This isn’t a goodbye: it’s a see you in September.

We’re taking a well-earned summer break (because seasonal girlies need rest too), but we’re already cooking up a trashier, spicier, more unhinged Season 2.

In this episode:

• A heartfelt thank you to our listeners (yes, you, with the fire DMs and existential side-eyes)
• Listener highlights, PLUS feedback we’re incorporating into next season
• Why poking at popular ideas isn’t the same as canceling them
• How to send us the clichés you love to hate

Erica and Erin dig into the creative cliché they actually love: “Steal like an artist.” Inspired by Austin Kleon’s book and a long lineage of remix-friendly wisdom, they explore the difference between influence and theft when both humans and AI borrow from what’s come before

If everything’s an echo, what makes something yours?

Resources & Mentions:

Austin Kleon
→ Steal Like an Artist
→ Also by Kleon: Show Your Work, Keep Going
→ Website: austinkleon.com

Julia Cameron
→ The Artist’s Way
→ Known for: Morning Pages, creative recovery tools
→ Website: juliacameronlive.com

If happiness is a choice, let’s talk about who gets to choose it, and who’s just trying to survive a system that tells them it’s their fault they’re miserable.

Erica and Erin are joined by William Davies, political economist, author of The Happiness Industry, and one of the sharpest critics of how governments and corporations turned happiness into a metric, a mandate, and a market.

Together, they dig into the cultural scaffolding behind our obsession with happiness: where it comes from, who benefits, and what it’s costing us.

Connect with William Davies:

https://williamdavies.blog/

https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=William+Davies