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**Creative Pep Talk**

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 is about doing something new. Discipline is about doing something consistently. The aim of this podcast is to help you strike that elusive balance.

Each week, New York Times Bestselling Author Illustrator Andy J. Pizza shares everything he’s learning about building a thriving creative practice. Through solo episodes and interviews with top-tier creatives, Pizza brings you the strategies and stories that you need week in and week out to keep your inner critic at bay, bust through creative blocks and stay creatively pepped to the max!!

Learn more: creativepeptalk.com
Check out the host: andyjpizza.com

Latest Episodes:

440 - For When You're Stuck in The Old Thing & The New Thing’s Scary w/ Todd Henry Feb 07, 2024

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Todd Henry

Daily Creative Podcast

Born Standing Up by Steven Martin

439 - How to Transform Risky Daydreams into Empowering Goals Jan 31, 2024

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Listen to this episode if you:

Want to dig deeper and personally interpret new expressions of your daydreams into actionable steps.
Are looking for ways to get excited about what you’re dreaming up.
Finding where those more fantastical dreams are valuable and practical in the world.

Episode four celebrating January Dreamuary.

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Episode 435 - For drawing your dreams without judgement.

CALL TO ADVENTURE

Find the best exchange rate. Where are people who most value what you do? Look for the folks from similar life experiences and non-negotiables, create a possible unique selling point.

SUPPORT THE SHOW

You can support Creative Pep Talk and my creative practice on Patreon (patreon.com/creativepeptalk) or Substack (andyjpizza.substack.com). Either membership provides you access to our monthly Creative Pep Rally Zoom calls, tentatively planned for the last Monday of each month! Join us for the next virtual meetup on February 26th, 2024!

You can also support the show by getting merch in our online shop: creativepeptalk.etsy.com

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438 - Something that's a Quick Fix to Overcome a Creative Rut + More with Meera Lee Patel Jan 24, 2024

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Meera’s Substack

Meera’s Website

Meera’s illustration on Instagram mentioned around 18min.

CALL TO ADVENTURE

Flip the script.

Be mindful the next time you create something and come at it from the opposite end.

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437 - How To Start Your Year Right: The 12 Creative Essentials Checklist Jan 17, 2024

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CALL TO ADVENTURE

Review any of these 12 ideas/episodes that stood out to you from last year of Creative Pep Talk:

🌊 410 - How to Build The Foundation of a Creative Practice that Cultivates Superfans

🐾 385 - How to Reverse Engineer What Creative Goal to Focus On Next

🤖 377 - 3 Steps on Building The Essential Relationships in Your Creative Sphere

🌷 390 - How to Make Work that's More Creative and Less of a Grind

🍔 383 - 3 Steps for Creating the Work that Gets You The Work You're Perfect For

🥤 384 - 3 Sources of Creative Fuel for When You're Running on Empty with Hanif Abdurraqib

🚀 381 - Tried Everything but Nothing's Working? Studies Show This Creative Tactic is Often Overlooked

🐌 412 - A Process for Using Creative Influences to Find A Unique Path for Yourself

⏰ 396 - The 5 Flavors of Creativity & How Knowing Yours Can Reignite Your Spark

💀 413 - Step by Step How to Insert Yourself Into Your Work in a Powerful Way

🕹️ 415 - The Dream Unlocking Art of Mastering How to Give Up

🦅 417 - The 2 Essential Elements of a Game Changing Creative Collaboration with Sophie Miller

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JAKPRINTS

Special thanks to our wonderful Ohio based printer, Jak Prints (Jakprints.com) for their help with the 2024 Creative Pep Talk Calendar – be sure to check them out for your print needs!

436 - 3 Powerful Tools from Depth Psychology for Making Deeper Work with Lisa Marchiano, LCSW Jan 10, 2024

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Our PATREON virtual meetup, now on the last Monday of every month! Join us for the next one on January 29th, 2024!

This Jungian Life Podcast

Episode 076 on Animus and Anima

Lisa Marchiano’s Website

The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire by Lisa Marchiano – Out February 6th, 2024!

Other mentionings:

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph. D.

The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman

Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by Thomas Moore

Vasilisa the Beautiful - Fairy Tale

Inanna's Descent: A Sumerian Tale of Injustice

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist

Dionysis - Greek Mythology

Hephaestus - Greek Mythology

The Elves and The Shoemaker by The Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tale

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435 - How to Dream Again When You're Tired and Unready for the New Year Jan 03, 2024

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Our PATREON virtual meetup, now on the last Monday of every month! Join us for the next one on January 29th, 2024!

CALL TO ADVENTURE

Create your daydream.

Dream in your medium!

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434 - Creative Pep Talk's 10 Rules of A Thriving Creative Practice *REPLAY* Dec 27, 2023

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Our PATREON virtual meetup, now on the last Monday of every month! Join us for the next one on January 29th, 2024!

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Bob Dylan - Magical Youth Clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wAZ02JUtM

Original Creative Pep Talk on Booby Traps

https://www.creativepeptalk.com/episodes/2018/10/9/202-for-when-you-feel-like-giving-up

Right Side Out Pizza Story

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAX66GsgYfX/

Lynda Barry

https://drawnandquarterly.com/author/lynda-barry/

Dieter Rams Good Design Rules

https://designmuseum.org/discover-design/all-stories/what-is-good-design-a-quick-look-at-dieter-rams-ten-principles

Sister Corita Kent Art Class Rules

https://www.creativelivesinprogress.com/article/corita-kent

Everything is a Remix Kirby Ferguson

https://www.everythingisaremix.info/

George Carlin Cardboard Cut Out Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewUVZZMXT8

Seth Godin More Good Ideas by Having More Bad Ideas

https://seths.blog/2018/06/the-two-simple-secrets-to-good-ideas/#:~:text=Secret %231 is the biggest,easier than the opposite approach.

James Clear Atomic Habits

https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Creative-Habit/Twyla-Tharp/9780743235273

1000 True Fans Kevin Kelly

https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

Austin Kleon Seasons

https://austinkleon.com/2016/08/11/seasons/

Todd Henry Seasons

https://accidentalcreative.com/podcasts/ac/ac-podcast-seasons/

Pantsers vs Plotter

https://whenyouwrite.com/plotter-vs-pantser/#:~:text=A plotter is someone who,their pots on the stove

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433 - Tried Everything but Nothing's Working? Studies Show This Creative Tactic is Often Overlooked *REPLAY* Dec 20, 2023

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Human Rhythms Series: Part Four

Do Less - Hidden Brain episode with Leidy Klotz

Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less - Book by Leidy Klotz

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Book by Greg McKeown

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Book by Cal Newport

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Book by Oliver Burkeman

CALL TO ADVENTURE

The Zeigarnik Cache Clearing

Brain dump for 10 minutes on a piece of paper.
80-20 your list.
How much time will they take?
Do as many of the shorter tasks as possible in one chunk of time!

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432 - Creatively Drowning? The 3 Magic Words that Helped Me Dec 13, 2023

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Scott Erickson on Instagram - “I Get To” post

Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories by Angus Fletcher

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“Give what you didn't get.” — Garry Shandling

CALL TO ADVENTURE

Three magic words.

I
Choose
You

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431 - How to Get Out of Your Own Way When You Can’t Seem to Start or Finish Something Dec 06, 2023

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Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

The Artist’s Journey by Steven Pressfield

CALL TO ADVENTURE

Brain dump.
Brain buckets.
Brain balance.

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