ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Everyone tells you the music industry is a battlefield — that there's only so much room, and you're probably not good enough to take up space in it. Matilde Heckler doesn't buy that for a second.
Matilde is a violinist, vocalist, and full-time creative who's played the Met Gala, performed with Lucy Dacus, and landed a feature role in Paramount's Mean Girls The Musical — and she's still navigating imposter syndrome, creative blocks, and the same uncertainty most working artists deal with. In this conversation with us, she gets honest about what actually keeps a creative life running: why she thinks "competition" is the wrong frame entirely, how saying yes before you feel ready changes everything, what it's like being a creative right now with AI shifting the ground under everyone, and how she's learned to stop boxing herself into one title.
This one is for anyone who's ever wondered if a creative life is actually sustainable — and needed proof that it is, even when it's hard.
