{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd","title":"#120 How Do You Buy A Home While Self-Employed? Catherine Cusick on her path, acting, economics of Broadway, longreads, independent book sales, buying a home, digital media & how to navigate hostile US self-employment regulations, ","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e1224f0d\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5523,"description":"The legible story is that Catherine is a writer, producer, and digital media consultant. She helps creative people connect with new audiences, usually writers, usually online. But she hasn't had a W-2 job since 2017. Before that she worked as an actor, worked at a company called Longreads, and then has done a bunch of solopreneur experiments over the past five years.\nHer recent interest is writing and speaking about how to navigate systems that make self-employment harder in the United States, like housing, healthcare, taxes, and insurance.\n🍿WATCH ON YOUTUBE\nLinks:\nHer How To Get A Mortgage Course\nHer Website\nThe Catastrophe of Success (Tennessee Williams)\nSmall Bets Community\n📕Buy Paul’s Book (Published Jan 2022): The Pathless Path\n📲Connect + Follow Paul\nTwitter: @p_millerd\nPaul’s Newsletter: Subscribe to Boundless\nPaul’s YouTube: Subscribe\n🙏Further Ways To Support The Podcast:\nI use Transistor to host this podcast. It rocks. Launch Your Here\nI record high-quality video using Riverside: Sign Up Here\nBecome a sponsor of the Podcast / Newsletter\nWant to upgrade your Zoom studio? Check out Kevin Shen’s Dream Studio Course\nWant to launch a course? Podia or Teachable are both great\nWeb Hosting: Skystra Fast WordPress Hosting\nHost your own community\" Circle 14-day free trial\nAudio Timestamps:\n0:00 Audio intro\n2:10 What were the scripts Catherine grew up with?\n8:46 The differences in the experience of work between generations\n12:19 Applying to Emerson - the cold, unwelcoming Boston\n16:02 How Vassar teaches acting\n16:41 Auditioning in New York City after graduating\n17:16 Becoming disillusioned with a career path as an actress\n20:24 Producing her first play\n23:34 The American Booksellers Association\n30:24 Creating jobs for herself\n33:15 Working at Longreads\n38:00 Leaving Longreads\n39:30 After Longreads - moving to Austin\n44:17 Designing life with her husband\n48:18 How the system is incompatible with the new ways of life\n48:52 Leaving the US as a way to gain perspective...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bxqSvEwrE24wB3nKhC4eUviIyuHNTxixmwX4iLZPRv4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMyNDgwLzE2Njk1/OTkwMjMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}