The Full Fee: On Worth, Receiving, and Babysitting

I was a toddler when two women at a doorstep decided what I was worth. It took me decades to hear the lesson inside that deal. This one is about value decided, not discovered. About us waiting for circumstances to hand down a verdict that was never t...

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Jul 09, 2026
Dirty Work: What Nobody Tells Creatives

Why a manager, team, assistant, audience or patron might be useless to us until we understand this first.    Brought to you by: https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/ https://safeandsound.studio/    Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + cou...

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Jul 02, 2026
From Rock Machine to Human Be w/ Uday Benegal

Uday Benegal is the founding vocalist of Indus Creed (formerly Rock Machine), the Bombay band that  that arguably forced the rest of the world to acknowledge the existence of a culture that had always existed inside post-colonial India amidst the cro...

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Jun 25, 2026
"Limiting Beliefs" — A Limiting Belief?

Most creatives know that beliefs are holding them back. Some can articulate them, analyse them, even replace them with supposedly empowering alternatives. Yet the behaviour often remains unchanged, and the resistance stubbornly intact.    What comes...

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Jun 19, 2026
Familiarity is not safety

The brain mistakes repetition for safety, comfort for understanding, and endurance for choice. This confusion runs deeper than personal relationships; it shapes entire careers, industries, and the inherited scripts we mistake for our own lives.  What...

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Jun 11, 2026
Saying 'No'

Saying no sounds simple. It isn't, and not for the reasons most people think. In this episode I unpack why the word itself was never really the problem, what's actually happening when we can't hold a line, and why the emotional aftermath of a boundar...

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Jun 03, 2026
The Lost History of Indian Jazz w/ Sandhya Sanjana

There is an entire chapter of Indian music history that has shaped global music in unknown ways remains preserved only in the human memory of a select few.  Sandhya Sanjana is one of those humans. Long before "world music" became a marketing category...

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May 28, 2026
Gift Economy vs Transactional Economy

In this episode, I unpack two economic philosophies that sound academic but are anything but. The gift economy and the transactional economy. What they actually mean, where they came from, why the gift economy keeps surfacing as an alternative to the...

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May 22, 2026
The Pain of Not Being Seen

The fear of invisibility haunts nearly every one of us, especially creatives.  We're quick to blame the algorithm, the platform, the saturated market, and AI.    But what if the real source of that pain runs much deeper?   Rooted not in metrics, but...

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May 14, 2026
Capacity vs Capability

In an era obsessed with relentless output, we often make the subtle but dangerous mistake of confusing our outward capabilities with our internal space. While modern hustle culture demands flashy performances, new skills, and louder opinions, the pro...

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Apr 18, 2026