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Diary of a Creative
by Margaret Lefton
🦄 Welcome to the Diary of a Creative: HQ for creatives, creators, and entrepreneurs. Part class, part video journal by @margaretlefton.
Episodes
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56. Welcome to Diary of a Creative
WE'RE REBRANDING FOLKS Follow the journey: @margaretlefton
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55. The reality of moving to LA to follow your dreams - 2 year update (Youtube Video Repost)
repost of my recent YouTube video - follow me over there I'm now YouTube first :) follow along ze journey: @margaretlefton
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54. What a Creative Portfolio Career Actually Looks Like (life updates)
Order the Inner Seasons Oracle Deck: a tool for creatives, artists, and entrepreneurs to unlock their biggest life Follow ye journey: @margaretlefton This week I’m sharing a life update on what I’ve been building behind the scenes - from launching my Inner Seasons oracle deck to producing…
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53. The Cost of Following Your Dreams (Drunk Life Update)
Never have I ever podcast'd drunk but y'know, when inspiration hits. ANYWAYS, this week: AHHH the tradeoffs of committing your life to art. Reflecting on the homesickness of missing family events and shifts while across the country, learning to rest, nostalgia waves, and finally launching my...
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52. 18 months of podcasting and a pause
52 episodes. 18 months. One LinkedIn Easy Apply that somehow led to a major breakthrough. A bow on this chapter of Multi-Hyphenate University. Tbh guys I wanted this to be more structured with clear takeaways and learnings, and ended up being, as is tradition, more of a live rant lol. I'll save…
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51. Producing Late Night TV for YouTube & Work/Art Balance
Follow Along: @margaretlefton Check out the new YT show I'm producing: @goodnight on YT What to expect this week: 🎬 What producing the first late night show for YT is like🌀 The concept of creative center of gravity - and why LA makes it uniquely hard to stay in your own orbit (aka work/art...
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50. Juggling Complex Grief of a Grandparent & Career Life
Follow along: @margaretlefton You know that thing where every area of your life is happening all at once? My grandmother passed away this week - a truly outrageous, rude, cold, creative, brilliant, deeply complicated woman who shaped so much of my artistic identity, and childhood. This week:...
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49. Directing My First Set & Life'ing
I got to direct a new YouTube series with The Casting Society (CSA)! Also: life is happening! Huzzah, complexities of being a 3d person 😂 (I live in LA in Venice so am I obligated to say 5d person? *sigh* ) Inside: 🍝 When throw spaghetti at the wall gets old - juggling exciting projects, paid...
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48. LA Imposter Syndrome, Digital Detox, & Storytelling Lessons
FOLLOWWWW ALONG: @margaretlefton Coming off 48 hours with my phone off (my favorite reset ritual), long walks by the ocean, and falling down a rabbit hole of old films, I found myself thinking a lot about storytelling, visibility, and what it feels like to grow in public. In this episode, I talk...
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47. The (Boring) Space Between Breakthroughs
I’ve been thinking a lot about integration - the phase after expansion, where things stop feeling new and exciting… and start feeling repetitive, slower, and honestly a little bit boring. We also get into YouTube and the tension between building something educational vs deeply vulnerable +...
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46. Life Upgrades, Improv Lessons, and having FUN
This week is a bit of a cozy, Saturday night catch-up (slumber party?) - pajamas, couch, and random updates from the week. Also if you weren't following the Artemis stuff: MOON JOY FOR LIFE (google it). We get into life upgrades (internal vs external), a surprisingly deep improv lesson on...
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45. The A→C Rule: How to Think More Originally
The A > C Framework for Creativity (aka improv concepts for creative living) I just got back from my UCB improv class, had my second on-set shoot as a YouTube host, and am in the middle of exploring new on-camera opportunities (including a TikTok Live role). So thisss week we’re connecting a lot…
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44. UCB Improv 101 Review: From a Scared Adult
Iiiii just started improv for the first time - and it's magical, healing, and expansive as heck. (ALSO: MY NEW PODCAST STUDIO WOOT) In this episode, I share what it’s actually like taking UCB’s Improv 101 class in LA, what surprised me, what terrified me, and why it’s become one of the most...
