Artist Recovery Podcast

Rich Wright
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Artist Recovery Podcast is Bringing Light to the Darkside of Art. I’m Rich Wright, your host — and here we're redefining recovery as Renewal, Resilience and Creative Transformation. Because for artists, it’s more than survival… it’s Remembering.This show is about the real journey of being a working creative — the highs, the lows, the pivots, and the reinventions that shape who we are. Together we’ll explore how setbacks can spark transformation, how loss can open new paths, and how resilience fuels the heart of every artist’s story.If you’ve ever faced doubt, setback, or the call to reinvent yourself, you’re in the right place. Let’s recover — and create — together.” Want to be a guest on Artist Recovery Podcast? Send Rich Wright a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/artistrecovery

  1. 5d ago

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 37 | John Voelz — Faith Deconstructed, Music & Creative Reinvention

    Singer-songwriter, author, and traveling musician John Voelz sits down with Rich Wright for a long-form conversation that traces one of the most winding creative paths you'll hear — from a boat yard in Richmond, California to a jukebox-soundtracked childhood in a family bar, through a three-month VW bus tour across America, into the fire of a rigid fundamentalist church, and out the other side as a full-time creative living on the road in an Airstream. John opens up about growing up with a father who couldn't read but out-worked everyone, learning to build a life from raw ingenuity and provision. He shares how teachers who believed in him — choir directors, speech coaches, English teachers — carved the inroads that shaped his voice, and how a strict church experience tried to burn it all down, literally, when his albums went up in flames. This is a story about freedom — the word John tattooed on his body — and about what it costs to chase an unconventional creative life. He talks candidly about becoming a pastor to redeem the church's ugliness, building a decentralized ministry rooted in community, funding a charity wine for a struggling art school, and eventually getting fired over "a difference of vision." Then came the dream: a coffee shop, beer-and-wine bar, and live music venue that opened six days before the COVID shutdowns — and the three-year fight that followed, ending with selling the house, the business, and everything else to hit the road. Through it all, music remained the thread. John reflects on his surprising second act as a professional Santa — turning down 700 appearances in a single season — and how slipping into that suit pulled him back from cynicism and reminded him how beautiful people really are. The conversation closes on the darker side of the creative life: mental health, perseverance, the song he wrote in the Airstream the night Betty White died, and why creatives need each other to make it through. A raw, funny, deeply human episode about pivots, provision, faith, reinvention, and the unshakable pull of making things. John Voelz is the author of "Becoming an Idea Mentalist," "Quirky Leadership: Permission Granted," "Broken Record," and the "Because I Wear the Suit" series. He hosts the Gig to Live podcast for working musicians and performs Americana, country, folk, rock, and pop across a wide regional circuit. Connect with John: Website: https://johnvoelz.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-voelz-b953264/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnvoelzmedia/ Youtube:  @johnvoelzmusic Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi... Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre... Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #JohnVoelz #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #CreativeLife #MusicianInterview #SingerSongwriter #WorkingMusician #IndependentMusician #GiggingMusician #CreativeReinvention #CareerPivots #FaithDeconstruction #LeavingTheChurch #ProfessionalSanta #GigSalad #LiveMusicVenue #SmallBusiness #AirstreamLiving #LifeOnTheRoad #CreativeEntrepreneur #ArtistBurnout #MentalHealthForArtists #FollowYourHeart #Storytelling #Americana #FolkMusic #CreativePerseverance #Freedom #MusicIndustry #VenueOwner #LongFormPodcast #ArtistMindset #CreativeStruggle #RedemptionStory #GigToLive #AuthorInterview #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd  @PodMatch_com ​ Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  2. Sep 4

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 36 | Brheanna Myers: Near-Death, DNA Activation & Awakening

