Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast, new listeners, old listeners,

wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we

break down the psychology of our 20s. Today, let's cut straight to the chase. I want to talk about

creative passion projects, creative side hustles, creative hobbies, the things that we are called to deeply create and express and make.

And basically how to find a balance between making time for creation in our busy world and also needing to work,

needing to pay our bills. How do we find the balance between practicality and passion?

How can we hold both of these things at once without feeling like our creative endeavors

are always the first thing to basically be sacrificed.

I get so many questions about this, specifically from obviously people in their 20s who are

facing this dilemma of do I pursue the thing that I'm really passionate about, some creative

act, some entrepreneurial idea, or do I stick with what is expected of me,

what is very traditional, what is very stable? And specifically, the questions I often get are

around how we can turn our passions into our jobs, when to take the risk and pursue whatever it is you want to pursue art, music,

writing, podcasting full time, but also so many DMs asking me for time management strategies,

how to deal with creative blocks, how to know when financially you are ready to pursue

your creative passion full time.

So I really thought that it deserved its own episode because I can speak really deeply to this

from experience. If you are new to the show and you don't know the origin story of the

psychology of your 20s, this podcast started all the way back in 2021, so almost four

years ago. And when I first started it, I wasn't working. I was fun-employed. Basically, I was

convinced I was going to take a gap year. And then I ended up working in a corporate job for

around a year and a half, almost two years, whilst I was doing

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