Welcome to Crystal Ballers, a podcast celebrating the audacity to create our future now, with your hosts Britten LaRue and Natasha Levinger.
This week, Natasha & Britten are excited to welcome special guest, PJ of Poster Journal. Poster Journal is a public diary that doesn't hold back—a bold mix of wit, candor, and all-caps chaos. Its minimalist style is nostalgic yet timeless, speaking from the heart (and sometimes screaming). Launched anonymously in 2020, Poster Journal has evolved into a loud, unfiltered voice in the art world, growing more acidic and unabashed with each passing year. With phrases that are as vulnerable as they are biting, Poster Journal captures the messiness of being human and dares its followers to do the same. Its mission? To say what you're thinking so you don't have to.
In this episode:
PJ loves any opportuity to talk about himself
The energy of PJ's prints
Becoming an audience of your mind
Ideas are not rare; they are one of the most abundant resources
PJ's technique of 3-D poetry
Channeling ideas is vital to their authenticity
"If these ideas are not helpful to me first, they won't be helpful to anyone else."
The scary idea of being alone in living at a given frequency
You might not have these kinds of ideas, but they are available to anyone
PJ didn't always have access to these ideas
Living in a channel of desperation, fear, confusion
Saved by "Letters to a Young Poet"
Your inner turmoil is the material; your work as an artist is to honestly depict it
If you're always looking for misery, you're going to create more of it
Needed to find positivity and affirmations that we're saccharine and paper-thin
"The trick is to take being unserious very seriously."
Humor releases pain from everything
Giving people permission to be a whole person; happy, angry, messy, all of it
The ego can be very funny and silly
Started in 2020 when the pandemic took everything away and PJ started learning about stoic philosophy
"I put on a mask, so I can be myself."
What is a 12th House Sun sign?
Giving your inner child an opportunity to be expressed and not denied
Not wanting to pick any one aspect of your personality to express
Confronting the fear of seeming like a narcissist when you are proud
Self-love is the beginning of all love
PJ talks about having haters
Using constraints to inspire rather than inhibit
Realizing you are not your thoughts
Training yourself out of evaluating while you are creating
How do you decide which ideas to write down
The confirmation is in your spine!
Activating your light codes
Learning not to ignore your intuition when you hear it
The value of being a court jester
A harmless selfishness
And more
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PJ's Info:
Website: posterjournal.com
Instagram: @posterjournal
The books that saved PJ:
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Marie Rilke
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Damn Good Advice for People With Talent by George Lois
Meditations by Marcus Aureleus
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Discourses & Selected Writings by Epictetus
Interaction of Color by Joseph Albers
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Crystal Ballers is a weekly podcast hosted by mystics Natasha Levinger and Britten LaRue. Inspired by Pluto’s shift into Aquarius, it’s space to celebrate the audacity to create our Future now. In a world that minimizes the subjective experience, it takes swagger to validate our dreams, desires, and visions in co-creation with the unseen, the unexplainable, and the felt. Britten and Natasha invite listeners into the concept of "skilled feelership" - the practice of honoring and developing one's intuitive abilities as a skill, rather than seeing it as a fixed trait. They explore the reclamation of feminine power, intuitive developmen
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