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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Funding Your Creativity with Your Day Job with Rick Coste

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

For this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, we are joined by Rick Coste, who may be one of our most prolific guests on the show to date. Rick is a writer and audio producer, best known for his work in audio drama. Rick has achieved a remarkable level of productivity in his daily life and is eager to share the secret to how, despite having a day job, he has maintained an unwavering desire to express and create.


You can find out more about Rick Coste and his work at www.RickCoste.com


Rick is the producer behind many successful audio dramas including Behemoth, which can be found at www.modernaudiodrama.com


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If I had a different job, I'm sure it would affect how the last few years have played out if I had a job where I had to get up at six in the morning to say travel to Boston and I've considered that. There's been opportunities in Boston. One was an audio engineering opportunity and I considered hey that's right up my alley audio engineer. I'll wonder if I'd be happy doing that and then then I thought about it, so it would mean getting up at five in the morning,

0:25.8

which isn't a problem for me, I'm already up,

0:27.3

but it would mean making sure I'm up at five in the morning,

0:30.0

you know, and being on the road by 6.30 at the the latest so I could beat that bus in traffic,

0:35.8

that would kill all of the creative time I've ever had.

0:40.8

That four to five hours I have to create in the morning would have been gone.

0:44.0

So that did play a lot into my decision to not pursue that opportunity because I would have lost so much.

0:51.0

And I won't do it at night because night's not really my creative time.

0:55.0

The way my mind works, at the end of the day I'm exhausted,

0:58.0

mentally exhausted, my creativity would

1:02.0

immediately just fall flat.

1:05.0

I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights

1:14.4

of the most innovative and creative minds

1:16.3

who've started movements, built thriving businesses,

1:19.1

written best-selling books, and created

1:20.8

insanely interesting art.

1:22.2

For more, check out our 500 episode archive

1:24.6

at unmistakable Creative.com. They're not authors, but they help you shape your financial story. They're not an airline, but

1:37.0

they connect global businesses across nearly 160 local markets. They're not interpreters, but they listen to and understand

1:44.6

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1:49.1

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1:54.8

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