{"podcast":{"title":"The Terrible Creative","slug":"the-terrible-creative-7304910","podcast_index_feed_id":7304910,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-terrible-photographer-podcast","website_url":"https://www.terriblephotographer.com/the-podcast","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/482j1-hhsTJdTs4GV3s7EoBZ5p_6Lr7_7kD3arbuQ3A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMTIy/MjM3Yzk2YTUzZDE5/ZjNiODE0Y2MxOTgz/MGRiNC5qcGc.jpg","author":"Patrick Fore","episode_count":77,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T08:18:37.921123+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910"},"episode":{"title":"Mute - You've Spent Years Getting Good. Do You Have Anything Left to Say?","slug":"mute-you-ve-spent-years-getting-good-do-you-have-anything-left-to-say","published_at":"2026-05-26T14:20:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/mute-you-ve-spent-years-getting-good-do-you-have-anything-left-to-say","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/c9a516b6","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/c9a516b6/2a990c65.mp3","summary":"There is a man standing in a clearing in Arkansas with a yellow guitar, singing about insulin prices to nobody in particular. Three million people found him. Not because of the production value. Because he was saying the thing. This episode is about the gap most professional creatives never talk about — the distance between the skills that pay your rent and the thing you actually have to say. How years of executing other people's briefs can quietly atrophy a different kind of muscle. And what happens when you finally try to use it. I talk about Jesse Welles, Oliver Anthony, a series of images I made in 2024 that landed in silence, and why Marcus Aurelius titled his most important work \"To Himself.\" This one took a while to say out loud. In This Episode Jesse Welles — \"War Isn't Murder\" Watch on YouTube wellesmusic.com Jesse Welles on Bandcamp Oliver Anthony — \"Rich Men North of Richmond\" Watch on YouTube oliveranthonymusic.com CNN News Coverage — Sandy Hook Elementary School, December 14, 2012 Watch on YouTube Used for editorial purposes. The Book Lessons From a Terrible Photographer Support the Show theterriblecreative.com/support Stay Connected Subscribe to Pub Notes (the newsletter) The Terrible Creative on Instagram Patrick Fore on Instagram Podcast written, produced, and hosted by Patrick Fore Music licensed through Epidemic Sound and Blue Dot Sessions Recorded from my garage in San Diego, California","meta_description":"There is a man standing in a clearing in Arkansas with a yellow guitar, singing about insulin prices to nobody in particular. Three million people found h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2656,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-terrible-creative-7304910/episodes/mute-you-ve-spent-years-getting-good-do-you-have-anything-left-to-say/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/mute-you-ve-spent-years-getting-good-do-you-have-anything-left-to-say.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}