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Artist Recovery Podcast

Artist Recovery Podcast

Di: Rich Wright
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Artist Recovery Podcast is Bringing Light to the Darkside of Art. I’m Rich Wright, your host — and here we're redefining recovery as Renewal, Resilience and Creative Transformation. Because for artists, it’s more than survival… it’s Remembering.
This show is about the real journey of being a working creative — the highs, the lows, the pivots, and the reinventions that shape who we are. Together we’ll explore how setbacks can spark transformation, how loss can open new paths, and how resilience fuels the heart of every artist’s story.
If you’ve ever faced doubt, setback, or the call to reinvent yourself, you’re in the right place. Let’s recover — and create — together.”


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  • Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 43 | Michelle Riley: The Plant Whisperer Who Kept Her Scar

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 43 | Michelle Riley: The Plant Whisperer Who Kept Her Scar
    Oct 23 2026
    As a second grader, Michelle Riley turned down plastic surgery for the scar across her face. Her reason: the scar would show her who people really are. That same instinct for seeing past the surface now powers 30 years of healing landscape design and nature-inspired jewelry across Northeast Ohio and beyond. Michelle is a horticulturist, landscape designer, and founder of All About You Signature Landscape and Design Inc. Her story moves through childhood trauma, a father's abuse, her mother's mental health crises, and a gut feeling at age nine that helped police stop a predator stalking neighborhood children. Told to quit the band to stay popular, she kept the band. Two weeks before her high school graduation, her father suffered a major stroke, and Michelle set college aside to become a caregiver. Years later, she filled a legal pad with every interest she had, crossed one off each morning, and landed on horticulture. She enrolled at Kent State with a single $350 credit hour, won grants and scholarships that paid her entire way, and became the only student in her botany professor's career to earn an A.What you'll hear: ~Why she started as an $8.10 an hour laborer before drawing a single design ~ Helping grow a landscape company from $300,000 to over $1 million and winning the Cascade Business Capital Award during the housing collapse ~ The burnout moment that told her "This job's gonna kill me" ~ Launching her own design and consult business in the middle of the recession ~ Her first garden seminar with one attendee, and growing to rooms of 500 ~ Designing with homeowners through grief, trauma, and emotional stories ~ Robert the rhododendron, misfit plants, and becoming the "plant whisperer" ~ Creating Where's Buddy? with her automated mower to find joy after losing her mother during the COVID lockdown ~ How jewelry making helped calm her nervous system after trauma ~ Career advice for plant lovers: master gardener programs, Intro to Horticulture, arboriculture, turf management, and floriculture About Michelle Riley: Horticulturist and landscape concierge with 30+ years designing gardens, estates, and commercial landscapes across Northeast Ohio. Certified through the National Association of Landscape Professionals as one of only two women among 110 certified professionals in Ohio at the time. Ohio Landscape Association member and founder of NEOhioGarden.com. Designed the plant material for the largest heritage garden in Cleveland Heights, with projects in Chicago, New York, Washington, California, the UK, and Kelleys Island. Seven and a half year garden columnist for Joy of Medina County Magazine, creator of Plant Shorts and Where's Buddy?, and jewelry artist behind the Etsy shop Stoned on Nature.Connect with Michelle:Website: https://neohiogarden.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-riley-6520b027FB: https://www.facebook.com/mrhorticulturistYoutube: @MichelleRileyHorticulturistConnect with Rich:Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin: @richwrightunltdFacebook: @richwrightunltdInstagram: @richwrightunltdFB: @theartrecInstagram: @theartrecArtist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi...⁠.Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.artrecshop.com⁠⁠Join Podmatch: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre..⁠⁠.Dyslexia Classes: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠⁠⁠#ArtistRecoveryPodcast #MichelleRiley #RichWright #Horticulturist #Horticulture #LandscapeDesign #LandscapeDesigner #HealingGardens #PlantWhisperer #MisfitPlants #GardenDesign #NortheastOhio #WomenInHorticulture #WomenInLandscaping #ChildhoodTrauma #Resilience #TraumaHealing #Intuition #TrustYourGut #Caregiver #Burnout #CreativeBurnout #CareerPivot #KentState #MasterGardener #SmallBusinessOwner #Entrepreneur #GriefAndHealing #JewelryArtist #NatureJewelry #WheresBuddy #RoboticMower #CreativeRecovery #HealingThroughNature Support the showAlways remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich WrightFollow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.comJoin the Community: https://www,artrecroom.comListen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.comConnect:InstagramFacebookXTikTokLinkedin
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    1 ora e 53 min
  • Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 42 | Becky Shrimpton: The Pivot to Voice Over That Saved My Dream

