Creative Pep Talk

By Andy J. Pizza

A Weekly Podcast Companion for Your Creative Journey

Transform your creative potential into reality by making your creativity a practice. A “creative discipline” can feel like an oxymoron. Creativity... more

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Creative Pep Talk episodes:

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/

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50min
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/

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47min
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

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1h 7min
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

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32min
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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Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Weeknd
Dr Rex Jung Ted Talk

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45min
March 13, 2024445 - A Surprising Mechanism for Finding Powerful Momentum
This episode is for you if you:
Feel your work lacks depth
Don’t know what to make
Or you have lots of ideas and don’t know which to choose next
If you stick until the end of the episode I’m going to give you a tool called CREATIVE KINDLING that you can use to help you decide what to focus on and keep you fueled throughout a project, even when you feel you’re running on fumes

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SHOW NOTES
Rian Johnson on Creative Processing
J Gonzo
El Mano Del Destino
Zone of Interest

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46min
March 06, 2024 444 - Unlock Your Creative Superpower with This Hidden Key
This episode is for you if you:
- Can’t seem to stand out in your creative field
- The competition is too steep or too crowded in your creative world
- Feel like there’s a cutthroat / gossipy culture in your creative industry because everyone sees each other as competition and you feel lonely in your creative community
- IF YOU STICK TIL THE END: I’m going to share the hidden place where your attention grabbing creative superpower might be hiding - and an action you can do today to get you one step closer to cutting through the noise in your genre: it’s called WEDDING CRASH LANDER

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On Air Fest

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32min
February 28, 2024 443 - Which of the 4 Inspiration Types Do You Need Now?

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SHOW NOTES
Angus Fletcher Wonderworks
Moomin - Comet in Moominvalley

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40min
February 21, 2024 442 - How Pain Points Can Point To New Possibilities with Amy Devers
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40min
February 14, 2024 441 - 3 Solutions if Your Practice is Stuck in The Spinning Wheel of Death
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35min

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