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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 pod...
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570 - The 3 Part Process I Use to Actually Get Creative Stuff Done
Listen if:
1 - You can’t figure out why you can’t get stuff done.
2 - You sometimes finish things and other times not so muc...
569 - Making Things Happen, Create on Command, Changing Direction with Asher Perlman
Has going with the flow taken you somewhere you no longer want to be?
Are you sick of waiting for good ideas to show up?
If...
568 - Make Finishing Strong Fun, Where to Find Ideas & Create an Influence Shelf w Sophie Blackall
This episode is for you if:
1 - You are struggling to finish creative projects.
2 - You don’t know where to find ideas.
567 - Find What to Focus On Next with These Frameworks
If you don’t know what side quest to focus on next…
Or
You feel conflicted about where to channel your energy…
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566 - Creative Strategy: Less Social Media, Income Streams & 3 Essentials
Is Social Media Driving you crazy?
Do you feel like your creative practice is off balance?
Do you need to rethink your creat...
565 - What Type of Creator Are You? Unlock Your Style with Katie & Ilana of Goodtype
This episode is for you if:
1 - You feel lost trying to find yourself as a creator
2 - You need some different types of arti...
564 - Unlock Creative Drive, Peace and Clarity with This Framework
This episode is for you if:
1 - You kind of hate your current life season
2 - You are a neurodivergent creative
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563 - Find Your Inner Writer, What You Want to Say and See Your Ideas with Halsey Berryman
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562 - Show the Real You, Why the Death of Insta isn't All Bad, Do Your Thing by Being Part of Something Bigger & ADHD
Do you feel like your work is very you-ish?
How do you make creative work that really feels authentic?
What does that even m...
561 - The Best Case for Not Fearing AI, Help with Email and Creative Diet with Cal Newport
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560 - Get Back to Passion, Ignore the Internet, Reorient to "Bad" Creative Feelings and Find Your Next Season
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559 - Make Before Thinking, Sales Mode, Get Weird with It, The Opposite of Depression and MORE with Austin Kleon
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558 - Start, Do, Finish: Get Around What's Blocking You from Doing Stuff
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Most creative people don’t nee...
557 - Finding Your Scene, IRL Creativity, the Hopeful Return of Indie / DIY with Hanif Abdurraqib
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Your genius might be hiding in...
556 - Make This Shift to Reclaim Your Creative Spirit from Your Phone
This episode was initially published without the end of the story and the main point of the episode spelled out! We had one essential portion of this...
555 - Overcome Dead Ends & Open Up to New Directions with Hrishikesh Hirway
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554 - Get Back to Creativity that Actually Helps Your Mental Health with Gemma Correll
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Most of us start making things...
553 - Recover Sense of Self & Creative Voice with These 6 Juicy Prompts
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552 - Listen to This if You Need Help Remembering Who You Are (Right Side Out 1 of 6) *RE-AIR*
Check out the rest of the “Right Side Out” series on it's own podcast feed here: andyjpizza.com/rso
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551 - Consume and Create Art to Get Your Brain Back with Scientist Daisy Fancourt
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550 - Get Back to Your Creative Path with These 3 Counterintuitive Things
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549 - This is How Sensitive Creative People Make Big Changes with Eric Zimmer
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1 - Al...
548 - 5 Creative / Neurodivergent Friendly Productivity Hacks to Become a Doer
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547 - Find the Creative Voice You're Holding Back with Claire Keane
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546 - How to Transform What You're Drowning in Into High Octane Creative Fuel
This episode is for you if:
1 - You want to figure out how to put your deep personal experiences into your work, but you have never seeme...
Draft Episode for Mar 04, 2026545 - Make Your Life & Creative Work More Rich with Meaning with Jarod K. Anderson
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1 - You...
544 - Quit Focusing on Being Discovered and Sales and Do This Instead
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543 - 3 Shifts to Make if You Feel Off Creatively
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It is VERY easy to get o...
542 - When to Reboot Your Work + A Better Option than Beating Yourself Up with Zak Rosen
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541 - Are You Afraid of The Art? How to Get Past the Fear and Have Fun Again
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1 - The...
540 - Why the Creative Path Has to Be Twisty and Turny with Nishant Jain
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It’s so easy to forget what this is all about. If you need a reminder to em...
539 - This Super Easy Thing Will Make A Massive Impact On Your Creative Practice
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Do you have a toxic relationship with goal settin...
538 - Find Your Point of View, Story Insights, and Artist / Audience Dynamics with Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen
Have you ever heard someone say that making creative work is about having a “point of view”? It sounds right, but what does it mean and how do you fin...
537 - Reignite Creative Drive with This Energizing New Year's Exercise
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How do you get excited for the New Year when things feel so unstable? How do you get jazze...
536 - Rest and Retreat as a Neurodivergent Creative with Katherine May
This is a special HOLIDAY episode featuring the chat I had on Katherine May’s Podcast “The Clearing” where guests explore their ideal real or fantasy...
535 - If You Only Listen to One Episode of this Podcast This Year Make it This One
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534 - New Fire for Sticking to the Path with Filmmaker Seth Worley
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533 - Make People Feel Things, Hope in AI Crazed World AND Create to Your Taste
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532 - THIS is Your Creative Secret Weapon that You’re Ignoring
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531 - Risks that Land Big Jobs, Be Your Own Client & Find Your Sound with Composer Oli Julian
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