The Difficulty

Dr. Chad Prevost

The Difficulty is a show about the choices that shape a creative life, and the courage it takes to make them. Hosted by Dr. Chad Prevost, writer, publisher, and ICF-certified coach. Each episode explores a real decision point: craft, courage, failure, reinvention, and the stubborn belief that the work is worth doing. New episodes weekly. Subscribe for full episodes, transcripts, and Notes from the recording cutting-room floor. chadprevost.substack.com

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The Difficulty

Episodes (272)

Sat Jun 6th Weekend Reflection: Wanting Everything and Becoming Nobody
Thu Jun 4th Hybrid Publishing Is Having a Moment
Mon Jun 1st On Green-Lighting Yourself

The Difficulty

Jun 6, 2026
14¾ minutes
12 MB

In Dante’s Inferno, the lustful are not burned. They are swept, a great relentless wind moves them endlessly, helplessly, no footing, no direction, just the next gust carrying them where it will. This week’s episode is a weekend reflection; slower, more meditative, less about publishing and craft and more about the soul-work questions underneath. Lust in its oldest, broadest sense—unrestrained wanting. The fire the Greeks understood. The Cyclops’s single eye. Odysseus making himself Nobody to escape the cave. Emily Dickinson’s delight in being Nobody too. And the difference between failure (which you can face) and self-a...

The Difficulty

Weekend Reflection: Wanting Everything and Becoming Nobody

Dr. Chad Prevost

00:00 -12:55