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.

It's actually I I think, more dangerous than it sounds if you're starting to lose your motivation,

your excitement about it.

Exactly. It's very dangerous. Hey everybody,

Hey everybody, you're listening to the creative pep talk podcast this show is about

commercial art making a living making great art I'm your host Andy J Miller

illustration age is our proud syndicate. You can find this show at

Illustration Age.com slash Creative Pep Talk on SoundCloud and iTunes. So this show has kind of taken over my life in pretty much only good ways.

I love doing the show sincerely and it comes from a real place, a real passion to help creative people thrive.

To help people, help creative people find the right way to

communicate their value to the world that maybe doesn't understand it or see it. And I believe those things, you know,

this week I had a message from a guy actually from my home state and they were just telling me their story and how the

podcast has helped them and you know that's not necessarily a super unusual thing it happens pretty often you know and I but I was

telling my wife about it because it just struck me for some reason and as I was telling her about the story

I actually genuinely started crying and I'm not a shameful crier I can cry with the

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