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 Pep Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your creative journey.

I'm your host, Andy J. Pizza.

I'm a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and this show is everything

I'm learning about building and maintaining a thriving

creative practice.

How do you get off the trend mill as an artist? You know, the treadmill of forever chasing trends.

How do you transcend that and make something more timeless?

This episode is for you if you need some ideas on how to tap into a more timeless sense of

yourself.

If you can't figure out what's you and what's just you trying to be cool,

or you need help breaking free from your creative influences in a major way

by finding something truly unique about you that can help you build a more unique creative

sensibility. About halfway through, I will give you a creative thought experiment that

broke open my creative sensibility early on.

Then I'll have a chat with Sophie and talk about how that applies to her creative practice.

And if you stick to the end, I'll give you a hint of what we're going to dive into in the next episode

and a little taste of what's to come.

But for now, let's talk about whether or not

you're playing it too cool to make anything personally

meaningful or to make art at all. If your next season is looking busier than the last, take something off your plate by putting

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