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What if the rarest thing you find at GO Fest isn’t a Pokémon but peace? New York City hadn’t changed, but I had. GO Fest 2024 marked my return, but this time, I did it differently. I stayed in the city, not across the river in Ne…

Have you ever felt completely invisible until someone finally saw you? New York City is loud. It’s layered. It moves fast and it never waits for you to catch up. New York City felt like a pure Electric-type with high energy, unpredictable…

By 2022, I’d already been to three GO Fests in Chicago, and while I loved the city, I was ready for something new. When Niantic announced that GO Fest was coming to Seattle, I knew it was time. It was my first time ever heading west, and after…

By the time GO Fest 2019 rolled around, I felt like a veteran. It was my third year attending and the second time back at Grant Park. But for once, I wasn’t going alone. This year, I was joined by friends, some of them experiencing GO Fest for…

In 2017, I left GO Fest Chicago sunburnt, disappointed, and emotionally exhausted. But I also left determined. If I ever got another chance, I’d do it differently. That chance came in 2018. Tickets were once again hard to get, and I was lucky …

I still remember the excitement that buzzed through the Pokémon GO community leading up to the very first GO Fest in 2017. It was the first-ever GO Fest, and somehow, it belonged to me. I almost didn’t get a ticket. The event sold out i…

I remember sitting inside a Starbucks in Addison, Texas with a small group of Pokemon GO players. For an average person, it was just a casual meetup. However, in the Pokemon GO universe, it was answering the call to action and in my heart, I knew it…

Your next Pokémon adventure begins here. But this time, it’s not about catching them all, it’s about catching something deeper like connection, healing, and purpose. I didn’t always know I wanted to start a podcast. I just k…