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How to navigate creative control issues with close friends

My best friend and I have been developing this podcast concept for months and we have amazing chemistry when we talk, but every time we try to plan actual episodes we end up in these weird power struggles about whose ideas get priority. We both keep saying we're equal partners but we're acting like there can only be one real vision.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Friendship dynamics and creative hierarchy are colliding in ways that threaten both the project and the relationship.

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