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