Hey y'all just a quick heads up the episode you're about to listen to is 8 to 10 years old

now these episodes were intended to be evergreen and I still believe there's a lot of good

information in these early episodes, but I do want to let you know that some of my ideas have evolved

over time. Times have changed since we made these episodes and ultimately I'd like to think I've grown

a lot as an artist and a human and that these don't necessarily represent my best work or the best of the podcast.

If you're new around here, I suggest starting with the most recent episode or

at least go back to around 300 and move forward from there.

Enjoy the episode. Hey guys, it's the Creative Pep Talk Podcast, and this is my podcast and the purpose of it is to give you a short and

the purpose of it is to give you a short little pep for you creative folk out there.

I feel like that pursuing a creative career is a series of struggles and I don't mean that you know for

full for a full disclosure currently thank God I'm you know I'm I'm doing pretty

well my as far as the work coming, I've got good jobs coming in, my finances are pretty good.

You know, I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but you know I'm not struggling financially you

know that's not the struggle that I'm talking about the struggle I'm talking about is

that you know that creativity in general is a topic of struggle of discomfort of

pushing forward and growth and growth you never grow from, you rarely grow from the pleasurable experiences.

And so I personally feel like the creative people that I know have creative struggles, personal struggles, emotional struggles, all wrapped up into one kind of package.

And that's what a big part of this show is about.

It's hopefully encouraging you to spur on.

But then also, I want to make this show about breakthrough.

For me, I'm just a passionate

obsessor over breakthroughs in my own life and my own creative endeavors and my work.

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