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 with your host Andy J Miller.

You know, I've had a few people ask for me to do some shorter little

PEP talks a little bit more often, and it's something that I've been wanting to do and I don't

have a name for it but I will by the time I post this.

I'm on my way to work.

I'm going to teach a class on self-promotion for illustrators at the Columbus College of

Art and Design.

Just before I get on with this, I just wanted to let you know.

You can listen to this podcast at illustration age.com slash creative

pep talk. I just wanted to connect with you today and I wanted to say look I think

it's incredibly important to know what you want.

I feel like a few years back I kind of cringed at this idea of what you know determining

what you want it sounded so selfish and so prideful and you know it did I felt like there was just this air to

it that just didn't at first sit right with me. You know, I feel like though you do want things and the things that you want drive your life. They drive your life forward and

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