# Ep 626: The Art of Adapting with Jena McNerney Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-maker-s-playbook-3471418/ep-626-the-art-of-adapting-with-jena-mcnerney Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-maker-s-playbook-3471418/ep-626-the-art-of-adapting-with-jena-mcnerney.md Podcast: [The Maker's Playbook](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-maker-s-playbook-3471418) Published: 2025-07-18T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://mgln.ai/e/1263/www.buzzsprout.com/1976744/episodes/17445606-ep-626-the-art-of-adapting-with-jena-mcnerney.mp3 Audio file: https://mgln.ai/e/1263/www.buzzsprout.com/1976744/episodes/17445606-ep-626-the-art-of-adapting-with-jena-mcnerney.mp3 Processing state: processed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-maker-s-playbook-3471418/episodes/ep-626-the-art-of-adapting-with-jena-mcnerney Duration seconds: 5771 ## Resource Send us Fan Mail Could it be that we've been thinking about this all wrong? That it's not the "real job" on one side of life and the dream of making art full-time on the other, and that eventually, we have to choose? Because when we really look at it, are the most sustainable creative careers, from the artists we admire the most, actually built on either-or decisions? Jenna McNerney's journey through teaching, studio ownership, a few odd jobs in construction and even a hair salon, chronic ill... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-maker-s-playbook-3471418/episodes/ep-626-the-art-of-adapting-with-jena-mcnerney/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-maker-s-playbook-3471418/ep-626-the-art-of-adapting-with-jena-mcnerney.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.