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43. My First Acting Class at 32: The Commercial Class, Improv, and Toastmasters
This week I’m taking you inside something very new for me: my first ever acting class, 10 minutes after I got home from it 😂(The Commercial Class) After booking a major YouTube hosting role and realizing just how different it is to perform on a full set versus filming alone in my living room, I...
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42. From Creator to Entertainer: Ye Transition Abounds
What happens when the “creator economy” starts bleeding into the entertainment industry? When 10 years of salary negotiations suddenly become negotiations about your likeness and voice in perpetuity? In this solo vlog episode, get cozy and let's talk about stepping into a new chapter without a...
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41. Are We All Meant to Be Creators? (Q&A on Creativity, Monetizing, & Finding Your Style)
In this audience Q&A ep, I'm answering Q's straight from the DM's. Inside: 🎨 Are we all meant to be creators? 🪞 How do you “find your voice”? 💸 Should you monetize everything you make? 🧠 learning: going wide vs going deep? 💎 Why is pricing your art so emotionally hard? <3 Follow the journey...
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40. Big Swings, Big Misses: Building Creative Resilience
In the words of our lord & savior Chumbawamba: I get knocked down, but I get up again. After a year of building in the creator space: podcasting, going viral, directing, stepping on bigger sets, I booked a dream opportunity. .... and then imposter syndrome took the wheel. Instead of spiraling, I...
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39. Creating When You Don't Want To
Follow along: @margaretlefton | @multihyphenateuniversity Life is... heavy right now. I sort of feel like i'm moving through molasses, and while others use their big emotions to create I have an urge to... hide like a turtle in a shell. So. If you have a commitment to showing up, and you don't…
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38. U-Turns, Spotlights, & February as the New January
WELCOMEEE back to campus. This solo episode is a cozy housemate chat on the couch - embracing the slow, strange start to January and the feeling of coming home to yourself after a season of movement, family, fatigue, and creative expansion. Getting into: Post holiday + travel feels and settling...
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37. The 5 Lazy Ways to Uplevel Your Creativity & Business in 2026
A truly original experience: teaching a workshop on leveling up your life for creative entrepreneurs, taught in a Bernese Mountain Dog onesie with 3 berners jumping on and off the couch Follow the podcast: @multihyphenateuniversity | @margaretlefton After walking away from traditional jobs (and...
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36. Why I Quit Being a Therapist And Coach
Follow the multi‑hyphenate journey with your creative housemate: @margaretlefton 🌀 This week, I finally tell a story I’ve been meaning to share for a whhiiillleeee: Why I walked away from being a therapist or coach years deep into studying it (and felt like a crazy person for doing so). Yes this...
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35. Everyday Breathwork for Creative Entrepreneurs with Elsa Unenge
🎙️ This week we're slowing it waayyy down (getting in that winter/holiday restful spirit) and tapping into the most under utilized tool in the game: the breath. Stay tuned for several highly specific, tactical breathing techniques you can implement today to navigate high stress creative...
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34. 2026 Energy Forecast & Tarot Reading with Ashley B. Jones
Follow the multi‑hyphenate journey with your creative housemate: @margaretlefton 🧙♀️✨ Today's episode is some witchy guidance (whether you're woo or not) for the year ahead. This basically is listening to two soul siblings laugh while reading magic (I promised Hogwarts guys). One of my fav…
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33. Burn the Influencer Playbook: 2026 Creator Strategy with Bia Granja
Follow along with your creative housemate: @margaretlefton WELCOME TO THE POST VIRAL ERA or so says Bia: so what's next? This week, I’m joined by Brazilian ROCKSTAR Bia Granja. Bia is the founder of YouPix, Latin America's biggest consultancy, accelerator, and conference for the Creator...
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32. Dorm Chat: Expansion Burnout
Welcome back to Multi-Hyphenate University: your campus for magical creative entrepreneurs and artists building their biggest dreams. This bonus episode is not a how-to, this is a how-it-feels-to [... go viral and hit a mega expansion] A vlog diary: the live musings of a creative in expansion...
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31. How I Healed my Chronic Depression
I made a full recovery from chronic depression. Need to kick off with a couple important notes... 1: I put together a list of all of my resources and notes from my journey (including how to find a therapist): here 2: Nothing here is medical advice, a magic bullet, or a checklist. It is simply...
