B-Roll

Sitting down with Jazmin Lister feels less like an interview and more like watching someone systematically demolish every excuse you’ve ever made for not writing. If our guiding north star at Light-Minded Arts is helping creatives build sustainable lives where their art actually thrives, Jazmin is the living blueprint. She’s a sci-fi, fantasy, and romance…

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Last time, I had more that I wanted to talk about in my season recap, so here’s a few things I missed touching on, but are none-the-less important. This season’s interviews were packed with insights, and today I want to focus on three big themes that kept showing up: execute relentlessly, advocate aggressively, and stop…

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Last year was a crash course in creativity. I talked with writers, filmmakers, financial coaches, and life coaches — people chasing clarity, craft, and meaning in their work. The biggest lessons weren’t just about art. They were about how to live as an artist without losing your sanity, your family, or your financial footing. This…

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I sat down with Jay Corso. I didn’t know him beforehand, but this turned into an engaging and refreshing experience for me. We talked about things ranging from AI and creativity to identity. If you didn’t check out the podcast, you should. Its so hard to capture the raw enthusiasm he portrayed here in a…

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We’ve all heard the myth that great art can only be born from chaos, substance abuse, and financial ruin. But does creativity actually thrive in the fog?  I got to talk with life coach, mentor, and author Daryl Dittmer to bust these myths. Dittmer, author of When I Stopped Fighting and its sequel When You…

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I remember when I used to spend hours tweaking my podcast audio levels. Maybe you spend three weeks meticulously tweaking the intro of your video. You log into your editing software and spend three grueling hours slicing out every single “um,” “ah,” or slight pause from an interview track because you want it to sound…

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How many of you have heard this bit of advice: “Just follow your passion and the money will follow.” It is printed on posters, preached by well-meaning mentors, and echoed across every corner of the internet. It is comforting, it feels deeply inspiring—and it is an absolute trap.  Believing this myth is exactly how highly…

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I’ve been wanting a conversation with Jared Moses for some time now. Him and his team over at One Brilliant Arc (OBA) have helped me edit some of my works, and they’re doing great things. One of the things, aside from just being a book and screenplay editor, is that they are helping people with…

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Julian’s life reads like a map of restless searching: born in London, raised under the Spanish sun, chasing meaning across continents until he landed in America.  Julian talked about the financial panic, the spiritual exhaustion, and the constant tug-of-war between survival and creation. He told me about selling two massive paintings for twenty-five thousand dollars,…

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Sometimes I feel too busy chasing the my dream and shaping it into something real real, only to find that my dream and the truth bump into each other, and it’s not a gentle bump either. It’s more like walking into a glass door you didn’t know was there. Talking with Ruth Douthitt brought that…

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