In Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 044, the question is posed: What is your creative worth? Why -- and how -- is your creative work worthy? What do you think when it comes to your own creative worth? Is your definition of creative worth actually creating anxiety, or lifting you up?

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