Creator Science #270: Being a creator and a parent | Jay-Talking with Jay Acunzo
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Aug 19, 2025 
In this discussion, Jay Acunzo, a speaker and author known for his audience engagement expertise, shares insights on the unique challenges of being a creator and a parent. He emphasizes the emotional turmoil and identity shifts that come with parenting while pursuing creative passions. Jay addresses the importance of community support, the guilt often felt by parents juggling work from home, and the need for authenticity in content creation. Their candid anecdotes reveal how ambition and family responsibilities intricately intertwine, shaping their lives as both creators and parents.
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Parenting Rewrites Your Identity
- Parenting reshapes identity and priorities in ways you can't anticipate until you experience it.
- Many creators speak from non-parent perspectives, so parent-creators face unique constraints others overlook.
From Sprinting To Trudging In Mud
- Jay Clouse describes feeling like a life sprinter who kept sprinting into mud after kids arrived.
- That thrashing sank progress until he learned to trudge through the mud more gracefully.
The Kid Who Said 'I'm Right Here'
- Jay Acunzo shares a moment when he looked at his phone and his six-year-old said, 'daddy, I'm right here in front of you.'
- That moment snapped him back to how easy it is to prioritize trivial work over presence.
