Episodes

  • Ep. 12: How to Unfurl Your Wings

    Ep. 12: How to Unfurl Your Wings
    Mar 11 2021

    How to unfurl the wings you've held curled, unused, for so long. On poetry, and finding the self again in something you thought you were too scared to try.


    Repost from Rachael's Patreon. To support her, and to get the earliest access, click HERE.


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    17 mins
  • Ep. 11: The Muse Isn’t Who You Think She Is

    Ep. 11: The Muse Isn’t Who You Think She Is
    Feb 19 2021
    In our creative work, we’re all waiting for the Muse to come and inspire us. But often, we’re looking in the wrong direction. Here’s where to reliably find her and coax her into helping you out, no matter what your creative project is. 

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    11 mins
  • Ep. 10: How to Make Art by Using Lists

    Ep. 10: How to Make Art by Using Lists
    Feb 12 2021
    Sometimes you think you have to make something GOOD, and it fries your brain and stops you in your track. Try a list instead. Here's how.

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    7 mins
  • Ep. 9: How to Rest When You're a Workaholic

    Ep. 9: How to Rest When You're a Workaholic
    Feb 3 2021
    How do you allow yourself to rest when you don't feel worthy of it? Make it your job! Here's how.

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    10 mins
  • Ep. 8: Plan to Fail Gloriously and Productively!

    Ep. 8: Plan to Fail Gloriously and Productively!
    Jan 7 2021

    The planning fallacy is a phenomenon first proposed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. Put simply, it says that people have too much optimism about the time it will take to complete something.


    Interestingly, this bias only affects your own tasks, not those of others. You know it’ll take your husband four months to build the new deck, not the weekend he somehow thinks it will. 


    But you? You think you can thumbnail your entire comic book by the end of the week. Instead, it takes you three weeks to get four pages done, and you feel like an abject failure because of it. 


    Honey, no!


    Pick those goalposts up and move those suckers!


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    9 mins
  • Ep. 7: Why You're Already AWESOME

    Ep. 7: Why You're Already AWESOME
    Jan 3 2021
    Why wait for tomorrow to feel like you're good enough? My friend, you've already got that covered. Have a listen and find out why.

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    7 mins
  • Ep. 6: At the Beach House

    Ep. 6: At the Beach House
    Dec 18 2020

    I can freely admit I don’t deserve to spend quiet time at a beach house. Yesterday, I sat on the edge of the world in my sparkle boots and thought exactly that. The storm was whipping up the waves, sending spray twenty feet into the air. The sound was deafening. 

    I didn’t fit in—I was so small, on a rock, on the edge of a country I don’t really understand. How did I deserve to sit right there, just when, when so many are… are not able to do the same thing. 

    The truth is: I don’t deserve it. 

    And at the same time, I do. 


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    8 mins
  • Ep. 5: Glitter Boots

    Ep. 5: Glitter Boots
    Dec 15 2020
    The other day, I painted my old black Frye boots silver. They’d come slightly sparkly when I’d bought them, actually. They were the gated-community version of silver. They glinted in the light, but only politely, only if you took the time to look. LISTEN FOR MORE.

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    6 mins