    Brheanna Myers is the founder of Light & Breezy Coaching, creator of the Awaken Your Potential method, and author of "Awaken Your Potential: Healing Frequencies Made Easy" and "Awakening From the Inside Out" — sits down with Rich Wright for one of the most expansive conversations Season 2 has held. Born on Nellis Air Force Base, raised across nine elementary schools, and out on her own at 15, Brheanna traces a path of pure resilience: from survival mode and street hustle to a bachelor's, a psychology degree, and a doctorate in holistic healing medicine. At the center of it all is her 2020 near-death experience — contracting fungal pneumonia during COVID, collapsing, stepping outside her body, and returning with a soul contract, exit clauses, and a mission she never saw coming. She and Rich go deep into what that experience revealed: that separation is an illusion, that we are infinitely divine creators, and that unconditional love is the frequency underneath everything. This is a raw, wide-ranging talk about spiritual awakening, energy healing, and reclaiming creativity through the body's own systems. WHAT WE GET INTO: ~Growing up chaotic — a stripper mother, an absent businessman father, and the childhood that became the building blocks ~"Apple Pie" — the imaginary friend who turned out to be a lifelong spiritual guide ~Breaking generational cycles: "It ran through my family until it ran into me" ~The near-death experience in full — leaving the body, meeting guides, the DNA activation, and the life review where every moment connected ~Why Brheanna doesn't believe in free will the way most people do ~Reading natal charts, Chiron the wounded healer, and the Taurus transition ahead ~The spontaneous kundalini awakening of March 2023 — 30 days without sleep ~Frequency healing, tuning forks, chakras, and how trapped emotion lands in the physical body ~Jehovian seals, DNA manipulation, and what the elite teach their children ~Why organic farming isn't what you think, and how trauma embeds in the food you eat ~The art of detachment, dropping the weight that isn't yours to carry, and unconditional love vs. unconditional access ~Learning to spot opportunity everywhere — and why nothing is a coincidence ~How color palettes in your art mirror your chakra system !Rich and Brheanna on collecting tools instead of counting failures, the power of the pivot, and why creatives carry too much Connect with Brheanna: Website: https://www.lightandbreezycoaching.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightandbreezy1111 Youtube:  @Brheanna1111 Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi... Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre... Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #neardeathexperience #NDE #spiritualawakening #energyhealing #DNAactivation #kundalini #kundaliniawakening #soulcontract #lifereview #chakrahealing #frequencyhealing #tuningforks #pastliferegression #QHHT #natalchart #astrology #chiron #woundedhealer #higherself #consciouscreator #manifestation #lawofattraction #traumahealing #innerchildhealing #generationalcycles #highlysensitiveperson #empath #intuitivehealing #remoteviewing #quantumfield #consciousness #unconditionallove #detachment #breakingcycles #survivalmode #resilience #creativementalhealth #artistmentalhealth #spiritualcoach #mindbodyspirit #awakeningjourney #meditation #holistichealing #selfworth #solarplexus #crownchakra #thirdeye #ascension #5D #spiritguides #telepathy #artistrecoverypodcast #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #beaguest #podmatchguest  @PodMatch_com ​ Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  3. Aug 28

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 35 | The Undoctor: Dr. Fred Moss on Healing Beyond Diagnosis

    Dr. Fred Moss—known as The Undoctor—joins Rich Wright for a raw, sweeping conversation that runs from the streets of 1970s Detroit to four decades inside modern psychiatry and out the other side. A board-certified psychiatrist with an MD from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a biology degree from Wayne State, Dr. Moss has treated over 30,000 patients across private practice, tele-health, correctional healthcare, and nursing homes. He walked away from diagnosis-and-protocol psychiatry to pursue what actually heals human beings: real human connection. Rich and Dr. Moss share deep Metro Detroit roots, and this conversation is soaked in it—Oak Park and Southfield, the 12th Street riots, Motown, Bob Seger and Ted Nugent, Tiger Stadium, the Bad Boy Pistons, and a chance front-row night with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band before anyone knew his name. Those roots frame a much larger story about grief, identity, and the human drive to keep moving. Dr. Moss opens up about being born to "bring unity" to a family in chaos, losing his first love and a close friend at 13, dropping out of college more than once, and stumbling into the mental health field on a three-week orientation he expected to quit—46 years ago. He traces the moment Prozac reshaped how the world thinks about being human, and why he came to believe modern medicine was never designed to heal. Rich shares his own hard-earned perspective as a patient—years cycling through medications, a suicide attempt, hospitalization, and being told by one of the country's top depression centers that they couldn't help him. Two Metro Detroiters, two sides of the same broken system, finding common ground on what real healing requires. What you'll hear: – Why "there's nothing wrong with you" sits at the center of Dr. Moss's work – How a diagnosis can become a cage rather than an answer – The Moss Method: 20 time-tested, age-old ways to get grounded without a prescription – The Creative Eight—how art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, writing, and everyday creativity dissolve so-called symptoms in real time – Why misery is a choice we're trained to make, not an inevitability– Honest talk on Ibogaine, ketamine, and plant medicines—their promise and their paradox – Relationship and authentic conversation as the most powerful medicine ever discovered Dr. Moss is the author of "Creative Eight: Healing Through Creativity and Self-Expression" and "Find Your True Voice," creator of the Creative Eight and True Voice methodologies, and host and guest across 600+ podcast episodes. His memoir, "Welcome to Humanity," tells the full story of how he became who he is. This is a conversation about listening to your heart while being kind to your mind—and about the radical idea that healing was never something wrong with you to begin with. Connect with Dr. Moss: Website: https://welcometohumanity.net Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drfredmoss Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/white-owl-wisdom-1 Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistrecovery Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #DrFredMoss #TheUndoctor #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #Psychiatry #MentalHealth #HealingWithoutMedication #Deprescribing #Antipsychiatry #CreativeEight #MossMethod #TrueVoice #HumanConnection #AuthenticSelf #DepressionRecovery #Anxiety #AddictionRecovery #Ibogaine #KetamineTherapy #PlantMedicine #TraumaHealing #AlternativeMentalHealth #HolisticHealing #SelfExpression #CreativityAsMedicine #Mindset #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #beaguest #podmatchguest  ⁨@PodMatch_com⁩   Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  4. Aug 21

