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Self-Helpless

Filmmaker Kit Williamson on the Highs and Lows of a Creative Career: Dead Projects, Taking Control & an Unconventional Path

Self-Helpless

Cloud10

Alternative Health, Science, Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Delanie Fischer chats with actor and filmmaker Kit Williamson, best known for Mad Men, Eastsiders, and Unconventional , about the ebbs and flows of a long-term creative career. They dive into the resilience and recommitment required for longevity, navigating big breaks and dead projects, exercising creative agency, and behind-the-scenes insights into filmmaking. Plus: + The Process of Selling a Project vs. Creating a World + Avoiding Perfection Paralysis and Releasing Shame + Repurposing, Financing, and Getting Resourceful Unconventional: https://www.revry.tv/originals/unconventional?srsltid=AfmBOoqpHDsMf__K9un9PxTtwQO4rU5U2HGBxcf4lpN7JgG1bcpS429h Self-Helpless on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfhelpless Your Host, Delanie Fischer: https://www.delaniefischer.com EPISODES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC: We Need Your Art! For Health, Community, and More with Amie McNee: https://www.delaniefischer.com/selfhelplesspodcast/episode/25b6ee3e/we-need-your-fcking-art-for-health-community-and-more-with-amie-mcnee It's Not Too Late To Start with Jared Champion: https://www.delaniefischer.com/selfhelplesspodcast/episode/23f7190f/its-not-too-late-to-start-with-jared-champion Q&A: Publishing, Podcasting, and Creative Entrepreneurship with Literary Agent Lindsey Smith and Podcaster Delanie Fischer: https://www.delaniefischer.com/selfhelplesspodcast/episode/23bfb9d7/qanda-publishing-podcasting-and-creative-entrepreneurship-with-literary-agent-lindsey-smith-and-podcaster-delanie-fischer Making Less And Living More with Creator of Lore and Lust Karla Nikole: https://www.delaniefischer.com/selfhelplesspodcast/episode/24656068/making-less-and-living-more-with-creator-of-lore-and-lust-karla-nikole Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I take in good advice.

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And I'm self-careless, so don't tell me twice that lately I've been so stuck in my head

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that I forget just about everything my therapist said.

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Maybe I'm self-help.

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Hey, everyone, welcome to self-helpless.

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I'm Delaney Fisher.

1:19.9

And today I'm chatting with Kit Williamson, who is an actor and filmmaker, best known for his role on Mad Men and for creating the series on Netflix East Siders and his new series

1:29.0

on conventional, now on Revery. And we're talking about the highs and lows of being in a creative

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