What Do You Do When the Work Doesn’t Feel Like Enough? with Parker Molloy

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Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Writer Parker Molloy joins us to talk about the invisible costs of creative independence, from burnout to the search for meaning in an industry built on metrics, and why it’s so hard to believe your work matters, even when it clearly does. This week on our Patreon exclusive, Parker Malloy names names. She tells us who’s thriving in media right now that absolutely shouldn’t be, and who’s doing such great work it makes her forget to be jealous. Subscribe at ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/pastdue⁠⁠⁠ to hear it and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right guys, let's head to the stadium and grab some high ground.
0:03.2	Copy that? I'll drop near the checkpoint.
0:05.0	I'll take the building on the left.
0:06.3	And watch out for any teams going for the same spot.
0:08.6	I'm in position.
0:10.8	Whoa, that does not sound good.
0:14.4	Play it down, play it down.
0:16.4	You need broadband that can keep up with your play.
0:19.4	More gamers are choosing EE broadband, the UK's fastest growing broadband provider.
0:25.2	Let's do this.
0:26.2	Search EE Broadband.
0:27.7	To verify I see EE.com.uk slash claims.
0:30.7	How do you build a career on your voice when you're not sure anyone's still listening?
0:35.0	Stability was the top one of my values, and it's also the most difficult to actually
0:41.3	achieve, it seems.
0:42.4	Parker Malloy writes a sharp personal newsletter about media, politics, and identity.
0:47.5	But staying visible and earning a living gets harder every year.
0:51.3	So much of it seems so arbitrary, so, so random. You could be doing the same
0:56.7	level of work for a decade straight, but your success will be determined by people putting you on
1:04.5	TV, people in positions of power reading your work and just having a positive opinion towards it.
1:12.1	If you think working for yourself means creative freedom, this episode might ask you to rethink
1:16.2	what we mean by freedom and what it costs to buy it back.
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