Justin Connor | Why Fame and Success Won't Heal Your Wounds
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We all want to be healed from our past, but fame and success are rarely the answer. Instead, we have to find healing in other ways that don't rely on success or popularity. Take a listen to discover why fame and fortune aren't healing agents and how to find true healing without them.
Justin Connor is the director of The Golden Age, watch it now on Amazon Prime | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08778TVWF
More about Justin, his film and his music can be found on his website | https://www.justinconnor.com/
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| 0:00.0 | everyone thinks that if they achieve the certain status or money or fame or a TV show or a big podcast |
| 0:09.1 | or a great album or a film like I did or whatever that that will heal and absolve these wounds and |
| 0:15.6 | create like a certain solve to to minimize that shame or lack of self worth and I I think that's |
| 0:23.0 | like a there's a healthy aspect to that that forces one to become a creator or creating in some |
| 0:28.8 | level but I realized and why partly why I satirized fame in the film was I had to like take the |
| 0:35.5 | piss out of it all like I had to look at that which I thought would heal me in a way creatively or |
| 0:41.9 | notoriety wise and because I knew that wasn't going to do it even though I was craving it because |
| 0:46.5 | of this wound so I had to get really honest with it and satirize it because I know that deep down |
| 0:52.4 | that's as big of a mirage as anything I'm streany rau and this is the unmistakable creative |
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| 1:56.7 | Justin welcome to the unmistakable creative thanks so much for taking the time to join us |
| 1:59.9 | thanks for having me shani yeah it is my pleasure so I found out about your story |
| 2:05.1 | because you wrote in about your film the golden age and I think that the thing that really struck me |
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