It's whether you're doing it Hello and welcome to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations

that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan,

Emile Louise Fletcher, or alternative intro.

Hello and welcome to Thursday morning with a cup of tea and a chat.

Yeah, which is how it always feels and then... with a cup of tea and a chat. Yeah.

Which is how it always feels and then when people say,

I interviewed an artist last night but I don't know.

And he mentioned, oh, you mentioned me on the podcast and I was amazed and I nearly drove off the road or whatever and I was thinking

oh no people listen I keep being reminded that people listen quite a lot of people listen

we're up to nearly 2 million downloads now.

Can you imagine?

Quite extraordinary. It's just a number.

It's just a number. Crack on. Right.

Thursday morning I was out and away last week. I really enjoyed your conversation with John. It was lovely to hear you know a bit more and I think there are so many

Crossovers aren't there between art and writing really interesting.

Yeah he started forwarding my newsletter to a writer friend of his who is the writer I think I've mentioned her, she wrote Mamma Mia and that was like her big breakthrough thing.

And I met her at John's book launch when he started sending my newsletter to her and she said to him,

wow, it's just the same, like everything's the same.

And I bet it's the same if you talk to a musician as well.

It's all the same, this is the point, isn't it? We're all dealing with the same old stuff.

So we're going to talk this week a little bit about time and expectations

kind of prompted by something that I've been doing but just because you know we thought we'd have

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