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The Constant Struggle

Brie & Nick Watson

A podcast about balancing art and life.

comedy comedy interviews

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E94: Party On, Struggle Later

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2025/10/11

It’s hard for co-hosts Nick Watson (@fivestergram) and Brie Watson (@briewats0n), and brand new guest-host Michael Cervix, to get away from the excitement of the Blue Jays yes-anding baseball to chat creative projects, but nevertheless, they persist! Nick’s hunkering down to get some editing done, while squeezing out the last few moments of golf for the year and Brie’s getting more reps in and rehearsing a new show set in 1812 with a brand new cast and a refilled tank.(Apologies for the crappy

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E93 - Busy Summer Blues

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2025/09/23

Host Nick Watson (@fivestergram) and Brie Watson (@briewats0n) reflect after respectively busy summers: one filled with parental obligations and the other with increased tourism volume. But with Back to School season comes a renewed sense of responsibility towards our creative endeavours, and in some cases, brand new projects and directions. Tune in to see where these creative siblings are headed next.Key Creative Tips: Social Media is dead. Nick's Update: Golf! Baseball! Parenting

01:04:41

E92 - Hamilton Fringe Preview: The Cast of What If?...

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2025/07/15

Host Nick Watson (@fivestergram) graciously allows his co-host Brie and her cast-mates: Dan Dingwall, Dina Senior & Heather Eyman, on this episode to chat about their upcoming production at the Hamilton Fringe Festival: What If? Improvising Your Alternate Universe. The improvised comedy premieres Thursday, July 17th at The Staircase Theatre in Hamilton, upstairs in the Brightroom, and features a number of talented (and some familiar to the podcast) storytellers: Lacie Victoria, Devin Bateson,

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E91 - The Double Mulligan

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2025/05/15

Hosts Nick (@fivestergram) & Brie Watson (@briewats0n) are in it pretty deep at the time this episode was recorded. With feelings of stagnation, injury and loss, our two humble hosts are really feeling the name of the podcast. Although recording in the same room for the first time since Covid has added a level of irreverence towards life that might just help them get back on track. The hosts review March and April, check in on their lighthouse words, constant struggles and tank fillers. Will the

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E90 - The Call is Coming from Inside the Brain

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2025/03/22

Host Nick Watson (@fivestergram) is in a real pickle this episode as he and co-host Brie Watson (@briewats0n) find solutions to the doom scrolling rabbit hole that is US politics on YouTube. (There are two surprisingly easy solutions.) As the hosts review the second month of 2025, they continue to check in on their lighthouse words and constant struggles. It’s not all heavy though, each host brings up a number of tank fillers to help them get through that cold lil’ February. Like Conan hosting the

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E89 - The Constant Meh

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2025/02/02

Hosts Nick Watson (@fivestergram) and Brie Watson (@briewats0n) discuss their tank-fillers & drainers in the creative department of their ongoing struggle to make literature and comedy, (respectively.) They’re a month into 2025 and are checking in on the progress following their respective Lighthouse words. Are they still being guided in the right direction? Or did the longest January in history have other plans for our noble hosts? Key Creative Tips: Build boundaries to keep a creative

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E88 - Notebooks and Candles

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2025/01/13

Hosts Nick Watson (@fivestergram) and Brie Watson (@briewats0n) kick off the new year by sticking to their new podcasting format, therefore so far crushing this New Year Pod Resolution. They’ve also carefully prepared their 2025 Lighthouse Word, or Word-of-the-Year and strongly recommend you do too!Nick’s Update: Tank Filler: Checkmarks Struggle: The Demons Brie’s Update: Tank fillers: On holiday, there are too many to list! Struggle: Negative self-talk, social media

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E87 - New Format on the Block

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2024/12/30

Hosts Nick Watson (@fivestergram) and Brie Watson (@briewats0n) are back after an unplanned hiatus to chat plans for the podcast going forward including new segments like: what’s filling the tank, what’s draining the bucket and what are we working on as 2024 comes to a close. Nick's Update: Finished “Infinite Jest” No more contests until his 3 books are edited Trying out new “Scrivener” software Brie’s Update Joined Assembly Improv team: P!sstank Tuesday Night Improv coming to Spotlight in

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E86 - Zane Caplanksy: A Dish, a Dream and a Lotta Hustle

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2024/05/08

Our guest in this episode is mustard and smoked-meat wizard Zane Caplansky, founder of Caplanksy's Deli & purveyor of fine mustards. When Nick had the idea of interviewing a chef to discuss the artistic elements of food and cooking, Zane immediately came to mind. As it turns out, the struggles associated with balancing artisanal meats and mustards and attempting to find balance in life are huge. Six-figure-legal-fees huge.And yet, Zane is probably the most optimistic and hopeful guests we've

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E85 - Sanctus Editus! Setting Goals for 2024

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2024/04/12

The irony of this episode is that Nick's "Word of the Year" for 2024 is EDIT. And it took Brie four months to edit this dang file. Maybe EDIT should have been both our words!NEVERTHELESS. Here we are. It's 2024. We're the happiest new members of PodCavern. And we're ready to set and tackle our goals in the struggly world of Arts & Entertainment in Canada for this new year. (Aware that we're already in the second quarter of the new year!) Your Key Creative Tips: Writing, Editing, Fringe

