63. Reclaiming Your Life Narrative: Are You the Author of Your Own Story?

Get Messy | Mindset Podcast for Ambitious Creatives · May 20, 2026 · 14m

Someone has been narrating your life — and there's a real chance it isn't you.

In this episode, I'm sharing a conversation I had with a close friend that completely cracked me open. She's a painter trying to make the leap into paid creative work, and when a roadblock came up, what stopped her wasn't the obstacle itself — it was the story she'd built around it. A story that wasn't even hers.

We get into the comfort of denial (and why it costs you more than you think), how to tell the difference between something you genuinely want and something you're just speed skating in your head about, and…