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Gifted Underachievers!
Pat Dobie and James Buchanan, two experienced creatives earning a field-adjacent living, explore the paradox of making art that makes money, doing what you love, and getting past the middle rungs of the career ladder.
Are you:
- earning a living supporting other creatives & struggling to get time for your own work?
- looking for ways to create more (and more often)?
- trying to identify and expand your audience?
- considering how to expand income sources from your art, including grants, awards, and other back-door money?
Gifted Underachievers is for writers, actors, visual artists, comedians—anyone who’s made a career out of thin air. Explore with us what it takes to ‘level up,’ make more money pursuing your creative projects, and expand your work with collaborators.
What’s in it for you?
You’ll get one episode a week, divided into two or three short segments just the right length for your commute, your spot in the donut lineup, or whatever you do regularly.
Regular segments include:
- Interviews — conversations with Gifted Achievers
- Gated opportunities — when access to opportunities relies on having connections or resources, how can you get in?
- Now what? — you got one or more book deals / shows / roles / gigs … how to keep it together and build on the momentum
- Office hours — the nuts and bolts of running a creative or creative-adjacent business
- The grants experiment — using “unfolding” as a framework for accessing grants as an income stream
- Plus segments on marketing, monetizing, and other basics of earning a creative living
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