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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:

341 - The Essential Quality of a True Creative (HINT: It’s Not What You Think) with Tad Carpenter Nov 10, 2021

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Tad Carpenter

https://www.instagram.com/tadcarpenter/

https://carpentercollective.com/

https://www.instagram.com/carpentercollective/

Buy Tad’s New Sunday Suns Book!

Sunday-suns.com

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SPONSORS

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SKILLSHARE

There’s nothing better than getting better. Accomplishing growth is extremely satisfying, and online classes from Skillshare make it possible. Learn about illustration, design, photography, productivity, and marketing. With Skillshare’s short classes, you can move your creative journey forward without putting life on hold. So explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/CreativePep where our listeners get a free trial of Premium Membership.

STORYBLOCKS

Video is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimited Downloads, and 1M+ Royalty Free Assets - you can level up your content at storyblocks.com/CreativePepTalk

SPOONFLOWER

Shop, design and sell custom fabric, wallpaper and home decor on Spoonflower - if DIYing is your jam, SPOONFLOWER is THE destination for print-on-demand fabric, wallpaper and home decor products. Visit spoonflower.com and DIY all the live long day! Spoonflower.com

340 - One Idea that Unlocks New Levels of Your Style, Reveals Your Builder Type & Gets You Back On Your Path Nov 03, 2021

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Bo Burnham Inside Specia https://www.netflix.com/title/81289483

Alex G http://sandyalexg.com/

Everything is A Remix by Kirby Ferguson https://www.everythingisaremix.info/

Geoff McFetridge https://www.instagram.com/mcfetridge/?hl=en

Austin Kleon Family Tree https://austinkleon.com/2018/10/06/climbing-your-own-family-tree/

Remy Charlip https://www.remycharlipestate.org/about

The Little Prince https://www.amazon.com/Little-Prince-Antoine-Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry/dp/0156012197

Saimon Chow https://www.instagram.com/chowsaiman/?hl=en

Ghostshrimp https://www.instagram.com/theghostshrimp/?hl=en

David Shrigley https://www.instagram.com/davidshrigley/?hl=en

Hegelian Dialectic https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/

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THE LEGO GROUP

This episode is made in partnership with The Lego Group and their Rebuild the World Campaign. Ask your kids to tell a story about something that would bring joy to their world, solve a creative problem or bring people together. Share photos of their LEGO® builds, pictures, or ideas on social media mentioning @LEGO and using #RebuildTheWorld

339 - 4 New Strategies That Reignited a Fresh Spark in My Creative Practice Oct 27, 2021

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Take my new skillshare class! “Social Media for Creatives: 5 Exercises to Power Your Freelance Career” https://skl.sh/truefansclass

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MOLLY FLETCHER - ENERGY CLOCK

https://mollyfletcher.com/the-energy-clock/

KEEP GOING BY AUSTIN KLEON

https://austinkleon.com/keepgoing/

ALANIS MORISSETTE and OLIVIA RODRIGO in ROLLING STONE

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/olivia-rodrigo-alanis-morissette-musicians-on-musicians-1239136/

Wired for story by LISA CRON

http://wiredforstory.com/wired-for-story

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SKILLSHARE

STORYBLOCKS

338 - How to Make Deeply Powerful Creative Work Oct 20, 2021

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Take my new skillshare class! “Social Media for Creatives: 5 Exercises to Power Your Freelance Career” https://skl.sh/truefansclass

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Nancy Duarte - TED Talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks?language=en

Martha Beck - Integrity

https://marthabeck.com/the-way-of-integrity/

Waxahatchee Lucinda Williams Interview

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/uncategorized/katie-crutchfield-and-lucinda-williams-on-staying-power-and-major-label-bullshit

INVISIBLE INK by Brian McDonald

https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Ink-Practical-Building-Resonate/dp/0998534471/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=invisible+ink+book&qid=1550185205&s=gateway&sr=8-2&linkCode=sl1&tag=theinvinkbl08-20&linkId=6ba59b9dcf498d8505a70a4d95770928&language=en_US

