The Most Terrifying Thing About Starting a Creative Business With My Boyfriend? I Realized I Was the Slacker

When collaborating, setting out to achieve is the ship, and not clarifying expectations, is the iceberg

I wear my work ethic like a badge of honor. My former roommates will tell you how often they saw me in the middle of the day — never. I would flit between coffee shop work sessions, meetings, pitches, the gym, and screenings, only to roll into my room at 10pm, wake up, and do it all again.

I’ve always worn a lot of hats because I have a lot of interests. In the past 8 years, I’ve called myself a student, an actor, a writer, a producer, a podcaster, a teacher, a bartender, a nanny, a co-founder of a media company, a script doctor, a web designer, a blogger, and most recently, a vocalist and producer of the indie band, Alice Bloom.

I wrote a song with my boyfriend for a competition…for fun. 7 months later, we were ensnared in a hairy fight about work ethic, balance, and general care for this thing we’d created. Then a realization hit me like a ton of bricks.

I’d been here before.

I started a blog with one of my best friends. It began as a desire to write more. Over the course of a year, it…