weird and wonderful
Couldn’t be more thankful for these amazing people who joined today’s Monthly Community Hangout on Zoom.
The connections we’re building and the ideas we’re sharing are life giving… and I’m feeling so energized from it all.
Much love.
Interested in joining an upcoming Community Hangout Call?
Send me an email – bradleyspitzer@gmail.com
And 2026 is off to the races!
Love this crew and the conversations we had this morning.
At this rate, I’ll have to setup more calls to handle more interested people who want to connect and support one another. Much love.
Interested in joining an upcoming Community Hangout Call?
Send me an email – bradleyspitzer@gmail.com
September 15, 2025
The Pinnacle
Nashville, Tennessee
If I have any message to leave anybody with, it would be… live wild, live free, be who you are. You don’t have to follow rules. You don’t have to be who somebody else wants you to be or thinks you should be. That the world is this crazy, horrible, terrifying, magnificent, delirious place. Go do everything. Go go feel everything. Take every risk. Take every chance. And you hear this kind of horseshit from motherfuckers all the time. But I will say I think one of the fundamental differences between me and those people is I have actually done that. I have lived an insane life all over the world. The highest highs, the lowest lows and it has been nothing but fucking great. Whatever pain I have felt, whatever humiliation or embarrassment I have felt has been well worth the price of just being wild and just being free and just being able to look in the mirror and say, “Man, you ain’t fucking perfect, but you’re doing it your way and you’re doing it the best you can. Fucking keep going. That’s it. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going.” -James Frey
Too many people expect original work to come from a life on repeat.
Same desk. Same commute. Same lunch.
And then they wonder why their ideas feel second-hand.
You can’t feed creativity on leftovers.
Every breakthrough you’ve ever admired was sparked by a lived moment—
a trip, a risk, a conversation that could have gone sideways.
Artists, founders, writers—they mine the gold of lived experience,
not the dust of another spreadsheet.
Live wider. Say yes more. Wander without a reason.
Fill the well before you expect to draw from it.
An interesting life is the only soil where interesting work can grow.
Most of our wins go unnoticed.
Especially the ones where we’re not in the spotlight, but in someone else’s corner.
This week, two friends – both navigating long, brutal job searches – finally got offers.
Not flashy. Not fast. Just earned.
And somehow, hearing their news filled me with more energy than my own milestones.
Because I got to witness it. Support it. Nudge it forward.
Even if my name’s not on the offer letter, there’s a quiet kind of fulfillment that comes from lifting others.
Turns out, encouragement doesn’t just help them move forward. It reminds you what matters.
Who are you cheering on right now?
Text them. Tell them you see them.
I love trying and experimenting – playing with new forms, ideas, etc. So here’s another experiment that I’m intrigued and fascinated by:
FIELD STUDIES.
Often, when I’m out and about looking for interesting things to photograph… I’ll remove them from their environment, take them to a studio-like setting and capture what moved me.
But what if I brought the studio like environment/space to the place? ::INSERT FIELD STUDIES:: More to come and experiment here… but I’m excited.
