Earlier this year, creator @gracefullygabbie started publicly tracking her goal of collecting 1,000 rejections. She logs the auditions, brand pitches, and submissions she makes - with the understanding that more no’s inevitably increase the odds of a few meaningful yeses.

That framing stuck with us.

In this episode, we talk about what it would look like to actively pursue rejection instead of quietly structuring our lives around avoiding it. If we’re honest, most of us structure our creative lives around minimizing embarrassment, not maximizing possibility. So we’re trying something different as a way of expanding the range of what we’re willing to ask for.

So we’re setting a goal: more swings, more risk, more visible asks.

We get into how we’re thinking about casting and packaging our next projects, and who we’re reaching for. Plus what we’re calling our “rejection slate” - the specific asks we’re intentionally setting ourselves up to potentially hear no on.

It’s less about tallying losses and more about loosening our grip on outcome. Reexamining what success looks like. Letting ourselves try without pre-rejecting ourselves first.

We’ll be tracking what happens as we go!

Enjoy the episode!