The Centered Creator
Stories from inside a creative life — the messy middle, the pivots, the parts that don't make the highlight reel. For anyone living a life that doesn't fit neatly in a box. Hosted by Stephanie Arapian — actor, writer, filmmaker, entrepreneur and former bartender. Still figuring it out.
Episodes
10 episodes
Try To Do It Badly
Stephanie gets a tarot reading. One of the invitations that comes up: go buy some paint and a canvas and see what happens.She's never really been drawn to painting. But she goes to the art supply store, grabs the cheapest smallest canvas...
The Apartment With No Floors
Stephanie is standing outside her old apartment building in Hamburg. It's snowing. The Alster has frozen over. She can see the picture window of her old living room from the street.She doesn't go in. It's not her space anymore. But she w...
Congratulations, LOA Not Approved
Stephanie is on set in New York, playing a prosecutor, phone hidden under a pile of fake files, waiting between takes to find out if HR approved her leave of absence.They did not.What follows is a masterclass in in-between-takes c...
Can You Do This?
Stephanie flies home from Prague with no job, no money, and no plan. The next morning, there's an email: job offer, China, one year.She's pretty gung-ho. Her parents are restrained. And then her dad pulls her aside - which he didn't do v...
Drop Kicked Into the Deep End
Stephanie lands in China on a Tuesday. By Thursday she's standing in front of five classes at a public school, making it up as she goes, with no Chinese and a stack of Xerox copies. Friday she's at a completely different school with air conditi...
Wait, I Can Divorce My Business?
Stephanie started a housing arbitrage business to escape bartending and buy time for her acting career. It was supposed to be a side hustle. It was not a side hustle.A year and a half in, she's waking up stressed, anxious every time her ...
Am I Feeling Things Wrong?
Somewhere in China, sitting on her bed with the air conditioning running, Stephanie catches herself wondering if she's feeling things wrong. Not too much — just... not enough. She knows she feels deeply. But something isn't getting through....
Why Are You Kinking The Hose?
Stephanie is in New Orleans with her mom and sister when her phone buzzes: her short film has just been accepted into the Berlin Sci-Fi Film Festival. She tells them immediately. They celebrate. It's a genuinely great moment.And then, 24...
I Lucked Into This Concert
Stephanie arrives in Paris at 6am after an overnight coach bus and ferry from London — no sleep, no plan, just a paper map and a Lonely Planet she's definitely not being paid to mention.She wanders along the Seine, naps in the Jardin de ...
Hangers, Crashes, and Letting Go
Stephanie Arapian is on set in New York living her dream acting job — flying back and forth from LA, surrounded by real professionals, finally feeling like she's exactly where she's supposed to be. And then her phone buzzes. A guest wants to kn...