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 34 | Permission to Feel Alive Again with Dr. Alisa Kriegel

    Dr. Alisa Kriegel joins Rich Wright for a raw, wide-open conversation about desire, healing, self-discovery, and the courage it takes to reclaim pleasure at any stage of life. A psychologist with over 30 years in the field, Alisa spent the first half of her career in community mental health settings and hospitals serving clients with complex needs, while teaching and supervising graduate students in mindfulness, DBT, and trauma. She opened her private practice in 2009 and now works with young adults, adults, and couples in New York City, both in person and virtually, including those in monogamous relationships and people exploring consensual non-monogamy. Her debut memoir, "From Sexless Marriage to Sex Goddess," released in November 2025, and the story behind it anchors this episode. Alisa opens up about a marriage that carried deep friendship and intellectual closeness yet quietly lost its sexual center, the shame and silence that surround sexless relationships, and the season of upheaval that finally cracked her life wide open. She shares what almost no one talks about: how birth control, a tilted uterus, and decades of missing information shaped her experience, and why she wrote a book to break the silence when as many as 40 percent of couples describe themselves as sexless. This is also a story about creativity as medicine. Alisa traces a lifetime of art, dance, poetry, and writing, from a mother who taught in Watts to a grandmother named Blanche who found ceramics and painting in her sixties and spent the final decades of her life winning art shows. Her belief in second chapters and in it never being too late runs through everything. She and Rich explore the healing power of writing, the difference between healing in private and healing that is shared, and why creativity and sexuality are entwined threads of the same aliveness. Together they dig into being your own advocate in therapy and in life, how to find a therapist who truly fits, why it is never your job to protect your therapist's feelings, and the permission we all need to give ourselves to feel pleasure again. From walking barefoot through grass to reclaiming intimacy, this conversation is an invitation to reconnect with the parts of yourself you may have quietly shut off. Connect with Dr Alisa Kriegel: Website: https://alisakriegel.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/letstalkaboutsex_really Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisa-kriegel-ph-d-299a4141 Youtube:  ⁨@dralisakriegel⁩   Get Her Book: https://a.co/d/0ivqMT55 #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #DrAlisaKriegal #SexlessMarriage #SexGoddess #Memoir #CreativeHealing #WritingToHeal #Psychology #Relationships #Intimacy #Desire #ReclaimingPleasure #SelfDiscovery #SecondChapters #MidlifeReinvention #Divorce #DatingAfterDivorce #ConsensualNonMonogamy #OpenMarriage #FindingATherapist #SelfAdvocacy #MentalHealth #DBT #Mindfulness #Trauma #Permission #Sexuality #Creativity #SensitiveSoul #PersonalGrowth #WomensHealth #HealingJourney #AuthenticLiving #beaguest #podmatchguest @podmatch #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  5. Aug 14

