How to Live With Pressure in an Arts Career

When you follow your passions into an arts career, you can find many creative and emotional satisfactions, even financial rewards, but artists also experience unique challenges and pressures.

“Actresses are made to feel entirely dependent in order to do the work they love.” Actor, Director Olivia Wilde

“I slowly started to fall into pressure, but I wasn’t living my most authentic self.” Transgender actress Leyna Bloom

“Writers are under enough pressure without adding to it. But add to it we do.” Colleen M. Story

“Always trying to figure out what’s your next job, show, or audition…The demands never end. As you juggle so many aspects of your career, it feels like the pressure is coming from everywhere.” Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz

Read much more and see videos in article How to thrive in your career in the arts – living with pressure.

Note - Most of the audio is a transcription of my article text, with a synthetic voice - excerpt for the actual comments by Olivia Wilde from longer interview videos in the article. 

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