a rain delay. The broadcasters don't pack up the booth and decide they're in the wrong line of work. They fill the air until the game resumes. That's what this episode is. I take the week that fell apart and run it through the Transformative Creativity framework in real time: locate, trace, desire, container, results. And I talk about the difference between treating a disruption as a verdict on who you are and treating it as weather.
There's some Teddy Roosevelt in here, some honesty about the Promised Land myth I lived in for most of my life, plus a reminder from my brother that the journey is the destination.
Your one doable thing is waiting at the end. The next time something doesn't go to plan, you get to decide what it means. I'll show you how I decided.
New episodes every two weeks. Subscribe so you don't miss the one where I actually have a guest.
1 Jun 2026
Five Questions for a Life That Feels Like Yours
There's a kind of stuck that doesn't look stuck from the outside. The bills are paid, life looks fine and inside there's a flatness you can't shake. This show is for that. Episode one is just me, five questions and the most honest answers I've got.
Every episode I sit down with someone who built a real life off the usual script and ask them the same five questions. For the first one I figured I should answer them myself, so this episode is just me. We get into the closet of broken dreams, the 30-day experiments that got me through a book and into this podcast, why your soul work is still work and the one small doable thing you can try this week. New episodes every two weeks. Onward.
I started this show because I got tired of advice from people standing on the other side of a gap they crossed ten years ago. So before I bring guests in to answer my five questions, I'm answering them myself.
The five questions:Who saw you before you could see yourself?What did you have to stop believing?What almost stopped you?What pays the bills and feeds the soul?What did you do day to day when the dream was still a dream?
Your one doable thing this week: allow yourself to want what you actually want. Then do one of two things. Name the feeling underneath the wanting and take one small action that brings more of that feeling into your life, or ask what you'd have to do to get the thing itself and take that step. Make it small enough that it isn't scary. Then move.
Chapters:00:00 The stuck that doesn't look like stuck01:00 Why I'm answering my own questions first01:40 Q1, who saw you (the gas station, the stepmother, Chi-Chi's)05:00 The second time I got seen, and it was a machine06:15 Q2, what I had to stop believing (the closet of broken dreams)08:10 Q3, what almost stopped me (the voice and the 30-day experiment)11:30 Q4, what pays the bills and feeds the soul (the violin)14:10 Q5, what I did day to day when the dream was a dream15:00 The one doable thing18:50 Where this show is headed
Essays: https://transformativecreativity.substack.com/ (https://transformativecreativity.substack.com/)The book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ8C79SF (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ8C79SF)More: https://transformativecreativity.net/ (https://transformativecreativity.net/)
29 May 2026
Introducing Flying Under the Radar
Flying Under the Radar is a podcast for anyone who’s built a zigzag life, started more than they’ve finished, and can’t find advice from people standing where they’re standing. Host Andrea Maurer talks with people reinventing themselves and building something that matters on their own terms, one step at a time. The first full episode launches June 1, with new episodes every two weeks.
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