What happens when you try to build a creative life while also being a responsible adult?
Disorder. But delightfully so.
Pain In The Arts is hosted by Breallyn Wesley: writer, copywriter, and novelist in progress, and her husband Lyndon: a musician, studio owner, and producer.
Every week, one of them brings a topic. The other finds out what it is at the same time you do.
That means the conversation is genuinely unscripted, which means you hear the real first reaction, the pivot when someone doesn't agree and the occasional moment where one of us says something we probably should have thought through more carefully!
Topics include creative burnout, imposter syndrome, the mid-career artist dilemma, guarding your creative process, self-promotion for independent artists and what it means to keep making things when real life keeps getting in the way. Occasional guest interviews with working artists who are living proof it can be done.
New episodes every Tuesday.
Produced on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People of the East Kulin Nation
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Why Do We Make Things: The Skateboard Guitar and the Itch to Build It
Brea knew a secret guest would be arriving. She just didn't know who.
When Phil walked up to the front door Brea couldn't have been happier. That's Uncle Phil, Brea's uncle and a regular in our stories for ages.
Now he's finally in the studio. He came over to swap a guitar pedal, and I may have trapped him into co-hosting with us.
Phil teaches woodwork and builds guitars from skateboard decks in a single garage under his house. He brought one along, so we asked, 'Why do we bother making things when we can buy almost anything?'
You might want to listen if:
• You used to make things, and you can’t quite remember when or why you stopped.
• Part of you believes creativity only really counts if it earns money or finds an audience.
Visit Phil on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/grrr8_sk8__custom_guitars/)
Pain In The Arts is a weekly podcast about the reality of creative life. Hosted by Breallyn and Lyndon Wesley. One of them never knows the topic until recording begins.
If you enjoyed this episode, the best thing you can do is share it with one person who'd love it.
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Theme music by Lyndon Wesley (www.lyndonwesley.com)
Produced on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.
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28 Sept 2026
Word You Never Heard - Agnosthesia
Words are being removed from dictionaries to make room for new ones. We think some of them deserve better. Who knows what forgotten little nocturnal marsupial was erased for the word 'floppy disc'?
This is our small attempt to restore some balance.
Word You Never Heard is a recurring series from Pain In The Arts, drawn from one of our favourite books, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig. Words that fill the gaps. Feelings that exist but have never had a name.
In each episode, one of us reads a forgotten or reimagined word from the book. The other has never seen it. With only a handful of clues, they have less than half an hour to work out what it means - or build their own definition from scratch. But before the clock runs out, a guess has to be made.
Today's word is Agnosthesia.
Pain In The Arts is a weekly podcast about the reality of creative life. Hosted by Breallyn and Lyndon Wesley. One of them never knows the topic until recording begins.
If you enjoyed this episode, the best thing you can do is share it with one person who'd love it.
Support the show on Patreon:
patreon.com/painintheartslife ( www.patreon.com/painintheartslife)
Subscribe and listen:
Follow on your favourite podcast app or visit paininthearts.life (http://www.paininthearts.life/)
Socials:
Insta: @painintheartslife
FB: painintheartslife
Theme music by Lyndon Wesley (www.lyndonwesley.com)
Produced on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
21 Sept 2026
Rewilding Language: The Words We're Losing
There's a Chinaberry tree on our nature strip, a Lilac in the back corner and an underlying grief knowing 'acorn' is being dropped from the Oxford Junior Dictionary to make room for 'chatroom.'
Words are disappearing and not just the weird ones. Nature words, specifically. Researchers are calling it an 'extinction of experience', a growing cultural distance between us and the world around us.
This week we talk about that loss, what it costs us and what it might mean to rewild our imaginations.
Plus: we announce a brand new spin-off series: Word You Never Heard, drawn from John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a collection of invented words for feelings that didn't have a name...until now.
You might want to listen if:
• You've walked past the same tree for years and realised you have no idea what it's called
• You're curious what Breallyn and Lyndon are up to with their new series, Word You Never Heard
Pain In The Arts is a weekly podcast about the reality of creative life. Hosted by Breallyn and Lyndon Wesley. One of them never knows the topic until recording begins.
If you enjoyed this episode, the best thing you can do is share it with one person who'd love it.
Support the show on Patreon:
patreon.com/painintheartslife ( www.patreon.com/painintheartslife)
Subscribe and listen:
Follow on your favourite podcast app or visit paininthearts.life (http://www.paininthearts.life/)
Socials:
Insta: @painintheartslife
FB: painintheartslife
Theme music by Lyndon Wesley (www.lyndonwesley.com)
Produced on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
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Ricki Wood
Dom Shorthouse
Brett Wood
Skye Cusack
Kirrily Anderson
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
2 ratings
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Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100
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