You are listening to the Savvy Painter Podcast episode number 280.

Hello friends, welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter Podcast.

Hello, hello, hello.

You might hear little doggies in the background.

I have one who is sitting literally two inches away from me

and going on 80 pound dog who really wants to be in my

lap for some reason right now but I'm just going to go with it because somehow for me this seems to fit perfectly with the topic of today's

episode which is having your own back and I have so much to say about this.

And this is sort of the perfect episode to do this on because normally I do a lot a lot of

a lot of preparation for podcast episodes and I have a one-page sheet of notes

of bullet points that I'm going to go off of and to me this feels very scary and I'm going to do it anyway and this is kind of the point. So you're seeing this happen, you're listening to this happen in action, in the process.

So the reason I want to talk about this, so many reasons for it, but I've been thinking

about this a lot as it applies to me and as it applies to making art. And what I see with artists who are in

growth studio, sometimes I just want to give people a big hug and say, please stop beating yourself up, don't do this.

And I really want to see people have, you know, like really, really

being what I'm going to say is like your own best friend. So let's talk about this, okay?

So here's why I think this is so important is because what I witness is a lot of artists who are doing their absolute best at trying to make amazing art and to be a quote-unquote serious artist and to be the artist that they want to be. And just that, like I feel like those words are kind of

ineffective. I think if I was writing this out I'd be like, oh what's another word

for that? How could I say that better? But it does, like I think that is the simplest way to say it is, just as with our

paintings we have visions of how we think things should be on the canvas. We have a vision for what we want to create.

We have visions for who we want to be as an artist.

And we oftentimes will make that,

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