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The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft
Jim Kroft
50 episodes
1 week ago
🎙️ The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft This podcast is for creatives who’ve chosen the long road. Each week, I take one aspect of the creative life — a breakthrough, a challenge, or a tool that’s helping me — and share what I’m learning from the inside. I started the show because I couldn’t find what I needed: a companion for the real challenges of making art while building a life around it. The podcast swings between the psychological traps we face and the practical tools that keep me going. It moves between mindset and method — but always comes back to how we keep showing up. I’m Jim, your host. I’ve lived a long life in the arts — full of meteoric highs and humbling lows. Here are a few stops from the journey: 🎸 Released 7 records — from major labels to van tours 🎥 Filmed 6 feature docs, screened at 200+ festivals 🧠 Built a creative business in Berlin since 2013 ✍️ Top 1% on Substack for weekly consistency 📈 Raised nearly €100K for refugee & Ukraine war efforts 🎧 The Creative Life has hit the Apple Podcast charts Thanks for being here, Jim 🔗 Listen & Follow: Spotify Apple Podcasts Substack YouTube Instagram
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🎙️ The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft This podcast is for creatives who’ve chosen the long road. Each week, I take one aspect of the creative life — a breakthrough, a challenge, or a tool that’s helping me — and share what I’m learning from the inside. I started the show because I couldn’t find what I needed: a companion for the real challenges of making art while building a life around it. The podcast swings between the psychological traps we face and the practical tools that keep me going. It moves between mindset and method — but always comes back to how we keep showing up. I’m Jim, your host. I’ve lived a long life in the arts — full of meteoric highs and humbling lows. Here are a few stops from the journey: 🎸 Released 7 records — from major labels to van tours 🎥 Filmed 6 feature docs, screened at 200+ festivals 🧠 Built a creative business in Berlin since 2013 ✍️ Top 1% on Substack for weekly consistency 📈 Raised nearly €100K for refugee & Ukraine war efforts 🎧 The Creative Life has hit the Apple Podcast charts Thanks for being here, Jim 🔗 Listen & Follow: Spotify Apple Podcasts Substack YouTube Instagram
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Arts
Business,
Entrepreneurship
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Burnout - How to Overcome Emotional Black Holes
The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft
39 minutes
11 months ago
Burnout - How to Overcome Emotional Black Holes

Hello, and welcome back to "The Jim Kroft Podcast."

Many of us struggle with pre-Christmas exhaustion during December - just as we are manically trying to finish our year's work.
Low energy vs mountainous work is a bad equation.

This collision course can trigger emotional black holes.

Remember:
This is the season to embrace the dip rather than resist it.

What if, instead of criticizing yourself for not being where you want to be, you chose to be grateful for how far you’ve come?

This week’s podcast explores the tools we have at our disposal to guard against the illusions our minds sometimes play on us—especially when we get trapped in a moment:

  • 🕳️ Battling Black Holes: Confront the negative thoughts that drain your energy.
  • 🔄 Reclaiming Agency: Techniques to regain control over your emotions and life.
  • 🌿 Embracing Seasons: Navigate your emotional landscape's natural ebb and flow.
  • 💡 Sustainable Well-being: Practices that support long-term growth and resilience.
  • 🌟 Mindset Shifts: Transform your perspective to thrive during challenging times.

We often criticize ourselves for bad moods instead of recognizing that they carry messages.
Can you listen to what they’re saying?

In an emotional black hole:

  1. Your past is not erased
  2. Your future remains unwritten
  3. You can choose how to approach the present

Today, I share everything I've learned about this space and pass on the tools I've developed from 20 years in the arts and a long journey in psychoanalysis to overcome these challenges.

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” — Chuang Tzu


Let’s dive in!

Your host, Jim Kroft


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The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft
🎙️ The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft This podcast is for creatives who’ve chosen the long road. Each week, I take one aspect of the creative life — a breakthrough, a challenge, or a tool that’s helping me — and share what I’m learning from the inside. I started the show because I couldn’t find what I needed: a companion for the real challenges of making art while building a life around it. The podcast swings between the psychological traps we face and the practical tools that keep me going. It moves between mindset and method — but always comes back to how we keep showing up. I’m Jim, your host. I’ve lived a long life in the arts — full of meteoric highs and humbling lows. Here are a few stops from the journey: 🎸 Released 7 records — from major labels to van tours 🎥 Filmed 6 feature docs, screened at 200+ festivals 🧠 Built a creative business in Berlin since 2013 ✍️ Top 1% on Substack for weekly consistency 📈 Raised nearly €100K for refugee & Ukraine war efforts 🎧 The Creative Life has hit the Apple Podcast charts Thanks for being here, Jim 🔗 Listen & Follow: Spotify Apple Podcasts Substack YouTube Instagram