Masterpiece
Masterpiece is a podcast about learning to live creatively. A space to slow down, reconnect with the artist inside, and create a life that feels beautiful to you.
I’m Jessica Yolanda Kaye, and I’m an artist. Every Friday I share personal reflections and conversations with artists and creative thinkers who are learning to listen to their voice, trust it, and create a life that feels deeply their own.
Episodes
45 episodes
I Haven't Painted in 2.5 Years
I haven’t painted in 2.5 years. I told myself all sorts of stories about why — not the right time, place, space. But underneath it all, I think I was blocked by something deeper. This week, I reflect on creative block, the fear of not knowing, ...
Can I Go After What I Want? with Cass Seidler
Psychologist Cass Seidler joins me to unpack two listener questions. Together, we explore why it can feel so hard to give yourself permission to go after what you want, how perfectionism, people-pleasing and uncertainty can keep us stuck, and w...
The Courage to Create in Public
This week, my friend Romy Galombik turns the microphone around as we reflect on 20 episodes of Masterpiece. We explore what creating the podcast has taught me about getting into the arena, overcoming the need to be liked, and why creating somet...
"I Want to Create, But I Can’t"
This week I reflect on why so many of us want to create but feel like we can't, the cost of constant busyness, and the little flames inside we can't keep ignoring.What is something you want to do that feels scary to say out loud?<...
You Need Your Cheerleaders
Creating a life and art that feels true to you is like climbing a mountain. It can feel long, lonely and uncertain. But after six months of releasing Masterpiece, I'm realising that none of us are meant to do this alone. This is an episode abou...
The Edge of Expression with Grace O'Neill
A conversation with writer Grace O'Neill on Tracey Emin, Lena Dunham, and the tension between self-expression and approval.Thoughts? Email me at jyk@masterpiece.fm---Gra...
Make Your Mark with Daryl Blank Hossack
A conversation with my art teacher and friend, Daryl, on quietening the inner critic, reconnecting with the artist inside, and expressing yourself freely.Thoughts? Email me at jyk@masterpiece.fm
The Tender Experience of Being Authentic
When I moved back to Sydney, I started confronting the things I’d spent years running from. My mind. My body. My feelings. And it was much harder than I expected. Much more time consuming, exhausting, isolating. I thought it was getting in the ...
Day One with Romy Galombik
A conversation on leaving the safety of a job, starting something of your own, and why you need your cheerleaders. Thoughts? Email me at jyk@masterpiece.fm---BIG LITTLE THINGS
Become Someone You Believe In with Dr Zac Seidler
So many of us are sitting in the stands of our own lives — wanting to act, but held back by what people might think. In this conversation with Zac, we explore what it looks like to step into the arena.Zac is a clinical psychologist and o...
The Arena
What’s something you want to do this year that feels scary to say out loud? What arena do you want to get into?For me, it’s painting. And yet, I find myself sitting in the stands, afraid to take that first step.---You can D...
Friction is Feedback with Madeleine Gottlieb
Last year Madeleine Gottlieb spent 53 days in the South Australian desert directing a television series, working 18-hour days in intense conditions — an experience she describes as physically, emotionally and mentally taxing, and completely lif...
What Do You Want?
It’s the year of the horse and it feels like there’s a shift. More momentum, movement, creative energy. More people wanting to make a change. To get in the arena. But where do you begin? James Clear says when you want to make a change but feel ...
There’s a Lot of Effort in Effortless
When you have an idea in your mind, it can feel perfect. The moment you begin, you realise how hard it is to make anything real (let alone good).For the past few months, I’ve been living inside that gap while creating the sound of this p...
Permission to Do Less
When I feel overwhelmed, like there aren’t enough hours in the day, every part of me wants to do more. Wake up earlier. Cram it all in. Get on top of things.Lately, I’m learning the opposite might be true.This episode is about doi...
The Pain of Perfectionism with Cass Seidler
I always thought perfectionism was a bit of a humble brag — a flaw that was actually a strength. Something that helped you get ahead.Then I read an article in
One Word Can Change Your Life with Matteo Grand
This week, Matteo and I sat down to reflect on 2025 through the lens of our words — mastery and foundations. We spoke about the friction of moving home, starting therapy, the biggest lessons we took from it, and why my podcast cover shoot becam...
The Mother, the Artist, and the Craftsman with Grace O'Neill
Grace O’Neill is a writer, editor, podcaster, and this year, she became a mother.After years of searching, pivoting, and finally finding the confidence to say I am an artist, Grace had her son, Eli, and time became very real.
Eliza Gosse Is Not a Tortured Artist
Eliza Gosse is not your typical artist. Mathematical, precise and quietly disciplined, she has built an incredible career as a painter — ten solo exhibitions in seven years — and she’s only 30 (and just getting started).In this conversat...
The Mess Is the Magic with Haley Vickers
I met the Canadian-born TV and film producer, Haley Vickers, at a birthday dinner in 2023. We were both pivoting in our careers, both breaking up with London, and by the time dinner came out, I’m pretty sure we’d both cried. Haley has that rare...
The Freedom to Fail with Diana Reid
Diana Reid wrote her debut novel at 24 during lockdown, having deferred a corporate law job by a year. That book became a bestseller. In the five years since, she’s published two more, with another and a screenplay adaptation on the way. But wh...
I’m Afraid to Be Myself
Today, my podcast, Masterpiece, is out. I’ve been talking about this podcast for years — dreaming about it, playing with it, circling around it, and avoiding it. It’s wild how you can want something so much and still be so scared of it. How som...
Live Life Like You Paint with Talia Blank
Talia Blank is a painter, poet, filmmaker, and incredibly deep thinker. For Talia, making art is like breathing. It isn’t something she thinks about. It pours out of her. And yet, when she had her first solo exhibition in New York, something sh...
