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Let's Talk Money (Again) - A Terrible Conversation with Shelly Waldman
Episode 71
This week, we are throwing a match into one of the most heavily guarded hiding places in the creative industry: financial trauma, pricing shame, and …
2 months, 1 week ago
Money Talks - Audiobook Preview: The psychology of undercharging and how financial stability creates true creative freedom.
Episode 70
We are doing something a little different this week. To give the live microphone a brief rest, we are pulling back the curtain on a project that has …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
We’ll See - The quiet anxiety of marketing
Episode 69
She said two words and I haven't stopped thinking about them since.
This episode started at an APA event in La Mesa, in an artist's studio, in a conve…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Playing Hurt - How Professional Creatives Perform at Full Capacity When Everything Goes Wrong
Episode 68
There is a version of this job that looks incredible from the outside. The gear. The clients. The portfolio. What nobody sees is what it costs to pro…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Death Grip - Google AI Just Changed How Clients Find You. Here's What It Can't Replace.
Episode 67
Something shifted last week. Not dramatically. Quietly, the way things in this industry tend to change — while you're working, while you're trying to…
3 months ago
Mute - You've Spent Years Getting Good. Do You Have Anything Left to Say?
Episode 66
There is a man standing in a clearing in Arkansas with a yellow guitar, singing about insulin prices to nobody in particular.
Three million people fou…
3 months, 1 week ago
Clown Nose - What the Creator Economy Actually Costs a Working Creative
Episode 65
There's a composite photographer in this episode named Nate. His details have been changed. His situation has not.
This episode is about the creator e…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Terrible Conversations - Tom Wright - Tom Wright on Creative Work and Photography
Episode 64
Terrible Conversations w/ Tom Wright
Tom Wright is a photography consultant based in Burnley, UK. He calls himself a phototherapist, and no, he's not …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Stop Being A Tool - Why Creatives Were Never Just Useful
Episode 64
We’ve spent a century conditioning ourselves to believe that if we aren’t "producing," we aren't "valuable." But in 2026, the machines can out-produc…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Cost of Getting Good - The Cost of Getting Good - How Success Becomes a Creative Trap for Creatives
Episode 63
Getting good at your craft is supposed to be the goal. But for a lot of us, competence became the cage. This episode is about the feedback loop nobod…
4 months ago