{"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":"The Cost of Getting Good - The Cost of Getting Good - How Success Becomes a Creative Trap for Creatives","slug":"the-cost-of-getting-good-the-cost-of-getting-good-how-success-becomes-a-creative-trap-for-creatives","published_at":"2026-05-05T07:05:00+00:00","page_url":"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","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/8e2139a1","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/8e2139a1/95cf3f9f.mp3","summary":"Getting good at your craft is supposed to be the goal. But for a lot of us, competence became the cage. This episode is about the feedback loop nobody warns you about: the better you get, the harder it is to leave. And what we build around the good thing to protect it. Also, some honesty about why I called this show \"Terrible\" that I haven't said out loud before. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville (1853) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot (1915) Robert Berglas - Self-Handicapping research THE BOOK Lessons From a Terrible Photographer is out now. It's part memoir, part field guide, and part honest conversation about what it actually costs to build a creative life. If this episode landed, the book goes deeper. Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Terrible-Photographer-Photography-Probably/dp/B0GRGLYKYS/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 LINKS Website: http://terriblephotographer.com Support the show: https://www.terriblephotographer.com/support Subscribe to Pub Notes: https://the-terrible-photographer.kit.com/223fe471fb Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terriblephotographer/ Patrick on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patrickfore/ Email Patrick : patrick@terriblephotographer.com Email is always open. Questions, thoughts, hate mail. I respond to everything. Link above. The Terrible Creative is 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":"Getting good at your craft is supposed to be the goal. But for a lot of us, competence became the cage. This episode is about the feedback loop nobody war…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1861,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-terrible-creative-7304910/episodes/the-cost-of-getting-good-the-cost-of-getting-good-how-success-becomes-a-creative-trap-for-creatives/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/the-cost-of-getting-good-the-cost-of-getting-good-how-success-becomes-a-creative-trap-for-creatives.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}