Aug 29, 202621 min
B has painted a portrait of her dead mother. Alone in her studio, feverish but not ill, she moves between the painting, an overgrown vegetable garden, unpaid expenses, and the question that keeps returning: what kind of...
About this Podcast:
Living by Making is a personal essay podcast about building a life through art. Artist and writer Mia-Nelle Drøschler reflects on creativity, work, money, recovery, nature and the search for a meaningful life. Through intimate essays and conversations from her studio in the Danish countryside, she explores what it means to keep making—even when the path is uncertain. Support: https://www.patreon.com/cw/MiaNelle Instagram: @mianelle_studio Web: www.mianelle.dk/living-by-making
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What is Living By Making about?
Living by Making is a personal essay podcast about building a life through art. Artist and writer Mia-Nelle Drøschler reflects on creativity, work, money, recovery, nature and the search for a meaningful life. Through intimate essays and conversations from her studio in the Danish countryside, she explores what it means to keep making, even when the path is uncertain.
Who hosts Living By Making?
Living By Making is hosted by Mia-Nelle Drøschler. The show has published 18 episodes to date.
What has Living By Making covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Who Wants to Buy a Painting of Her Dead Mother?" (29 August 2026, 21 minutes), "A Woman Called B" (13 August 2026, 48 minutes), and "Inherited Stories About Money" (30 July 2026, 33 minutes).
How often does Living By Making publish?
Living By Making publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 18 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Living By Making?
Booking probability for Living By Making is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Living By Making requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Living By Making's contact route on record: verified email.
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About the host
Mia-Nelle Drøschler hosts Living By Making, an arts podcast with 18 episodes published.
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Episode #17
A Woman Called B
Aug 13, 202648 minIn this episode of Living by Making, I tell the story of a woman called B. B is an artist. She lives in Denmark. She makes things, worries about money, searches for meaning, and tries to understand what it means to...
Episode #16
Inherited Stories About Money
Jul 30, 202633 minFor years, I believed my fear around money came from being an artist. But what if the story began much earlier? In this episode, I reflect on ambition, art, class, family, and the beliefs we inherit without choosing...
Episode #15
The Artist Who Looked Away
Jun 28, 202652 minFor eleven years, six months and twenty days, I have counted time differently. In this episode I reflect on addiction, ambition, shame and the strange contradictions of building an artistic life. From AA meetings in...
- Jun 11, 202635 min
In 2018, I was given the opportunity to create a monumental wall painting as part of a solo exhibition in a large gallery built around an empty swimming pool. For two days, I painted obsessively — covering more than...
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- May 28, 202631 minS0
<p>In this episode of Living by Making, I share the story of spending four days alone at a local market in Denmark, trying to sell my art from a small tent between crystal sellers, ceramic vulvas, and a tanning...
Episode #12
How I Ended Up Working with Murderers
May 4, 202637 minS0<p>I share fragments from my life:living on almost nothing,standing in a supermarket unable to choose,and working for years inside a prison with men convicted of severe crimes — where something unexpected began to...
Episode #11
Who Gets to Belong in the Art World?
Apr 28, 202616 minS0<p>This week, I received a working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation — after fifteen years of rejection.</p> <p>In this episode, I reflect on what it means to finally be “recognised” as an artist.</p> <p>On the idea...
Episode #10
Will the Past Catch Up With Me Soon
Apr 13, 202625 minS0<p>This episode moves between past and present, between memory and the act of making.<br> <br> It is about drawing, painting, and trying to hold on to something that keeps slipping away. About childhood, repetition, and...
Episode #9
What is the role of the artist today?
Apr 7, 202634 minS0<p>A poetic reflection on the role of the artist in a capitalist world.<br> Between money, meaning, and a night walk in the forest, I explore what it means to create—and belong—today.<br> <br> Website: www.mianelle.dk...
Episode #8
Working Class Artist
Mar 30, 202628 minS0<p >From preparing breakfast for Airbnb guests at my farmhouse in Denmark to thinking about class, grants, day jobs, art school debt, and what it means to make art while carrying a working-class history in the body...
- Mar 22, 202624 minS0
<p>What happens when your integrity and your survival pull in different directions?</p> <p>In this episode, I reflect on the tension between staying true to your artistic voice and trying to make a living within a...
- Mar 15, 202621 minS0
<p>What does it mean to continue making art when it does not pay the rent?<br> In this episode, I reflect on the quiet panic that can live alongside a creative life — the tension between devotion to the work and the...
Episode #5
Addiction, getting sober and making art.
Mar 8, 202629 minS0<p>In this episode of Living by Making, I reflect on the years when alcohol quietly became a way of coping with anxiety, pressure, and doubt. Through memories of early sobriety, AA meetings, and a strange encounter with...
- Feb 27, 202625 minS0
<p>I had 3.5 pounds.<br> No address.<br> And I was told to go back where I came from.<br> This episode moves from chronic pain and no income in the countryside to my return from Glasgow in 2013, being labelled...
Episode #3
Panic Attacks and Solo Shows
Feb 20, 202621 minS0<p>What happens after your first solo show fails? In this episode, I share the two years I spent in Glasgow — navigating money, mental health, ambition, and survival — and what they taught me about living by making...
Episode #2
I thought I was the next Tracy Emin
Feb 12, 202619 minS0<p>My first solo show in London in 2010 — and I didn’t have the money for it.<br> <br> If this episode speaks to you, you’re welcome to join my monthly letter for artists and makers.<br> Each month I share reflections...
Episode #1
Money as a Constant Background Noise
Feb 4, 202618 minS0<p>Meet me at my Degree Show in Fine Art (2010).<br> This episode begins there — at the moment where money, hope, ambition, and fear quietly start to hum in the background of an artist’s life.<br> <br> If this episode...
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