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A living educational mental health archive for creatives, built from personal experience. I turn my life into language, theory, and frameworks that help artists make sense of the emotions and feelings that come with creative work.
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Everybody Can’t Be the Point Guard (opens the original)
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I’ve said before that creatives are the new athletes because just like them , we have seasons, we train, perform, get critiqued in public, and are expected to keep improving while people watch. But imagine coaching a basketball team and deciding that everybody needs to be a point guard because point guards bring the ball up the court, score, and get a lot of attention. Your center might be exceptional at controlling the paint. Your forward might see an opening nobody else sees. You would be taki
Okay, So Now What Do We Build? (opens the original)
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A few days ago, I posted a video saying that I think the personal brand is becoming table stakes and the next level is building a creative ecosystem. Y’all connected with it, which honestly confirmed something I was already starting to suspect. I don’t think we are tired of creating. I think a lot of us are tired of having nowhere for our creativity to go except another post.Once you understand the difference between a personal brand and a creative ecosystem, the conversation gets wayyyy more in
I Fear We’ve Overprescribed Consistency (opens the original)
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I’ve caught myself doing this thing where I’ll look at the date of my last Instagram post and immediately start feeling like I need to come up with something. Not because I have something to say. Just because it’s been a lil’ minute. And I hate that feeling because now I’m not thinking about what I want to make, I’m thinking about how long I’ve been gone. Like Instagram is a job I forgot to clock into and somebody is in the back checking my timesheet.I am not anti consistency. I know It works. I
You Don’t Have to Become Your Art to Make It (opens the original)
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For a while, I felt like a bad business owner because I didn’t always look like my brand, Nüclei. Which sounds ridiculous when I say it out loud, but I think a lot of creatives know exactly what I mean.When you create something with a strong visual identity, there’s this unspoken pressure to become the physical embodiment of it. Your clothes should match it. your apartment should match it. Your Instagram grid should match it. Your personality should somehow make sense next to the mood board. And
The wellness routine capitalism sells us only works if you're already well... so I made my own. (opens the original)
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