Volume 01 — Launching Summer 2025

DRIFT

Conversations with nomads who traded leases for longitude — recorded from a converted Sprinter.

A podcast byMaren Hollis
Hand gripping a steering wheel on a winding dirt road through desert terrain
Behind the wheel, mile 2,847
Propane stove flame reflected in a rain-streaked van window at dusk
Dinner at 6,200 ft
Two silhouettes sitting in an open cargo door facing an empty valley at sunrise
Tuesday, 5:47am, BLM land
3 founding episodes · 2,847 riders waiting
Mechanics turned photographers·Nurses surfing Baja mornings·Tuesday sunrises on BLM land·Longitude over leases·Recorded from the passenger seat·Launching Summer 2025·Mechanics turned photographers·Nurses surfing Baja mornings·Tuesday sunrises on BLM land·Longitude over leases·Recorded from the passenger seat·Launching Summer 2025·
Episode 01
Founding Episode58 min
Lone figure standing beside a white van on a red dirt road cutting through desert scrubland at dawn

The Mechanic

Joel Reyes, 41 — Sonoran Desert, AZ

"I fixed other people's cars for seventeen years. Then I drove mine into the desert and didn't come back."

A master mechanic from Phoenix closes his shop, converts a 2008 Sprinter over fourteen months, and discovers that the Sonoran Desert at dawn looks exactly like what he was looking for when he didn't know he was looking.

Coming Episode 01
Episode 02
Founding Episode62 min
Woman in wetsuit walking toward calm ocean at first light, surfboard under arm, footprints in wet sand behind her

The Nurse

Diane Okafor, 34 — Baja California Sur, MX

"I used to chart vitals at 3am. Now I paddle out at 5. My nervous system doesn't know what to do with the quiet."

A trauma nurse from Chicago trades a twelve-year career for a surf break she found on a paper map, and learns that the body keeps score whether you're in the ICU or the water — and that some mornings, the ocean is the better medicine.

Coming Episode 02
Episode 03
Founding Episode31 min
Empty two-lane highway stretching toward distant mountains under vast pale morning sky, no vehicles visible

The Tuesday Silence

A conversation with nobody, mile marker 0

"There's a particular silence that only happens on a Tuesday morning when you have nowhere to be. This episode is about that."

Not an interview — a field recording and reflection from the passenger seat, parked outside Marfa at 5:48am. What happens when the calendar is empty and the silence stops feeling like a problem.

Coming Episode 03
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I started recording these conversations because I kept meeting people who'd made the same quiet decision I had — and nobody was talking about the Tuesday mornings.

Not the sunsets. Not the Instagram-able passes. The Tuesday mornings when you wake up in a parking lot outside Marfa and realize you have nowhere to be, and that feeling is either the most terrifying or the most clarifying thing you've ever felt.

Drift is for the people sitting with that feeling. Whether you're three weeks into it or three years into dreaming about it.

I'll save you a seat.

Maren

Host, Drift · Somewhere in New Mexico

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