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The Difficulty is a podcast about creativity, meaning, and the hard choices that shape a life. Each week, writer and publisher Chad Prevost works through the questions underneath the creative process and the examined life—how we make work that matters, sit with life's difficulties instead of rushing past them, and keep going. Expect arguments, reflections, and the occasional witness to something worth seeing. Slower, more contemplative episodes land on Saturdays.It's also the voice of Crossroads Publishing Group, a press built on a single idea: books are occasions for community. If you're a creative, a thinker, a maker, or anyone navigating the difficulty of doing meaningful work—pull up a chair. chadprevost.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Difficulty is a podcast about creativity, meaning, and the hard choices that shape a life. Each week, writer and publisher Chad Prevost works through the questions underneath the creative process and the examined life, how we make work that matters, sit with life's difficulties instead of rushing past them, and keep going.
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life is hosted by Dr. Chad Prevost. The show has published 304 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Wrestling with the Self" (30 May 2026, 27 minutes), "Andrew Najberg + The Working Publisher News Digest" (28 May 2026, 54 minutes), and "Publishing as a Creative Act and Why Crossroads Opens Today" (25 May 2026, 38 minutes).
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 304 episodes.
Booking probability for The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life are News, Magazine & Book Publishing. The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life has an education audience.
Dr. Chad Prevost hosts The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life, an education podcast with 304 episodes published.
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The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>When I was seventeen, I drove my parents’ conversion van home from a party with a six-pack in my system and a freshly-dented bumper on a stranger’s parked car. The officer who arrived at our house decided not to...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>This week, two things in one episode.</p><p>I sit down with Andrew Najberg, novelist, poet, editor at Symposium Magazine, co-owner and co-editor-in-chief of Aethon Books: Wicked House, college teacher, husband...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>In 1917, Virginia and Leonard Woolf set up Hogarth Press in their dining room with about forty pounds of operating capital. Five years later, Sylvia Beach published Ulysses from a Paris bookshop after every major...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>Scott Bedgood started his career covering Little League games at the Tyler Morning Telegraph in Texas. Now Scott is a journalist, author, content marketer, and clean-comedy stand-up opening at The Ryman in just a few...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>Using Dante’s opening in the “dark wood,” host Chad Prevost frames midlife as waking up to being lost after sleepwalking through socially prescribed success, and reframes “abandon hope” as an instruction to stop...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>If you're an indie writer paying attention to what's happening in publishing right now — this week was a tell. Three stories landed inside seven days. Each one pointed at the same answer.Episode 5 of The Difficulty —...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>If you finish a paying assignment and feel, instead of relief, a kind of dull resentment — this episode is for you. Or if you sit down to the work that's been pulling at you for years, and the dishes suddenly need...
<p>I almost drowned on the Ocoee River. The thing that saved me wasn’t anything I’d thought to ask for.</p><p>This is the first essay in the Saturday series at The Difficulty — longer pieces from a series I’ve been...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>Episode 2 of The Difficulty.</p><p>The hardest thing about indie publishing isn't writing the book. It's giving up the fantasy that the book will market itself.</p><p>In this one I get honest about the ego defenses...
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<p>The very first episode of The Difficulty. A 50-year-old paperweight on my father’s desk turned out to be a line from a 1900 Irish play, and the seed of this show. What you’re getting on Mondays vs. Thursdays, what’s...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>Here’s the question this show keeps asking:</p><p>What does it cost to keep choosing the work?</p><p>This is The Difficulty — a podcast about the choices that shape a creative life, and the courage it takes to make...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>In this episode, Chad, co-founder of Big Self School and part of the Leading Human podcast team, discusses the transformative power of the Enneagram in long-term relationships. He highlights the common communication...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>In this podcast episode, Chad Prevost, executive coach and co-founder of Big Self School, delves into the fundamentals of building trust within organizational teams. Chad highlights common communication mistakes that...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>In this episode of Leading Human, host Chad welcomes leadership expert and author Jim Karloff to discuss his book, 'The Six Pillars of Effective Leadership: A Roadmap to Success.' Jim shares his journey in...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>In this episode of Leading Human, we sit down with David Spinks, a renowned community builder, coach, and storyteller, to explore his journey of cultivating resilience, belonging, and inner alignment. From founding...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>Join us in this episode of Leading Human as we delve into the importance of team norms, emotional intelligence, and collaborative culture with Vanessa Drucker, author of 'The Emotionally Intelligent Team.' Discover...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>Pankaj Singh is a leadership strategist and founder of Singh Leadership, where he helps high-achieving professionals transform burnout into clarity and purpose using neuroscience-informed frameworks like the Purpose...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>In this episode of 'Leading Human,' host Chad Prevost sits down with Dr. Eva Selhub, a Harvard-trained physician and bestselling author, to explore the intersection of cutting-edge neuroscience and ancient wisdom...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>In this episode of Leading Human, host Chad interviews Radhika Dutt, author of 'Radical Product Thinking' and the forthcoming book 'Escaping the Performance Trap.' Dutt challenges the conventional wisdom of...
The Difficulty: Creativity, Meaning & the Hard Work of a Life
<p>In this episode of Leading Human, host Chad converses with Jen Mueller, a seasoned sports broadcaster, leadership coach, and host of Talk Sporty to Me. </p><p>Jen shares her unique experiences of interviewing...
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co-owner and co-editor-in-chief, Wicked House Publishing
executive coach and co-founder, Big Self School
associate professor of organizational behavior, University of New Hampshire
Head, Road Safety India at Holicm Group, Singh Leadership
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