Hey, you're listening to the Creative Pep Talk podcast. This show exists to help you build a thriving,

creative career. I'm your host, Andy J. Pizza. You can stay up to date with all things creative

pep talk by following me on Instagram at Andy J. Pizza. Let's jump into today's episode.

This episode is a superde-duper special episode because it's brought to you by the good people at

Adobe.

Adobe!

Like, I wouldn't, look, I am, this is a collaboration that is paid, right?

So, you know, I'm, I am, I'm inclined to talk nicely about Adobe.

But in all honesty, I wouldn't be here without Adobe.

My whole friggin career is based on using Photoshop and Illustrator all the way back from high school

and all the way into the artwork that I got paid to make yesterday in my work.

And so it's kind of a, it's a privilege, honestly, to collaborate with Adobe, the people that make it possible for me to be a pro

creative. So I'm thrilled to work with them and they brought me out to the 99 U

conference. That's one of their conferences that they have in New York every year and this year

they were focusing on the

idea of challenging everything, which I think is very appropriate for this season of humanity

that we find ourselves in. I had a super great time. I was mainly hanging out with some of the

other people that they brought in. I hung out with Tad Carpenter a lot.

Me and Tad have become good buddies over the years.

I got to hang out with Robin Clantz from the YouTube star, the artistic YouTube star.

I had a bunch of fun and deep conversations with her about all sorts of crazy stuff and got to hang out with

my friend Lauren Hom, who has also been a guest on the podcast, Aw Sam from Instagram,

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