555 - Overcome Dead Ends & Open Up to New Directions with Hrishikesh Hirway

Creative Pep Talk

Arts, Education, Business, Design

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🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You have hit a dead end and need to open up to totally new directions. 2 - You are stuck doing nothing and need a small place to start. 3 - You need to find new guidance from an outside perspective. This is a chat with musician Hrishikesh Hirway. You may know Hirway from his phenomenal podcast “Song Exploder” or his work as a composer for the film “Companion” or Netflix television series “Everything Sucks!”. Today we discuss the winding journey to his new album “In the Last Hour of Light” which features guests like Iron and Wine and Fenne Lily.SHOW NOTES: Hrishikesh Hirwayhttps://hrishikesh.coHrishikesh Hirway - In the Last Hour of Lighthttps://hrishikesh.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-last-hour-of-light Song Exploderhttps://songexploder.net Producer / Editor: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.comSpotify Playlist of WHY? Songs Used on This Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZIE7PHG5I1Ddg1BuVGRzj?si=4x_BzDZjQgqSpoaLXdVACgπ=h4HsIKG0SP6Kg SPONSORS:SQUARESPACEHead to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is not an ad. It's a gift. I'm going to be at the Icon illustration conference this year in July doing a handful of different things.
0:07.0	And I asked them if they could give me a discount for the listeners of the show because I would love to see you there and hang out at the after parties and whatnot.
0:14.2	And they let me have a $100 discount to share with you, which is just so generous and so awesome.
0:21.3	If you're an illustrator, I highly recommend going to ICON.
0:23.9	It's been a magical experience, the times that I've gone, even the first time in 2014
0:28.1	that I went.
0:28.8	It was a very scary leap, but so worth it.
0:31.1	Go to icon.
0:32.9	com to learn more.
0:35.5	The discount is automatically applied to that link. icon.com. Hope to learn more. The discount is automatically applied to that link. Icon.com.
0:39.0	Icon.com. Hope to see you there. Has your creative groove become a creative rut? This is a thing I
0:51.2	think about a lot because it's happened to me a bunch of times where
0:54.5	you struggle to kind of find your way, you find something that works, and then you just go over
0:58.9	that thing over, you know, you're just like treading that path and getting as much as you can
1:03.9	from it because it was so hard to get. And then eventually that groove just digs down until
1:09.6	it's a rut that you're stuck in. It's really easy to get in that
1:13.6	place. Today on the show, we've got Rishi Kesh, Hereway, the host, creator, and producer of the
1:21.3	popular and phenomenal podcast song Exploder. This is the second time that Rishi Cage has been on this show, and we had an
1:29.6	absolute blast chatting. And the thing I took away from his perspective with this new album that he has,
1:36.7	it's called In the Last Hour of Light. It's fantastic. I've listened to it three or four times.
1:43.1	The single Shre Dogs dogs I've just had
1:45.4	playing in my mind over and over. It features iron and wine. It's just a great, great tune.
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