Am I losing my ambition? And did I ever really have it?

That question had been sitting in my phone notes for months. Breallyn had no idea I was bringing it until the mics were on.

We pull apart the difference between a dream and an ambition, what it means to reconcile your past while you move into your future and why changing course can feel exactly like giving up when it isn't.

But before any of that, there's a birthday weekend in Bendigo involving a bookbinding workshop, an Airbnb review spiral and a half-hour hunt for a public toilet that Breallyn declared would never make it into the podcast. It made it in.

You might want to listen if:

• The thing you used to chase doesn't quite fit the person you are now

• Changing direction in your creative life feels a bit like quitting

• You keep measuring yourself against people who found their thing much sooner in life

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.

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