“Starving Isn’t Noble — It’s Conditioning”
(Free post — companion to Episode 3 of Nothing About This Is Safe)
Somewhere along the way, “broke” became the badge of authenticity.
Artists were told: “If you’re poor, it means you care.”
Publishers, agents, and art schools turned that into a moral code.
They taught us that money corrupts creativity, that pricing your work kills your art.
But that was never true. It was control.
Every time you tell yourself, “I’m not in this for the money,” someone else quietly pockets it.
The truth?
Your art deserves to pay your bills. Not because you’re greedy — but because creation costs something. Time. Energy. Life.
And every time you underprice your worth, you reinforce the very myth that’s still funding everyone else’s success.
You can’t help others from empty.
You can’t create deeply while desperate.
And no — getting paid doesn’t cheapen your art.
It frees it.
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This episode of Nothing About This Is Safe is your permission slip to stop glorifying scarcity and start owning the value you bring to the world.
And if you want the deep-dive essay, “The Artist’s Financial Reboot Plan,” it’s live now for paid subscribers.
Want the actual plan?
That’s what the paid post covers.
Listen to the full conversation with Deleyna Marr and Scoot on Nothing About This Is Safe.
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