This is a draft is a podcast (and newsletter) about thinking out loud while building a creative life, career, and business. Not pretending you have it all figured out- but finding a way to romanticize the process.
Hosted by Riley Schmitz, a brand strategist and founder of Unless Creative, the show explores creativity, ambition, confidence, marketing, and identity through honest, unfinished conversations. Each episode is a draft: real-time thoughts on running a creative business, navigating visibility, rebuilding self-trust, and forming opinions in an industry obsessed with certainty.
This isn’t a how-to podcast. This is a draft sits in the in-between where ideas are still forming, careers are still evolving, and clarity comes after action.
Expect candid solo episodes, thoughtful takes on the state of marketing and branding, reflections on creative confidence and taste, and permission to be unfinished in public.
If you’re a designer, marketer, founder, or creative navigating growth, burnout, ambition, or reinvention- this is a place to think out loud, together.
Progress over polish.
Presence over performance.
This is a draft.
This is a draft is a podcast (and newsletter) about thinking out loud while building a creative life, career, and business. Not pretending you have it all figured out- but finding a way to romanticize the process.
Hosted by Riley Schmitz, a brand strategist and founder of Unless Creative, the show explores creativity, ambition, confidence, marketing, and identity through honest, unfinished conversations. Each episode is a draft: real-time thoughts on running a creative business, navigating visibility, rebuilding self-trust, and forming opinions in an industry obsessed with certainty.
This isn’t a how-to podcast. This is a draft sits in the in-between where ideas are still forming, careers are still evolving, and clarity comes after action.
Expect candid solo episodes, thoughtful takes on the state of marketing and branding, reflections on creative confidence and taste, and permission to be unfinished in public.
If you’re a designer, marketer, founder, or creative navigating growth, burnout, ambition, or reinvention- this is a place to think out loud, together.
Progress over polish.
Presence over performance.
This is a draft.