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 33 | Solving Dyslexia with AI & Brain Science - Russell Van Brocklen

    Russell Van Brocklen, known as The Dyslexia Professor, joins Rich Wright for a conversation that reframes dyslexia not as a deficit but as a differently wired brain with a creative advantage. Founder of Dyslexia Classes, Russell built a research program funded by the New York State Senate and owned by the SUNY Research Foundation, with documented results showing motivated high school students with dyslexia improving their writing skills seven to eight grade levels in a single academic year. Russell breaks down the science from Dr. Sally Shaywitz's Overcoming Dyslexia: the back of the dyslexic brain shows little activity, while the front runs roughly two and a half times overactive. That overactive front is the engine of creativity, and it explains why figures like Steven Spielberg and Walt Disney produced work the way they did. Russell walks Rich through the exact method he teaches, using word analysis followed by articulation, movie reviews, universal themes, and a writing tool called the warrant drawn from The Craft of Research. You will hear the real student outcomes that make this method impossible to ignore. Casey jumped eight grade levels in six months. Reid went from the 11th percentile in reading to the 64th, and from the 4th percentile in writing to the 65th, in under nine months at home, avoiding years at a $75,000-a-year school. Grayson, a ten-year-old aiming to publish in a peer-reviewed journal, is being prepared to walk into a senior professor's office a decade ahead of schedule. Russell also opens up his own story: growing up in upstate New York, being bullied until an eighth-grade growth spurt, entering law school at a first-grade reading level and learning to read in a month, arguing a professor to a standstill on day two, and later convincing the New York State Senate to fund his research. He shares how he uses AI at the highest levels to 10X his output, how he delegates through assistants and partners, and the customer service philosophy he learned from the dyslexic founder of Kinko's. This one is for creatives, parents, educators, tutors, and any neurodiverse mind that has ever felt like they were grabbing fog. If you have ever wondered why your ideas fly at light speed with no organization, this conversation hands you a map. Connect with Russell: Website: https://dyslexiaclasses.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-van-brocklen-2007ab87 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dyslexiaclassesus Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/white-owl-wisdom-1 Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistrecovery #Dyslexia #DyslexiaProfessor #RussellVanBrocklen #Neurodiversity #ADHD #ADD #DyslexicThinking #CreativeBrain #LearningDisabilities #DyslexiaAwareness #OvercomingDyslexia #SallyShaywitz #StrugglingReaders #StrugglingWriters #WritingSkills #ReadingIntervention #SpecialEducation #Homeschooling #GiftedKids #NeurodivergentCreatives #AIforLearning #BrainScience #StevenSpielberg #WaltDisney #TheCraftOfResearch #WordAnalysis #UniversalThemes #SUNY #Tutoring #EdTech #DyslexiaSupport #ReadingHelp #ParentingTips #CreativeEntrepreneur #ArtistRecovery #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #beaguest #podmatchguest @podmatch Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  6. Aug 7

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 32 | Rupali Kumbhani: Art as Experience & Rare Plant Curation

