Hi friend,

There's a particular kind of courage it takes to put something real into the world and then just wait. To not know who's reading. To watch the likes stay low. To wonder what the silence means.

In episode 4, we discuss week 4 of The Artist's Way. It’s about recovering a sense of integrity. And it turns out integrity, at its core, is about honesty. Honesty with yourself first. Then, scarier, honesty in public.

We spend a lot of this conversation in the gap between those two things. What it actually feels like to stop consuming and start creating. What quitting Instagram taught one of us about building something outside of vanity metrics. And the question neither of us could fully answer: what does it actually take to be honest in public?

This one will hit if you've ever made something honest and then immediately felt exposed.

Jess & Jen