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You know, when your favorite artists just have a moment where they're just right in the pocket, just right in the sweet spot. And there's just this kind of supernatural transcendence.

And all of a sudden, they're just almost seeing steps ahead of the game and just creating from a place that is deeper than we knew existed. And you see those people and you're like, man, I want that. Don't you want that. We all want that. That's why you're listening to this podcast right now.

You know, someone who I think is having a big moment right now is my guest, Simone Wilder, you can go check out her work at Simon and moose.com or Simon and moose on Instagram. And you're going to see this gorgeous work. It's got this kind of gritty slickness juxtaposition thing going on gorgeous stuff.

And this year, I just started seeing her name pop up all over the place, her work all over the place. She's having a massive year. And as I dug in, it's no surprise.

Because these people that find that space to me so often there's a pattern that creative breakthrough is a ripple effect emanating from personal breakthrough.

Personal growth, personal revelation. And if you follow Simone online, if you have been following her, you're going to notice that she's really just over the past couple of years been going through a personal journey coming into her own getting to know herself and embody that.

And the creativity is just flowing from there. And that's really why I wanted to have a chat with her. I wanted to dig in and find out what was the catalyst for this change and for this journey and for this breakthrough.

And I want you to listen out for when she talks about how this process came from taking a good look at the things that we as a society are suppressing.

You know, it reminds me of one of my favorite things I've heard recently that I've just been ruminating on from philosopher and theologian Pete Rollins. He says that the artist job isn't to tell us something we don't know.

It's to tell us something that we know that we didn't know that we knew. And this chat just reminded me that the artist job is often to go where no other person will go and often that means within.

And I hope that this chat inspires you to start taking the personal journey as seriously as you're taking the creative journey because I think there's a convergence here. There's a there's an overlap in that then diagram where things start to get really interesting.

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