Healthy Wealthy Wise Artist Podcast

Lara Bianca Pilcher
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Healthy Wealthy Wise Artist is for artists and creatives who still feel called to create, but are tired of striving, comparing, waiting for permission, trying to stay visible, or wondering whether their art still matters in a saturated world. Hosted by Lara Bianca Pilcher, author of Audacious Artistry: Reclaim Your Creative Identity and Thrive in a Saturated World, speaker, artist, actor, and ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), the podcast explores the inner life of being an artist — the courage, rejection, waiting, visibility, money, burnout, comparison, ambition, identity, and audacity it takes to keep creating. This isn’t generic creative motivation or another list of productivity hacks. It’s a place to talk honestly about what happens when you still want the creative life, but the reality of being an artist starts pressing on who you believe you are. Each short solo episode focuses on one real artist struggle at a time, including: 🎭 creative identity and feeling like an artist when opportunities are quiet 👀 visibility, rejection, comparison, algorithms, and being seen 🔥 perfectionism, fear, ambition, and the courage to make the art anyway 💰 money, value, success, and building a creative life without constant proving 🌱 burnout, discouragement, waiting, and finding your way back to your creativity 💫 audacious hope, action, growth, and creating when no one has asked you to yet Whether you’re an actor, dancer, singer, writer, filmmaker, musician, visual artist, performer, maker, or multidisciplinary creative, this podcast is for the part of you that still wants to make something meaningful. Go deeper with Audacious Artistry Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week Group Study Guide to use on your own, with a friend, or with a group of artists: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher New episodes Tuesdays.

  1. 6d ago

    When the Dream Is Still Alive, But Your Creative Confidence Isn’t

    When nobody is choosing you, it gets harder not to question yourself. The dream may still be alive. You may still care deeply about your art. But after enough unanswered auditions, ignored pitches, closed doors, quiet seasons, or environments where your talent is not recognized, confidence can start to unravel. In this episode, we’ll talk about: why silence can affect an artist differently from a clear rejectionhow a lack of response can turn into a damaging story about yourselfwhy experience and self-doubt can exist at the same timethe question that helps separate your current confidence from your creative identity You do not need to feel confident before you keep going. And a confidence dip is not evidence that your calling has disappeared. Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week group study guide: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher SHOW NOTES and BLOG: https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/08/31/creative-confidence-when-the-dream-is-still-alive/

  2. Sep 1

    The Creative Growth No One Applauds Still Counts

    Creative growth does not always look like a contract, a role, a growing audience, or a public breakthrough. Sometimes it looks like trusting yourself more, recovering from rejection faster, and continuing to create without asking every result to define you. In this episode, we’ll talk about: why artists often overlook the growth nobody else can seethe difference between achievement and increased creative capacitywhat publishing Audacious Artistry, preparing for TEDx, acting through rejection, and building a platform have taught Laraone question that can help you recognize how you have changed Your inner growth is not a consolation prize for the visible success you still want. It is part of your success. Read the shownotes here: - Full link is: https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/09/01/creative-growth-beyond-visible-results/ Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week group study guide: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher

  3. Aug 25

    Can You Want Success Without Losing Yourself?

    You’re allowed to want the audience, the opportunity, the income and the bigger creative life. But what happens when the success you wanted leaves you feeling less like yourself? Lara shares what happened when a major television booking in Australia brought public visibility but also left her feeling fragmented and disconnected from her purpose. This episode is not about making ambition smaller. It is about refusing to make success responsible for proving who you are. In this episode, we’ll talk about: why success rarely creates a permanent sense of arrivalhow public achievement can magnify shame and disconnectionthe difference between wanting success and needing it to validate youthe question to ask before the next opportunity arrives Read the blog version here: https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/08/17/can-you-want-success-without-losing-yourself/ Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week group study guide: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher

  4. Aug 18

    Being Seen Is Scary When Rejection Feels Personal

    What if the hardest part of being seen isn’t visibility — it’s knowing someone might see what you can do and still say no? For an actor, that moment might be an audition. For another artist, it could be submitting a manuscript, performing a song, posting the art, pitching an idea, or putting something deeply personal in front of other people. In this episode, we’ll talk about: Why rejection can feel so personal when your art comes from youHow artists confuse being seen with being chosenWhy someone else’s decision cannot become a verdict on your identityThe question to ask before your next audition, performance, submission, or pitch The shift is simple: Your job is to be seen. Their job is to choose. Read the show notes and find out more about Lara, her book and podcast here: https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/08/10/fear-of-rejection-as-an-artist/ Go deeperRead Audacious Artistry: Reclaim Your Creative Identity and Thrive in a Saturated World and get the free 10-week group study guide: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher

