Creative Pep Talk

By Andy J. PizzaBusiness Education Arts Design

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Creative Pep Talk episodes

May 22, 2024 454 - Show & Tell (Right Side Out 6 of 6)
This episode is for you if you get in your head and struggle to share your story and your work with the world, if you worry that it’s just not relevant or interesting or maybe that it’s too weird… and just a heads up - we’ve been doing a series called Right Side Out - this is episode 6 and the last episode of the series - it really won’t make sense without working through the episodes - go back to episode 449 of this show to start back at episode one.

Episode 1 of Right Side Out

SHOW NOTES
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Sophie Miller
sophiemiller.co
https://www.sophiemiller.co/

Yoni Wolf / WHY?
https://whywithaquestionmark.com/
AOKOHIO
https://yoniwolf.substack.com/

Angus Fletcher
https://www.angusfletcher.co/
Wonderworks
https://swiftpress.com/book/wonderworks/

Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful
https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/

CreativeMornings
https://creativemornings.com/
52 min
May 15, 2024 Quick Announcement - Right Side Out Update
Catch up on our new series Right Side Out - episode 1 of the series starts on episode 449 of this podcast.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
May 08, 2024 453 - Let Her Be (Right Side Out 5 of 6)
All the parts come together and I share the conversation with my mom.
Part 5 of Right Side Out

SHOW NOTES
Lulu Miller
https://www.instagram.com/lutimestwoo/?hl=en

CreativeMornings
https://creativemornings.com/

SWISSMISS / Tina Roth Eisenberg
https://www.instagram.com/swissmiss/?hl=en

James Acaster
https://www.jamesacaster.com/

A Pizza with Everything On It
https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/a-pizza-with-everything-on-it
56 min
May 01, 2024452 - Collect Yourself (Right Side Out 4 of 6)
This episode is for you if:
You want to get more personal or deep in your creative work but you don’t know practically where to start
You struggle to take a personal interest in yourself and you feel like every one else is more interesting or worthy
You are prone to low self and esteem and sometimes feel like why even bother making anything at all
STICK TIL THE END of this episode I am going to share a prompt that unlocked the most significant creative breakthrough in finding my own creative voice

SHOW NOTES
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Stuff by Andrew Neyer:
https://andrewneyer.com/
Color Me Collaborative Exhibit:
https://andrewneyer.com/projects/color-me

Charles Schulz on 60 Minutes in 1997:
https://youtu.be/kjTpdUs-pfw
Creative Mornings:
https://creativemornings.com/
https://creativemornings.com/talks/aaron-james-draplin/1
https://creativemornings.com/talks/kate-bingaman-burt/1
https://creativemornings.com/talks/joseph-wu/1

IFS:
https://ifs-institute.com/
BOOK 'No Bad Parts' by Dr Richard C. Schwartz
https://ifs-institute.com/nobadparts

'Muppet Guys Talking'
Dave Goelz and Jerry Nelson
https://muppetguystalking.com/

Yoni Wolf / WHY?
https://whywithaquestionmark.com/
AOKOHIO
https://yoniwolf.substack.com/

Sophie Miller
https://www.sophiemiller.co/

Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful
https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/
46 min
April 24, 2024451 - Write Your Inner Monologue (Right Side Out 3 of 6)
THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:
You struggle to find where the literal voices of others and the metaphorical creative voices of your hero’s end and where you begin
If limitations were put on you by others that you have a hard time shaking off
You need help finding a starting place to build off of in terms of building your creative identity
Stick til the end for an exercise to kickstart finding your creative voice

SHOW NOTES
Dr Ken Benau
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ken-benau-kensington-ca/279286

NPR - Social media posts warn people not to call 988. Here's what you need to know
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/11/1116769071/social-media-posts-warn-people-not-to-call-988-heres-what-you-need-to-know

Yoni Wolf / WHY?
https://whywithaquestionmark.com/
AOKOHIO
https://yoniwolf.substack.com/

Sophie Miller
https://www.sophiemiller.co/

Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful
https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/
58 min
April 17, 2024450 - The Timeless You (Right Side Out 2 of 6)
This episode is for you if:
You need some ideas on how to tap into a more timeless sense of yourself
You cant figure out what’s you and what’s you trying to be cool
Or you need help breaking free from your creative influences and find something that truly unique to you to build a more unique creative sensibility
STAY TIL THE END and I will give you a creative thought exercise that broke open the development of my creative identity in a major way early on in my practice

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SHOW NOTES
Yoni Wolf / WHY?
https://whywithaquestionmark.com/
AOKOHIO
https://yoniwolf.substack.com/

Sophie Miller
https://www.sophiemiller.co/

Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful
https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/
50 min
April 10, 2024449 - Making Authentic Work You Love Starts with This (Right Side Out 1 of 6)
THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:
You want to find your style and voice and make authentic work
If you know to do so you have to put yourself into the work
But you don’t know how to do that or worse you don’t really know who you are!
This episode is the start of a new series all about that - and is especially relevant to neurodivergent ppl or those of us that constantly feel like we have had to hide ourselves or become smaller to get by in society
Stay until the end and I will share a creative prompt that didn’t just break open my creativity - it broke open whole layers of my self and my life

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SHOW NOTES
Lulu Miller
https://www.instagram.com/lutimestwoo
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Trucky-Roads/Lulu-Miller/9781665919173

Yoni Wolf / WHY?
https://whywithaquestionmark.com/
AOKOHIO
https://yoniwolf.substack.com/

On Air Fest
https://www.onairfest.com/

Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful
https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/

Charley Locke
https://charleylocke.com/
47 min
April 03, 2024448 - Creative Pep Talk’s 4 Essential Components to the Thriving Creative Practice
THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:
You feel super inconsistent in your creative practice
You’re work isn’t going anywhere because it happens in fits and starts
You’re relationship to your work is like a on again off again thing and you’re ready to make at least a short term commitment
STICK UNTIL THE END: I will give you are the 4 essentials to a thriving creative practice and a journal prompt to figure out which you’re missing - or which you need to add

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SHOW NOTES
Book Mentions:
"A Sunday with Everything on It" by Andy J. Pizza and Kyle Scheele
"Emotional Agility" by Susan David
"Deep Work" by Cal Newport
"Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport
"Invisible Ink" by Brian McDonald
1 hr 7 min
March 27, 2024447 - Worry You're Lagging? How to Reinvent and Recapture Passion with Josh Linkner
THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:
You feel like you’re being left behind
ALL THE TECH advancements and shifts in the past couple years has you scrambling
OR you just feel like you’re not locked into making progress in a meaningful direction that your whole heart and soul can embrace
IF YOU STAY UNTIL THE END - I will come back with a CALL TO ADVENTURE called THE HEADS UP 7 SECONDS exercise that you can use TODAY to make your creative session more aligned with where you are in the moment right now and make that effort count

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SHOW NOTES
Josh Linkner - https://joshlinkner.com/
Josh's podcast Mic Drop
32 min
March 20, 2024446 - How to Radically Recover When You've Lost the Fun
This episode is for you if:
No longer having fun making stuff
Your passion and enjoyment have been replaced by anxiety and pressure
You always find yourself trying to outdo the last thing you made and end up overthinking
Or you worry if you don’t stay afraid you’re going to end up washed up
Stay til the end for a practice for finding fun, focus and clarity again called “Rename the Game”

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SHOW NOTES
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Weeknd
Dr Rex Jung Ted Talk
45 min