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Let"s Go Again: A Philosophical and Practical Guide for Indie Artists

Queens Bird Films

This podcast is a philosophical and practical guide for the Independent Class. We are 21st Century indie artists. We ask big questions like "what is the artist’s role in society?", and we strategize for small ones like "how do I grow an audience when my posts reach about 5 people a day?" We tackle those ideas and everything in between. We make art that builds a new world — one powered by the people. On a film set, when a director wants to do another take, you often hear them say, let’s go again. It

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deep cut | The Indie Future is Here with Joshua...

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2025/05/23

Fair warning for indie artists: this episode may cause an extreme bout of optimism about the future. And not because the big institutions are coming to save us.And not because the government is funding art as if it’s a societal good.And not because somehow the American economy now works.Nope! None of those things, as far as I can see, are on the horizon.But this week’s episode of Let’s Go Again with guests Joshua Morgan and Mike Labbadia is going to change your life with all the power of a guided

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62:59

deep cut | Creating An Unpredictable Body of Work...

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2025/05/01

ALERT THE PRESSES.You can make a body of work that reveals you to be an unpredictable genius pop star at age 42, if you so choose.Do you so choose?If this is the year you want to stop grinding against the rickety machine that someone else built and always breaks down right before you’re supposed to get paid…and instead you want to heroically hurdle yourself into space at rocket-speed toward your biggest goals like Matt Damon launching himself off Mars in nothing but a spacesuit and a tarp…Then

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28:20

When You Stop Chasing Fake Power, and Start Finding...

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2025/04/03

Hi!IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR INDIE ARTISTS:What’s the difference between the independent artist who spends all their brain power on trying to “hack the system” to gain more followers and an independent artist who says whatever they want, whenever they want, how they want, with no algorithmic rhyme or reason and can still sit back and watch their career and audience grow?If you think it’s “right place/right time” magical luck, you’d be sadly mistaken.Or, if you’re certain *some* art is just more popular

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24:28

Remaking Banal, Lifeless Content Into a Dazzling Body...

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2025/03/27

You’re back. I’m back.GOTTA ASK YOU THIS:Instead of giving up on getting an audience to see your art because you’d rather scoop your cat’s litter box for all of eternity than research SEO keywords for another second, What if “making content” felt more like divulging secrets to your best friend? What if content marketing was as easy for you as pickleball is for Serena? What if your content (non-derogatory) loaded people onto a proverbial express train to your work and created a scene even Warhol

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24:51

How to Attract an Obsessed-With-You Audience Instead...

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2025/03/07

Fellow compatriot of the Independent Class! We meet again!BIG IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR YOU:What is the difference between an independent artist who is speaking into the void and feeling bitter because even their mom has stopped liking their social media posts 😟and an independent artist who is regularly revved up by their own ideas, has weekly brain-exploding back-and-forths with their community, and is generally HAVING A GOOD TIME WITH MARKETING because they’re building a scene around their artistic

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33:42

Are You a 21st Century Artist?

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2025/02/28

Cue the air horns!SEASON TWO OF LET’S GO AGAIN HAS ARRIVED!This season of LGA has a very specific flavor: let’s call it Ghost Pepper.It might sting a little, but it’s also going to clear your sinuses and reveal that your lungs have about 15% more capacity than you originally thought.The deep breaths will just be that deep.With this season, I have one very specific intent: to convince as many independent artists as possible that they are holding a stacked hand. And then, to play it.Is this Self-Help

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00:30:34

S1E26 | Future Forecast: Authenticity Trends in Art,...

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2024/05/23

We're telling the future! Spooky stuff! Once a quarter, we're taking a look at the trends popping up in art, business, and marketing and understanding how to use them in our indie art. This quarter we're diving into the Authenticity Trends marking every corner of the online and media landscapes. But don't worry, to hop on these trends, you won't have to overshare on social media. It'll be much easier than that. REFERENCES: Hollywood Reporter article about the Duplass/Netflix

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00:29:18

S1E25 | What Gets Measured Gets Managed: The Systems...

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2024/05/02

There you are. Facing the cursor. Waiting for Lady Inspiration to strike. Knowing that your precious creative alone time was bought and paid for by racing through your tasks at work, ignoring calls from your mom, silencing the group chat, consuming illegal amounts of caffeine, and forgoing lunch.But now that you have the creative alone time? Nothing. Nada. Your brain is as empty as your ex's promises. You're in good company. It happens to the best artists. Consistently! Regularly! But the

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00:30:13

S1E24: A New Paradigm: Micro Attention,...

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2024/04/18

From social media, to advertising, to community-building, how to make it as an indie artist is going through a massive transformation. There are so many ways to break through as an artist that weren't possible even just 5 years ago. In today's episode, we'll break down the Big 3 Changes making this new paradigm possible. You'll finish the episode having gained clarity on how you can leverage this new paradigm in your work, and figure out some clear action steps for what comes

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00:28:21

S1E23 | Using “Creative Neglect” Time Management...

