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Working: Our Creative New Year’s Resolutions

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🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

To kick off 2021, June, Rumaan, and Isaac share their creative goals for 2021 and offer each other advice on how to see them through. They talk about reading habits, social media consumption, time management, and much more.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-WORK. That’s (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. Sign up now to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys? I am Ashley Gavin and I am your father. I'm Elena Joy. I am mommy and I'm

0:05.6

Mackinjmy your hot teenage brother. Baby Mac is baby. We are your chosen

0:10.8

family because you don't have a gay family and you need a gay family.

0:14.7

Every week we bring a topic to the family dinner table from gender dysphoria to monogamy to how to figure

0:19.4

out if someone is into you.

0:20.6

Listen to chosen family every Wednesday on your favorite podcast app or watch

0:24.5

full episodes on YouTube to get the full family experience. Chosen Family is a part of

0:29.0

the Forever Dog Podcast Network.

0:37.0

Welcome back to Working. Welcome back to Working.

0:38.0

I'm your host, June Thomas.

0:40.0

And I'm your other host, Raman Alon.

0:42.0

And would you believe it? There's yet another host, Isaac Butler.

0:46.0

That's right, all three of us are here again, because this is a very special episode

0:51.0

about our creative New Year's resolutions. We'll talk about our

0:55.4

creative goals for the year, big ones and small ones, and we'll talk about how to

1:00.0

stick to those goals. First of all, Ruman and Isaac, do you usually make New Year's

1:05.5

resolutions, creative or otherwise? I do. You know, is that so square of me? I'm a bit of a square I guess. A couple of years ago I resolved to keep

1:15.4

better track of the books that I read and I've done a pretty good job of it. I

1:19.2

also resolved to eat more vegetarian meals. I've been sort of successful there. I think it's a kind of a nice ritual. What about you,

1:26.5

Isaac? Well, I just am loving learning that Ruman is a square. I didn't think of Ruman as a square but I also think if we could get

1:35.2

like a sample of him saying that so that we could just like press a button and we just hear I'm a bit of a

1:40.4

square that would be great anyway I am bad at habits forming I guess in

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