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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
Show more...
Arts
Business,
Entrepreneurship
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Start Somewhere | Releasing "Vampires" & Overcoming Self Doubt
The Creative Life — with Jim Kroft
23 minutes
10 months ago
Start Somewhere | Releasing "Vampires" & Overcoming Self Doubt

Hello everyone and welcome back to "The Jim Kroft Podcast"

Ever felt like you’re waiting forever to be ready to start a project?

Sometimes an idea or seed can live with us for years and, despite our best efforts, we just can't seem to kick-start it. 

In this episode, I share the personal story behind the writing and recording of my new single "Vampires" which is out on the 31st of January on Spotify. Here's the PRESAVE!

It is a journey of overcoming writer's block, slaying the demon of self-doubt, having a reckoning with one's own "talent" and determining to move forward, irrespective of what price must be paid.

Sometimes you have to do something because the price of not doing it will be that it haunts you forever - that is the Vampire.

Questions we explore:

  • How do you overcome the fear of starting when you don’t feel ready?
  • What strategies can help maintain your creative momentum amidst life's demands?
  • How can embracing imperfection unlock your true creative potential?

Highlights:

  • 🎬 Start Somewhere: Beginning your projects without having everything figured out.
  • 🤝 Trust in Collaboration: How trusting your team can lead to magical creative outcomes.
  • 🧠 Overcoming Self-Doubt: Strategies to battle the internal demons that hinder your creativity.
  • 🔄 Embracing a New Process: Innovate your creative workflow side stepping on what you've done before
  • 🌱 Sustainable Creativity: Unlock ways to maintain and grow your creative spirit in a hectic world.


Today is a journey through the messy, beautiful process of creation and - and the realisation that if we are going to live with ourselves we are going to need to find not just deeper courage - but to start somewhere.

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