The Only One in the Room
Ever been the only creative in the room?
No team. No one to gut-check your layout. No “that’s fire” Teams message. Just you, your to-do list, and a creeping sense of “am I spiraling or innovating?”
This week on Out Loud, I wrote about the reality of being a one-person creative team. The autonomy, the weird in-between space where you’re both strategist and production artist, boss and intern, confident and second-guessing everything you just designed.
If you’re ever proofed our own final draft five times because there’s no one else to do it; been asked to “ask the creative team” and you are the creative team; or built an entire brand off a to-do list that starts with “email Phil”...
You’ll get it.
I Thought I’d Be Further By Now
I used to think I'd be further by now. You know: smarter, more confident, maybe even have it "figured out." But timelines are strange things. We invent them, chase them, and then punish ourselves when we fall out of sync. This piece isn’t about success. It’s about self-comparison, imposter syndrome, and what it means to still be working on yourself at 28... or any age, really.