Creative Pep Talk

Creative Pep Talk

Podcast 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 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

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episode 507 - How to Find Your Secret Creative Powers artwork
507 - How to Find Your Secret Creative Powers

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter. [http://andyjpizza.substack.com/] --- Do you feel like the competition is so steep you don’t have a chance? Do you ever look around online and think “why should I even bother? I am not even close to this level of talent!” If so, this episode is for you. Stop trying to be super and tap into your true edge: your secret creative powers! Let’s talk about how to find them! SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co [http://sophiemiller.co/] Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co [http://pendingbeautiful.co/] Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com [http://whywithaquestionmark.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

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episode 506 - The Career Defining Breakthrough I Found in Scary Slow Times artwork
506 - The Career Defining Breakthrough I Found in Scary Slow Times

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter. [http://andyjpizza.substack.com/] --- When times are hectic and industries freeze, it can feel like creative progress is impossible. In times like these, rather than bang your head up against the same wall over and over again, you can see this external block as a sign that it’s time to shift your focus and ways of being. In this episode I share one of the most essential breakthroughs in my creative practice that happened during some of the slowest and scariest moments of my creative journey. SHOW NOTES: Lisa Miller PhD The Awakened Brain https://www.lisamillerphd.com [https://www.lisamillerphd.com/] Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co [http://sophiemiller.co/] Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co [http://pendingbeautiful.co/] Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com [http://whywithaquestionmark.com/] SPONSORS: SQUARESPACE Head to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK [https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK] to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

21. maj 2025 - 38 min
episode 505 - How Demystifying Your Craft can Enhance the Magic with Maggie Smith artwork
505 - How Demystifying Your Craft can Enhance the Magic with Maggie Smith

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter. [http://andyjpizza.substack.com/] --- This was an INCREDIBLE CHAT. I left so pepped. If you are overwhelmed by the blank page, scared to try and fail, or feel the pressure to exist in a vacuum, this episode is for you! In this episode, Poet Maggie Smith is back with her brilliant new book “Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life”. I LOVED this book and this chat JUST AS MUCH. This episode is CHOCKED FULL of creative insights from Maggie and her new book, you are going to love it! SHOW NOTES: Maggie Smith https://maggiesmithpoet.com/book/dear-writer/ [https://maggiesmithpoet.com/book/dear-writer/] Good Bones https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones] Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life https://maggiesmithpoet.com/book/dear-writer/ [https://maggiesmithpoet.com/book/dear-writer/] Katherine Fahey http://www.thecrankiefactory.com/115034631.html [http://www.thecrankiefactory.com/115034631.html] Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co [http://sophiemiller.co/]  Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co [http://pendingbeautiful.co/]  Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com [http://whywithaquestionmark.com/] SPONSORS: SQUARESPACE Head to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK [https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK] to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

14. maj 2025 - 1 h 9 min
episode 504 - Reduce Overwhelm and Unlock More Creative Work with This artwork
504 - Reduce Overwhelm and Unlock More Creative Work with This

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter here: andyjpizza.substack.com [http://andyjpizza.substack.com/] --- Are you overwhelmed pretty much no matter what you do? Are you overwhelmed by long to do lists? Short ones? Complex and simple ones? In this episode I will share a recent shift that has made a big impact on me that resulted in me feeling less overwhelmed and more able to be creatively productive. SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co [http://sophiemiller.co/] Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co [http://pendingbeautiful.co/] Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com [http://whywithaquestionmark.com/] John Cleese on Creativity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvKeu46jgwo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvKeu46jgwo] Cal Newport https://calnewport.com [https://calnewport.com/] SPONSORS: SQUARESPACE Head to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK [https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK] to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

07. maj 2025 - 28 min
episode 503 - Embrace Change and Reclaim Belonging with Morgan Harper Nichols artwork
503 - Embrace Change and Reclaim Belonging with Morgan Harper Nichols

Feel like things have changed or are always changing? Do you find yourself changing yourself to fit? Where do you really want to be? In this episode I am joined by artist and author, Morgan Harper Nichols. We discuss envisioning a future for yourself that you actually want to go towards and how to find the right creative home within all the possibilities. https://morganharpernichols.com [https://morganharpernichols.com] ------ Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter here: andyjpizza.substack.com [http://andyjpizza.substack.com/]   SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co [http://sophiemiller.co/] Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co [http://pendingbeautiful.co/] Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com [http://whywithaquestionmark.com/] SPONSORS: SQUARESPACE Head to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK [https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK] to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

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