Welcome to Season 2, Episode 19 of the Pam Speaks 2 You Creative Business Podcast — the podcast for independent authors and creative professionals who are done playing small and ready to build something real. I am your host, Pamela Hilliard Owens, and I am so glad you are here with me today.

Whether you are listening on the Pam Speaks 2 You app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts — welcome. I mean that every single week, but I mean it a little extra today, because we are talking about a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in creative circles, and I do not think it gets unpacked nearly enough.

That phrase is "creative freedom."

You have heard it. Maybe you have said it yourself. "I just want the creative freedom to write what I want." "I left my job for creative freedom." "That is what this business is supposed to give me — freedom." It sounds wonderful. It sounds like the whole point. And yet, I talk to independent authors and creative professionals every single week who have all the freedom in the world on paper — nobody telling them what to do, no boss, no committee, no gatekeeper — and they feel more stuck, more anxious, and less free than they did when someone else was setting the rules.

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