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 everybody it's the creative Pep Talk

podcast this is Andy J Miller and I'm an illustrator and I'm sat here with my well I'm stood up rather with my coffee.

It's early morning it's about 5.30 in the morning.

And I'm thinking about creative stuff and you know,

and you know, I thought about, I've been thinking about how, like what's the real goal or what are you trying to do as

creative people.

And you know I was listening to a talk recently and there was nothing inherently wrong with the talk.

Actually, there was a lot of stuff that I liked,

but I realized that it wasn't doing it for me.

And I hate to be so critical, but it got me thinking about what was I actually hoping for out of

listening to this talk like what was I yeah what was my goal as an audience

listening What was my goal as an audience listening? What was I hoping to hear and

started thinking about my new favorite word, which is, this is pretty hyped, pretty over the top, but it really like hits to the core of what I'm talking about.

And so today's episode, the word rather,

is transcendence, which sounds very. is The idea of today's creative Pep Talk podcast is that when you're going to do your art

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