kyle andrew steed is back! a texas-based, self-taught artist, kyle has spent the last three decades evolving a distinctive visual language that's instantly recognizable, bold, graphic, and deeply human. his work lives at the intersection of instinct and intention, exploring what it means to be both grounded and something beyond this world. each piece invites you in not to arrive at an answer, but to begin again.

0:00 "i'm a fraud, i'm a failure" (cold open)

0:59 show start

2:10 money & self-worth

5:28 the mythology of control

11:20 redefining success as an artist

16:11 the energy of money

20:43 kyle and carla's hangups around money

32:51 letting go of what doesn't serve us

36:27 the starving artist myth and AI

40:55 treating yourself as a ROI

50:19 elizabeth gilbert's "backseat emotions"

55:27 love as real wealth, gender roles, parenting