This Is Why Creatives Quit — And How You Won't

Sumi Krishnan· Host0:00

Success is solely how well you handle your problems. When you frame your life that way, like everything changes. Everything changes. [gentle music] Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Dream Life Club Podcast, where we share insight and inspiration for creatives and entrepreneurs chasing a dream. This is Sumi, and if you don't know me, I built a 200-person company in DC, and then decided to leave all of that behind to follow my dream of being a pop music artist in LA. Today, I wanna talk to you about one of the biggest challenges that faces us as artists doing this by ourselves, the ones who are not signed to big labels, who don't have big teams doing everything for us, and that's the challenge of feeling overwhelmed and feeling like there is just too much to do, too much to keep up with, and too much noise to compete with in order to break through. So I wanna talk about a couple things that I have been dealing with personally this week actually, and offer them to you, and offer some mindset shifts of how I am reframing these things in order to keep going and make sure I don't let any of this stop me or get me down or discouraged. Because we all have seasons. Sometimes we're on it and we're so excited about everything that's going on, and we feel like nothing can, in the world can stop us. [laughs] And sometimes it's like, okay, a lot of challenges at once. Whether those challenges are real or sometimes just in our mind, it almost doesn't even