{"id":12654630987,"date":"2022-03-09T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/?p=12654630987"},"modified":"2023-04-28T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:08:06","slug":"podcast-self-exploitation-creativity-and-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/podcast-self-exploitation-creativity-and-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Exploitation, Creativity, and Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was recently a guest on a new podcast from Brianna of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.existbetter.co\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.existbetter.co\">ExistBetter.co<\/a>. She offered up the initial premise of balancing a creative vs practical lifestyle and it turned into quite an in-depth conversation with big picture themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was so much fun to do. I love talking about this stuff. It was an honor to be Brianna&#8217;s first guest on her new podcast. Forgive the muffled audio, that will improve on future episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Self-Exploitation, Creativity, and Capitalism with Jeff Finley\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bR1zeIfP430?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In her words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>We are a society that has commodified our relationship to nature, to the feminine, and to the creative half of ourselves.&nbsp;<\/strong>This has led&nbsp;to all sorts of problems individually, like burnout &amp; mental health crises, and may&nbsp;have even more grave implications in society at large. How do we restore balance in ourselves first?<\/p><p>If you are struggling to make money doing creative work, find your purpose without burning out or selling out, or simply trying to live a balanced life and feel like you&#8217;re being thwarted&nbsp;&#8212; you&#8217;re not imagining it.&nbsp;<strong>The dysfunction is baked into the culture, and freeing yourself of it is often a slow process.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p><p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bR1zeIfP430\">this episode<\/a>, I talked with fellow creator Jeff Finley about our own experiences with this problem and the big-picture trends that&nbsp;are fueling it all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently a guest on a new podcast from Brianna of ExistBetter.co. She offered up the initial premise of balancing a creative vs practical lifestyle and it turned into quite an in-depth conversation with big picture themes. This was so much fun to do. 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In her words: We are a society that has commodified our relationship to nature, to the feminine, and to the creative half of ourselves.&nbsp;This has led&nbsp;to&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/personal-growth\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Personal Growth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/podcast\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Podcast<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Jeff Finley","url":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/author\/jeff_finley\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654630987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12654630987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654630987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12654634397,"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654630987\/revisions\/12654634397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12654631000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12654630987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12654630987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jefffinley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12654630987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}