The Terrible Creative
By Patrick Fore
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Episodes: 65
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The Terrible Creative is a storytelling podcast for photographers, designers, and creative humans trying to stay honest in a world that rewards pretending
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The Cost of Getting Good - The Trap Inside Your Own Success
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May 05, 2026 |
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Subterranean - On Obsession, Part II
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Obsessed - Finding Your Creative Voice When the Algorithm Rewards Everyone Else's
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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The Unknown - The Version of Yourself Nobody Has Seen Yet
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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The Facade - The Gap Between What You Show and What's Actually Driving the Work
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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The Tell — Self-Handicapping, and What Everyone Around You Already Knows
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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The Glass House - Visibility, the Johari Window, and Why Being Seen Isn't the Same as Being Known
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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The Audit - Was Your Work Already Replaceable Before AI Arrived?
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Widening The Frame - Welcome to the Terrible Creative
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Cosmic Cruelty - Freelancing, Isolation & Why the Universe Feels Like It’s Against You.
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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The Cliff - Why Freelancing Has No Floor
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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The Mask - The Hidden Cost of Performing Expertise You Actually Have
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Heresies - The Hyde - How Photography Is Used for Sexual Exploitation
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Heresies - The Corpse - How Instagram Trained You to Be Perfect, Then Called It Boring
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Heresies - The Oracle - Why Photography Influencers Are Modern Televangelists
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Heresies - The Cult Member - Why Your Camera Brand Doesn't Care If You're a Good Photographer
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Basics, Deconstructed - Editing is Violence - How to Choose What Matters When Everything Looks Good
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Heresies - The Proxy - Why Listening to Your Clients Might Be A Bad Idea
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Amature - Why I Envy Photographers Who Don't Get Paid
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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The Fresh Start Fallacy - Are You Building a Boat or Just Floating in a Tube?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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The Long Middle - The Third Space - How to Actually Build Community When Traditional Third Spaces Are Dead (And Why We Have to Try Anyway)
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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The Long Middle - Part 3 - The Enemy - How Gatekeeping and Hierarchy Keep Creative Professionals Isolated (And Why We're All Complicit)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Basics, Deconstructed - Framing - Deconstructing Christopher Anderson’s Vanity Fair Portraits: What Every Photographer Needs to Know About Framing Power.
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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The Long Middle - Part 2 - The Costume - Why We Hide Behind Professional Roles
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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The Long Middle - Part 1 - The Island - Why Mastery Is Lonely
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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The Curator's Disease - The Cost of Turning Your Life Into Content
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Noise in the Shadows - When the Enemy is Competence
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Basics, Deconstructed - Good vs. Bad - If It Feels Safe, It's Dead
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Still Terrible - A Confession About Fear, Failure, and the Middle of the Story
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Bloody Knuckles - Let’s talk about A.I.
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Economic Dumpster Fire - Why the Creative Economy Split in Half (and How to Navigate It)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Yeah, Maybe - Why Some People Kill Your Ideas (And How to Protect Them)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Gold Star - Why Artists Keep Chasing Validation and How to Find Meaning Without the Awards
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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The Cage - Three Invisible Prisons That Keep Creatives Small
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Dirty Little Secrets - 8 Secrets Photographers Never Admit
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The Sacred Mundane - Beating Hustle Culture, Escape Procrastination, and Focus Deeply
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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The Tyranny of Okay - Why Most Creative Work Is Just Work
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Permission to Quit - AI, burnout, and why photographers are leaving the industry
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Pub Meditations - Six Meditations, One Pint: Notes on Survival, Shadows, and Light
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Is It Good? - Photography, Approval, and the Fight for Creative Truth
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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In the Shadows- A creative deep dive into photography, shadow work, Carl Jung, and the emotional weight of what we avoid.
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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We Work, Rome Burns - How to Keep Creating When Everything Feels Like It's Falling Apart
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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The Dangerous Creative - How Solving Problems Makes You Dangerous (Even If You're a Barista)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Permission to Suck - Turning Failure Into Data
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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The Wrong Target - When Freelance Invoices Go Unpaid, and Rage Takes the Mic
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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The Job I Hate The Least - Because photography isn’t about the photos. It’s about surviving the job.
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The Light Hits Back - What if the worst thing for your art… is being seen?
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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The Technician - When the identity you built starts to crumble, what do you build next?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Angry - A brutally honest episode about creative burnout, anger, and the choice to keep going.
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Insider/Outsider - Surviving the Creative Industry
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Why Shapes How - On Intention, Execution, and the Lie of Objectivity
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Tear Gas & Pixels - What protest photography teaches us about truth, power, and not looking away.
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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The Revolt - Why Your Creative Rebellion is Failing
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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The Silence - When the work goes quiet, what is it trying to say?
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Stinky Dead Mouse - Why most portfolios all look the same, and how to stop being everyone else.
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May 27, 2025 |
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Pillow Talk - The emotional and economic toll of creative work.
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May 20, 2025 |
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Copy Machine - On Imitation, Identity, and Making Work That’s Actually Yours
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May 13, 2025 |
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My Friend Hue - Seeing Color as Emotion, Language, and Power
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May 06, 2025 |
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Dim, Not Done - Burnout, Breakdown, and the Slow Road Back
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May 01, 2025 |
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Still Here - Why Resilience Is a Creative Act
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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No Secret Sauce: Just Show Up (How Careers Are Actually Built)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Your Brain is the Biggest Dick - Photographers Can Be Dicks – Part 2
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Photographers Can Be D*cks (But You Don’t Have to Be One)
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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You’re Not Terrible, You’re Just Early - Why showing up bad is the only way to get good
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Trailer
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Apr 22, 2025 |