{"podcast":{"title":"Get Messy with Maddie","slug":"get-messy-with-maddie-7067574","podcast_index_feed_id":7067574,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f2e24c24/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/getmessywithmaddie","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/40649169/40649169-1724766562033-6dcd4fdeb5fac.jpg","author":"Maddie McGuire","episode_count":88,"summary":"Get Messy is the mindset podcast for creatives who want sustainable, successful careers — without losing their sanity. Hosted by Maddie McGuire, a performer of 10+ years and currently in grad school to become a therapist, each episode goes deep on the mental side of the creative grind: core beliefs, mindset blocks, facing obstacles, making a living as a creative, chasing dreams, and what it takes to stay in the game.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T22:19:19.788599+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/get-messy-with-maddie-7067574"},"episode":{"title":"65. I Almost Quit Acting… | Experiencing Burnout, Therapy, and Creative Revival","slug":"65-i-almost-quit-acting-experiencing-burnout-therapy-and-creative-revival","published_at":"2026-06-03T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/get-messy-with-maddie-7067574/65-i-almost-quit-acting-experiencing-burnout-therapy-and-creative-revival","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/get-messy-with-maddie-7067574","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/getmessywithmaddie/episodes/65--I-Almost-Quit-Acting--Experiencing-Burnout--Therapy--and-Creative-Revival-e3k8plc","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f2e24c24/podcast/play/120923244/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-3%2F425403940-44100-2-33d0e140456c1.mp3","summary":"There's a version of yourself that keeps showing up — even when everything feels broken. This episode is about her. In 2022, I almost quit my creative career. Not in a dramatic, \"I'm out\" kind of way — more like a slow, disorienting fog where nothing felt aligned, my voice felt restricted, my compass felt completely off, and I didn't trust a single thought I had. I was in the messiest of middles, and I want to tell you about it. We go all the way back — from a painfully shy kid in Chicago, to grinding in LA from seventeen years old, to the season when voiceover, acting, and my sense of self all seemed to crumble at once. I talk about what burnout actually feels like from the inside, what a worthiness and identity crisis looks like when you've wrapped your entire self around a creative career, and the one phone call from my agent that cracked something open. This episode is also a love letter to anyone currently in the messy middle — the place where you feel bold and completely directionless at the same time. (Spoiler: that's not a contradiction. It's what choosing yourself actually feels like.) TIMESTAMPS [00:00] — There was a time in 2022 I almost quit — and I want to tell you about it [01:06] — Welcome to Get Messy [01:48] — The origin story: a painfully shy kid who found acting at 10 [06:45] — Pounding the pavement in LA since 17 — what \"all in\" really looked like [09:37] — Years of grinding, and things slowly starting to come together [13:22] — Voiceover takes off — signing with my agency and booking my first job March 2016 [16:27] — The floodgates open: campaigns, momentum, and making real money for the first time [16:27] — When unresolved stuff started bubbling up and restricting my voice [17:47] — The slow creep of burnout I didn't have a name for yet [20:06] —…","meta_description":"There's a version of yourself that keeps showing up — even when everything feels broken. This episode is about her. In 2022, I almost quit my creative car…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2802,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/get-messy-with-maddie-7067574/episodes/65-i-almost-quit-acting-experiencing-burnout-therapy-and-creative-revival/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/get-messy-with-maddie-7067574/65-i-almost-quit-acting-experiencing-burnout-therapy-and-creative-revival.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}