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🎙️ So We're Now In A Global Trade War

Emergency Weather Report: Surviving the Creative Storm

Welcome to this emergency episode of The Weather Report — a regular podcast feature on my Substack for creatives navigating the shifting skies of art, culture, and self-expression.

I’m Emma Clarke: artist, broadcaster, voice actor, and creative strategist. Think of this as part forecast, part dispatch, always grounded in lived experience.

In this episode, I share an Emergency Weather Report for April 2025.

With a global trade war brewing and creative freelancers caught in the crosswinds, I unpack what it means — and how we can respond.

You’ll hear:

Why this isn’t collapse, but recalibration

The five things freelancers need to do now to adapt and stay visible

A call to create the kind of work this moment demands: steadying, strange, truthful

This episode is part strategy, part survival kit.

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🎧 Open Studio Tape — an unscripted audio reflection on how I weather creative turbulence in my own practice

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