If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Some doors open because you knock. Others open because you knock, wait a year, and keep making brave work while you do. Today we share the true story of how a cold, unglamorous submission—dropped at a museum coat room—turned into a call from a curator, ten pieces accepted into the collection, and five on the wall at the Museum of Modern Art. No gala, no plaqu...
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If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Some doors open because you knock. Others open because you knock, wait a year, and keep making brave work while you do. Today we share the true story of how a cold, unglamorous submission—dropped at a museum coat room—turned into a call from a curator, ten pieces accepted into the collection, and five on the wall at the Museum of Modern Art. No gala, no plaqu...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Some doors open because you knock. Others open because you knock, wait a year, and keep making brave work while you do. Today we share the true story of how a cold, unglamorous submission—dropped at a museum coat room—turned into a call from a curator, ten pieces accepted into the collection, and five on the wall at the Museum of Modern Art. No gala, no plaqu...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Holiday platitudes fall flat when the world feels divided and your own history makes joy hard to hold. We open the blinds anyway. This conversation moves from candor to craft: how to reject toxic positivity without surrendering to cynicism, and how to build a daily practice that actually lifts you out of the dark. SUBSCRIBE to get my weekly "Love Letters...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Forget waiting for happy hour to feel alive. We dig into a simple, radical practice that restores joy to your work and your life: celebrate everything. Not just the wins. The messes, the near-misses, the chores, and the doodles that make you grin for a second before you move on. When we stop deflecting praise and start marking small moments, the process becom...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching A year on the mic reveals a simple truth: audiences don’t want polish for its own sake, they want a real voice with a real opinion. I look back at twelve months of The Right Questions and unpack the habits, mindsets, and small decisions that made weekly publishing possible. From capturing ideas in the car to writing six to ten pages before I record, I sh...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching What if that knot in your stomach isn’t a warning sign, but the call to adventure you’ve been waiting for? We unpack the hero’s journey as a living, repeatable map for creative people who feel out of place, “too weird,” or stuck in roles that shrink their voice. Instead of chasing someone else’s path, we look at how early shame steals play, why many of us ref...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching A simple truth with sharp edges: comfort can make a person small. The opening provokes, then builds a case for recovering the muscles that tech convenience quietly atrophies—solitude, memory, intuition, and the courage to risk being wrong. This exploration digs into how constant connectivity burrows into daily life, why reviews and surveys sneakily replace j...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching What happens when the people who made you braver step into the same room? We trace a creative life through friendships that challenged our taste, sharpened our voice, and taught us how to make work that lasts. From early days on the AIGA board to classrooms at SVA, I unpack the small acts that compound into confidence: record the first try, record the last tr...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching What if the fastest way to honest work is to chase the wrongest idea first? That’s the creative compass Pablo Delcan uses to cut through noise, meet brutal deadlines, and still make images that feel unmistakably human. We talk about growing up in a house where clay, paint, and metal were always within reach; about turning shyness into a superpower for co...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Confidence isn’t a costume you earn after you “arrive.” It’s an energy you can put on when your work needs you to show up clear, steady, and useful. We explore why even asking a question takes guts, how borrowed beliefs become identity, and what changes when you stop outsourcing permission to other people. You’ll hear a candid story from the stage about...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching A wish to be “big” turns into a masterclass on being true. We pull ten punchy, practical lessons from Tom Hanks’ classic—using story to unpack why loving the process beats obsessing over the future, how the right comrades act like medicine, and what happens when we stop sanding down our edges to fit rooms that were never made for us. The result is a clear blu...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching A headless bronze taught us more about AI than any whitepaper. We start with Rodin’s Walking Man—one foot rooted in the past, the other driving forward—and unpack why those fingerprints in the base still stop us cold: they’re proof that a person risked something to make something. From there, we trace the tension many creatives feel as generative AI expl...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Forget the pressure to reinvent yourself every January. We take a scalpel to the “new year, new you” mantra and uncover a more honest path: ask the right questions, trust the answers you already know, and let the five-year-old inside—the curious, playful, weirdly wonderful you—come back to the mic. Instead of chasing a shinier identity, we explore what happen...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Ever noticed how we're all conditioned to fear failure? From spilled milk to creative blocks, our aversion to messing up shapes our lives in profound ways. SUBSCRIBE to get my weekly "Love Letters," hot updates and my well loved and popular Newsletter. Follow me on Instagram (@jamesvictore) for all my big ideas and inspiration!
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching The relationship between creatives and clients can be a delicate dance of expectations, boundaries, and mutual respect. SUBSCRIBE to get my weekly "Love Letters," hot updates and my well loved and popular Newsletter. Follow me on Instagram (@jamesvictore) for all my big ideas and inspiration!
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching What happens when you stand with one foot on the dock and one foot on a boat? You get wet. This perfectly captures the dilemma of creative professionals who want both creative freedom and absolute security—you can't have both without risking something. SUBSCRIBE to get my weekly "Love Letters," hot updates and my well loved and popular Newsletter. Fo...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching What does it mean to be truly human? It's about connecting with our innate ability to create beauty and magic—something we're all born with but many have forgotten along the way. SUBSCRIBE to get my weekly "Love Letters," hot updates and my well loved and popular Newsletter. Follow me on Instagram (@jamesvictore) for all my big ideas and inspiration...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Ever been told your creative work isn't important enough to make a real difference? This raw, inspiring episode challenges the dismissive notion that only certain professions can "change the world." SUBSCRIBE to get my weekly "Love Letters," hot updates and my well loved and popular Newsletter. Follow me on Instagram (@jamesvictore) for all my big id...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Ever wonder what truly separates creative people from creative professionals? Contrary to what you might expect, it's not extraordinary talent or revolutionary ideas—it's embracing two surprisingly mundane practices: scheduling and organization. SUBSCRIBE to get my weekly "Love Letters," hot updates and my well loved and popular Newsletter. Follow me o...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching What happens when we embrace uncertainty as fuel for creativity? In this conversation with bestselling author Austin Kleon (Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work, Keep Going), we explore how creative breakthrough often comes precisely when we're most uncomfortable. SUBSCRIBE to get my weekly "Love Letters," hot updates and my well loved and popular Newsletter. ...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Why do we freeze when faced with a blank page? That terrifying moment when doodling transforms into "creating a piece" often brings unexpected anxiety. In this episode, I tackle a profound question from Carlos about the fear that emerges when moving from playful sketches to committed artwork. SUBSCRIBE to get my weekly "Love Letters," hot updates and my well ...
If you are a stuck or frustrated creative and want to get paid to do what you love, let's talk. https://yourworkisagift.com/coaching Some doors open because you knock. Others open because you knock, wait a year, and keep making brave work while you do. Today we share the true story of how a cold, unglamorous submission—dropped at a museum coat room—turned into a call from a curator, ten pieces accepted into the collection, and five on the wall at the Museum of Modern Art. No gala, no plaqu...