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 42 | Becky Shrimpton: The Pivot to Voice Over That Saved My Dream
    Oct 16 2026
    What happens when your own brain rewrites the career you spent decades building? Toronto voice actor Becky Shrimpton, the voice of Funtime Chica and Bon Bon in Five Nights at Freddy’s and Helen Flood in the US dub of Fireman Sam, shares a story she has never told publicly: how atypical migraines ended her path in film and television and opened the door to a thriving voiceover career.Becky has known she wanted to act since she was four. In Edmonton, Alberta, a childhood trip to Les Misérables set everything in motion. She was working professionally with an agent by age 12 and attended an arts school where a visionary principal transformed one of the city’s most dangerous inner city schools through the arts.From there, the creative journey refuses to move in a straight line. Becky earned her BFA in Acting from the University of British Columbia, then graduated into the 2008 financial crash as film production left Vancouver. She worked at Science World by day and a liquor store by night, then worked three jobs to fund classical theater training at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England, learning from Derek Jacobi and Fiona Shaw.She sold everything that would not fit into a duffel bag and two Rubbermaid containers and moved across Canada to Toronto, landing a flexible office manager role at a 3D printing company. Then overnight shoots began triggering atypical migraines that blurred her vision and slurred her speech. The pivot to voice acting became the work she was meant to do.Rich Wright and Becky Shrimpton explore:Why acting is a calling, “like being a priest or a nun”Why the suffering artist myth is dangerously romanticized against paying artistsJealousy versus ambition in competitive creative industriesBudgeting, credit card debt, and running your art like a businessWhat voice acting really demands: full body performance, mic technique, and four hour sessionsThe “black hole” of remote voiceover work and 40 auditions a weekAI in the voiceover industry and why people still want peopleThe O-1 visa, Canada’s artistic brain drain, and breaking into anime dubbingTwo creative careers in one marriage, gig life, and starting a familyWriting and producing your own work so you are not waiting for a yesPowerful moments: “What doesn’t kill me only makes me a better actor.” “You are putting your heart on a plate for someone to devour all the time.” “The only comfort is in discomfort.” “Find the thing that’s enough for you.”Connect with Becky:Website: https://www.beckyshrimpton.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-shrimpton-495a3b43Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caridea_extravaganzaConnect with Rich: Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Linkedin: @richwrightunltd Facebook: @richwrightunltd Instagram: @richwrightunltd FB: @theartrec Instagram: @theartrec Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi..⁠⁠. Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: ⁠⁠https://www.artrecshop.com⁠Join Podmatch: ⁠⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre..⁠.Dyslexia Classes: ⁠⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠⁠#BeckyShrimpton #VoiceActor #VoiceActing #Voiceover #VoiceoverCareer #FiveNightsAtFreddys #FNAF #FuntimeChica #BonBon #FiremanSam #TorontoVoiceActor #CanadianActor #CharacterActor #AnimationVoiceActing #VideoGameVoiceActing #AnimeDubbing #AIVoiceover #AIandArt #CreativePivot #CareerPivot #ActingCareer #BADA #SufferingArtistMyth #ArtistBurnout #CreativeRecovery #CreativeJourney #ArtistMindset #BudgetingForArtists #BusinessOfActing #Auditions #O1Visa #CreativeCouples #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #beaguest #podmatchguest @podmatch Support the showAlways remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich WrightFollow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.comJoin the Community: https://www,artrecroom.comListen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.comConnect:InstagramFacebookXTikTokLinkedin
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    1 ora e 58 min
  • Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 41 | Poverty, Grief & a Sk8board School Built The Author: Dianna Gunn

