Gifted Underachievers

By Gifted Underachievers

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A podcast for midlevel creatives with delusional ambitions

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Episode Date
Grant Experiment Update: the Agony of Bread Loaf
Jun 04, 2026
GU Finds the Clock (silly)
Jun 04, 2026
Metabolize Your World Through Art
Jun 04, 2026
How do you define success?
May 29, 2026
Grant Experiment Update: Another Near Miss
May 29, 2026
James' Pearl
May 29, 2026
Reset Your Creativity
May 20, 2026
How to Use Speaking Gigs
May 16, 2026
The Sumo Honeymoon (Silly)
May 16, 2026
Minor Leagues for the Arts World
May 14, 2026
Macroeconomics for Creatives
May 14, 2026
Free John Irving! (silly)
May 14, 2026
Growth Plans for Creatives
May 07, 2026
When to Ditch or Delay a Creative Project
May 07, 2026
Podcasters vs. the HR Department
May 07, 2026
Our Minds Need a Break
Apr 30, 2026
Contests & Grant Apps: Who’s Your Audience?
Apr 30, 2026
Throat Clearing Silliness
Apr 30, 2026
The Value of Pitching to Non-Artists
Apr 23, 2026
Go in Hot: Lessons from a Creative Retreat
Apr 23, 2026
How to F*ck Up and Survive the Experience
Apr 23, 2026
Kath Montstream
Apr 16, 2026
What Makes Your Creative Work Matter?
Apr 08, 2026
Fearless Dumb Questions
Apr 08, 2026
We are Nymphs ... & That's OK
Apr 08, 2026
Cuts to Arts & Adapting Business Strategy
Apr 03, 2026
Pension Projects for Creatives
Apr 03, 2026
Stress and Brain Function
Apr 03, 2026
What's Your Biggest Creative Fear?
Mar 26, 2026
Creative Retreat: A Case Study
Mar 26, 2026
Protect Your Intellectual Property
Mar 26, 2026
How to Juggle Many Projects at Once
Mar 19, 2026
Both Lived and Professional Experience Matter
Mar 19, 2026
Work for Free? Depends
Mar 12, 2026
Creative Trip Prep: Nitty Gritty Edition
Mar 12, 2026
Banish Self-Sabotage in Grant Applications
Mar 12, 2026
A Stencher in the Making
Mar 05, 2026
We Know Podcasting! (An Underachieving How To)
Mar 05, 2026
Here’s to Spring
Mar 05, 2026
Tax Time for Creatives
Feb 26, 2026
Health & Creative Workers
Feb 26, 2026
Judge the Work, Not the Network
Feb 26, 2026
Case Study: How to Organize a Big Creative Project
Feb 19, 2026
Creative Work Cannot be Rushed…Mostly
Feb 19, 2026
What’s YOUR Brand?
Feb 19, 2026
Grant Update: Virtue Signaling & Other Sins
Feb 12, 2026
Pat Receives an 'Apparatus'
Feb 12, 2026
Nihilism, Agency, & Creative Work
Feb 11, 2026
Explaining Your Creative Work
Feb 05, 2026
Permission to be a Self-Centered Creative
Feb 05, 2026
How We Successfully Underachieve
Feb 05, 2026
Cowlick Jim Quaker Cowboy
Jan 29, 2026
SitReps as 2026 Begins
Jan 29, 2026
Rigid Mentorship (NOT a double entendre)
Jan 29, 2026
Gaining Creative Agency
Jan 22, 2026
The Winter of Our Discontent
Jan 22, 2026
Pitching a Platform: The Experiment
Jan 22, 2026
Creatives & Money: Ways to View Debt
Jan 15, 2026
It's a DIY Creative Life
Jan 15, 2026
Gifted Underachiever Germaphobes
Jan 15, 2026
Case Study: Alternate Revenue Streams
Jan 08, 2026
Competition Experiment: Better Data & Better Targeting
Jan 08, 2026
Candy Karen (Silly)
Jan 08, 2026
Nancy No-Mates Know-it-All (silly)
Jan 03, 2026
Unsaturated Opportunities to Sell Your Expertise
Jan 03, 2026
Happy New Year!
