Artist Recovery Podcast

Artist Recovery Podcast is Bringing Light to the Darkside of Art. I’m Rich Wright, your host — and here we're redefining recovery as Renewal, Resilience and Creative Transformation. Because for artists, it’s more than survival… it’s Remembering.
This show is about the real journey of being a working creative — the highs, the lows, the pivots, and the reinventions that shape who we are. Together we’ll explore how setbacks can spark transformation, how loss can open new paths, and how resilience fuels the heart of every artist’s story.
If you’ve ever faced doubt, setback, or the call to reinvent yourself, you’re in the right place. Let’s recover — and create — together.”

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Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 15 | From Queens to Global Boardrooms: Michael Wendroff's Full Circle

April 10, 2026 • Rich Wright • Season 2 • Episode 15

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What happens when a boy raised between two worlds — a rabbi's son in an all-gentile neighborhood, a scholarship kid in the middle of Manhattan — refuses to stop learning, creating, and evolving?
Michael Wendroff's story is exactly that kind of full-circle journey.
In this episode of the Artist Recovery Podcast, marketing consultant and debut thriller author Michael Wendroff joins Rich Wright for a conversation that spans Queens, New York City, global boardrooms, and the pages of a book that began with a mother's words whispered at birth: "How nice to see you again."
From growing up quietly on the outside of things — finding his first real sense of belonging on a track field — to earning his MBA at 21, working inside a literary agency before anyone knew his name, and building a 30-year global marketing career, Michael's path was never a straight line. It was always a spiral. Always coming back around.
His debut thriller What Goes Around, published by Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury and now available in hardcover, ebook, audiobook, and paperback — with foreign rights sold in Italian, Japanese, and Hungarian — explores reincarnation, unbreakable bonds, and the question of whether the soul really does keep returning to learn what it hasn't yet mastered.

In this episode we explore:
~Growing up ostracized, and how solitude became a superpower
~The publishing world from the inside — agents, editors, and the art of the query letter
~The psychology of men's hair color (yes, really — and it goes deep)
~Why the pandemic became the permission slip to finally write
~What it means to grieve a fictional character you had to kill off
~The 50/50 reality of being a traditionally published author today: 50% writing, 50% marketing
~Reincarnation, Dr. Brian Weiss, soul bonds, and the spiritual thread woven through this entire life story

Whether you're a writer, a creative entrepreneur, a maker working through your next chapter — or someone who has ever felt like an outsider who somehow ended up exactly where they were supposed to be — this conversation will stay with you.

Connect with Michael Wendroff:
Website: https://www.michaelwendroff.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelwendroff
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mwendroff
FB: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelWendroffAuthor
X: https://x.com/mwendroff

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