Rostam Song Exploder

https://songexploder.net/rostam

Henson Executive Producer Halle Stanford on Creative Pep Talk

https://www.creativepeptalk.com/episodes/2019/10/1/246-embracing-your-essence-with-the-dark-crystal-executive-producer-halle-stanford

Pixar’s Soul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_(2020_film)

3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Billboards_Outside_Ebbing,_Missouri

Frank Chimero - Analogies

https://frankchimero.com/blog/2011/suggestions-for-speakers/

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SPOONFLOWER

STORYBLOCKS

337 - How to Hear Your Creative Voice and Trust It with Rebecca Green Oct 13, 2021

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Take my new skillshare class! “Social Media for Creatives: 5 Exercises to Power Your Freelance Career” https://skl.sh/truefansclass

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Rebecca Green

https://www.myblankpaper.com/

https://www.instagram.com/rebeccagreenillustration/

Chris Pain, Illustrator

https://www.cfpayne.com/

Garfield’s Thanksgiving, book

https://www.amazon.com/Garfields-Thanksgiving-Jim-Davis/dp/0345356500

Boney Legs, Joanna Cole, book

https://www.amazon.com/Bony-Legs-Joanna-Cole/dp/0590405160

How to Make Friends with a Ghost, Book by Rebecca Green

https://www.myblankpaper.com/books#/how-to-make-friends-with-a-ghost-1/

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ADOBE MAX

Support for Creative Pep Talk comes from Adobe MAX. Adobe MAX is the annual global creativity conference and it’s going online this year -- October 26th through the 28th. This is sure to be a creative experience like no other. Plus, it’s all free. Yep - 100% free! With over 25 hours of keynotes, luminary speakers, breakout sessions, workshops, musical performances and even a few celebrity appearances, it’s going to be one-stop shopping for your inspiration, goals and creative tune-ups.

Explore over 300 sessions across 11 tracks, hear from amazing speakers and learn new creative skills… all totally free and online this October. To register, head to max.adobe.com

SKILLSHARE

SPOONFLOWER

336 - Find Your Creative Zone Today: Which of These 7 Types of Ideas Come to You Naturally? Oct 06, 2021

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Take my new skillshare class! “Social Media for Creatives: 5 Exercises to Power Your Freelance Career” https://skl.sh/truefansclass

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Whole Brain Living by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Living-Anatomy-Characters/dp/1401961983

Chris Martin of Coldplay on Pete Holmes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chris-martin/id475878118?i=1000534667456&l=ca

Brain Pickings

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/04/the-artists-way-julia-cameron/

Mason Currey Daily Rituals

https://www.masoncurrey.com/daily-rituals

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ADOBE MAX

Explore over 300 sessions across 11 tracks, hear from amazing speakers and learn new creative skills… all totally free and online this October.

To register, head to max.adobe.com

SKILLSHARE

335 - Feeling Out-of-Step with Your Creative Journey? Do These 3 Things Now Sep 29, 2021

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Take my new skillshare class! “Social Media for Creatives: 5 Exercises to Power Your Freelance Career” https://skl.sh/truefansclass

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The Nowhere Inn

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/st-vincent-carrie-brownstein-the-nowhere-inn-movie-review/

Tiktok @eat_more_spiders

https://www.tiktok.com/@eat_more_spiders/video/7007884697766251782?is_copy_url=0&is_from_webapp=v1&sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6906827253348353542

Mission Impossible Story

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/write-the-fuse/id1574368686?i=1000536234907

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Spoonflower

ADOBE MAX

Explore over 300 sessions across 11 tracks, hear from amazing speakers and learn new creative skills… all totally free and online this October. To register, head to max.adobe.com

334 - Find the Work That Makes You Come Alive. Which of The 10 Types Are You? with Jonathan Fields Sep 22, 2021

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Take my new Skillshare class! “Social Media for Creatives: 5 Exercises to Power Your Freelance Career” https://skl.sh/truefansclass

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Jonathan Fields

https://www.jonathanfields.com/