Hey, y'all, this week is a little bit different. This episode actually comes from a different

podcast called Ghost Frame. This narrative nonfiction podcast series was created by a friend of mine

that you may know from the animation motion world, Sarah Beth Morgan, aka Wonderful.

Sarah Beth reached out to me to tell me about the series and asked me to be a part of it on the final episode,

which just recently aired.

And the more that I dove into the series, the more relevant that I thought it was to the listeners of this show. So I

decided to share it in our feed. On the surface, Ghost Frame is about how the commercial

animation industry has been going through tough times and how things have been in massive flux

and what that's been like as a freelance illustrator

working in that industry as Sarah Beth has been.

And I know that mirrors what a lot of folks in all creative industries are experiencing

these days.

Uncertain times, fears of big changes on the horizon.

So that alone made it super relevant.

But underneath the surface, it's a bit about coming to midlife, but even more so in the abstract, it's about being in transition, which I know so many of us feel just with how everything is rapidly changing.

When before is gone and after hasn't really materialized, how do you navigate your creative

practice in times this uncertain and this unstable? How do you manage your emotions in that space well enough to

continue to show up? I think this series does an excellent job at grappling with these really

big questions and I found a lot of comfort and insight from it as well. So this episode is episode one of the Ghost Frame podcast.

Hope you love it as much as I did, and I hope you check it out.

Check out the rest of the series.

It's a five-episode series after you listen to this one.

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