Jan 01, 2026
Outsourcing Sh*t to Live a Creative Life
Dec 25, 2025
Kill the Magic for Creative Growth
Dec 25, 2025
Merry Yule from the GU Clubhouse
Dec 25, 2025
Adaptation & Transformation for Creatives
Dec 18, 2025
Sigma Riz Contest Update
Dec 18, 2025
The Most Elitist Muffin
Dec 18, 2025
Anne Ramallo: Poet, Editor & Publisher
Dec 11, 2025
Get Inspired with Isaac Hirotsu Woofter
Dec 04, 2025
Virtuous Feedback Financing Loop
Nov 27, 2025
If Not Writing, What?
Nov 27, 2025
Thanksgiving with the Gifted Underachievers
Nov 27, 2025
Perfectionism & The Comedian’s Mindset
Nov 20, 2025
Defanging Chaotic Workflows
Nov 20, 2025
Podcast Merchandise: Lessons Learned
Nov 20, 2025
The Contest Experiment Begins
Nov 12, 2025
When Opportunity Knocks You Up
Nov 12, 2025
Our First Fight
Nov 12, 2025
Literary Agents Ghosted, Oh My!
Nov 06, 2025
Getting Unstuck Creatively
Nov 06, 2025
John Irving: Holiday Prepper
Nov 06, 2025
The Grant Experiment Pivot: DIE HARD
Oct 29, 2025
Functional Fixedness
Oct 29, 2025
The Hard-Easy Effect in Creative Work
Oct 29, 2025
Marketing Starter Kit for Creatives
Oct 23, 2025
How Good Are You?
Oct 23, 2025
The Perverse Farmers' Market (Silly)
Oct 23, 2025
Finding Creative Fodder in Other People's Art
Oct 16, 2025
Overcoming Nihilism as a Creative
Oct 16, 2025
7 Simple Phrases for Creative Collaboration
Oct 09, 2025
1 Technique to Regain Your Creative Confidence
Oct 09, 2025
Death by Misadventure
Oct 09, 2025
Are Creatives Too Nostalgic?
Oct 02, 2025
The Future for Creative Workers
Oct 02, 2025
Dobes Gets Her Groove Back (silly)
Oct 02, 2025
Overthinking Your Art? Try This.
Sep 25, 2025
Theatre Talk with Gifted Underachievers
Sep 25, 2025
Overthought & Underdone: the GU Revenge Fantasy
Sep 25, 2025
Lessons from a Year of Applying for Creative Grants
Sep 17, 2025
AI Use Policies for Creatives
Sep 17, 2025
The Sixth Pinkie: A Polydactyl's Memoir
Sep 17, 2025
Halo Effect & Building On Marketing Powers You Already Possess
Sep 11, 2025
Finding More Capacity with Email Equanimity
Sep 11, 2025
Welcome to Canada: Have a Caesar!
Sep 11, 2025
Things Don't Happen in August
Sep 04, 2025
High-Volume Creative “Solopreneurs”—How Do They Do It?
Sep 04, 2025
Proving There's An Audience For Your Work
Sep 04, 2025
Call for Guests
Aug 28, 2025
How to Test Your Craft Capabilities
Aug 28, 2025
Michael Palin, Avoidance, & the Creative Archetype
Aug 28, 2025
A Curious Boy
Aug 21, 2025
Is Consistency Overrated for Creative Work?
Aug 21, 2025
Is There An Audience for Your Work?
Aug 21, 2025
Where Do Ideas Come From?
Aug 14, 2025
Work Habits & Workflows for Creatives
Aug 14, 2025
Keep John A-thrive
Aug 14, 2025
Can Art Still Drive Social Change?
Aug 07, 2025
Every Creative Needs Grit
Aug 07, 2025
Should Art Carry Trigger Warnings?
Aug 07, 2025
Episode 54: Gifted Achiever Joe Ponepinto
Jul 31, 2025
Thinking Bigger About Grants
Jul 24, 2025
The Gifted Underachievers Go Waaaay Off Track
Jul 24, 2025
From Fumbling Around to Finding Your Creative Style
Jul 24, 2025
Custom Pitch Lists & Using AI to Grow Capacity
Jul 17, 2025
How to Make Time for Passive Income
Jul 17, 2025
How Could $10k Best Serve Your Creative Life?
Jul 17, 2025
How to Work in the Summer (& all the seasons)
Jul 10, 2025
Are Men Done with Fiction?
