Hi, I'm Constantin
I was you—until I listened to my resistance.
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​I had screenplays placing in contests.
I had pitch meetings where execs told me,
“This is the most polished work I've read all year.”
And still... I felt like I was disappearing.
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Here’s what was really going on...
​I couldn’t finish anything without mentally punishing myself
I was snapping at my partner and isolating from my friends
I started dreading the thing I used to love most—writing
My self-worth was chained to deadlines I couldn’t meet​
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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.
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And then, everything cracked open...
I stopped trying to “fix” my process.
I stopped pretending I was fine.
I started listening to my blocks—not as failures, but as messages.
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That’s where Struggle Smarter  was born.
From the wreckage.
Not from a mountaintop.
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Why I know this works (and why I teach it now)...
I’m a certified mental coach with a deep obsession for storytelling psychology, creative identity, and emotional regulation for artists.
What I teach isn’t theory.
It’s tested.
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).
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I created this method because I had to.​