22. When the Creative Slump is REAL

Whiskey and Lace

Erika Altes

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships

2.5 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Yes, even creative professionals get into ruts. From the stress of comparing herself to other influencers to the pressures of constantly launching new ideas, Erika talks about her struggles to seek advice from you and to put the energy out there to get the ball rolling. In this intimate episode, you'll hear her desires for the future and her dreams for the Whiskey & Lace community.

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In this episode, we cover the following:

Impacts of job dissatisfaction on personal life
Making major career shifts
Creative slumps and the comparison game
Ideas Erika would love to execute with Whiskey & Lace
Reflections on future plans

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you someone who doesn't take life too seriously? Do you sometimes find that a shot of whiskey
0:08.1	isn't only deserved but needed? If you said yes to either of those, welcome to the Whiskey and Lace
0:13.2	podcast, where we have honest chats with everyday people, shit shows, and all. I'm your host, Erica
0:18.9	Altus, and I'm here to empower you to be the best version of
0:22.1	yourself and perhaps share in a shot of whiskey. Now pour yourself a glass of wine and let's go.
0:30.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Whiskey and Lace podcast. I don't even
0:35.3	know what episode this is going to be in season three. I don't even know if I'm actually really going to even publish this one. But I just randomly decided about 20 minutes ago to podcast this episode. There was no plan for this. I didn't ask you guys questions in my stories before like I normally do. I just said, fuck it. I need to just get this
0:55.3	off my chest because you guys don't know this. I've kind of dabbled a little bit in hinting that I've
1:01.5	just been kind of in this creative slump situation for a few weeks now, at least a few weeks. And I was
1:10.0	like, you know what? Maybe I should just talk about it.
1:12.3	Maybe I just need to get it off my chest, kind of like writing in a journal. And that's what
1:15.3	this episode is kind of maybe going to be. And I'm hoping that I can even lean on you guys to
1:21.6	help point me in the direction you think I should take. Not to say that I'm going to take your advice,
1:28.5	but fuck it. Like, I might as well gauge like what you think. And I could easily put up a poll
1:34.2	on my stories, but I just think that I need to talk it through first. But before I even dive
1:39.3	into that, it started getting me like my wheels turning on. I've had a lot of people ask me the
1:47.7	question of, you know, what happens when I get into a creative slump? What happens when I want to
1:53.1	change careers? Like, what should I do? And so I felt like these, this topic and what I'm kind of
1:59.3	going through currently married well with talking about when I
2:03.2	decided to make a career shift from working at Roxanne Quicksilver to quitting and starting something
2:09.8	new. So I felt like that would be a good lean in on this whole conversation. So to backtrack a little
2:16.8	bit, I worked at Roxanne Quicksilver for,
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