What happens when the creative spark is never the problem? When beginning feels electric and the middle feels like dark water? When the gap between who you intend to be on a project and who you actually show up as starts to feel a little too familiar?

That is the question Clayton sits with in this rare and deeply honest solo episode, one of the most personally revealing he has recorded.

Clayton is someone energized by beginnings. New ideas, blank pages, unexplored possibilities. Something comes alive in him there and always has. What has been harder across his professional life is what he calls the long middle, that territory between the acorn and the fully grown oak tree, where the initial excitement has faded, no deadline is pressing, and the voice in your head starts offering very reasonable suggestions about other things you could ...