Multi-Hyphenate University

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Never have I ever podcast'd drunk but y'know, when inspiration hits. ANYWAYS, this week: AHHH the tradeoffs of committing your life to art. Reflecting on the homesickness of missing family events and shifts while across the country, learning to rest, nostalgia waves, and finally launching my YouTube . We also chat about dreams, old memories , my first YouTube project for Skidmore College,...

52 episodes. 18 months. One LinkedIn Easy Apply that somehow led to a major breakthrough. A bow on this chapter of Multi-Hyphenate University. Tbh guys I wanted this to be more structured with clear takeaways and learnings, and ended up being, as is tradition, more of a live rant lol. I'll save it for the YT video - follow me as I start journeying over there: @margaretlefton TODAYYY: 🎙️ Why &q...

Follow Along: @margaretlefton Check out the new YT show I'm producing: @goodnight on YT What to expect this week: 🎬 What producing the first late night show for YT is like🌀 The concept of creative center of gravity - and why LA makes it uniquely hard to stay in your own orbit (aka work/art balance)

Follow along: @margaretlefton You know that thing where every area of your life is happening all at once? My grandmother passed away this week - a truly outrageous, rude, cold, creative, brilliant, deeply complicated woman who shaped so much of my artistic identity, and childhood. This week: childhood grief, nostalgia, and the strange experience of adult life continuing to move at full (fun, excit...

I got to direct a new YouTube series with The Casting Society (CSA)! Also: life is happening! Huzzah, complexities of being a 3d person 😂 (I live in LA in Venice so am I obligated to say 5d person? *sigh* ) Inside: 🍝 When throw spaghetti at the wall gets old - juggling exciting projects, paid work, portfolio builders, and bandwidth 🎬 Directing my first set - (WOOOOOO) 🎭 What I’m learning about...

FOLLOWWWW ALONG: @margaretlefton Coming off 48 hours with my phone off (my favorite reset ritual), long walks by the ocean, and falling down a rabbit hole of old films, I found myself thinking a lot about storytelling, visibility, and what it feels like to grow in public. In this episode, I talk through: ✨ Phone's off ritual 🎬 What old films (and Audrey Hepburn) are teaching me about storyte...

I’ve been thinking a lot about integration - the phase after expansion, where things stop feeling new and exciting… and start feeling repetitive, slower, and honestly a little bit boring. We also get into YouTube and the tension between building something educational vs deeply vulnerable + artistic. ✨ In this episode: 🎢 Missing the emotional highs/lows (and wondering if something’s wrong) 🌱 Why...

This week is a bit of a cozy, Saturday night catch-up (slumber party?) - pajamas, couch, and random updates from the week. Also if you weren't following the Artemis stuff: MOON JOY FOR LIFE (google it). We get into life upgrades (internal vs external), a surprisingly deep improv lesson on embodiment, and a reminder to just have fun. Lots of small shifts that are adding up in a big way. ✨ In t...

The A > C Framework for Creativity (aka improv concepts for creative living) I just got back from my UCB improv class, had my second on-set shoot as a YouTube host, and am in the middle of exploring new on-camera opportunities (including a TikTok Live role). So thisss week we’re connecting a lot of dots across improv, performance, and identity. Inside: 🍍 The “A → C” improv rule - and how skipp...

Iiiii just started improv for the first time - and it's magical, healing, and expansive as heck. (ALSO: MY NEW PODCAST STUDIO WOOT) In this episode, I share what it’s actually like taking UCB’s Improv 101 class in LA, what surprised me, what terrified me, and why it’s become one of the most powerful tools for creativity, confidence, and learning how to be seen. This week: 🎭 What Upright Citizen's...

This week I’m taking you inside something very new for me: my first ever acting class, 10 minutes after I got home from it 😂( The Commercial Class ) After booking a major YouTube hosting role and realizing just how different it is to perform on a full set versus filming alone in my living room, I knew I needed more reps. So I built myself a “semester” of skill building - commercial acting, improv...

What happens when the “creator economy” starts bleeding into the entertainment industry? When 10 years of salary negotiations suddenly become negotiations about your likeness and voice in perpetuity? In this solo vlog episode, get cozy and let's talk about stepping into a new chapter without a blueprint (aka an audio journal note live from the in-between) Inside: 🏡 Redecorating the studio (fr...

