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Let's Go Again: A Philosophical and Practical Guide for Indie Creatives

Let's Go Again: A Philosophical and Practical Guide for Indie Creatives

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 This podcast is a philosophical and practical guide for the Independent Class. We are 21st Century indie artists. We ask big questions like "what is the artist’s role in society?", and we strategize for small ones like "how do I grow an audience when my posts reach about 5 people a day?" We tackle those ideas and everything in between. We make art that builds a new world — one powered by the people. On a film set, when a director wants to do another take, you often hear them say, let’s go again. It signals a chance to reset and keep trying to get the shot. Each episode is another chance for us to reset and figure out this path together, outside of the system and on our own terms.

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  • deep cut | The Indie Future is Here with Joshua Morgan and Mike Labbadia

    deep cut | The Indie Future is Here with Joshua Morgan and Mike Labbadia
    May 23 2025

    Fair warning for indie artists: this episode may cause an extreme bout of optimism about the future.

    And not because the big institutions are coming to save us.

    And not because the government is funding art as if it’s a societal good.

    And not because somehow the American economy now works.

    Nope! None of those things, as far as I can see, are on the horizon.

    But this week’s episode of Let’s Go Again with guests Joshua Morgan and Mike Labbadia is going to change your life with all the power of a guided ayahuasca experience because it imagines a way to redistribute power back to indie artists available to us right now.

    Here’s what you get when you press play:

    * The new work of the indie artist is not to “break through” but to put themselves “in context”.

    * Ideologically aligned projects might be more powerful than production companies.

    * Your artistic identity doesn't need to make sense.

    * The new mode of organization is not found in institutional hierarchy, it’s found in the ideas shared between like-minded artists.

    * When artists align, the validation of previously isolated experiences creates a flywheel of self-motivation.

    * Long-term alignment among artists can lead to financial returns, prestige, momentum, and creative growth.

    * To work in a collective does not mean you have to give up your individuation.

    * A running debate about whether or not I’m FBI. 😂

    * And of course, more.

    The episode vibe is as follows:

    MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

    💎 The Creative Risk Podcast & Patreon where you can find a HUGE backlog of brilliance starring Joshua Morgan and Mike Labbadia. Also follow them on the socials: @creativeriskpod

    🔥 The Metalabel platform. Lol again not an affiliate, just la-hove it and believe in my bones it’s the future.

    📣 Tell me in the comments: does the idea of collective group projects speak to you?

    ✨ If you like this episode… text it to a friend! ✨

    Want to connect? TELL ME ABOUT YOU HERE

    Want to figure out where you are in your personal artistic timeline? TAKE THE QUIZ



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit queensbirdzine.substack.com
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    1 h et 18 min
  • deep cut | Creating An Unpredictable Body of Work Using Paradoxical Moves with Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz

    deep cut | Creating An Unpredictable Body of Work Using Paradoxical Moves with Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz
    May 1 2025
    ALERT THE PRESSES.You can make a body of work that reveals you to be an unpredictable genius pop star at age 42, if you so choose.Do you so choose?If this is the year you want to stop grinding against the rickety machine that someone else built and always breaks down right before you’re supposed to get paid…and instead you want to heroically hurdle yourself into space at rocket-speed toward your biggest goals like Matt Damon launching himself off Mars in nothing but a spacesuit and a tarp…Then you’ll need to make a paradoxical move.What’s a Paradoxical Move?A paradoxical move is, as Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz explains in this week’s episode, an intentional break in the pattern of your personal thinking. It’s going left when you’d usually go right.But it’s not a grind. And it’s not random. It’s actually fast and somewhat effortless, super strategic and exceptionally fun.I wanted to talk with Michelle about this because she introduced me to this concept back in 2021, and there’s literally no one smarter I could ask to explain it to me.Michelle isn’t just the founder of Holisticism or the host of The Twelfth House or the creator of SPACIES or the brain behind sublimatrix — a Matrix of Destiny cipher or a consultant that offers incredible status quo-changing experiences to her clients.After almost a decade of running a very profitable company, she could sit back and let the hits keep coming. But instead, she’s soon going to UCLA to pursue her PhD.So truly, there is no one better with whom I could ask about making unknowable, unexpected, and career-intensifying moves than Michelle.In this episode, we discuss:* The spectrum of age and how it changes your understanding of the creative process* The way independent artists can use institutions as a way to make their body of work at a faster rate* Infinite Games vs. Finite Games (thanks Yancey Strickler & Joshua Citarella for the inspo there!)* How to discern what you think is cool when you feel indoctrinated by the culture* How to become more unknowable and more unpredictable and evade AI from co-opting your brain* And how to use paradoxical moves in your career to find way more opportunities and get where you want to go much fasterThe episode vibe is as follows:MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:🔥 Metalabel’s New Creative Era podcast (if you like this episode, you’ll love their whole first season)🪩 Price Pritchett’s book, You Squared🍿 Kinsley Vs., my independent web series⚾️ Ted Hope’s Q&A with Carson Lund about his new movie Eephus: "When trying to express the intangible parts of your mind and soul..."I can take on 2 more clients for my currently-running 1:1 experiences in May.These are the tracks available:* Copy & Content Sessions: helping you craft noise-cutting copy* Mastering the Release: designing a release campaign for your work* Scene-Building Startup: setting up infrastructure for your indie careerWe can work on one of these tracks two different ways: either a one-time private intensive, or a 4-week work sprint.Curious? Let me know what you need in 30s here…And let’s chat.⌨️ Tell me in the comments: What would be a paradoxical move for you?✨ If you like this episode… text it to a friend! ✨ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit queensbirdzine.substack.com
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    1 h et 3 min
  • When You Stop Chasing Fake Power, and Start Finding Personalized, Unassailable, Artistic Power

