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

sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.

Hey, you're listening to Creative P Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your

creative journey. I'm Annie Jay Pizza. I'm a New York Times best-selling

author and illustrator and I will be your guide on this creative

expedition. Let's go.

What do you do when it's just not working anymore. That phrase even as I said it, I felt it man because

goodness gracious things and times they are a change in as old Bob Dylan would say.

They are changing and whether it's things aren't working inside you, like you're not as inspired as you used to be,

the way that you approach to work just isn't working anymore, you're blocked creatively, you're no longer interested in the things that

used to interest you and make you excited, or maybe you just find that you're still

into it, but the world isn't, and the algorithms changed, and the

apps have changed, and the behaviors change, and the cultural norms and feelings have shifted,

what do you do when you find yourself in that space where what used to work

doesn't work anymore? Today on the show we're going to talk about when things go cold how do you start to heat

it up again and if you stay all the way to the end I'm going to tell you about a

practice called feel the burn is going to help you do things in your everyday life to get out of that dead end, to course correct and open up a few extra pathways leading into a better place in the future.

Let's get into it.

So what do you do when things go ice cold? There's really nothing scarier in

your creative practice like I when things go extremely cold I would you know pray for a

dumpster fire to to put out cold is just the worst, whether it's your inspiration, your creativity is cold,

your inbox goes cold, your social media goes cold, you know you were getting hundreds of likes now it's 10 likes you were in a

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