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Subterranean - On Obsession, Part II
Episode 62
Where does creative obsession actually come from? Not how to manufacture it. Not how to find it on a vision board. Where it actually lives. How it gr…
4 months, 1 week ago
Obsessed - Finding Your Creative Voice When the Algorithm Rewards Everyone Else's
Episode 61
What separates a photographer who makes important work from one who just makes good photos? It might not be talent. It might not be gear. It might be…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Unknown - The Version of Yourself Nobody Has Seen Yet
Episode 60
This is the last one.
Four episodes. Four quadrants. Four different ways of asking the same question: who are you — really — when nobody's grading you…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Facade - The Gap Between What You Show and What's Actually Driving the Work
Episode 59
Episode 59: "The Facade" The Johari Window Series — Part Three
Some weeks Patrick knows exactly why he's making this podcast.
Other weeks he almost qui…
5 months ago
The Tell — Self-Handicapping, and What Everyone Around You Already Knows
Episode 58
Everyone around you already knows.
Your clients see it. The people who've worked alongside you see it. The people who love you have probably tried to …
5 months, 1 week ago
The Glass House - Visibility, the Johari Window, and Why Being Seen Isn't the Same as Being Known
Episode 57
There's a difference between being visible and being known. Most of us have confused the two.
In this episode, Patrick is sitting at a networking even…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Audit - Was Your Work Already Replaceable Before AI Arrived?
Episode 56
The fear underneath every AI conversation in photography right now isn't really about the future. It's recognition.
In this episode, Patrick sits down…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Widening The Frame - Welcome to the Terrible Creative
Episode 56
Something is changing.
This bonus episode is the announcement I've been putting off — partly because I wasn't sure how to say it, and partly because t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Cosmic Cruelty - Freelancing, Isolation & Why the Universe Feels Like It’s Against You.
Episode 55
There's a moment in Season 11 of Alone where a man named Dub — forty days into the Canadian wilderness, starving, alone — watches a bull moose stand …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Cliff - Why Freelancing Has No Floor
Episode 54
Every job has a floor. A salary. A review cycle. Someone in authority who tells you you're doing fine, keep going.
Freelancing has none of that. There…
6 months ago