Jul 10, 2025
How to Respond When Opportunity Knocks
Jul 10, 2025
An All-Male Publisher & Representation
Jul 03, 2025
The Science of Island Cows
Jul 03, 2025
Your Creative Future & the ISC
Jul 03, 2025
Inauthentic Marketing: How NOT to Do It
Jun 26, 2025
Regenerative Creative Retreats: Risks & Rewards
Jun 26, 2025
The Palermo Incident
Jun 26, 2025
Creatives: Who Can You Disappoint?
Jun 19, 2025
John Irving Wants Out for the Summer
Jun 19, 2025
Our London Bee Costume Goal
Jun 19, 2025
Special Guest: Gifted Achiever Sharon Louden
Jun 12, 2025
Gifted Underachievers Delusional First Lawsuit
Jun 06, 2025
A Possible Upside of Losing US NEA/NEH Grants
Jun 06, 2025
Grant Update: The Yes/No Result
Jun 06, 2025
Ad Stalking on Social Media (Silly)
May 27, 2025
Is a Home Office the Creative Ideal?
May 27, 2025
When You're Ready to Quit
May 27, 2025
Richard Kelly Kemick: Best Ever Grant Advice
May 22, 2025
Bugout Bags for Creatives
May 22, 2025
Creatives Serve the World
May 22, 2025
5 Golden Tips for Getting Grants
May 16, 2025
What's Your Local Ecosystem?
May 16, 2025
Is the Simplest Pitch the Best Pitch?
May 16, 2025
Interview with Gifted Achiever Nadja Lubiw-Hazard
May 07, 2025
Introducing the C-Squared Fallacy©
May 01, 2025
What's Your Creative Persona?
May 01, 2025
How to Write a Novel in 3 Days!
May 01, 2025
Building Economic Capacity & Dealing with the Beauty Contest
Apr 24, 2025
Capacity Building for Creatives #2
Apr 24, 2025
Overwhelmed and Dissatisfied?
Apr 24, 2025
How Not to Screw Up an Artist Statement or Bio
Apr 18, 2025
Dopamine Hits & How to Not Get Killed
Apr 17, 2025
The Captive Downstairs: John Irving Silliness
Apr 17, 2025
Gifted Achiever Richard Kelly Kemick
Apr 10, 2025
The Yaddo Gutshot
Apr 02, 2025
How to Celebrate Good News
Apr 02, 2025
Is This the Death of Blurbing?
Apr 02, 2025
Gifted Achiever Julianna Brazill
Mar 27, 2025
Doorbell Silliness
Mar 21, 2025
A Discussion of Time & Capacity
Mar 21, 2025
Special Guest: Gifted Achiever Miriam Ruff
Mar 11, 2025
Don’t Beat Yourself Up for Not Winning the Lottery
Mar 06, 2025
Grant Update: From Despair to Enlightenment
Mar 06, 2025
Gas Masks in the Basement with John Irving
Mar 06, 2025
The Search for Cheap Equanimity
Feb 27, 2025
Meaningful Conversations: What are they & how do you have more of them?
Feb 27, 2025
Pat & James Dilute the MAGA Brand (Silly)
Feb 27, 2025
Fitness & The Sedentary Creative
Feb 20, 2025
Grants Experiment Update – Good News!
Feb 20, 2025
Gifted Achiever Doug Harrison
Feb 20, 2025
How to Create a Life that Fits via “Unfolding”
Feb 13, 2025
Canada/US tensions, Tariffs, (Effing Trump) & Creatives
Feb 13, 2025
The Slacker Stalker
Feb 13, 2025
Who's Got Your Back?
Feb 06, 2025
James Hangs a Picture
Feb 06, 2025
Little Brainstorms
Feb 06, 2025
Tax Time (Ugh!)
Jan 30, 2025
Zoom Weirdsies
Jan 30, 2025
T-Shirt Silliness
Jan 30, 2025
What if Your Art is Considered Old-Fashioned?
Jan 23, 2025
Allostatic Load: Understanding Stress to Defang It
Jan 23, 2025
Sit Reps: What's Going Right in a Troubled Time
Jan 23, 2025
2025 Goal-Setting Attempt
Jan 17, 2025
Gatekeepers & Qualifications
Jan 17, 2025
YouTube Weirdos
Jan 17, 2025
Interview with Gifted Achiever: Carrie McConkey
Jan 09, 2025
Take the Pause
Jan 02, 2025
Using Music in Your Creative Toolkit
Jan 02, 2025
Headbands & Movie Set Delusions
Jan 02, 2025
Are Comparisons Odious in a Creative Career?