    Rupali Kumbhani is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across oil, pastel, and watercolor painting, fine art photography, and rare indoor plant curation, each practice bound by one intention: bringing a piece of the world into everyday spaces. Born and raised in Mumbai, India, Rupali brings a story shaped by cosmopolitan color, cross-cultural celebration, and a deep belief that art is not an object but an experience you feel. Rich Wright sits down with Rupali to trace a life that has never traveled in a straight line. From a childhood steeped in Diwali rangoli designs, Garba, and the festival of colors, to a father who was a textile engineer teaching her color values and RGB with pen and paper, to a mother rooted in Ayurvedic medicine and hand-stitching, Rupali's creative foundation was built long before she ever picked up a professional brush. She started painting at seven, completed her first mirror self-portrait at twelve, and began competitive debating at ten, learning early how to listen, articulate, and accept both winning and losing with grace. This conversation moves through a remarkably varied journey: a bachelor's in physics, teaching at university, a master's in computer science during the Y2K era, pioneering work in India's first mobile gaming company on titles tied to Finding Nemo and Spider-Man, and a pivot into fintech and banking security. Through every industry shift, one thread holds constant — curiosity, risk-taking, and a refusal to stay in a single lane. Rupali speaks candidly about being a lifelong seeker, the more she learns the more she realizes how much she doesn't know, and why challenge intrigues her more than a smooth sail. The second half of the conversation turns to her rare plant curation practice, born during COVID. Now caretaker to 170 plant genuses inside her home, Rupali shares her philosophy of treating plants as family, experimenting with humidity and light to document how rare tropical species can thrive in a Midwest climate, and her goal of publishing a book to make that knowledge accessible. She reflects on how the plants have built patience in her, teaching her the difference between control and surrender, and how nature's harshness and resilience reshaped the way she moves through her own life. Rupali and Rich explore art as felt experience, the humility her mother taught her (be like a tree that bends when it bears fruit), the role of luck and Mother Nature alongside skill, and why every viewer brings their own memory and meaning to a piece. Whether it's water droplets in a Costa Rican cloud forest or an acacia tree in Kenya, Rupali captures wonder and hands it to others to feel in their own way. Connect with Rupali: Website: https://www.rupaali.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupalikumbhani Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/2rupaali Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/white-owl-wisdom-1 Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistrecovery Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #RupaliKumbhani #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #VisualArtist #ArtAsExperience #RarePlantCuration #IndoorPlants #RarePlants #FineArtPhotography #WildlifePhotography #OilPainting #Watercolor #Pastel #MumbaiArtist #IndianArtist #CreativeJourney #MultidisciplinaryArtist #PlantCare #Houseplants #PlantCollection #Patience #MotherNature #Creativity #Curiosity #LifelongLearner #Seeker #MobileGaming #Y2K #ComputerScience #Physics #Fintech #BankingSecurity #CareerPivot #Reinvention #Debating #SelfPortrait #TextileDesign #ColorTheory #Diwali #FestivalOfColors #Rangoli #CulturalCreativity #CovidHobby #CostaRica #CloudForest #Kenya #JuriedExhibition #ArtistInterview #HeartCenteredArtist #SensitiveSoul #CreativeEntrepreneur #ArtCollector #PlantCommunity #RiskTaking #Challenge #SelfExpression #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #beaguest #podmatchguest  @PodMatch_com ​ Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  7. Jul 31

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 31: Noah May on Mental Health, Bullying & Building a Podcast Business

    Noah May turned a lifetime of being the kid nobody wanted to hear into three podcasts, a journalism degree from Auburn, and a growing platform for mental health advocacy. He joins Rich Wright to trace the full arc, from a small farm town in northeast Alabama to the mic he now sits behind every week. Growing up an only child in a loving but atypical household, Noah found early refuge in cartoons, animal books, and PC games like Chuzzle and Feeding Frenzy. But by middle school, the bullying began. Verbal abuse, being treated as invisible, and a class so troublesome teachers warned each other about it. Noah opens up about the depression that surfaced around age 13, the anxiety that struck his senior year as physical stomach illness, and the suicidal ideation he faced at his lowest points. He speaks candidly about learning to hide it all, becoming a chameleon, and finding peace at the lake with his headphones on. This conversation goes deep on generational patterns of mental health, the stigma that kept a self-diagnosing family away from therapy, and why depression may be something Noah carries for life while learning to make it smaller. Rich shares his own parallel journey with anxiety, stomach issues, and survival, offering Noah and the audience a reminder: recognizing your triggers and becoming your own advocate is the work that keeps you moving forward. The back half turns to reinvention. Noah reveals how podcasting fell into his lap after graduation, how a single email from PodMatch founder Alex catapulted Lethal Venom into rapid success, and why he named a show after the idea that truth, like venom, can be lethal to hear. He and Rich talk about the creative craft of podcasting, the challenge of running three shows at once (Lethal Venom, Music Talks, and Southern Reads), and what it feels like when one project takes all the spotlight while the others wait their turn. This is a story about resilience, courage, and the strange grace of being heard at last. Connect with Noah: Website: https://noahspodcasts.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-c-may Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lethalvenompodcast Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/white-owl-wisdom-1 Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistrecovery Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #MentalHealth #DepressionAwareness #Anxiety #SuicideAwareness #Bullying #MentalHealthWarrior #Resilience #Courage #Podcasting #PodMatch #LethalVenom #NoahMay #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #Journalism #AuburnUniversity #SelfAdvocacy #GenerationalTrauma #MentalHealthStigma #Therapy #SurvivalStory #CreativeRecovery #Storytelling #Outcast #MentalHealthAdvocacy #Healing #SuicidePrevention #PersonalGrowth #MentalHealthJourney #PodcastInterview #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #beaguest #podmatchguest  @PodMatch_com  @noahspodcasts ​ Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  8. Jul 24

