Episode 16: Growing Pains (with Rose Eveleth)

At some point, most creatives experience growing pains--when your project is going well and now you have decisions to make about whether to grow it, to bring in collaborators, or to expand your reach. We’ll also talk about avalanches of opportunity and money grubbing poets. Our guest this episode is the inimitable Rose Eveleth. She is the producer and host of Flash Forward, a podcast about the future. We’ll ask her two questions: 1) When do you know your project has grown beyond something you can do alone and you need to bring in collaborators? and 2) When the creative project you’re doing is bringing you new opportunities, how do you decide which ones to take and what direction you want to head?Christie’s Book, Good to Go, finalist for the Colorado Book Award! Christie’s Courage CampsRose Eveleth (photo credit: Eler de Grey)Flash Forward, a podcast about the future.A Change in the LightNow while the moonis hiding behind the cloudsnow when the rainis falling midwinter,and now that they’ve told usnot to hug or kiss each otherfor fear of contractingand spreading disease,yes now is the time to findwhatever light we havebeen hiding inside us—whatever measure of brilliancewe’ve managed to concealfrom each other, from ourselves—now is the time to bring forththat luminescence and offer itfreely to the world, nowwhen light matters most. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe