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.

This episode is for you if you want to get more personal or deep in your creative work,

but you don't know practically where to start.

Or you struggle to take a personal interest in yourself, you feel like everyone else is more interesting and worthy

or you're prone to low self-esteem at times and sometimes you feel like why even bother making anything at all.

If you stick to the end of this episode, I'm going to give you a prompt

that unlocked the most significant creative breakthrough

in finding my creative voice and led to significant

personal breakthrough. But first we need to talk about what was in the way of

doing this work and how to not get around it but embrace it.

Quick disclaimer here in this episode we briefly touch on topics like drugs, drinking,

and the abuse of prescription medications.

So it's perhaps not an episode to listen to with children.

I talk about all of this stuff in a light way, but obviously I don't support making light of medication

abuse. Also by the end we touch on some ideas related to therapy and again as

I've said in previous episodes of this series, if you suspect that you have trauma that you need to work through,

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