The Resistance

By: Matt Conner
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  • There's a force at work that keeps you from being you. We feel it, too. It's the reason we avoid making the call, the reason we put off the diet. It's why we've done nothing about that entrepreneurial idea, that creative endeavor, that new relationship. In his book The War of Art, Stephen Pressfield defines this universal force as Resistance. Welcome to The Resistance, a new podcast featuring honest interviews with creative persons about this force and the forms it takes.
    2025 Matt Conner
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Episodes
  • Composer Carlos Rafael Rivera (Hacks) on casting aside his creative crutches

    Composer Carlos Rafael Rivera (Hacks) on casting aside his creative crutches
    Apr 29 2025

    Emmy and Grammy-winning composer Carlos Rafael Rivera (Hacks, The Queen's Gambit) details the painful lessons required to get to a healthy space of being less precious about his creative work.

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    35 mins
  • Author/screenwriter Ben Winters on the challenge of distraction

    Author/screenwriter Ben Winters on the challenge of distraction
    Apr 15 2025

    Despite the best-selling books and hit TV shows, author/screenwriter Ben Winters (CBS' hit show Tracker, The Last Policeman) says distraction and anxiety remain very much a part of the creative process—even in the face of his ever-growing run of successes.

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    31 mins
  • Poet/author Tina Cane on the importance of congruent creativity

    Poet/author Tina Cane on the importance of congruent creativity
    Apr 1 2025

    Tina Cane's work as an activist and educator has kept her work as an author and poet (including a long stint as the former Poet Laureate of Rhode Island) so close to the earth. It’s beautiful and accessible and meaningfully grounded. After spending some time in conversation with her, it’s clear that her ability to be so authentic in her craft is the important result of being so intentional. In short, her internal work—of staying true to herself, of pushing against resistance—is made so clear in her external work.

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    40 mins

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