Episodes

  • EOFY for Artists: Spreadsheets, Stress, and Existential Dread
    Jul 7 2025

    Why is doing your taxes so emotionally exhausting—especially if you're a creative? In this episode, Breallyn and Lyndon wade through the chaos of EOFY as artists, from mismatched thinking styles to getting sacked by accountants (I know right!?) It’s a painfully relatable look at why the financial world feels like another planet—and what it costs us just to exist on it.


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    Recorded and produced at Morning Phase Recording Room.

    Original theme music by Lyndon Wesley:

    http://www.lyndonwesley.com

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    51 mins
  • Master Your Passion: Choose Your Own Adventure
    Jun 30 2025

    What does it really take to master your passion—and is it worth it? Breallyn and Lyndon dive into the obsession, transformation, and long-haul grit behind creative mastery. With a little help from RZA, they explore how mastering one passion sparks others—and how the journey reshapes who you become. Plus there's the usual detours and chats about parenting pit-falls, dentistry and adventures in DIY acupuncture.


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    Pain In The Arts is a Creative Life Chronicles production.


    Support the show, access exclusive content, or explore our free tier on Patreon:

    http://www.patreon.com/painintheartslife


    For more from Creative Life Chronicles (website coming soon!) and the Pain In The Arts podcast, visit our website:

    http://www.paininthearts.life


    Recorded and produced at Morning Phase Recording Room.

    Original theme music by Lyndon Wesley:

    http://www.lyndonwesley.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    46 mins
  • What’s Saving Our Sanity: Daily Habits, Zero Guarantees
    Jun 23 2025

    Caffeine rituals, bedtime Milos, and an AI assistant named Pablo—Breallyn and Lyndon swap notes on the low-effort habits that are helping them stay upright (for now).


    What’s actually keeping us sane?

    In this episode, Breallyn and Lyndon trade notes on the tiny comforts and daily habits that are helping them stay upright—most of the time. From caffeine rituals and bedtime Milos to creative windows, soft starts, and a suspiciously supportive AI assistant named Pablo, it’s a low-stakes list of what’s working right now (with zero promises it’ll still be working next week).


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    Pain In The Arts is a Creative Life Chronicles production.


    Support the show, access exclusive content, or explore our free tier on Patreon:

    http://www.patreon.com/painintheartslife


    For more from Creative Life Chronicles (website coming soon!) and the Pain In The Arts podcast, visit our website:

    http://www.paininthearts.life


    Recorded and produced at Morning Phase Recording Room.

    Original theme music by Lyndon Wesley:

    http://www.lyndonwesley.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    49 mins
  • Art in the Age of Attention: Blink and You’ll Miss It
    Jun 16 2025

    Technology changes, attention fades—art keeps asking to be noticed.


    What happens to creativity in the age of attention, when focus is the rarest currency?

    In this episode, Breallyn and Lyndon trace a conversation that starts in a Melbourne café and spirals out into a reflection on art, technology, and focus. From Jimi Hendrix’s experimental guitar work to the murky role of AI in writing, they explore how every generation wrestles with change—and how artists keep finding ways to make something that matters.


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    Pain In The Arts is a Creative Life Chronicles production.


    Support the show, access exclusive content, or explore our free tier on Patreon:

    http://www.patreon.com/painintheartslife


    For more from Creative Life Chronicles (website coming soon!) and the Pain In The Arts podcast, visit our website:

    http://www.paininthearts.life


    Recorded and produced at Morning Phase Recording Room.

    Original theme music by Lyndon Wesley:

    http://www.lyndonwesley.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    49 mins
  • Authenticity in Art: Can You Really Fake It?
    Jun 9 2025

    This episode picks up where the last one left off—still circling the question of authenticity in art and whether it can be faked without losing something essential. Lyndon and Breallyn dig into the blurred space between persona and performance, touching on Dylan, Bowie, and the ways artists shape their stories to be heard—and what it costs them to do it.


    Get the transcript

    Pain In The Arts is a Creative Life Chronicles production.


    Support the show, access exclusive content, or explore our free tier on Patreon:

    http://www.patreon.com/painintheartslife


    For more from Creative Life Chronicles (website coming soon!) and the Pain In The Arts podcast, visit our website:

    http://www.paininthearts.life


    Recorded and produced at Morning Phase Recording Room.

    Original theme music by Lyndon Wesley:

    http://www.lyndonwesley.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    43 mins
  • Authenticity in Art (Or Whatever That Means)
    Jun 2 2025

    A camping blowout sets the scene—then Lyndon and Breallyn explore what makes art feel authentic. From Joni Mitchell to Amy Winehouse.


    This week kicks off with a lengthy story involving a camping trip, a freeway blowout, and a bottle of balsamic vinegar. It’s worth the ride. Around the halfway mark, Lyndon and Breallyn shift gears to explore what authenticity in art really means. From Joni Mitchell to Amy Winehouse, they unpack how truth, technique, and creative identity collide. Part one of a two-part deep dive.

    Pain In The Arts is a Creative Life Chronicles production.


    Support the show, access exclusive content, or explore our free tier on Patreon:

    http://www.patreon.com/painintheartslife


    For more from Creative Life Chronicles (website coming soon!) and the Pain In The Arts podcast, visit our website:

    http://www.paininthearts.life


    Recorded and produced at Morning Phase Recording Room.

    Original theme music by Lyndon Wesley:

    http://www.lyndonwesley.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    48 mins
  • Reliving the Worst Gig Ever: A Musician’s Nightmare
    May 27 2025

    In this episode of Pain in the Arts, Lyndon and Breallyn trade tales from the trenches—bad gigs, worse bosses, and the odd jobs that kept the dream alive. From a horror gig on a remote pub balcony to fruit picking, coffee vans, and one particularly maddening client, it’s a wry look at the work that funds the work—and what it teaches you along the way.


    Like what you heard? There’s more where that came from—bonus episodes, creative chats, and the good, the bad, and the unrehearsed over at patreon.com/painintheartslife. Bring your own coffee.


    Pain In The Arts is a Creative Life Chronicles production.


    Support the show, access exclusive content, or explore our free tier on Patreon:

    http://www.patreon.com/painintheartslife


    For more from Creative Life Chronicles (website coming soon!) and the Pain In The Arts podcast, visit our website:

    http://www.paininthearts.life


    Recorded and produced at Morning Phase Recording Room.

    Original theme music by Lyndon Wesley:

    http://www.lyndonwesley.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    51 mins
  • Let the Robots Do the Boring Bits: How We Use AI Day to Day
    May 19 2025

    They’re not handing over their creative work to the machines—but if AI wants to wrangle their meetings and tidy their transcripts, they’re not going to argue. In this episode, Breallyn and Lyndon talk through the actual tools they’re using to offload the admin grind and make space for the real work (or at least for another coffee). A real-life look at how they’re keeping the wheels turning without losing their souls.


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    Pain In The Arts is a Creative Life Chronicles production.


    Support the show, access exclusive content, or explore our free tier on Patreon:

    http://www.patreon.com/painintheartslife


    For more from Creative Life Chronicles (website coming soon!) and the Pain In The Arts podcast, visit our website:

    http://www.paininthearts.life


    Recorded and produced at Morning Phase Recording Room.

    Original theme music by Lyndon Wesley:

    http://www.lyndonwesley.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    52 mins