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. Yo, it's the Creative Pep Talk Podcast, and this is your host Andy J Miller illustrator guy. I've got myself a nice

coffee that I've brewed this morning and if you don't have one you better

get one so you don't get jealous as I'm slurping and sipping.

Yeah. I'm slurping and sipping. Yeah, so the subscribers are growing.

The feedback is pouring in.

I'm loving this format.

It's really good and I really appreciate all the

the feedback and encouragement keep them rolling I really appreciate if you really like this podcast, really appreciate you going and doing a review on iTunes because I hear that that's how other people find it.

So today we're going to talk about something that came up.

I was listening to, you know, my favorite podcast your dreams my nightmares where Sam Weber interviews

illustrators and he interviewed a really famous illustrator named Robert Hunt and when asked what his biggest advice

was for other illustrators Robert said to never stop growing. And I started thinking about this and I

thought, you know, maybe that really is the cornerstone of a long-lasting successful career full of just I don't know all kinds of

different accomplishments and successes and

fulfillment I think that maybe the opposite steng stagging or refusing to grow is maybe the

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