Chopping onions for gulyás while plotting my creative jailbreak. Ditch the middlemen. Why let some suit decide if my stories matter when I could build my own platform? Hollywood kept my podcast in development purgatory for two years while my novel crawls toward completion. In 2025, I'm going rogue—building direct connections with people who actually give a damn about what I create. Duck fat makes everything better, and so does creative independence.