Dec 23, 2024
Situation Reports on Recent Pitches
Dec 23, 2024
Branding Silliness: The Gifted Part
Dec 23, 2024
Interview with Gifted Achiever: Kristin Hugo
Dec 19, 2024
The Grants Experiment is Kicking our Asses
Dec 12, 2024
The Holiday Season Slalom
Dec 12, 2024
Post-Nasal Drip Silliness
Dec 12, 2024
Cliché, Stereotype & Always Be Interesting
Dec 05, 2024
Small Creative Acts
Dec 05, 2024
Borat & Nabokov
Dec 05, 2024
Reinventing Your Looks: Does it Matter?
Nov 28, 2024
The Post-Gig Blahs: What to do
Nov 28, 2024
Communicating Like a Creative
Nov 21, 2024
Body Doubling: An Invitation to Listeners
Nov 21, 2024
Why Being a Midlevel Creative is Something to Celebrate
Nov 21, 2024
The Sandwich Generation & Creative Work
Nov 14, 2024
Podcast Delusional Silliness
Nov 14, 2024
DON'T PANIC!!!
Nov 14, 2024
The Gifted Underachievers Disclaimer
Nov 07, 2024
Exploring Subjectivity
Nov 07, 2024
Income Streams Update
Nov 07, 2024
Explain Your Fees: Yes or No?
Nov 07, 2024
Creatives' Daily Rituals
Oct 31, 2024
The GU Hard Launch! Lessons Learned
Oct 31, 2024
What's Wrong with Working for Exposure?
Oct 31, 2024
Do Smaller Creative Acts Have Value?
Oct 22, 2024
The Creative Subconscious & Getting Unstuck
Oct 22, 2024
Be The Character Actor or The Star?
Oct 22, 2024
How to Avoid Creative Money Pits
Oct 16, 2024
Being Strategic with Limited Burners
Oct 16, 2024
Create a Logline in Real Time
Oct 16, 2024
Interview: Kath Montstream
Oct 08, 2024
The Grant Experiment: Pat’s Update
Sep 29, 2024
The Grant Experiment: James’ Update
Sep 29, 2024
Delusional Marketing & Merch Drop Update
Sep 29, 2024
Kath Montstream: Cold Water Dipping Advice
Sep 29, 2024
Entitlement: What it Means for the Rest of Us
Sep 21, 2024
Whatever's Gone Wrong, it's Going to Change
Sep 21, 2024
Privilege vs. Grinding it Out
Sep 21, 2024
Doug Harrison of FEN
Sep 15, 2024
Gifted Underachievers: Focus on What Matters
Sep 15, 2024
Outtake: Tech Silliness
Sep 15, 2024
How to Get Grants: An Experiment
Sep 08, 2024
Is Creativity a Business?
Sep 08, 2024
Financial Stress & Creative Underperforming
Sep 08, 2024
Goals Must Change for Growth
Aug 31, 2024
How NOT To Do Guerrilla Marketing
Aug 31, 2024
Never Deliver a Problem
Aug 31, 2024
Accessing Gated Opportunities - Part 2
Aug 23, 2024
Ways to Gauge Your Creative Anxiety
Aug 23, 2024
The Frustrations of Working from Home
Aug 23, 2024
Failed Pitches and Gatekeepers
Aug 16, 2024
The Trundle Stories & Getting to Flow
Aug 16, 2024
Accessing Gated Opportunities - Part 1
Aug 16, 2024
Delusional Merch Silliness
Aug 10, 2024
The Transactional Nature of Mentorship
Aug 10, 2024
Online Dating for Agents & Writers
Aug 10, 2024
"Who, Not How" & Building Value
Aug 03, 2024
Just-Right Ambition
Aug 03, 2024
Money & Jobby Jobs
Aug 03, 2024
Goals & the Real World Part 2
Jul 27, 2024
Managing Constant Rejection
Jul 26, 2024
The John Irving Delusion
Jul 26, 2024
Goals & the Real World - Part 1
Jul 21, 2024
Branding for Creatives
Jul 21, 2024
The Call from Oslo
Jul 21, 2024
Disclaimer for first-time listeners
Jul 21, 2024