Creative Pep Talk

Why aren’t more people discovering and embracing your work? It must not be good enough, right? 

You’ve heard it a billion times: Just do the work. But what if obsessively overthinking and over-tinkering is just as dangerous of a distraction as procrastination? 

What would it look like if you redirected some of your focus away from micro-creative improvements and towards developing a more intentional relationship with new fans?

In this episode we explore how to get new people to discover your work and form a meaningful long lasting connection with them as well!

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SHOW NOTES:

Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co

Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co 

Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com  

Nancy Duarte https://www.ted.com/speakers/nancy_duarte

Billy Eichner https://www.instagram.com/billyeichner

Invisible Things Books https://www.andyjpizza.com/invisiblethingsbook

Also Mentioned:

Andy Stanley 'Don't plan on winning the lottery'

When approaching creative projects- how do you express yourself, challenge yourself and be true to yourself?

This episode is an interview with Grammy nominated musician Gallant. From the relatable moment when he snapped, to the joyful moment it all clicked, Gallant walks us through his creative process from intuitive mood-boards to finding the flow.

Stick to the end for a fresh take on creating mood-boards to inspire your projects.

Gallant Links https://gallant.lnk.to/Zinc

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sogallant

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sogallant

His New Album 'Zinc' is Out 9/27/2024 https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/1mD2QDlJ2UHLF6X7oFpnlz

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SHOW NOTES:

Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co

Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co 

Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com  

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Check out Adobe Express' "In the Making" Podcast" here: https://link.chtbl.com/ZNKQZa97

In the Making - from Adobe Express - kicks off season two with Teresa Au interviewing Vanessa Rivera of The Life of AIVAX about her whimsical Photoshop art and how she balances a time-consuming creative career with a family as a working mom. Vanessa talks about creative tools that save her time in her work, how she and her family left their home to travel in Europe for an extended period, how to set limits on her work life, and how to find joy and connection in a lonely world as a creative.

How do you create something both accessible and innovative? What do you draw inspiration from to make authentic and meaningful work?

In this episode- animator, illustrator and author Sanjay Patel tells us about his life-changing journey back to his upbringing, we discuss his deep-dive into the well of inspiration he found and how it all came together into a playful preschool show.

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SHOW NOTES:

Writing / Host: Andy J. Pizza

Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co

Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co 

Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com  

Sanjay Patel

https://www.gheehappy.com

https://www.instagram.com/gheehappy/

https://www.youtube.com/@gheehappystudio

SPONSORS:

Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met - Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way.

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Do you have a box of treasured momentos, a drawer of unfinished artwork or a notebook of ideas you never quite started and definitely didn't finish?

Author and illustrator Carson Ellis tells us how she uncovered a forgotten journal from her 20s and how it informed an entire series of work, with a little help along the way from some other past projects.

This interview is creative inspiration for how to tell stories using pictures, capture nostalgia and perhaps even create art today as a time capsule for the future.

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SHOW NOTES:

Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co

Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co 

Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com

https://www.carsonellis.com/

https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/one-week-in-january

Picture book mentions: What is Love, Du is Tak and Wildwood

TV show mentions: Mad Men

Band: https://www.decemberists.com/

Author Kazoo Ishiguro https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/14137/kazuo-ishiguro/

Julian Glander https://glander.co/

Past episode with Carson Ellis and Mac Barnett: https://creativepeptalk.com/355

SPONSORS:

Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met -

Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way.

Check out Immaterial here: https://bio.to/ImmaterialPodcast!PScreativepeptalk

Riverside - The easiest way for you and your team to record, edit and share professional grade Videos and Podcasts, from anywhere in the world. 

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It’s difficult to know where to focus your creative energy. If you don’t know whether you should be learning a new skill, diving deep into a new project or marketing something you’ve already done, this episode is for you!

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SHOW NOTES:

Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co

Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co 

Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com

Dan Harmon, Story Circle https://boords.com/blog/storytelling-101-the-dan-harmon-story-circle

The Heroine's Journey by Gail Carrier https://gailcarriger.com/books/hj/

Also mentioned the Maureen Murdock book by the same name

SPONSORS:

Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met - Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way.