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 30 | Vanessa Younts on Burnout, Reinvention & Amplifying Humanity

    Vanessa the Vivacious Younts is a podcaster, filmmaker, video journalist, musician, and founder of Vanessa the Vivacious Productions, a female-owned, Latina-led creative production company.   As creator of the series and podcast Humanity 2.0 and the former managing director and contributing video journalist for Are You Happy (a platform with four million followers), she has traveled coast to coast interviewing thousands of people about happiness while overseeing a network of 3,000 contributing video journalists.   Born dirt poor in San Antonio, Texas, with dirt floors and windows that would not open, Vanessa learned resilience early. She started working at 13, tended bar at a Christian rock venue selling pop and water, waitressed through high school, and eventually became a first-generation college student before life pulled her in a hundred directions. She talks openly about experiencing homelessness in Seattle, serving in a soup kitchen one week and receiving food from those same volunteers the next, and how that lived understanding of both sides of the line shaped her lifelong servant's heart. This episode goes deep on creative burnout. Vanessa shares how absorbing other people's energy as an empath made her exceptional at her work but also drained her, how her income and acknowledgment stopped matching her output, and how she spent months in her bedroom doing nothing before returning to the corporate world as a claims adjuster.  She describes the tingling face, the nightmares, and the moment she realized she would be furious with herself if she died at her desk. Her advice on knowing your worth, raising your prices, and refusing to let creativity be undervalued is essential listening for every freelancer and creative. Along the way, Vanessa and Rich explore music as a lifesaver, self-taught piano and classically trained flute, singing concerts to the grass as a child, analyzing films at 13, and the freedom of never asking permission and never subscribing to a formula. They discuss reinvention at any age, why the real education happens in the life lived between classes, and the belief that you are never done until you are gone. The conversation also touches grief and the loss of Vanessa's brother and mother, the belief that our loved ones' energies never truly leave us, her Native heritage and the documentary she is making to find her family's tribe, and her survival of mental illness. She opens up about a bipolar diagnosis, a doctor who told her she would never get better, and how that fueled her to become an advocate and to write her book, Complications and Metamorphosis. Vanessa is more than an amplifier of voices. She is a warrior for humanity, for creatives, and for compassion. Her mission is simple and urgent: remind us that we are all human, all valuable, and worthy of being heard. Connect with Vanessa: Website: https://vanessathevivacious.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessathevivacious Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanessathevivacious Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/white-owl-wisdom-1 Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistrecovery Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #VanessaYounts #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #CreativeBurnout #EmpathBurnout #Humanity2point0 #VideoJournalist #Filmmaker #FemaleFounder #LatinaCreative #ServantsHeart #HomelessnessSurvivor #Reinvention #KnowYourWorth #FreelanceRates #CreativeValue #MentalHealth #BipolarAwareness #MentalIllnessSurvivor #SuicidePrevention #Advocacy #NativeHeritage #Grief #MusicAsTherapy #ClassicallyTrained #NeverAskPermission #CreativeResilience #Storytelling #AmplifyingVoices #Compassion #Humanity @podmatch #beaguest Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

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Artist Recovery Podcast is Bringing Light to the Darkside of Art. I’m Rich Wright, your host — and here we're redefining recovery as Renewal, Resilience and Creative Transformation. Because for artists, it’s more than survival… it’s Remembering.This show is about the real journey of being a working creative — the highs, the lows, the pivots, and the reinventions that shape who we are. Together we’ll explore how setbacks can spark transformation, how loss can open new paths, and how resilience fuels the heart of every artist’s story.If you’ve ever faced doubt, setback, or the call to reinvent yourself, you’re in the right place. Let’s recover — and create — together.” Want to be a guest on Artist Recovery Podcast? Send Rich Wright a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/artistrecovery

Information

  • Creator
    Rich Wright
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    89
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Artist Recovery LLC
  • Show Website
    Artist Recovery Podcast