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. This is me, the guy who talks on the show, Andy

Jay Miller, a man who makes his money making pictures and coloring them.

And I couldn't be more thrilled about it, actually.

So, yeah, here it is, the podcast.

You know, I usually kind of explain a little bit about why I do this.

Recently I've been feeling like, know I do this because there are things out there

that help me stay motivated and I'm not sure everybody has those things that when you you know, they can get up in the morning and listen to them or read them or something that gets them into the spirit of making new work and keeping up the fight of having a creative career.

And so I just wanted to put a resource out there not to maybe teach anybody anything but just to

peep them up and get them excited about what they do. You know recently I've

been thinking about this idea that sometimes it's not even about talent,

you know, those bands out there that have made 15 records, you know, sometimes those bands aren't the most talented, but they've got so much

work, they've poured themselves so much into these albums that almost anybody can be a fan you know like if you dive into this you know I

think of a band like modest mouse who I do by the way I think is extremely

talented you know they make so much work, even someone like my brother who's

a Tupac fan, he can get into it. It's not anything like the music he listens to, but

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