  5. Aug 11

    When Your Career Looks Smaller Than It Is

    Does another artist’s career ever make yours feel embarrassingly small? Their credits are longer. Their audience is larger. Their bio sounds more impressive. They appear to have reached milestones you thought you would have reached by now. In this episode, we’ll talk about the shame of looking less accomplished—and why the visible proof of an artistic career rarely tells the whole story. We’ll explore: Why artists feel exposed when their credits or numbers look smallerHow a long career can become difficult to read in a new marketWhy followers, bookings, credits, and income matter—but remain incomplete evidenceHow to keep growing without turning another artist’s progress into a verdict on yours Looking less accomplished is not the same as being less accomplished. Your next step is not to become the artist in the lane beside you. It is to stop staring sideways long enough to see what is yours to grow next. Read the blog and shownotes here: https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/08/04/when-your-art-career-looks-smaller-than-it-is/ Read Audacious Artistry + get the free 10-week Group Study Guide: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher

  6. Aug 4

    What Would You Make If You Stopped Judging It So Soon?

    You started making something. Then, before it had a chance to become anything, you began pulling it apart. Perfectionism does not always stop artists from beginning. Sometimes it lets us begin, then makes us question, edit, and abandon every choice before the idea has had time to take shape. In this episode, we’ll talk about: why creating and evaluating are different jobshow over-editing can remove the life from your workwhy unfinished art cannot survive finished-work expectationsone simple practice to help you create before you feel ready You do not have to know whether the idea is good yet. First, let it exist. Read the blog version of this episode: https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/07/30/stop-judging-your-art-too-soon/ Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week group study guide: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher

  7. Jul 28

    The Dream Is Still Alive. So Why Are You Avoiding It?

    You say you do not have time to create. But are you busy—or are you avoiding the thing you still care about most? Sometimes limited time is completely real. Artists have work, families, bills, health concerns, and responsibilities that cannot simply be ignored. But useful work can also become a very respectable place to hide. In this episode, we’ll talk about: why artists sometimes avoid the dreams they still wanthow planning, researching, scrolling, and staying useful can replace creatingwhat comparison and social-media triggers may be trying to show youhow a dream can remain alive while taking a different shapeone imperfect move you can make toward the thing you miss Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week group study guide: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher

  8. Jul 21

    The Gatekeepers Are Loud. But They Don’t Own Your Calling.

    Have you become so focused on being chosen that your whole creative life now feels trapped behind somebody else’s decision? Gatekeepers are real. Agents, casting directors, publishers, funders, artistic directors, producers, venues, and industry leaders can affect which opportunities become available to us. But they do not own the full meaning of your creative life. In this episode, we’ll talk about: what happens when being selected becomes proof that you are a “real” artistwhy rejection can start controlling more than the opportunitywhat Lara built when acting was blocked by visa restrictions and an industry strikehow to keep knocking without spending your whole life standing at the doorone creative action you can take without waiting for permission Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week group study guide: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher

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Healthy Wealthy Wise Artist is for artists and creatives who still feel called to create, but are tired of striving, comparing, waiting for permission, trying to stay visible, or wondering whether their art still matters in a saturated world. Hosted by Lara Bianca Pilcher, author of Audacious Artistry: Reclaim Your Creative Identity and Thrive in a Saturated World, speaker, artist, actor, and ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), the podcast explores the inner life of being an artist — the courage, rejection, waiting, visibility, money, burnout, comparison, ambition, identity, and audacity it takes to keep creating. This isn’t generic creative motivation or another list of productivity hacks. It’s a place to talk honestly about what happens when you still want the creative life, but the reality of being an artist starts pressing on who you believe you are. Each short solo episode focuses on one real artist struggle at a time, including: 🎭 creative identity and feeling like an artist when opportunities are quiet 👀 visibility, rejection, comparison, algorithms, and being seen 🔥 perfectionism, fear, ambition, and the courage to make the art anyway 💰 money, value, success, and building a creative life without constant proving 🌱 burnout, discouragement, waiting, and finding your way back to your creativity 💫 audacious hope, action, growth, and creating when no one has asked you to yet Whether you’re an actor, dancer, singer, writer, filmmaker, musician, visual artist, performer, maker, or multidisciplinary creative, this podcast is for the part of you that still wants to make something meaningful. Go deeper with Audacious Artistry Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week Group Study Guide to use on your own, with a friend, or with a group of artists: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Website: https://larabiancapilcher.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher New episodes Tuesdays.

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