Rare Birds: Conversations with Thoughtful Go-Getters Ornithology Media

Sydney is a 25-year-old Actress based out of  Philadelphia. She has devoted her energy to her craft, training at the prestigious acting school Playhouse West Philadelphia! In May of 2021 Sydney started her business, Tarot w/ Sydney where her mission is to teach and guide others about the practice of spirituality through tarot card readings! Every day, Sydney is grateful for the support of her amazing friends, family, and two cat-daughters Kiwi and Wednesday.

About The Host    

Peter Fenton’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Dadley Productions, Heuer Publishing, BraveMaker Media, and Wheaton College Jukebox Theater among others. Peter is an adventurous multi-genre author and screenwriter who co-founded Ornithology Media in summer 2021 as an imprint to produce creative work that stimulates critical thought and laughter.   

www.byPeterFenton.com   

www.instagram.com/peterfent/   

www.twitter.com/peterfent/   

ornithologymedia@gmail.com     



Intro Theme:    

Music: Lauren Duski - Rollin   

Download: http://raboninco.com/10wTc   

Music promoted by Epic Free Sounds   

Video Link: https://youtu.be/peWMaIvfckM

This week, Rare Birds conducts its first two-on-one interview! Host Peter Fenton (@peterfent) speaks with Declan and Suzanne DeWitt Hall, a married couple of LGBTQ Christian advocates. Suzanne has authored a number of different books exploring the intersection of faith and sexuality and Declan has built an online community for individuals exploring these same questions. This bright, fun conversation spins a couple different topics, from self-publishing to finding readership to Declan's unique life story as a transgender man who came out in his upper 50s.

The Where True Love Is Website: www.wheretrueloveis.com

Suzanne's Author Website: www.sdewitthall.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhereTrueLoveIs/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wheretrueloveismovement/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhereTrueLoveIs

About The Host  

Peter Fenton’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Dadley Productions, Heuer Publishing, BraveMaker Media, and Wheaton College Jukebox Theater among others. Peter is an adventurous multi-genre author and screenwriter who co-founded Ornithology Media in summer 2021 as an imprint to produce creative work that stimulates critical thought and laughter. 

www.byPeterFenton.com  

www.instagram.com/peterfent/  

www.twitter.com/peterfent/  

ornithologymedia@gmail.com   

Intro Theme:  

Music: Lauren Duski - Rollin  

Download: http://raboninco.com/10wTc  

Music promoted by Epic Free Sounds  

Video Link: https://youtu.be/peWMaIvfckM

This week, Rare Birds continues back-to-back episodes of conversations with host Peter Fenton’s classmates from Wheaton College! Today, we are talking with Ciera McElroy (@cierahmcelroy), who is an author and a brand consultant, editor, and ghostwriter through her business, Clover and Bee. She believes every artist can make a career out of their work and is thrilled to help make it happen.



Ciera Horton McElroy’s work has appeared in AGNI, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Bridge Eight among others. Ciera is a shamelessly multi-passionate creative: she’s worked as a collegiate writing instructor, a consultant for film campaigns, a journalist on Capitol Hill, and more. She served as the Communications Director on the faith campaign for the Academy Award-nominated A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (2019) and also PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST (2017). When she’s not writing, Ciera can be found exploring St. Louis with her baby boy. As an up-and-coming novelist and short story writer, Ciera is represented by Folio Literary Management. For more information on her film and consulting work, visit www.cloverandbee.net.