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 41 | Poverty, Grief & a Sk8board School Built The Author: Dianna Gunn
    Oct 9 2026
    Fantasy and horror author Dianna Gunn has known she was a writer since age 8. Writing has carried her through poverty, bullying, the loss of her father at 12, alternative school, chronic illness, and a publishing industry that gets harder every year. Rich Wright sits down with the Toronto author, freelance tech writer, and founder of Weeknight Writers for an honest conversation on creative resilience, ADHD, self-publishing, and why writing is who she is.Dianna grew up in deep poverty in the Toronto suburbs, an only child with two disabled parents. With a learning disability in math and a spatial awareness disorder, she built worlds with stuffed animals, action figures, and inherited Lego. She did her first NaNoWriMo at 11 and finished her first novel 24 hours before her dad's cancer diagnosis. His death shortly after her 12th birthday remains the worst day of her life.KEY TOPICSGrowing up poor, bullied, and neurodivergentCeltic dance, Clan Gunn heritage, and spreading her father's ashes in Wick, ScotlandMoving in with her grandmother at 15 and dropping out for two yearsContact Alternative School and the teacher who made history feel lived inOasis Skateboard Factory: building a skateboard brand, sanding decks, an Anomaly art installation, and workshops at the Art Gallery of OntarioADHD, the interest-based nervous system, and why real-world learning keeps kids from falling through the cracksBuilding a freelance tech writing career to fund a fiction careerSelf-publishing vs. traditional publishing in today's marketGenerative AI, stolen creative work, and the em dash debateBuilding a kind, engaged online writing communityTHE BOOKS:The Moonshadow world began as a homebrew tabletop RPG her parents created. Dianna first wrote Moonshadow's Guardian at 15 and published it in 2018. The Moonshadow Rising duology (Moonshadow's Guardian and Moonshadow's Champion) is complete, and a six-book Moonshadow spinoff series is in progress. Woman of Sorrow and Blood, her gothic horror novel, grew from a pre-made book cover a friend gifted her for Christmas. Killer Debt: An Anthology of Murder collects custom-written death scenes commissioned by readers.WEEKNIGHT WRITERS What began as a Twitter chat is now a social enterprise for fantasy, science fiction, and horror writers, with virtual conferences, a structured Discord, nightly accountability check-ins, weekly write-ins, writing sprints, Story Crafting Sessions, and First Draft Fall.THE TRUTH ABOUT SELF-PUBLISHING "Go in knowing it is incredibly hard." Dianna explains how shrinking organic reach, paid ads, and AI-generated content changed the indie author landscape, and why most writers need another income stream for years.ADVICE FOR WRITERS Decide what your writing dream is. Know what you're willing to sacrifice. Then pursue it relentlessly. "You only fail when you give up."Connect with Dianna:Website: https://authordiannagunn.com Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: ⁠https://www.artrecshop.com⁠ Join Podmatch: ⁠⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre..⁠. Dyslexia Classes: ⁠⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠⁠#DiannaGunn #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #AuthorInterview #IndieAuthor #FantasyAuthor #HorrorAuthor #GothicHorror #WomanOfSorrowAndBlood #MoonshadowsGuardian #MoonshadowsChampion #MoonshadowRising #KillerDebt #WeeknightWriters #WritingCommunity #ADHDWriter #NeurodivergentCreative #AlternativeSchool #OasisSkateboardFactory #TorontoAuthor #CanadianAuthor #FreelanceWriting #NaNoWriMo #FirstDraftFall #TabletopRPG #Worldbuilding #GriefAndCreativity #ClanGunn #Scotland #WritingAdvice #PublishingIndustry #CreativeResilience #CreativeBurnout #AmWriting #BookTok #WriterTokSupport the showAlways remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich WrightFollow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.comJoin the Community: https://www,artrecroom.comListen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.comConnect:InstagramFacebookXTikTokLinkedin
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    1 ora e 44 min
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