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. Well, it's the Creative Pep Talk Podcast with me, Andy J Miller. If you don't know, I'm an illustrator and I make stuff. I make pictures

for a living. All right, well you know what? It's the creative pep talk and I have been pepping myself up so that I can get you peped up.

I've been trying to get into my zone of excitement about creativity and what this

podcast is about and I you know what I'm just feeling super pumped today and I feel like I have so many things to share with you

I have a ton of tons of things that I want to say that I hope help you get psyched out of your mind about the work that you do.

But first, you know, I want to say that you can listen to the podcast online at illustration

age.com slash creative pep talk.

Illustration age is this awesome illustration website

and they're fighting for illustration.

And so today,

I wanted to talk to you about things you can do today, things that you have the power to invest

and do things today that can dramatically affect your path and how far you're going

and how well things are going.

But first I just wanted to talk about, you know, why do I do this podcast?

Why do I spend the time every week to pour myself into this podcast.

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