Write Your Story: On Creativity and Capitalism
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Can you make money from your creativity? Of course.
But does capitalism get in the way of your creativity? Also, I will argue, yes.
On today’s episode I take up a conversation that has been going on for centuries: a conversation about the tension between art and commerce.
Or as I will call it: creativity and capitalism.
Except this time I take the conversation beyond how to create a beautiful thing detached from revenue to discuss how to live a life from a place of utter truth and authenticity, which is the ultimate pillar of creativity.
In a world obsessed with the bottom line, this isn’t easy but it’s more important than ever.
Link to Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way HERE!
Send Ally an email: mystory@writeyourstory.com
Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hi, and welcome to you, Write Your Story, podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | Good job, girly. |
| 0:10.6 | Pick up the pieces of your life, put them back together with the words you write, all the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find when you write your story. You've got |
| 0:24.2 | the words inside. Don't you think it's time to let them out and write them down uncover what it's all |
| 0:30.3 | about and write your, write your story. Write your story. |
| 0:40.1 | Hello and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm your host. |
| 0:44.8 | And on today's episode, I want to tackle a topic that has been around for centuries. |
| 0:50.8 | And it's a topic that came to me in a meditation this past week and that I have not been able |
| 0:55.1 | to stop thinking about since this dropped into my consciousness or into my awareness. |
| 0:59.9 | I mean, it's always kind of been circulating in my awareness. |
| 1:02.8 | But when I was meditating, I had this experience where an insight dropped in and I just |
| 1:07.8 | observed that insight for a period of time. And I still, to this day, in this moment, |
| 1:13.4 | as I'm speaking these words, am not really sure 100% what to make of that insight. I don't feel |
| 1:19.0 | like this is a complete argument. I'm not arguing for one side or the other. But I do want to |
| 1:25.7 | open this conversation. I want to unpack it a little bit because I |
| 1:28.3 | think as creative people, as artists, as writers, I know many of us who are listening to this podcast |
| 1:34.3 | are writers. As a creative person in the world, whatever your creativity looks like, this is an |
| 1:41.6 | extremely important conversation and especially in these times |
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