# The Terrible Creative Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910.md RSS feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-terrible-photographer-podcast Official site: https://www.terriblephotographer.com/the-podcast Author: Patrick Fore Episodes: 77 ## Resource The Terrible Creative is a storytelling podcast for photographers, designers, and creative professionals working through the parts of the creative process no gear review or business course ever covers. Each episode is 30 to 40 minutes. Solo. Story-driven. Built around mental health, artistic identity, and what honest work costs in a career rewarding performance over truth. This is not a photography podcast about cameras, presets, or client strategy. This is a podcast about the inner experience of being a creative professional, made for the mid-career photographer or designer who has mastered the technical side but lost the thread. Hosted by Patrick Fore, commercial photographer, author, and former lead photographer and brand designer for Taylor Guitars. His work has appeared globally for clients like Nike, Petco, and Verizon. He built this show because none of the podcasts he found addressed the real problem. If you are a photographer or creative professional who feels competent on the outside and quietly lost on the inside, you are a Terrible Creative. This is your podcast. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-terrible-creative-7304910 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910.md ## Episodes - [Good Faith - The Small Decisions That Destroy Photography Careers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/good-faith-the-small-decisions-that-destroy-photography-careers) — 2026-07-21T17:20:20+00:00 - [The Imposter Filter - What If Confidence Was Never the Requirement For Success?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-imposter-filter-what-if-confidence-was-never-the-requirement-for-success) — 2026-07-14T07:05:00+00:00 - [The Missing Map - How To Become A Commercial Photographer in 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-missing-map-how-to-become-a-commercial-photographer-in-2026) — 2026-07-07T07:05:00+00:00 - [Let's Talk Money (Again) - A Terrible Conversation with Shelly Waldman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/let-s-talk-money-again-a-terrible-conversation-with-shelly-waldman) — 2026-06-30T08:51:40+00:00 - [Money Talks - Audiobook Preview: The psychology of undercharging and how financial stability creates true creative freedom.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/money-talks-audiobook-preview-the-psychology-of-undercharging-and-how-financial-stability-creates-true-creative-freedom) — 2026-06-23T07:05:00+00:00 - [We’ll See - The quiet anxiety of marketing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/we-ll-see-the-quiet-anxiety-of-marketing) — 2026-06-16T09:02:02+00:00 - [Playing Hurt - How Professional Creatives Perform at Full Capacity When Everything Goes Wrong](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/playing-hurt-how-professional-creatives-perform-at-full-capacity-when-everything-goes-wrong) — 2026-06-09T10:45:54+00:00 - [Death Grip - Google AI Just Changed How Clients Find You. Here's What It Can't Replace.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/death-grip-google-ai-just-changed-how-clients-find-you-here-s-what-it-can-t-replace) — 2026-06-02T07:05:00+00:00 - [Mute - You've Spent Years Getting Good. Do You Have Anything Left to Say?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/mute-you-ve-spent-years-getting-good-do-you-have-anything-left-to-say) — 2026-05-26T14:20:45+00:00 - [Clown Nose - What the Creator Economy Actually Costs a Working Creative](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/clown-nose-what-the-creator-economy-actually-costs-a-working-creative) — 2026-05-19T07:05:00+00:00 - [Terrible Conversations - Tom Wright - Tom Wright on Creative Work and Photography](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/terrible-conversations-tom-wright-tom-wright-on-creative-work-and-photography) — 2026-05-14T22:30:00+00:00 - [Stop Being A Tool - Why Creatives Were Never Just Useful](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/stop-being-a-tool-why-creatives-were-never-just-useful) — 2026-05-12T10:28:27+00:00 - [The Cost of Getting Good - The Cost of Getting Good - How Success Becomes a Creative Trap for Creatives](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-cost-of-getting-good-the-cost-of-getting-good-how-success-becomes-a-creative-trap-for-creatives) — 