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30. Creatives & Entrepreneurs Need Acting Classes
Follow the Multi-Hyphenate journey with your creative housemate: @margaretlefton This solo episode is an update on everything I'm currently learning about and trying in the creator journey... From podcasts to greek mythology. In this episode: 🎭 What I learned in my first-ever LA acting class...
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29. Life as an Adventure Photographer with Matador Network's Scott Sporleder
Follow the creative journeys of a Multi-Hyphenate with your favorite housemate: @margaretlefton 🦄✈️ If you dream of leaving behind an office or "normal" life path to travel the world and make art: this is for you. Scott Sporleder - longtime adventure photographer, filmmaker, and Creative…
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28. AI for Neurodivergent Creatives with Aneri Shah
Follow the internet's creative housemate adventures: @margaretlefton This episode is for the neurodivergent artist trying to navigate creating in the age of AI without betraying their twirly wonderful brain and artist belief system: from 2 artist witches. (so.. not another tech bro hustle…
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27. You Need To Go on Artist Dates (& Buy Stickers): Learnings From Building a Creative Business
Follow the journey of your creative housemate on campus: @margaretlefton & WE'RE BACK to talk spending $55 on stickers, The Artist's Way (+Homestar Runner), and also business coaching. A normal assortment. But for real: today is an excellent dorm chat on.... The Artist's Way: why you should be...
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26. Quantum Tools for Entrepreneurs: Recode Your Reality with Dr. Sam Rader
Follow Margaret's daily creative sparks + musings on Instagram Dr. Sam Rader spent 18 years as a psychotherapist before discovering something wild: regardless of age, race, socioeconomic status, or gender, every client was working from the same 12 subconcious patterns. And when you identify the...
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25. Friendship Changes, Directing, & Digital Detoxing
It's been a minnuuttteee so time for a solo episode - this is our dorm chat to catch up on life. Aka picture us in on a cozy couch with tea catching up on life. *Note: to nail home the art of always doing it imperfectly : yes, i am holding a mic in this episode. No, I did not remember to press...
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24. Mastering Money Mindset as a Creative Entrepreneur with Julia Carlson
Most financial advisors preach safety - long runways and low risk. But what about the [risk-taker] creative or entrepreneur who’s betting on themselves? 💸 8-figure entrepreneur and wealth advisor Julia Carlson (Founder of Financial Freedom WMG) shares The 5 Money Mindsets of the Wealthy - and...
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23. Learnings from Manychat's Instagram Summit
SEASON 2 HERE-A WE GO: Officially rebranded to Multi-Hyphenate University - your campus for the magical creatives, artists, & entrepreneurs. Come to class: @margaretlefton This week - learnings from the life-as-art-school classroom: From Cars & Bids, to Manychat's feature updates Colin & Samir's…
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22. I Tried Casual Dating in My 30's (so you don't have to) with Harmonie Krieger
Breakout star from Netflix's Jewish Matchmaking Harmonie Krieger (dating coach & matchmaker for Lox Club) joins me for a slumber party style (with sprinkled in coaching) deep dive on The Casual Dating Experiment: aka the summer I tried dating casually for the first time in my 30's. Grab your...
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21. Sophomore Creator MBA Year Kick Off: Youtube Dating Shows & New Studios
Live from your favorite Multihyphenate friend navigating LA's Creator economy from the inside... I'm back from my summer solo podcasting hiatus with some new shenanigans, curiosities, and updates: I went on a Youtube Dating show - and got to see how highly produced videos are made BTS Updates…
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20. Creative Apathy & Quantum Leaps with Cassidy Ceresa
I've been feeling creative apathy and in a period of contraction. So I naturally brought in an expert coach to help me move through it: meet Cassidy Ceresa (@cassidyeats). From aspiring english teacher to shaking Oprah's hand on stage and speaking to tens of thousands on a global wellness…
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19. Dating with a High EQ & C-PTSD with Harmonie Krieger
Breakout star from Netflix's Jewish Matchmaking Harmonie Krieger (dating coach & matchmaker for Lox Club) joins us for a deep on dating with a High EQ and complex trauma history. If you're an empath, highly sensitive person, coach, therapist, or someone with a history of complex trauma - normal...
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18. Spirituality as a Creative Entrepreneur: Lucid Dreaming & Finding Clarity
Aka: how a trance involving an elephant while I was on a cruise ship filled with 2,000 entrepreneurs caused me to move cities + change careers. (normal?). If you’re in the middle of figuring it out — creatively, spiritually, emotionally — this one’s for youu ~ In this episode: Bizarre spiritual...
