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Creative Pep Talk

Arts, Education, Business, Design

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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SPONSORS EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path CALL TO ADVENTURE Review any of these 12 ideas/episodes that stood out to you from last year of Creative Pep Talk: 🌊 410 - How to Build The Foundation of a Creative Practice that Cultivates Superfans 🐾 385 - How to Reverse Engineer What Creative Goal to Focus On Next 🤖 377 - 3 Steps on Building The Essential Relationships in Your Creative Sphere 🌷 390 - How to Make Work that's More Creative and Less of a Grind 🍔 383 - 3 Steps for Creating the Work that Gets You The Work You're Perfect For 🥤 384 - 3 Sources of Creative Fuel for When You're Running on Empty with Hanif Abdurraqib 🚀 381 - Tried Everything but Nothing's Working? Studies Show This Creative Tactic is Often Overlooked 🐌 412 - A Process for Using Creative Influences to Find A Unique Path for Yourself ⏰ 396 - The 5 Flavors of Creativity & How Knowing Yours Can Reignite Your Spark 💀 413 - Step by Step How to Insert Yourself Into Your Work in a Powerful Way 🕹️ 415 - The Dream Unlocking Art of Mastering How to Give Up 🦅 417 - The 2 Essential Elements of a Game Changing Creative Collaboration with Sophie Miller SUPPORT THE SHOW You can support Creative Pep Talk and my creative practice on Patreon (patreon.com/creativepeptalk) or Substack (andyjpizza.substack.com). Either membership provides you access to our monthly Creative Pep Rally Zoom calls, tentatively planned for the last Monday of each month! You can also support the show by getting merch in our online shop: creativepeptalk.etsy.com SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! JAKPRINTS Special thanks to our wonderful Ohio based printer, Jak Prints (Jakprints.com) for their help with the 2024 Creative Pep Talk Calendar – be sure to check them out for your print needs! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On the creative journey it's easy to get lost but don't worry you'll lift off
0:10.0	sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.
0:17.0	Hey, you're listening to Creative P Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your
0:26.5	creative journey. I'm Annie Jay Pizza. I'm a New York Times best-selling
0:30.9	author and illustrator and I will be your guide on this
0:34.2	creative expedition. Let's go.
0:40.7	Some of the biggest most important projects that I've ever done or the pieces that I've ever made
0:51.6	were things that I almost forgot about. They were things that I started or
0:59.7	I had the idea of or I did a sketch of years before I turned them into anything. My recent book that I made
1:10.0	with my wife Sophie Miller, Invisible Things,
1:14.6	was the first book I ever had that hit the New York Times
1:17.1	best selling list.
1:18.6	And that's a project that I almost forgot about. I almost left behind and didn't come to fruition until years and
1:25.0	didn't come to fruition until years and years after we had initially come up with it.
1:31.0	And the thing about that is that it's pretty scary how easy it is to
1:37.8	forget about or move on from or drop really important projects and
1:46.2	important creative lessons and great ideas not because they're not worth
1:52.1	pursuing but because you just forget about them.
1:55.0	Maybe I'm especially forget about them.
1:58.0	I definitely am, but most creative people I know
2:01.0	probably fall into this camp to some degree.
2:05.2	So for the first episode we did this year, I announced a new series called Dream Uary, where instead of hitting the ground running, the second the ball drops
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