my honest thoughts on AI, burnout, and coming back to YouTube

It's been a while! In this catch-up video, I'm answering your questions about life as a Creative Director in tech, navigating burnout, and getting back into content creation after taking a long break. We talk about balancing a full-time design leadership role with running a business, the hobbies that have helped me recover from burnout, where things stand with the marketing design book I've been writing, and my honest thoughts on the controversial topic of AI and its impact on the design industry.

If you're a designer figuring out career growth, work-life balance, or how to think about AI in your creative process, I hope this one feels like a real conversation.

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – It's been a while, let's catch up
1:07 – Work/life balance & 10 years at Kit
2:56 – Navigating burnout by chasing joy
5:51 – Buying my first car
7:26 – Burnout chat continued
8:34 – Book update!
11:34 – My honest thoughts on AI in design
18:02 – Advice to my 20-year-old self

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// ABOUT ME

I'm Charli and I'm designer from New Zealand currently living in Valencia, Spain. I’m the Creative Director at a remote tech company called Kit and I post videos about the design projects I work on and the tools I use, as well as vlogs of my life as a designer.

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// TECH & TOOLS

📹 Get links to all the tech hardware I use to make my videos (and the art on my gallery wall!) right here: https://charlimarie.com/shopmyoffice

💻 Software I use:
Webflow (no-code website builder)*: https://charli.link/webflow
Premiere Pro (video editing)*: https://charli.link/premierepro
Adobe Audition (audio recording)*: https://charli.link/audition
After Effects (intro animation)*: https://charli.link/aftereffects
Figma (web design): https://charli.link/figma
Photoshop (thumbnails)*: https://charli.link/photoshop
Kit (marketing platform): https://charli.link/try-kit
Riverside (podcast interview recording)*: https://charli.link/riverside

Music in this video from Epidemic Sound*: https://charli.link/epidemicsound

Video captions by Rev (very cost effective service! I recommend)*: https://charli.link/videocaptions

Links marked with a * are affiliate links. I can't believe you read the whole description box! You get a ⭐️