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Constantin Weber

<strong>Hi, I'm Constantin<br>I was you—until I listened to my resistance.</strong><br>​​​​<br>​I had screenplays placing in contests.<br>I had pitch meetings where execs told me,<br>“This is the most polished work I've read all year.”<br>And still... I felt like I was disappearing.<br>​​​<br><strong>Here’s what was really going on...</strong><br>​I couldn’t finish anything without mentally punishing myself<br>I was snapping at my partner and isolating from my friends<br>I started dreading the thing I used to love most—writing<br>My self-worth was chained to deadlines I couldn’t meet​<br>​<br>Every morning felt like climbing Mount Everest in my pajamas—with no oxygen, no joy, and no one who truly understood what the hell was happening to me.<br>​​<br><strong>And then, everything cracked open...</strong><br>I stopped trying to “fix” my process.<br>I stopped pretending I was fine.<br>I started listening to my blocks—not as failures, but as messages.<br>​<br>That’s where&nbsp;Struggle Smarter&nbsp;&nbsp;was born.<br>From the wreckage.<br>Not from a mountaintop.<br>​<br><strong>Why I know this works (and why I teach it now)...</strong><br>I’m a certified mental coach with a deep obsession for storytelling psychology, creative identity, and emotional regulation for artists.<br>What I teach isn’t theory.<br>It’s tested.<br>In the pages of unfinished screenplays, in late-night breakdowns, in coaching sessions with my students at university who were two weeks from quitting (and are now finishing the work they thought would never happen).<br>​<br><strong>I created this method because I had to.​</strong>