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Your passion and enjoyment have been replaced by anxiety and pressure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
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446 - How to Radically Recover When You've Lost the Fun

Inspiring Stories & Actionable Strategies for Building a Thriving Creative Practice

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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


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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/

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452 - Collect Yourself

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/
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451 - Write Your Inner Monologue

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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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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450 - The Timeless You

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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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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449 - Making Authentic Work You Love Starts with This

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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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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446 - How to Radically Recover When You've Lost the Fun

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