Currently paused · open to resuming
A documentary & podcast project by Zero Dean
From The Path
Less Traveled
Helping to support, highlight & provide a voice to those on challenging paths.
The idea
Real people. Hard paths. What they learned.
After writing a book of lessons learned from my own life, I founded From The Path Less Traveled Productions to help share the lessons that other people have learned from theirs.
The first project was a video documentary series (and podcast) about resilience and hope.
The mission: to highlight interesting, inspiring, resilient people who’ve chosen unconventional paths, experienced uncommon things, or lived through difficult or unusual circumstances — and to give them a platform to share their stories and the lessons they took from them.
A teaser from 2019, featuring an excerpt from an interview.
An audio excerpt from an interview.
What it’s about
The themes
- Resilience
- Hope
- Adversity
- Defying the odds
- Staying true to yourself
- Goals, dreams & aspirations
- Success, setbacks and failure
- Healing
- Sharing what you’ve learned to help others
“Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.”Zero Dean
Where things stand
Paused, and open to resuming
I started the project in spring 2019 and hit the road that August. The pandemic forced a hiatus in early 2020, and it has been paused since.
I’m keeping this site up as a record of what the project was and what came out of it, and in case it starts up again.
Look around
The 2019 tour
Where I went, the map, and rough-cut video and audio excerpts from early interviews.
Info for guests
How the interviews were set up, what they involved, and how to prepare. Written in 2019.
Apply
Have lessons worth sharing? The application forms are still here if you’d like to be considered should the project resume.