387 - How to Find a Secret Door into the Creative Field You’ve Always Longed to Work Within

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Every creative field worth entering seems heavily guarded by industry gatekeepers and established artists with the goal of keeping you out. How do you find a way in when everything seems designed to keep you out? In this episode I share all the ideas that have helped me break into the many sectors I’ve worked in throughout the past 15 years. If you’re stuck and can’t find a way into the world where you want to work within, this episode may help! Creative Pathfinder Series Episode 3 of 3

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0:00.0	On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift up.
0:11.0	Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.
0:15.0	Hey, you're listening to the creative pep talk podcast.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Adi J. Pizza.
0:27.0	What if the problem isn't that you don't know what you want?
0:32.0	Maybe you know what you want.
0:33.0	Maybe it's not that you don't have great work.
0:35.0	Maybe you have a whole portfolio of fantastic work.
0:38.0	What if the problem is all of that just hasn't helped that much to this point?
0:46.0	Maybe you're sick of waiting around for those perfect opportunities to come your way.
0:51.0	So one day you get all hopped up on caffeine and you wake up at 4 a.m.
0:55.0	and you just start cold emailing.
0:58.0	Hello to whom it may concern.
1:01.0	My name is, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you send hundreds of emails.
1:04.0	You run out of email juice and the formal hello to whom it may concerns and all that kind of stuff.
1:10.0	And you just start direct messaging.
1:12.0	You're just DM and DM and M and M and M and M and M and M like,
1:17.0	My name is what? My name is what? My name is...
1:21.0	Andy J. Pizza, I make illustrations for a living or I'd actually like to one day.
1:27.0	That's where you come in and then next to the next DM and the next DM and then you lock your phone
1:33.0	and you just wait for the success to roll in but...
1:37.0	It doesn't.
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