Ciera’s Recommendations for Short Story Collections:



The Heaven of Animals by David James Poissant

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Awayland by Ramona Ausubel

Get In Trouble by Kelly Link

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr



Ciera’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/cierahmcelroy/

Ciera’s Author Website: www.cieramcelroy.com

Clover and Bee Consulting: www.cloverandbee.net





About The Host 

Peter Fenton’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Dadley Productions, Heuer Publishing, BraveMaker Media, and Wheaton College Jukebox Theater among others. Peter is an adventurous multi-genre author and screenwriter who co-founded Ornithology Media in summer 2021 as an imprint to produce creative work that stimulates critical thought and laughter. www.byPeterFenton.com 

www.instagram.com/peterfent/ 

www.twitter.com/peterfent/ 

ornithologymedia@gmail.com 



Intro Theme: 

Music: Lauren Duski - Rollin 

Download: http://raboninco.com/10wTc 

Music promoted by Epic Free Sounds 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/peWMaIvfckM

Wheaton College classmates—who didn't really know each other at the time of going to school—Matt Adams (@mbadms) and Peter Fenton (@peterfent) sit down for a chat about Black identity, photography, and brand storytelling in today's episode of the Rare Birds Podcast! Matt Adams is a cultural strategist, writer,  speaker, and photographer who focuses on researching the impact of digital markets, social and faith movements, and technology. In regards to his cultural heritage, he is half Jamaican and African American, making the most out of what it means to be Black in the United States of America. In his time at Wheaton College, he focused on media ecology, social change, and entrepreneurship which led him to a career in entertainment, advertising, and consulting. Matt desires to utilize storytelling to share stories that promote the fullness and beauty of blackness, human culture, and our collective future.

Matt's Website: www.mattadms.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mbadms/ 

Matt's "Defining Me" Photography Project: https://mattadms.com/defining-me-1



The creative process always takes some form of investment—usually a  bunch of time, potentially some money, but always, a whole lot of effort in the beginning, middle, and end. To bring a  project—any project—to life is a creative or otherwise entrepreneurial process, and for many of us who have brought one or more projects to life ("Rare Birds," if you will), bringing creative work into the world is second nature, and there are people out there who want to know how we did it. This is an opportunity to both promote your passion and to break down your creative  process. 

The  Rare Birds Podcast seeks to demystify this process of bringing projects to life one conversation at a time with a diverse set of creative and entrepreneurial types. The guests on this podcast are hand-picked by host Peter Fenton as interesting creatives with a sense of humor who create quality, thoughtful content and use their platform to make their circles of influence a better place. These casual,  friendly conversations will ask, "What project are you most proud of?  And how did you bring it to life?" of Authors, Filmmakers, YouTubers,  Theatre  Professionals, and more!    

About The Host 

Peter Fenton’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Dadley   Productions, Heuer Publishing, BraveMaker Media, and Wheaton College   Jukebox Theater among others. Peter is an adventurous multi-genre author and screenwriter who co-founded Ornithology Media in summer 2021 as an imprint to produce creative work that stimulates critical thought and laughter.    

www.byPeterFenton.com 

www.instagram.com/peterfent/ 

www.twitter.com/peterfent/ 

ornithologymedia@gmail.com    

Intro Theme: 

Music: Lauren Duski - Rollin 

Download: http://raboninco.com/10wTc 

Music promoted by Epic Free Sounds 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/peWMaIvfckM

There's no motivating rage quite like Mario Party rage, and today we're talking all about Mario Party and the process of content creation on YouTube with ZoomZike (@zoomzike), the creator of the Identifying Luck series of videos on YouTube, which are a comprehensive dissection game-by-game of the Mario Party series. Host Peter Fenton (@peterfent) would like to point out that he and ZoomZike have very similar voices, which may or may not be confusing to the listener, but the conversation is delightful nonetheless. ZoomZike started on YouTube as early as 2011, where he spent his free time recording himself playing games using a webcam. When 2018 came around, he decided it was time for a reboot and started working towards making analytical content diving deep into the games he enjoys. His most popular videos are part of his series titled "Identifying Luck", which is a kind of long-form, comprehensive documentary series where he breaks down the infamously "luck-based" Mario Party series of video games to its core game by game, which reveals information that turns this series known for its chance events into something that can be a little more predicted and controlled. 



