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. You're going to be here. Yo, it's me Andy J Miller, the original creative Pep Talker, and I'm here to talk to you about making money with your

awesome work making work that's creatively fulfilling but thriving financially.

It's about balancing commercial side of your work

with the art side of your work.

That to the core is who I am, what I'm about, why I'm passionate about making this show, sharing what I'm learning

about that balance, striking that balance.

That's what it's all about.

So... That's what it's all about. So this episode we are going to talk about you are what you eat.

Your brain is a kind of computer that when you need to put the right things into it, the right code to get it to do the right types of functions.

And I think often we don't think about our brain as something that

takes input and and then that changes what we put out into the world, but you are not, you know, this core person of your being

is deeply affected by what you throw into it.

It's not this detached thing that makes judgments on all outside

things in a way that is impersonal. It is a way, it is deeply affected by what you put into it.

And that's what we're going to talk about today in terms of your art career.

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