Victoria Toplansky

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616 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 30 Mar

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Living The Red Life · From Influencer to AI Power Player · 30 Mar 2026 podcast

I would say, and I think a lot of creatives can relate to this, being the youngest person in a group and then doing art or expressing your creativity with people that are more experienced as a child, not as an adult that understands how to handle the situation, but as a child.

I think a lot of people go through this phase where, like, I guess I'm not creative.

I guess I'm not actually supposed to be an artist.

And then you go through this dark period of your life where you're not being an artist.

and feeling really weird.

And I felt that way because my mom is an artist, my brother is an artist, and they're so good and so advanced and they're both older than me.

So I went through this period of time where I was like, I don't want to do any creativity that even resembles their kind of creativity and in the process rejected actually my own creativity.

I think I remember years that I introduced myself as I'm not that creative.

just as kind of like a shield of kind of like, well, if I say I'm not creative, then no one can say that my art's bad.

You know what I mean?

And feeling really unfulfilled and really fake, actually, and then creating really fake stuff and doing my graphic design for marketing and just feeling like, yeah, this is all just billboard stuff, you know?

And luckily, I made peace with that, came into my artistry and now learning how to relate with people and kind of assessing their creativity from the conversation, because now I have so many nerds in my life where it's like I can smell a Ren Faire nerd from a mile away.

Like I can tell when someone goes to the Ren Faire or when they don't or if they go to the gathering of the Juggalos.

Right.

You know, it's like, no, I'm not Ren Faire, I'm Juggalo.

You know, it's like that's they're kind of nerd.

They're kind of goth, you know, in their own way.

So learning how to have those common interests and then learning that sometimes you are enjoying someone else's passion as someone in the audience and you're learning about a new topic.

Yes.

And like, for example, Spider-Man just doesn't do it for me.

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