2026-05-05T07:05:00+00:00 - [Subterranean - On Obsession, Part II](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/subterranean-on-obsession-part-ii) — 2026-04-28T07:05:00+00:00 - [Obsessed - Finding Your Creative Voice When the Algorithm Rewards Everyone Else's](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/obsessed-finding-your-creative-voice-when-the-algorithm-rewards-everyone-else-s) — 2026-04-21T07:05:00+00:00 - [The Unknown - The Version of Yourself Nobody Has Seen Yet](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-unknown-the-version-of-yourself-nobody-has-seen-yet) — 2026-04-14T07:05:00+00:00 - [The Facade - The Gap Between What You Show and What's Actually Driving the Work](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-facade-the-gap-between-what-you-show-and-what-s-actually-driving-the-work) — 2026-04-07T07:05:00+00:00 - [The Tell — Self-Handicapping, and What Everyone Around You Already Knows](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-tell-self-handicapping-and-what-everyone-around-you-already-knows) — 2026-03-31T07:05:00+00:00 - [The Glass House - Visibility, the Johari Window, and Why Being Seen Isn't the Same as Being Known](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-glass-house-visibility-the-johari-window-and-why-being-seen-isn-t-the-same-as-being-known) — 2026-03-24T07:05:00+00:00 - [The Audit - Was Your Work Already Replaceable Before AI Arrived?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-audit-was-your-work-already-replaceable-before-ai-arrived) — 2026-03-17T07:05:00+00:00 - [Widening The Frame - Welcome to the Terrible Creative](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/widening-the-frame-welcome-to-the-terrible-creative) — 2026-03-15T10:21:29+00:00 - [Cosmic Cruelty - Freelancing, Isolation & Why the Universe Feels Like It’s Against You.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/cosmic-cruelty-freelancing-isolation-why-the-universe-feels-like-it-s-against-you) — 2026-03-10T07:05:00+00:00 - [The Cliff - Why Freelancing Has No Floor](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-cliff-why-freelancing-has-no-floor) — 2026-03-03T08:39:02+00:00 - [The Mask - The Hidden Cost of Performing Expertise You Actually Have](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-mask-the-hidden-cost-of-performing-expertise-you-actually-have) — 2026-02-24T07:20:00+00:00 - [Heresies - The Hyde - How Photography Is Used for Sexual Exploitation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/heresies-the-hyde-how-photography-is-used-for-sexual-exploitation) — 2026-02-17T08:05:00+00:00 - [Heresies - The Corpse - How Instagram Trained Photographers to Be Perfect, Then Called It Boring](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/heresies-the-corpse-how-instagram-trained-photographers-to-be-perfect-then-called-it-boring) — 2026-02-10T08:05:00+00:00 - [Heresies - The Oracle - Why Photography Influencers Are Modern Televangelists](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/heresies-the-oracle-why-photography-influencers-are-modern-televangelists) — 2026-02-03T08:05:00+00:00 - [Heresies - The Cult Member - Why Your Camera Brand Doesn't Care If You're a Good Photographer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/heresies-the-cult-member-why-your-camera-brand-doesn-t-care-if-you-re-a-good-photographer) — 2026-01-27T08:05:00+00:00 - [Basics, Deconstructed - Editing is Violence - How to Choose What Matters When Everything Looks Good](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/basics-deconstructed-editing-is-violence-how-to-choose-what-matters-when-everything-looks-good) — 2026-01-22T08:05:53+00:00 - [Heresies - The Proxy - Why Listening to Your Clients Might Be A Bad Idea](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/heresies-the-proxy-why-listening-to-your-clients-might-be-a-bad-idea) — 2026-01-20T08:05:00+00:00 - [Amature - Why I Envy Photographers Who Don't Get Paid](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/amature-why-i-envy-photographers-who-don-t-get-paid) — 2026-01-13T08:05:00+00:00 - [The Fresh Start Fallacy - Are You Building a Boat or Just Floating in a Tube?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-fresh-start-fallacy-are-you-building-a-boat-or-just-floating-in-a-tube) — 2026-01-06T12:06:19+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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