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“Follow Your Passion” is a Lie
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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When the World Decides Who You’re Allowed To Be
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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When the Art World Won’t Save You
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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When Talent Isn’t Enough: What Ruth Douthitt Taught Me About Surviving as a Creative
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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When Your Dream Dies and You Still Win
Bart Merrell spent his entire youth chasing one dream: joining the FBI. He studied accounting even though he hated it, because that was the “easiest way in.” He did everything right. Then one experimental eye surgery disqualified him for life. Just like that, the dream was gone. Often we face setbacks like Bart did. But…
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Realizing Your Art Isn’t A Sin
Talking with Allen C. Paul and we had a great discussion about hour our creativity fits into the value systems we have as followers of God. Often you think of a follower of Christ being drawn into the ministry. For Allen, it was the opposite. He was being called out of it. This is a…
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Finding Joy In Writing, Accepting The Slow Burn – With Kern Carter
You’re supposed to starve. You’re supposed to treat poverty like a personality trait. And if you don’t, well, maybe you’re not a real artist. Would you ever give that advice to somebody? Then why do we give it to ourselves? Kern Carter spent some time in that trap, but found out for himself that it…
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Creatives Need Time
Art doesn’t always pay the rent. Daniel Rodgers traded his dream for the financial reality most of us have to deal with. The thing is, he didn’t get stuck in a rut. He found an outlet for his creativity in his work, and later, focused that into art as he discovered his financial stability. The Poor…
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When They Can’t Categorize You
LightMinded Arts — with Joseph Bolton Sometimes the stories that mean the most get lost to us when we lose the only people who knew those stories. Joseph Bolton had to dig to find his family stories, and they turned into an obsession. When he sat down with me for this episode of LightMinded Arts,…
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What Keeps Creatives Broke
As an artist, do you ever feel like you’re playing truth or dare with your reputation and sanity? Did you really really sign up for this. I’ve hit that moment more times than I want to admit. And talking with Justin reminded me that I’m not the only one. The Struggling Artist Mindset Justin said…
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