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. 5d ago

    Why Artist Life Feels Like Emotional Whiplash — Even When Things Go Right

    The opportunity finally arrives. So why do you feel excited, frightened, grateful, pressured, and exhausted at the same time? Artist life rarely gives us one clean emotion. A meaningful yes can arrive alongside family uncertainty. Hope can turn into silence. A long-awaited opportunity can create a new question: now that I have it, can I carry it? In this episode, we’ll talk about: why waiting can be harder than rejectionwhat Lara learned after a promising publishing path ended following a year of workwhy success often changes insecurity rather than ending ithow to hold hope, pressure, gratitude, disappointment, and grief without forcing one feeling to cancel another 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 links: https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/09/21/artist-life-emotional-whiplash/

  2. Sep 22

    Too Exhausted to Create? Keep the Connection, Not the Output

    What happens when your art still matters deeply, but life has used all the energy you normally give to it? After her husband’s role ended abruptly, Lara’s family faced immediate financial and immigration uncertainty while she continued preparing for TEDx, raising her children and keeping existing creative commitments moving. This episode is for the artist who has not stopped caring—but has almost nothing left. In this episode, we’ll talk about: why reduced capacity is not the same as lost creativitywhy slowing down can feel like losing momentum or becoming invisiblethe difference between creative output and creative connectionhow to keep one small, pressure-free door open to the artist in you 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: https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/09/14/too-exhausted-to-create/

  3. Sep 15

    You Wanted This Creative Life. Why Does It Feel So Scary?

    You wanted the bigger creative life. So why can it feel so frightening when the opportunities actually arrive? Sometimes the dream feels very different once it stops being theoretical. The room is booked. The audience is real. The deadline is on the calendar. And suddenly, playing small starts to look strangely appealing. In this episode of the Healthy Wealthy Wise Artist Podcast, Lara Bianca Pilcher explores: Why creative growth can bring fear alongside excitementWhy playing small can feel safer than being fully seenWhat happened when Lara’s book launch, international events, media, and speaking opportunities all began growing at onceThe difference between carrying your whole imagined future and preparing for the opportunity actually in front of youThe question every artist should ask: What am I protecting myself from by staying small — and what might staying small be costing me? You do not have to prove today that you can carry every opportunity that might ever come. You don’t have to carry the whole future. Carry the next room. If this episode stirred something in you, my book Audacious Artistry goes deeper. You can also get the free 10-week group study guide to walk through the book on your own, with a friend, or with a group of artists. Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week group study guide: https://larabiancapilcher.com/book Show NotesRead the blog version of this episode: https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/09/07/you-wanted-this-creative-life-why-does-it-feel-so-scary/ Explore more episodes of the Healthy Wealthy Wise Artist Podcast: https://larabiancapilcher.com/podcast Learn more about Lara Bianca Pilcher: https://larabiancapilcher.com Follow Lara on Instagram: https://instagram.com/larabiancapilcher

  4. Sep 8

    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/

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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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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