Hey, Cool Life!

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 38 is about recovery and evolving friendships, how creating new work can be the only way you learn to appreciate old work and hope.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 38 is about trying to find gentleness at the beginning of your career, how getting better and getting big can be at cross purposes and the importance of knowing why you’re making art in the first place.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 37 is about body dysmorphia and how to cope when it’s intolerable to be inside your body.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 36 is about how emotionally expensive your recovery can be for your loved ones and how that isn’t a value judgment on your pursuit.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 35 is about how and why taking dream-adjacent jobs can be soul crushing.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 34 is about how goal-oriented creativity can hogtie experimentation and make you risk-averse in your work.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 33 is about explicitly granting yourself permission to never be Instagram famous and behaving accordingly.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 32 is about not focusing on “sunk costs” in new work, the discomfort of experimenting in unfamiliar media and the magic of reading aloud.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 31 is about identifying your addiction.

Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 30 is about what to do in anxiety-inducting situations.  

Hey, Cool Life! Episode 29 is about how to ask for advice effectively and how to give advice in a gentle way.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 28 is about intuition and how it feels and sounds nothing like I thought it would.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 27 is about worrying.

Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 26 is about daily practices, patience and being your own audience.

Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 25 is about resentments and the crucial data you collect when you stand up for yourself.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 24 is about the freedom of longhand drafting for books and scripts. And the joy of muting your friends on social and texting them instead.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 23 is about self-harming to self-soothe, mindfulness around physical pain and suspending negative thought in the moment.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 22 is about the gentlest, most effective way of getting out of your head. Also, friendship.

This is a new thing. I’m still figuring it out. Thank you.

Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 21 is about taking input days to nourish output days, “feed brain” and taking time to appreciate the work of friends.

Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 20 is about becoming a reclusive creative and the imposter syndrome around it. And how not responding to emails is a small, uncomfortable act of defiance.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 19 is about how false deadlines can stymie the waviness of first drafts.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 18 is about scheduling weekends so you don’t get sad, another reminder not to be late for leisure, and social anxiety around plans.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity recorded by Mary H.K. Choi. This one is about mono-tasking.

Hey, Cool Job! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. This one is about eating disorders.