Hey, y’all! It’s Carmen here. It was such an honor to host last week’s Journaling Club with Hrishikesh Hirway, the musician and host of the hit podcast Song Exploder. As Suleika shared in this week’s newsletter, Hrishikesh is soon to release a new album, his first in fifteen years: In the Last Hour of Light, which he calls a memoir in the form of an album.
We got to talk to him about the voice of the inner critic, which induced a decade of writer’s block, and how he found a way to get it to shush. We also talked some of our other favorite subjects: creative collaborations, creative cross-training, and—of course—canines.
Paid subscribers can find the video replay, along with the reading, the song “Stray Dogs,” and our prompts below!