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.

Let's talk about how to write your inner monologue and how that's essential to

finding your creative voice. This episode is for you if you struggle to find

where the literal voices of others and the metaphorical creative

voices of your heroes end and where you begin.

Or if limitations were put on you by others that you have had a hard time shaking off or you need help

finding a starting place to build off of in terms of building your creative identity and

how you think of yourself as a creator.

Stick to the end and I'll share an exercise for finding words that can act as initial

building blocks for developing your own creative voice. But first, we got to talk about why

the first step to tuning into your creative voice might be tuning out of other critical voices from your past. Let's go. I really needed to re-haul my website. I was talking to some web people looking around

and I got intrigued by Squarespace's new fluid engine

partially because it just sounds cool,

but also, because it allows you to drag and resize and layer up anything you can imagine.

I dove in, rebuilt my site. It's the most me site that I've ever had.

I just absolutely love it. Launched it. Got such a great response.

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