ZoomZike on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ZoomZike

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZoomZike



The creative process always takes some form of investment—usually a  bunch of time, potentially some money, but always, a whole lot of effort in the beginning, middle, and end. To bring a  project—any project—to life is a creative or otherwise entrepreneurial process, and for many of us who have brought one or more projects to life ("Rare Birds," if you will), bringing creative work into the world is second nature, and there are people out there who want to know how we did it. This is an opportunity to both promote your passion and to break down your creative process. 

The  Rare Birds Podcast seeks to demystify this process of bringing projects to life one conversation at a time with a diverse set of creative and entrepreneurial types. The guests on this podcast are hand-picked by host Peter Fenton as interesting creatives with a sense of humor who create quality, thoughtful content and use their platform to make their circles of influence a better place. These casual,  friendly conversations will ask, "What project are you most proud of?  And how did you bring it to life?" of Authors, Filmmakers, YouTubers,  Theatre  Professionals, and more!    



About The Host 

Peter Fenton’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Dadley   Productions, Heuer Publishing, BraveMaker Media, and Wheaton College   Jukebox Theater among others. Peter is an adventurous multi-genre author  and screenwriter who co-founded Ornithology Media in summer 2021 as an  imprint to produce creative work that stimulates critical thought and  laughter.    

www.byPeterFenton.com 

www.instagram.com/peterfent/ 

www.twitter.com/peterfent/ 

ornithologymedia@gmail.com    



Intro Theme: 

Music: Lauren Duski - Rollin 

Download: http://raboninco.com/10wTc 

Music promoted by Epic Free Sounds 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/peWMaIvfckM

Various Mario Party 3 soundtrack songs are used in this episode.

J.E. Kraft—truly—is a rare bird. She's a mom of two teenage boys and wife to an awesome husband, author of two novels that are basically polar opposites in topic and tone, and has built a massive following on TikTok (@gianusystem) where they discuss living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (which is often erroneously called "multiple personality disorder"). J.E. Kraft wrote her first book, Kittens, when she was seven, and despite struggling with bullying, ADHD, and dyslexia, she hasn’t stopped writing since. She grew up into an awkward super geek; lover of animals, bugs, psychology, and science. They can be found in Tennessee with her husband, two kids, a cat, dog, lizard, frog, shrimp, and a variety of houseplants. When she’s not busy writing, she advocates online for mental health awareness and crushes the hopes and dreams of their loved ones in board games.



J.E. Kraft's Website: www.jekraft.com

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gianusystem

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jekraftbooks/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JE_Kraft



The creative process always takes some form of investment—usually a bunch of time, potentially some money, but always, a whole lot of effort in the beginning, middle, and end. To bring a  project—any project—to life is a creative or otherwise entrepreneurial process, and for many of us who have brought one or more projects to life ("Rare Birds," if you will), bringing creative work into the world is second nature, and there are people out there who want to know how we did it. This is an opportunity to both promote your passion and to break down your creative process.

The  Rare Birds Podcast seeks to demystify this process of bringing projects to life one conversation at a time with a diverse set of creative and entrepreneurial types. The guests on this podcast are hand-picked by host Peter Fenton as interesting creatives with a sense of humor who create quality, thoughtful content and use their platform to make their circles of influence a better place. These casual, friendly conversations will ask, "What project are you most proud of? And how did you bring it to life?" of Authors, Filmmakers, YouTubers, Theatre  Professionals, and more!

About The Host

Peter  Fenton’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Dadley  Productions, Heuer Publishing, BraveMaker Media, and Wheaton College  Jukebox Theater among others. Peter is an adventurous multi-genre author and screenwriter who co-founded Ornithology Media in summer 2021 as an imprint to produce creative work that stimulates critical thought and laughter.

www.byPeterFenton.com

www.instagram.com/peterfent/

www.twitter.com/peterfent/

ornithologymedia@gmail.com

Intro Theme:

Music: Lauren Duski - Rollin

Download: http://raboninco.com/10wTc

Music promoted by Epic Free Sounds

Video Link: https://youtu.be/peWMaIvfckM