Eva Reign is a Peabody and GLAAD Award-winning Brooklyn-based actress, writer and artist from St. Louis, Missouri. She is the star of Billy Porter’s directorial debut Anything’s Possible from Amazon Studios and MGM’s Orion Pictures. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, Vice, Them, The Cut, Byrdie, PAPER and Highsnobiety. On this episode, we chat about Eva’s creative process in getting ready for her role of Kelsa in Anything’s Possible, her experience with The Artist’s Way, getting over imposter syndrome on set, and how to navigate slower times in your career. 

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Alice Lemee is a self-taught writer who left her budding career in the music industry to pursue writing full time. She’s a writing coach and newsletter ghostwriter for seven-figure business owners, award-winning YouTubers, and TV anchors. We talk about making changes to be happier – whether that’s changing careers or changing services within her writing career, the advantages of being self-taught, how she gets past writer’s block, and what creator gravity is. 

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Ryan Herrera is a creative writer who is pursuing his Masters in Writing at Johns Hopkins, and works in ad tech for his 9-5. He has experience writing across a wide variety of genres including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, humor writing, and journalism. He hopes to start writing his first novel upon graduating in 2026. We talk about how he makes time for creative writing while working full-time in advertising, how his identities play a role in his work, how he gets ideas, and much more.

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Patrick Thomas writes about agriculture and the food industry for The Wall Street Journal. He covers meatpacking companies, supermarkets and how American food is grown. He joined the Journal in 2018 writing about corporate breaking news and is a native of Omaha, Nebraska. He joins this episode of Version 1 to talk about what makes business journalism creative, how running leads to breakthroughs and how he takes hundreds of pages of notes and distills it down to an article.

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Eva Recinos (@evaiswriting) is an arts and culture journalist and creative non-fiction writer based in Los Angeles. She is the creator of Notes from Eva, a free monthly newsletter featuring opportunities for creatives. In this week’s episode, we talk about how she got her start freelance writing, how her career took a turn when she was rejected from a fiction workshop, and what structures help keep her creative and accountable. 

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John Guilyard (@mynameisgilly) is a multitalented artist and UX designer at Google. He shares how failure plays a role in his creative process, not getting into his university’s art program, imposter syndrome, and the role of AI in art.

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