Healthy Wealthy Wise Artist Podcast

How successful do you have to become before you finally get to stop chasing the next opportunity?

Artists can reach something they once dreamed about — a role, publication, exhibition, qualification, sale, audience or major opportunity — and discover that the finish line has quietly moved again.

In this episode, we’ll talk about:

• why creative success can keep creating new goalposts
• the difference between professional ambition and needing achievement to prove you have “made it”
• why artists who earn their living from their work cannot simply stop marketing, pitching or selling
• one question to help you pursue more without erasing what you have already achieved

Lara also shares why producing a full professional musical at Riverside Studios in London once felt like it should mark an arrival — and why, years later, even a book launch and TEDx can awaken the same hope that perhaps the next achievement will finally make everything feel settled.

Read Audacious Artistry and get the free 10-week group study guide:

https://larabiancapilcher.com/book

Website:

https://larabiancapilcher.com

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Show notes and links:

https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/09/27/feel-successful-as-an-artist/

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 rejection
• what Lara learned after a promising publishing path ended following a year of work
• why success often changes insecurity rather than ending it
• how 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/

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 creativity
• why slowing down can feel like losing momentum or becoming invisible
• the difference between creative output and creative connection
• how 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/

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 excitement
• Why playing small can feel safer than being fully seen
• What happened when Lara’s book launch, international events, media, and speaking opportunities all began growing at once
• The difference between carrying your whole imagined future and preparing for the opportunity actually in front of you
• The 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

Read 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:

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Learn more about Lara Bianca Pilcher:

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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 rejection
• how a lack of response can turn into a damaging story about yourself
• why experience and self-doubt can exist at the same time
• the 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/

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 see
• the difference between achievement and increased creative capacity
• what publishing Audacious Artistry, preparing for TEDx, acting through rejection, and building a platform have taught Lara
• one 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

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 arrival
• how public achievement can magnify shame and disconnection
• the difference between wanting success and needing it to validate you
• the 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

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 you
• How artists confuse being seen with being chosen
• Why someone else’s decision cannot become a verdict on your identity
• The 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/

Read 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

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 smaller
• How a long career can become difficult to read in a new market
• Why followers, bookings, credits, and income matter—but remain incomplete evidence
• How 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

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 jobs
• how over-editing can remove the life from your work
• why unfinished art cannot survive finished-work expectations
• one 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