    When You Stop Chasing Fake Power, and Start Finding Personalized, Unassailable, Artistic Power
    Apr 3 2025

    Hi!

    IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR INDIE ARTISTS:

    What’s the difference between the independent artist who spends all their brain power on trying to “hack the system” to gain more followers

    and an independent artist who says whatever they want, whenever they want, how they want, with no algorithmic rhyme or reason and can still sit back and watch their career and audience grow?

    If you think it’s “right place/right time” magical luck, you’d be sadly mistaken.

    Or, if you’re certain *some* art is just more popular than others, that’s not it either.

    If you’re guessing:

    * they’d have to be famous…

    * or maybe they’ve been working on it for decades…

    * or they have a trust fund, so they can actually put time and effort into their growth strategies?

    That’s a no, no, and absolutely not.

    While some of these situations could potentially help, they’re not where real power exists. In all of those examples, the artist is still relying on outside forces of time, money, luck, or status.

    But real power (life-changing power) isn’t built from time, money, luck, or status.

    It’s built from attention. And what drives attention?

    Writing that hooks.

    If you could grow your career by using writing that hooks instead of chasing constantly-changing algorithms, would you finally take yourself seriously?

    In today’s episode, I’m going to convince you of the power of writing that hooks AND I’m going to show you how to do it.

    IN TODAY’S EPISODE, we’ll answer these questions:

    * Why is writing the most important skill for indie artists?

    * How does writing that hooks push your career forward?

    * Why should I spend time on writing when I have so many other important things to do as an independent artist?

    * How can I use specifics to quickly hook my reader?

    * How does tension work in hooky writing?

    * What do the 3-Act and 5-Act Structure writing models prove about writing that hooks?

    * Why is my audience’s “repetition of ideas” an important part of my career growth?

    MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

    😬 Using surprise and absurdity in Kinsley Vs. to create a hooky writing moment. David Gow and Lauren Karaman never cease to make me laugh-cringe-cry.

    ⚡️ Colin Corrigan’s “Attachment in Severance” from his fantastic Substack: The Story Energies

    🔮 Octavia Butler’s essay “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future” from Essence Magazine, 2000

    I'm offering a 1:1 experience for my fellow indie artists in April and May. These are the tracks available:

    * Copy & Content Sessions: helping you craft noise-cutting copy

    * Mastering the Release: designing a release campaign for your work

    * Scene-Building Startup: setting up infrastructure for your indie career

    We can work on one of these tracks two different ways: either a one-time private intensive, or a 4-week work sprint.

    Curious? Let me know what you need here…

    And I'll email you directly with what I think could help.

    ⌨️ Tell me in the comments: where do you think you can add more tension to your writing?

    ✨ If you like this episode… please consider texting it to a friend! ✨



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit queensbirdzine.substack.com
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    28 min

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