The Happy Hustle
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A career in the arts is tough. Creative professionals are notoriously overworked and underpaid. Even if you "make it," it's easy for your passion to turn into just another stressful job.
On this episode, we bring you a story about photographer and skateboarder Khaleeq Alfred, who has been learning how to walk the line between following his dreams and paying the bills. It's a story about getting the compensation you deserve without sacrificing your artistic integrity, and about finding balance between happiness and the hustle.
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| 0:00.0 | For a lot of us, summer means road trips, which also means you're probably looking for good things to listen to in the car. |
| 0:10.7 | One of Out There's sponsors is a podcast called Out Travel the System. Out Travel the System is brought to you by Expedia, and its mission is to inspire and inform about travel. |
| 0:23.7 | That can mean anything from building your bucket list to taking concrete steps to take that |
| 0:29.1 | next trip when the time is right. The podcast finds people who are passionate about travel, |
| 0:35.7 | including a commercial airline pilot, a woman who travels pretty |
| 0:40.4 | much year-round, and a man who wants to have visited every country in the world by the end of this |
| 0:46.4 | year. When it comes to inspiration, out-travel the system is also giving a voice to people who |
| 0:52.9 | love their hometowns and want to share them with travelers, or people who love, say, lake or beach life in the winter. |
| 1:02.2 | Out Travel the System is available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:18.1 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 1:22.9 | One quick announcement, we have started putting episode transcripts on our website. So if you'd like to follow |
| 1:29.8 | along as you listen, just head to out therepodcast.com and click on this episode. I also have |
| 1:36.6 | a link to the transcript in the show notes. The choice to pursue something you love as a career can be daunting, |
| 1:49.0 | especially when that something comes with some pretty significant financial barriers to overcome |
| 1:56.0 | before your career can even begin. |
| 1:59.0 | On top of that, the industry you work for notoriously undervalues the work you produce. |
| 2:04.6 | Even if you summon the courage to commit to those initial financial investments, and you work hard to accomplish your goals, |
| 2:13.6 | you run the risk of turning your passion into just another stressful job. |
| 2:19.3 | How do you walk the line between living the lifestyle you want to live |
| 2:24.3 | and simply paying the bills? |
| 2:26.3 | How can you get the compensation you deserve without sacrificing your artistic integrity? |
| 2:33.3 | How do you find balance between happiness and the hustle? |
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