A Beautiful Anarchy

Creative people often find their emotional lives connected a little too tightly to their work: happy when things go well... Read more

Without exceptions the most fruitful times in my creative life, and I include my business in this, because I am making m... Read more

It’s common-practice to describe our art-making efforts as either amateur or professional, the amateurs often feeling th... Read more

This episode is an exploration of some of the distractions that keep us from our best work and getting more easily into ... Read more

This is an episode about the struggle to be (and become) fully ourselves. Defiantly so, even.

On the surface perfectionism sounds like one of those flaws you readily admit to because really it’s a modest way of say... Read more

This is a conversation about the insufficiency of craft and imitation in the creation of art that is authentic to who yo... Read more

You’re not alone in feeling at times like you need permission to operate outside the so-called rules and colour outside ... Read more

The rules of improv are not complicated and, depending who you ask, they vary, but there are 4 that are universal, guidi... Read more

A pragmatic 15-minute episode about connecting with the audience for whom we make what we create, and from whom we hope ... Read more

Much as we look for answers to questions in the creative life, it’s the quality of the questions that determines how fru... Read more

Starting new work means eventually it comes to an end in some form and while the feeling of being done and shipping that... Read more

In the 7th grade I won 2nd place in a contest in which I was the only entrant. To say it scarred me for life is an overs... Read more

I never learned to fight, but I got picked on plenty in school. And then my mother put me in Judo and like a wimpier ver... Read more

I’m a big fan of being intentional about life, and how I spend my time is among the biggest decisions I make, and often,... Read more

In ancient greek mythology there were 9 muses, responsible for the worlds of literature, science and the arts. They were... Read more

Not everyone wants to sell their work, but for those that do it’s a different kind of struggle, a more complicated one w... Read more

One of the most common barriers to starting, finishing, and sharing our work is the crisis of self-confidence that comes... Read more

Most of us learned to say No when we were babies. Some of us spent months saying No to everything. No we can hardly coax... Read more

Our creative lives are full of mistakes and missteps, but what if we embraced those rather than fearing them, looking to... Read more