Check out Immaterial here: https://bio.to/ImmaterialPodcast!PScreativepeptalk

This episode is for you if:

-You keep giving up

-You violently swing your focus from money-making, to never mixing money and creativity ever again

-You need a method for staying true to your creative core and not getting swept away by all the shiny objects 

SHOW NOTES:

Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co

Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co 

Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com 

Lisa Miller PhD - The Awakened Brain

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608347/the-awakened-brain-by-lisa-miller-phd/

Jill Bolte Taylor PhD - Whole Brain Living

https://www.drjilltaylor.com/whole-brain-living/

Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/314324/the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces-by-joseph-campbell/

Carl Jung - The Tension of Opposites

https://www.amazon.com/Man-His-Symbols-Carl-Jung/dp/0440351839

Christopher Nolan - Inception

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/

The Matrix

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

Susan Cain - Bittersweet

https://susancain.net/book/bittersweet/

Lin-Manuel Miranda - Hamilton

https://www.hamiltonmusical.com/

About Time

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194499/

Charlie Brown Christmas

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059026/

Joe Hisaishi - Composer for Miyazaki Films

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386749/

Hayao Miyazaki - Animator and Filmmaker

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594503/

The PodGlomerate network

https://www.podglomerate.com/

Newsletter signup

https://andyjpizza.substack.com/

"Invisible Things" project

Invisiblethings.co

Invisible Things Enamel Pins

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CreativePepTalk?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1290656010&from_page=listing§ion_id=33163429

SPONSORS:

Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met - Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way.

Check out Immaterial here: https://bio.to/ImmaterialPodcast!PScreativepeptalk

EPISODE DESCRIPTION:

Everything changes. Platforms. The Economy. Seasons of Life. 

What do you do when these changes block your path in such a way, that no matter how you look at it, you can’t seem to find a path forward? You need to get distance to find perspective, but you can’t always press pause and escape to a two week vacation anytime you get stuck. In this episode we talk about the research backed power of the journey mentality and how to access its perspective shifting magic.

This is episode 1 of our ongoing Creative Journey Series.

SHOW NOTES:

Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co

Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co 

Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com  

Lisa Miller Phd "The Awakened Brain"

https://www.lisamillerphd.com/

Joseph Campbell "A Hero with A Thousand Faces"

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces-joseph-campbell/6894600?ean=9781577315933

Donald Miller "A Million Miles in A Thousand Years"

https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-million-miles-in-a-thousand-years-how-i-learned-to-live-a-better-story-donald-miller/228927?ean=9781400202980

The Curse of Oak Island

https://www.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island

SPONSORS:

Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met - Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way.

Check out Immaterial here: https://bio.to/ImmaterialPodcast!PScreativepeptalk

A chat with Yoni Wolf of the band WHY? - I have been a massive fan for YEARS and you've heard their music every week on the show! You may also have heard more of the the band in our Right Side Out Series.

This episode is for you if you are sick and tired of waiting for someone to let you do the creative work you want to be making, if you need inspiration for how to put more of yourself into your work or if you need a fresh helping of that feeling of why we do creative work at all - and stick until the end for a CTIA called NO MITT FOR THESE PITCHES on the mindset shift that helped me go from a place of fruitlessly pitching tons unsuccessful book ideas to publishers and into a place where I’ve been consistently making books for the past four years!

Riverside - The easiest way for you and your team to record, edit and share professional grade Videos and Podcasts, from anywhere in the world. 

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SHOW NOTES:

Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co

Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co 

Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com  

WHY?

https://whywithaquestionmark.com/

WHY?'s latest album: The Well that I Fell Into

https://lnk.to/twifi

Yoni Wolf's Substack

https://yoniwolf.substack.com/

ANTICON

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticon

Adam "Doesone" Drucker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doseone

SPONSORS:

Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met - Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way.

Check out Immaterial here: https://bio.to/ImmaterialPodcast!PScreativepeptalk

Riverside - The easiest way for you and your team to record, edit and share professional grade Videos and Podcasts, from anywhere in the world. 

https://creators.riverside.fm/creativepeptalk

The creative brain is amazing at coming up with infinite options and connections, but sorting through and choosing which options are best and should be focused on is a totally different skill.

In this episode we talk to incredible Illustrator and Youtuber Cheyenne Barton, right in the midst of working this stuff out for herself. At the time we talked, Cheyenne was feeling overwhelmed in her practice and I found the vulnerability of this chat to be a real gift. If you’re burnt out or feeling overwhelmed, this snapshot will help you feel less alone in it and may just give you some tools to overcome it!

Episode art by Cheyenne Barton and Andy J. Pizza

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SHOW NOTES

Cheyenne Barton’s Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/chey.barton/

Cheyenne Barton’s Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/cheyennebarton

“The life of an artist.” Iceberg Illustration by Megan Herbert

https://www.instagram.com/p/CU6THjkpuqd/