In this audience Q&A ep, I'm answering Q's straight from the DM's. Inside: 🎨 Are we all meant to be creators? 🪞 How do you “find your voice”? 💸 Should you monetize everything you make? 🧠 learning: going wide vs going deep? 💎 Why is pricing your art so emotionally hard? <3 Follow the journey @margaretlefton

In the words of our lord & savior Chumbawamba: I get knocked down, but I get up again. After a year of building in the creator space: podcasting, going viral, directing, stepping on bigger sets, I booked a dream opportunity. .... and then imposter syndrome took the wheel. Instead of spiraling, I did what creatives actually have to learn to do: I studied the miss , poured over the gametape, and...

Follow along: @margaretlefton | @multihyphenateuniversity Life is... heavy right now. I sort of feel like i'm moving through molasses, and while others use their big emotions to create I have an urge to... hide like a turtle in a shell. So. If you have a commitment to showing up, and you don't want to... What then? How do you create when you're uninspired? [spoiler alert: you do it any...

WELCOMEEE back to campus. This solo episode is a cozy housemate chat on the couch - embracing the slow, strange start to January and the feeling of coming home to yourself after a season of movement, family, fatigue, and creative expansion. Getting into: Post holiday + travel feels and settling back in The emotional weirdness of U-turns - exes, old friends, job offers - and how I’ve started approa...

A truly original experience: teaching a workshop on leveling up your life for creative entrepreneurs, taught in a Bernese Mountain Dog onesie with 3 berners jumping on and off the couch Follow the podcast: @multihyphenateuniversity | @margaretlefton After walking away from traditional jobs (and saying no to six-figure offers), I’ve spent the last year going through my own self-led creator MBA. Now...

Follow the multi‑hyphenate journey with your creative housemate: @margaretlefton 🌀 This week, I finally tell a story I’ve been meaning to share for a whhiiillleeee : Why I walked away from being a therapist or coach years deep into studying it (and felt like a crazy person for doing so). Yes this involves a guided trip on the 42nd story of an NYC apartment building led by a major CEO, as is on br...

🎙️ This week we're slowing it waayyy down (getting in that winter/holiday restful spirit) and tapping into the most under utilized tool in the game: the breath. Stay tuned for several highly specific, tactical breathing techniques you can implement today to navigate high stress creative entrepreneur situations (pitching a VC, public speaking, on-camera hosting, etc.). So fun fact: I hate breathwor...

Follow the multi‑hyphenate journey with your creative housemate: @margaretlefton 🧙‍♀️✨ Today's episode is some witchy guidance (whether you're woo or not) for the year ahead. This basically is listening to two soul siblings laugh while reading magic (I promised Hogwarts guys). One of my fav humans Ashley B. Jones - intuitive guide, “Favorite Self” coach, and three‑time returning guest - joins us...

Follow along with your creative housemate: ⁠ @margaretlefton ⁠ WELCOME TO THE POST VIRAL ERA or so says Bia: so what's next? This week, I’m joined by Brazilian ROCKSTAR ⁠ ⁠ Bia Granja ⁠ . Bia is the founder of YouPix , Latin America's biggest consultancy, accelerator, and conference for the Creator Economy. After selling the company she's become an independent consultant and remains on...

Welcome back to Multi-Hyphenate University: your campus for magical creative entrepreneurs and artists building their biggest dreams. This bonus episode is not a how-to , this is a how-it-feels-to [... go viral and hit a mega expansion] A vlog diary: the live musings of a creative in expansion burnout after being flooded with both visibility and opportunity. In another episode I'll get more sp...

I made a full recovery from chronic depression. Need to kick off with a couple important notes... 1: I put together a list of all of my resources and notes from my journey (including how to find a therapist): here 2: Nothing here is medical advice, a magic bullet, or a checklist. It is simply sharing pieces of my personal journey - because when I went through it the resources I found told me it wa...

Follow the Multi-Hyphenate journey with your creative housemate: ⁠ @margaretlefton⁠ This solo episode is an update on everything I'm currently learning about and trying in the creator journey... From podcasts to greek mythology. In this episode: 🎭 What I learned in my first-ever LA acting class (and why the camera is an x-ray) 🧠 Why solo podcasting can feel harder than interviews - and what...