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.

Pete's most creators that I know when myself included most of the time don't have a sense of what we want our creative practice to look like.

And we don't know what we want, what we're after, but maybe you are different. Maybe you have figured out you have an idea of at least for now what you're trying to go after.

But the only problem is you don't actually have any idea how to get there. The thing you're after, well the competition is probably extremely fierce.

Thousands, if not more than thousands, might be after the exact same thing. And not to mention that the walls of this market are sky high and they're protected by gatekeepers and established practitioners of that craft that are interested in throwing you out.

And keep it in throwing you off the trail, keeping you out and keeping their creative arena free of competition and keeping their place at the top of that creative food chain.

So whether it's Spotify playlist that you're trying to get into or the publishing world or Hollywood, maybe even how on the world can you break through this impenetrable fortress?

And if you get them to give you a chance, you don't. You just give up. Now you give yourself a chance or as many chances as it takes.

In this episode, we're going to talk about how to do just that. But before we do, just a quick word from our beautiful, lovely sponsors.

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This is episode two of our creative pathfinder series, a three part series about how to find what to make today to unlock the kind of opportunities that you will be perfect for tomorrow.

So essentially, what personal work can you make right now before anybody asks you to that will help you get the professional work that you're after later?

This series is designed to help you find your creative path, aka help you make some of the most difficult choices that face a creator like what should I make, what path should I take next, and how do I actually get there?

This series is a new adaptation of our creative career path framework. You can get a free copy of the creative career path e handbook by signing up to our newsletter at creativepeptalk.com slash path p a t h not path path just creativepeptalk.com slash path.

Same, that's how you spell path in case I'm saying it weird. The three episodes in this series are like the three acts and a story last episode, the first in the series act one was the creative call to adventure aka defining what you want.

This is the goal setting section of this process act two that's this episode, the creative journey also known as living your creative montage by building your personal project.

This is where you do the work is where you're rocky training, but instead of punching the punching bag your punch in the raccom tablet or punching those keyboard keys, whatever it is, you're making the project that helps you move towards what you're after.

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