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2024/04/11

How do artists manage their time? How do you get things done when you have a million ideas and a million other pressing responsibilities? And how does time management improve your confidence and ability to create work? All of this in today's episode about the three "Creative Neglect" time management principles to help indie creatives do better work.Plus, your Qs about the writing process! ------------------- TAKE THE ARTIST TIMELINE QUIZ — Where are you now and where are you headed

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00:31:57

S1E22 | The Magic and Science of How to Fail Better

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2024/04/04

No one wants to fail. Unfortunately, it's a 100% necessity if you want to succeed. But when you know how to fail better, iterate quickly, and double down on what failure teaches you, you become well on your way to turning those losses into wins. In this week's episode, we'll explore how to fail better, 4 ways to transform failure into success, and how to integrate failure as part of our creative process. Plus, two listener questions this week about marketing, email lists, and content

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00:32:19

S1E21 | The Overwhelming Paradox of Choice and How to...

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2024/03/28

The Transition Era. It's a tough one. When you're in between gigs, or looking to change careers, or trying to figure out how to make money as an artist, the career decision making process can easily go from exciting to exhausting within one Google search. There are so many choices. So many options. So many opinions from experts telling us what path we should follow. But for so many of us, it can feel like "I don't know what to do with my life/career" so how could I even make a

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00:52:21

S1E20 | The Power of Self Talk and How to Play the...

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2024/03/21

Artists are storytellers. But perhaps the loudest and most powerful stories we tell are the self-defeating ones inside our own heads. Whether you're talking yourself out of being creative, building up a strong self image, or facing your inner critic, your self talk is running all the time. Queen of Self Talk, author and speaker, Katie Horwitch, is on the show today sharing what self talk is, how creatives can shift to positive self talk, how self talk impacts our careers, and how self talk

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00:26:58

S1E19 | Spiralic, Non-Linear Career Paths & the 5...

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2024/03/07

Art jobs aren't like other jobs. There's no clear ladder toward success. You can follow all the career growth advice you want, but careers for creative people are just...different. They're non-linear. They're nebulous. They're cyclical. Sometimes they feel directionless.And that's because an artist's career path is more like a spiral than a straight line. It can make it hard to plot out how each point leads to the next. So in this episode, we're talking about the 5

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00:29:10

S1E18 | Artists & Money [Part 3]: How to Make Money...

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2024/02/29

How do artists make money? Ah that old chestnut. We're going to discuss this in depth today. But please be advised: this episode is not a get rich quick scheme. There are no 10 steps to follow. But, what you will find in this episode could change your whole relationship to money, inspire a ton of ways to make money as an artist, and help you figure out the precise income level that would feel like success for you.The whole episode is like one mini workshop bringing the concepts of art and money

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00:24:08

S1E17 | Artists & Money [Part 2]: The Path to...

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2024/02/22

Art, money, success. All these things seem to have everything and nothing to do with each other. In part 2 of our 3 part series on artists and money, we're discussing how shifting industries are shifting the path for artists' careers. We'll look at the fall of commercial prestige, the rise of artist to audience connection, and we'll try to answer the question "how do artists make money for art?" by looking at the art/money long game.Don't miss the 3-question exercise

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00:32:03

S1E16 | Artists & Money [Part 1]: 4 Myths Creating...

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2024/02/15

How to make money as an artist is an evergreen topic. There are so many factors that affect our ability to make income through art. Systemic, temporal, personal, global factors. But when the path is cleared, and the ways to make money as an artist are clearly laid out before you, if you believe in money myths, you're still going to feel stuck. In this episode, I walk you through 4 myths I learned when I raised $70k to produce a web series. What I found was when I reframed these myths for myself,

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00:36:33

S1E15 | Pocket Theories: Asking for Money, Making...

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2024/02/02

If the best teacher is hindsight, the second best teacher is someone else's hindsight. And when that someone else is a dynamic thinker and artist, even better. In today's episode, we're going to take pocket theories (helpful little theories of the creative game) from some of the greats and apply them to our own work. These creative philosophies will touch on how to ask for money, a handful of writing tips to make more impact and get more attention, the slickness of comparison, keeping

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00:28:20

S1E14 | How to Think About Talent

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2024/01/18

Talent is elusive. It's alluring. To some degree, we're all desperate to be talented. Being called 'talented' feels like winning. It feels like that secret voice inside our heads saying, "You're special! You're special!" might just be right. But the nature of talent isn't quite what we assume it is. In this week's episode, I'll talk about the three rules of talent, Leslie Jones's wonderful advice on how to act from talent, and how to become more

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00:33:20

S1E13 | Making Big Moves with Archetypal Goal-Setting...

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2024/01/11

Traditional goal-setting is all well and good, but what if there was a faster, freer, more fun way to achieve even our loftiest goals? What if we could feel a sense of ease in going after them? In today's episode, we explore the Jungian concept of Archetypes — what they are and how to use them to reach even our biggest goals. Also, I share some advice director Mark Mylod (Succession) gave at a recent talkback, discuss the functionality of fear, and chart the intuitive creative process I use in

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