01:00:17

E84 -Fight for the Fun with Jo Anne Tacorda

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2024/01/03

Jo Anne Tacorda is an actor, improviser, singer and one fifth of the popular sketch comedy troupe Big Chick Energy. In this episode of TCS, Brie and Nick find out what it was like to form a sketch troupe in the thick of Covid, what it takes to be part of the Hallmark "Christmasverse" and great tips along the way about embracing your inner-creative. You're going to love Jo Anne's enthusiasm and it'll leave you "pregnant" with possibilities for new creative projects! Your Creative Tips Comedy,

01:26:16

E83 - Korri Birch is Everywhere Improvised All at Once

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2023/05/10

***DON'T MISS "Good News Toronto" at Montreal Sketchfest FRI MAY 12th!*** Korri Birch is an actor, improviser, comedian, writer, producer, voice-over artist, puppeteer, teacher and self-proclaimed idiot based in Toronto. In this episode, Brie and Nick chat with Korri about his decision to stop producing, writing, and starring in the award-winning monthly news-themed live comedy show "Good News Toronto" and what's next for this multi-talented, ever-collaborative and exceptionally friendly

01:15:41

E82: Own Your Dreams with Belynda Wilson Thomas

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2023/03/04

Belynda Thomas is an author of novels (Secrets and Silence, Secrets and Sorrow) and children's book (When Can We Get a Puppy,) a blogger, a visual artist, Toastmaster, wife, mother and consultant to Mississauga Writers Group. In this episode, Nick and Brie chat with Belynda about writing, self-publishing and owning your artistic dreams. We chat about the difficulties making the time to practice your art, and how sometimes it becomes necessary to put things on hold as well as the strength in owning

01:15:01

E81: Two Birds, One Heather - Time Management for the...

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2023/01/04

Heather Eyman is a fitness coach and improviser among many other things and in this episode, we see the path Heather took to narrow down on what's important when there isn't enough time to do everything and when you're the kind of person who enjoys the abundance of what life has to offer. We also ask her advice on how to fix Nick's darn back! Find out what kind of tips she offers Nick, and all of us when it comes to making deposits into your body bank. (That'll make more sense when you listen!) Your

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E80 -Bumps Along the Creative Way

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2022/11/02

Our first episode in over four months! Why the break? Well you'll just have to listen to the episode and find out. HA! Masters of the tease. But really, it's a doozy of an episode where Brie & Nick dig deep into some real talk about physical and mental health, motivation, relocation and the whole thing gets a little vulnerable. It's not all struggle though. There's life. There's travel. There's a mandatory Maron reference! Take a listen & let us know if it resonates with your journey. Your Key

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E79 - Comedian Mary Hynes’ Light, Love and Laughter

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2022/06/28

Chicago's Mary Hynes is an improviser, actor, instructor, stage manager and tall lady. In this episode, Mary reminds us of the importance of leaning into and really living our core values as performers, and human beings. She offers tremendous insight into navigating the unsure waters of the performance industry, including her signature Lean Back.

01:13:47

Playwriting Right with Playwright Evie Jones

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2022/04/30

All wordplay aside, this is a delightful and informative episode featuring Genevieve (Evie) Jones, playwright, actor, director and mom of Daphne. Evie’s located in the Niagara Region, and chats with Nick and Brie about starting out her artistic career in Niagara, spreading her wings beyond the peninsula and her parents, and the reason for her epic return. Evie provides us with some deep insight into how the pandemic has been helpful to herself and many artists in finding focus, and the now existing

01:07:59

E77: Comedian Rhiannon Archer’s Educational Redemption

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2022/03/28

Rhiannon Archer is a stand-up comic and instructor, a mom of two little dudes and is currently in school training to become a therapist. In this episode Rhiannon chats with Nick and Brie about her formative years, her ADHD diagnosis, and how it impacted her education and career path and how that path has changed now that better resources are available to assist neurodivergent students. We dive into Rhiannon’s stand-up comedy career and how she’s been able to keep at it while balancing frustrating

01:43:27

E76: A Circus Performer’s Year Off ft. Wellesley...

The Constant Struggle ·

2022/02/28

In this episode, Nick and Brie chat with Wellesley Robertson III; a circus-artist, breakdancer, improviser, puppeteer, actor… self proclaimed “Jack of all trades, master of none.” Wellesley has spent the better part of the last decade travelling the world performing with various theatrical productions, seemingly falling into one amazing opportunity after the next. Join us on this exciting trip around the world and back as we chat with Wellesley about how he got into performing physical theatre, how

01:24:02

E75: Staying Inspired with Megan Fraser

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2022/01/31

Happy New Year Strugglers! We’re back with another great episode! This time, Nick & Brie chat with Toronto-based special effects make-up artist and instructor Megan Fraser. Megan takes us through her creative journey, starting in Calgary with papier mâché and glue all over her childhood bedroom floor to, probably a fairly similar floor-situation in present day - except with way more silicone fingers. It wouldn’t be #StrugglePod if we didn’t chat about some of the more challenging elements of Megan’s

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