On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift up.

Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.

Hey, you're listening to the Creative Pep Talk podcast. I'm your host Andy J.

Heets up. Do you ever get the unsettling notion that things are just not quite adding up in your creative practice the way that they should be?

Like maybe you're following or your finances or your opportunities. Just don't even seem to come close to, you know, your talent or at least your effort.

Or, you know, you've had major creative breakthroughs, but they just haven't transferred to breakthroughs and opportunities like you were certain that they would.

One way or another, the math is just not adding up and being in that zone is incredibly frustrating. I've been there plenty of times in my own practice.

The amount of creatives I've seen who have these extreme levels of talent, but diminishing or lackluster results that end up making them want to just pack it all up and just forget about it is outrageous and it drives me crazy and it genuinely keeps me up at night.

I think it about how can we get this equation to just be a little bit more satisfying and sadly I would say with creative people I think that is much more than norm than the exception.

But I do not think that it has to be the case in this episode. I want to share a model for organizing your practice no matter how jumbled and backwards it may feel so that you can start to get this math to add up and start to compound with the momentum that we're all after in our practice.

You know, we live in this era, I believe, where we don't have to create art in a kind of factory assemblage way for only the mass market where you have to sell to millions and billions of people to be financially viable or to be viable as a creative practice or to be satisfied in the connections that you're making.

I think if you organize your practice properly that you can have a thriving practice without being famous as a creator, I don't think that as a prerequisite to live a life making the kind of creative you want to make.

So if that sounds like if you want to get the math to make more sense to be more realistic but ultimately be more satisfying this is the episode for you we're going to get to that just after a quick word from the sponsors.

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Before we jump into chapter one, I just want to give a little overview we're currently doing a creative summer school series this is the last episode.

Episode five we have three classes on Skillshare they all expound on the three biggest ideas of this podcast to date class one is about how to use strategic personal projects to get the opportunities you want to break into the market or industry that you're trying to break into class two is more of on the creative side of the spectrum where it's really about finding your own style as an artist and and.

You know that class has just been outrageously successful and it's been incredible to see the results and the enthusiasm around it very proud of all of these classes class three is about how to turn your you know your personal project and your as you work through your style into an actual practice into a how to be a career creative using the internet and social media.

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