In this episode, Lane & Katie take a look at how creatives interact with each other, whether romantically, collaboratively or competitively. Using the lens of their own experiences, they explore topics such as exiting toxic situations, helping friends reduce self-comparison, and finding the right partners to begin with.

In this episode, Lane & Katie take a look at how creatives interact with each other, whether romantically, collaboratively or competitively. Using the lens of their own experiences, they explore topics such as exiting toxic situations, helping friends reduce self-comparison, and finding the right partners to begin with.

Katie and Lane discuss the barriers that can prevent people from seeking therapy or otherwise working to improve their mental health, namely stigma.

Katie and Lane discuss the barriers that can prevent people from seeking therapy or otherwise working to improve their mental health, namely stigma.

In their first focused episode, Lane and Katie lay the groundwork to tackle one of their big questions: why do creatives sometimes glorify mental illness, and is there any truth to the myth that depression drives creativity? Katie discusses medications she's used and Lane draws on his experience working with others.

Katie Stone and Lane Ingram are comedians out of Austin, TX, each with their own interest in the intersection between creativity and mental health. Katie is living with bipolar II disorder while studying "creativity," and Lane is a therapist with HIS OWN BAGGAGE.*

*Katie's words

Katie Stone and Lane Ingram are comedians out of Austin, TX, each with their own interest in the intersection between creativity and mental health. Katie is living with bipolar II disorder while studying "creativity," and Lane is a therapist with HIS OWN BAGGAGE.*

*Katie's words