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Your guide

Hi, I'm Austin.

Question-asker, builder, and professional beginner.

I help people untangle what's in the way of what matters to them, so they can start moving. Mostly I do that by asking the kind of questions that make the next step obvious, and then keeping you company while you take it.

I'm AuDHD, a feeler and a dreamer, and I build things in public: communities, apps, events, and the occasional Renaissance faire costume. Experienceography is where all of that comes together.

INFP Mediator Type 4 Individualist Generator Human Design ♓︎ Pisces sun · Taurus moon · Libra rising AuDHD and proud of it
NameAustin Pranger
ClassBard / Guide
Role in the guildGuild leader
AlignmentCurious Good
BackgroundWriter, dancer, facilitator, digital wizard
Home base[Your city, if you want]
Main questExperienceography, Season 1
Side questsToo many (it's an AuDHD thing)

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Traits

  • Asks the question under the question. I'm more interested in why it's stuck than in what the to-do list says.
  • Listens without fixing. You know yourself best. I'll ask, nudge, and cheer; I won't take over your quest.
  • Changes his mind out loud. Experiments are allowed to fail here, mine included.

Special abilities

  • Hotseat. Ten minutes, a few good questions, and a knot comes loose.
  • Summon the party. Gathers people into calls, cohorts, and five-day sprints.
  • Build in public. Turns half-formed ideas into working things, often with AI as a sidekick.
Values I live by

A few things I try to be.

Not rules. Reminders, collected over the years. More will show up here as I name them.

Value · ruthless fool

Be a ruthless fool.

[Austin: two or three lines on what being a ruthless fool means to you. This spot is waiting for your words, from the video below.]

Watch the video on YouTube

More values coming, as I name them.

How I'm wired

The personality-test corner.

None of these define me, but together they explain a lot: why I care so much about meaning, why I ask so many questions, and why I need a guild around me to get things done.

Frameworks, not boxes. Take what helps, leave the rest. That goes for you too.

For my astrology friends

Written in the stars (allegedly).

A note from Austin: I don't really do astrology. But most of my friends do, so you might care about this and make more sense of it than I can. Below is my chart, translated into plain, practical terms: what each piece supposedly says, and what it might actually mean if you're on a call with me.

The road so far

How I got here.

The short version. The long version lives in the Chronicle.

2015

Venture 15

I started my blog with a personal-change project: exploring, changing, building confidence, learning in public. Writing it all down started here.

2015–2018

The dance floor

The first time I walked into a dance studio I had to be coaxed onto the floor. A few years later I was chasing West Coast Swing, and I still dance.

2018

Public accountability

A weekly accountability project, out loud on my blog. The great-grandparent of the guild’s weekly goals thread.

2019

The Courage Crusade

A small community project about doing the brave thing. Quests, crusades, and dragon-slaying have been in my vocabulary ever since.

2020

Digital Wizardry

Helping people and small businesses with websites, systems, and tech, the “swiss-army-knife” part of me.

2021

YouTube, and the Velvetrose idea

I started making videos and wrote down a vision called the Velvetrose Theater.

2022

Solocasts

A series of solo audio episodes, starting with “The Quest of Quiet.”

2023

The Experience-ographer

I wrote “What is an Experience-ographer?” and started The Experienceography Podcast. The word found its home.

2024

Workshop Season, Creator Coalition, and cohorts

Group seasons with calls, hotseats, and people working on their quests together. This is where I learned what the calls are really for.

2025

Season 2: Momentum

About fifty weekly calls with a small, close crew building their businesses and their lives. Plus a handful of little apps built with AI.

Summer 2026

The 5 Day Thing

Five days of working on your own project alongside others. People asked for another one.

October 2026

Starting over, on purpose

I archived everything and rebuilt Experienceography from scratch, in public. You’re looking at it.

[Before 2015]

[Where I grew up, what I studied, past work]

[Placeholder: a few lines Austin will add later.]

A user manual

Working with me.

What to expect, so nobody has to guess.

I'm great at

  • Asking the question that reframes the problem
  • Holding space without judgment
  • Getting a group of strangers talking
  • Turning a vague idea into a first version

I'm still working on

  • Consistency (I'm AuDHD; I build systems for it)
  • Reaching out instead of building another thing
  • Ending things properly, not letting them fade
  • Saying the price out loud

Best ways to reach me

Find me elsewhere

What I won't do

  • Solve your problem for you or do your work
  • Shame you for a slow week
  • Pretend I've arrived anywhere. I haven't. That's the point.
In other people's words

What people say.

From the guild's calls and seasons

… Austin Pranger, who if you know him has a real gift for asking the kind of questions that quietly crack something open in you. … What's wild is how simple it is and how powerful it's been. Each week, something shifts. It might not be big or dramatic, but it builds. … I think that's what happens when you're consistently in a space where you're listened to without being fixed, where curiosity meets clarity, and where your progress doesn't have to perform for anyone.Arlene Lenelle, life coach and content creator · Experienceography weekly calls
Austin's style of inquiry is intentional, innovative and open-hearted and he inspires others to reflect in new ways that lead towards more solution-oriented possibilities! The hot seat highlights were super impactful and created space for each participant to feel seen, supported and to consider refreshing ways to explore their quests.Ariel · Workshop Season, 2024
Austin has the ability to cut to the chase. If there's an area where you feel stuck he's going to be able to find the source of the problem. … Austin creates a very safe and nonjudgmental space for all of the participants to open up and bring all of who we are.Nora · Experienceography Seasons 1 and 2

From one-on-one and client work

Austin didn’t just help me “set up Notion.” We had deeper conversations about my goals, my capacity as a mom, the season of life I’m in, and how I wanted my business to feel. He asked thoughtful questions that helped me clarify what kind of structure would actually serve me, not just what’s trendy or efficient. … Now I have a centralized, intentional space for my ideas and content, but more importantly, I have a foundation that allows me to exhale.Amanda Beatty · self love & embodiment coach
Working with Austin has blown my mind completely because I truly didn’t know that anyone could understand me like he has. … Austin walked with me step by step and was able to bring my vision to life in the most seamless and fluid way. His ideas alone were worth so much more than I anticipated. It was so much more than website design. It’s like having a business partner who “gets you”Jamie Skagen · transformational life coach and event leader
The beautiful part that stuck out to me the most was his way of helping me zoom out on my ‘tech issues’ and look at the bigger picture of what I was setting out to achieve. He held beautiful space as I navigated through explaining my current struggles … Austin is legit one of the best humans I know.Amanda Beatty · self love & embodiment coach
You’re by far one of the best writers that I have hired, and I’d like to keep you around for a while, haha. Hence my offering you work before anyone else.Laura Comelleri · writer, content creator, SEO
Field photos

Out in the field.

Photos coming soon.

Hosting a Guild Callphoto placeholder · blur names and faces
At a Renaissance fairephoto placeholder · in costume
West Coast Swingphoto placeholder · mid-dance
Spinning poiphoto placeholder · long exposure
The cartographer’s deskphoto placeholder · map, notebook, camera
The quest tablephoto placeholder · dice, a character sheet, a lantern
Out on a wanderphoto placeholder · a walk somewhere new

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