{"podcast":{"title":"The Difficulty","slug":"the-difficulty-1194248","podcast_index_feed_id":1194248,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/leading-human/","website_url":"https://chadprevost.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/7987388/484968f857d3780a5b1b04e704c35b33.jpg","author":"Dr. Chad Prevost","episode_count":275,"summary":"Exploring descent and return through psychology, literature, and lived experience. Essays, poetry, stories for those navigating transformation.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T16:17:58.066153+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-difficulty-1194248"},"episode":{"title":"The In-Between Is the Hard Part","slug":"the-in-between-is-the-hard-part","published_at":"2026-05-04T10:25:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-difficulty-1194248/the-in-between-is-the-hard-part","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-difficulty-1194248","url":"https://chadprevost.substack.com/p/what-this-show-is-for","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196364696/083652dd618be9dc7abf933e94569fbd.mp3","summary":"The very first episode of The Difficulty. A 50-year-old paperweight on my father’s desk turned out to be a line from a 1900 Irish play, and the seed of this show. What you’re getting on Mondays vs. Thursdays, what’s launching this week at crossroadspublishing.group, the founding-and-selling of C&R Press, the Terminus Magazine “just make it real” lesson, and the $4,000 bestseller campaign I almost said yes to two days ago. 00:00 Welcome — we’re not about perfectionism, we’re about idealizing 03:00 The motto: the difficulty in life is the choice 04:30 Origin of the quote — my father’s rock paperweight, George Moore, 1900 08:00 What this show is NOT (and is) 11:30 The free Difficulty Field Guide 12:30 What’s launching this week: the show, the site, IF/THEN Books, Iris #1 17:00 Crossroads Publishing services — for writers with a body of work 20:00 Who I am — PhD, ICF coach, Enneagram, C&R Press 1996-2015, 50+ books 24:00 Making it real imperfectly — the Terminus Magazine origin story 30:00 Who this show is for 33:00 The $4,000 Brody bestseller campaign and $2,000 Cohen Groundbreakers 38:00 The in-between is the hard part — the real difficulty isn’t the choice 42:00 What’s coming Thursday: how to stop believing your stuff is special The Difficulty Field Guide (free PDF — eight difficulties every creative life faces) Iris Blackwood and the Curse of Hemlock Island (launching Tuesday May 5, with free Decision Tree map and educator’s reading guide ) Crossroads Publishing Group — IF/THEN Books, Crossroads Press services, free resource s . Subscribe to The Descent (the show’s hub): YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chadprevostwriter Personal site: https://chadprevost.com Mentioned in this episode: - George Moore, The Bending of the Bough (1900) — the source quote - C&…","meta_description":"The very first episode of The Difficulty. A 50-year-old paperweight on my father’s desk turned out to be a line from a 1900 Irish play, and the seed of th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2623,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-difficulty-1194248/episodes/the-in-between-is-the-hard-part/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-difficulty-1194248/the-in-between-is-the-hard-part.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}