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17. Camp Creative & Creator Mentors
Follow the journey from burnt out creative > finding my own voice: @margaretlefton *warning: my audio/cuts are garbage-io this week as my recording platform accidentally picked up macbook audio in lieu of mic RIP .... #donenotperfect The Creator journey continues - this week: Creative night...
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16. Career Astrologist Alice Hu on Building a Spiritual Business
Career Astrologist/general magical human Alice Hu (Woo Woo Company) joins us to talk about building her spiritual business in Washington, D.C. - and gives me a live career astrology reading that was on the nose and applicable for all multipassionates. If you’re feeling confused or curious about...
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15. Creator MBA: Week 3 • Redefining Success Metrics & Hooks
Follow the Multihyphenate journey: @margaretlefton This week I'm exploring: The tension between formulaic/analytic vs creative approaches to video How to reshape your approach to metrics to start getting wins ASAP and the psychology of frustration tolerance Not all creators are creatorpreneurs…
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14. Creator MBA: Week 2 Learnings
Follow the daily journey and adventures of learning in public: @margaretlefton Today diving into... Will Smith's creative psychology talk at The Lighthouse Visual hooks 101 VC talk on investing in Creator Led Businesses Mindset work: feeling annoying posting a lot Time Boundaries: learning to...
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13. Getting a Creator MBA & 6 Stages of Identity Changes
Follow the Multihyphenate journey: @margaretlefton Welcome to ... THE MESSY MIDDLE aka the point in the creative/entrepreneurial/artist journey where you're like wtf am i doing: joy/panic/joy/panic/hope/fear x100 repeat. It's me. TODAY'S LESSON AKA MY LIFE UPDATES: Creator MBA program: a...
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12. Ruining Your Personal Brand with Dingus & Zazzy (Jackasses of Business)
Follow the Diary of a Multihyphenate: @margaretlefton A Puppet, The Jackasses of Business, and a drunk Pikachu walk into a podcast recording ... Jonathan Sturgeon, Joey Doiron-Le, Adam Polson, and Richard the Puppet (Dunce Cap Podcast fame) - aka the Dingus & Zazzy team join me in an unhinged...
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11. TOOL: Tarot Reading for Multihyphenates with Ashley B. Jones
Follow Host Margaret's Multihyphenate adventures + learn more here Welcome to The Multihyphenate TOOL episodes: snack-sized, actionable takeaway excerpts from our full conversations. No fluff, just real strategies and creative mischief to help you grow. An episode for the woo curious and...
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10. Intuitive Coaching Session for Multihyphenates with Guide Ashley B. Jones
Follow the Multihyphenate journey at @margaretlefton An episode for the woo curious and witchy. If you're just interested in experiencing a tarot reading just for you - check out the excerpt TOOL episode now live! Intuitive guide Ashley B. Jones (Mirrorball-Destiny-Curator-Ms. Frizzle) joins me…
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9. TOOL: Sacred Clowning for Entrepreneurs & Creatives
Follow Host Margaret's Multihyphenate adventures + learn more here Welcome to The Multihyphenate TOOL episodes: snack-sized, actionable takeaway excerpts from our full conversations. No fluff, just real strategies and creative mischief to help you grow. Kae Burke (creative...
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8. Dirty Circus: Breaking Rules & Building Worlds with House of Yes’s Kae Burke
Follow Host Margaret's Multihyphenate adventures + learn more here Kae Burke (creative director-clown-teacher-artist-founder) of House of Yes and Yes Etc - aka multihyphenate extraordinaire - shares her creative journey from fashion school to building a giant community in NYC. Learn about: From...
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7. TOOL: 4-Step Content Creator Bootcamp with Onose Ijewere
Welcome to The Multihyphenate TOOL episodes: snack-sized, actionable takeaways from our full conversations. No fluff, just real strategies, insights, and creative mischief to help you grow. Onose Ijewere (@highvibebyonose) walks us through her 4-step Content Creator Bootcamp—designed to help...
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🦄 Welcome to the Diary of a Creative: HQ for creatives, creators, and entrepreneurs. Part class, part video journal by @margaretlefton.
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Margaret Lefton
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