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.
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Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 28 | Lindsey Kirkendall: Neurodivergence, Trauma & Creative Identity

July 10, 2026 • Rich Wright • Season 2 • Episode 28

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Lindsey Kirkendall is the founder and CEO of Revolution, a business consultancy helping musicians and artists build sustainable, scalable, and profitable businesses through non-traditional revenue streams.

She's also co-founder and VP of Storyteller Media in Tampa, a 15-plus-year veteran of B2B/B2C sales, national radio promotion, and entertainment production for CMT and MTV, and a hypnotherapist working toward master-level certification in Rapid Resolution Therapy and Rapid Transformational Therapy.

This conversation traces Lindsey's journey from a lonely Southern Baptist childhood in Southern California through undiagnosed neurodivergence, gymnastics and competitive cheerleading, teen acting auditions, and a chaotic path through California State Long Beach and USC's recording arts program.

She opens up about autistic burnout mistaken for depression, a womb-memory recovered through subconscious regression work tied to an amniocentesis at 40, imposter syndrome after moving to Nashville's music scene, and building a 20-year marriage and creative partnership with her music-producer husband Dustin.

Together, Rich and Lindsey dig into Human Design and Enneagram frameworks, the hidden cost of zero scaffolding for gifted and neurodivergent kids, the grief of being valued for appearance over intellect, the shift in identity that motherhood brings for female artists, and why rapid, evidence-based hypnotherapy modalities can outperform decades of traditional talk therapy.

Lindsey also shares how Storyteller Media and its predecessor, Popgun Entertainment, were born from an ethical breaking point in the music industry, and why she believes most creatives carry some degree of neurodivergence.

This episode speaks directly to sensitive creatives, neurodivergent professionals, entrepreneurs healing from childhood trauma, and artists trying to reconcile ambition with family life.

Topics covered:
~Growing up neurodivergent and undiagnosed in a religious household
~The blank face experiment and attachment theory
~Gifted kids, masking, and academic burnout
~Human Design, Manifesting Generators, and Time Benders
~Enneagram types 3 and 4 in creative achievers
~Teen acting, gymnastics, and imposter syndrome
~College burnout and the myth that college guarantees success
~Womb memory recovery through subconscious hypnotherapy
~PTSD, ADHD, and Rapid Resolution vs. Rapid Transformational Therapy
~Nashville's music industry culture and independent artist management
~Motherhood as a shift in artistic identity
~Medical intuitives and energetic healing modalities

Connect with Lindsey:
Website: https://www.lindseykirkendall.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-kirkendall-58072b20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindseykirkendall/?hl=en

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