506 - The Career Defining Breakthrough I Found in Scary Slow Times

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter. ---When times are hectic and industries freeze, it can feel like creative progress is impossible. In times like these, rather than bang your head up against the same wall over and over again, you can see this external block as a sign that it’s time to shift your focus and ways of being. In this episode I share one of the most essential breakthroughs in my creative practice that happened during some of the slowest and scariest moments of my creative journey. SHOW NOTES: Lisa Miller PhD The Awakened Brainhttps://www.lisamillerphd.com Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com SPONSORS:SQUARESPACEHead to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do you
0:01.0	On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift off.
0:10.9	Sometimes you just need a creative pepsa.
0:20.0	What do you do with your creativity and your creative impulse when the world is stuck in a place that means that you cannot move forward?
0:31.5	That no matter what you do, what strategy you apply, you can't seem to get past the stage and the phase that you're in.
0:39.4	That's what we're going to talk about today.
0:41.6	And if you stick to the end, I'm going to come back with a call to adventure, the CTA that's
0:46.6	called Retrace Your Stage.
0:49.6	And it's what you can do when you can't move forward.
0:54.3	There is still something you can do that's super powerful.
0:57.5	That's super essential, even more essential than forward momentum.
1:02.4	And I will be back to talk about how to do that thing at the end.
1:05.5	So stick around for that.
1:06.8	But for now, let's talk about what happens when you really can't control your progress.
1:15.4	And do you just do nothing?
1:17.2	I don't think so.
1:18.0	I think that's one of the most important times in your creative journey.
1:22.7	In just a second, let's dive into that.
1:37.6	Thank you. just a second. Let's dive into that. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. I love Squarespace. I'm a long time user.
1:44.3	One of the things I love about Squarespace is I will use,
1:47.6	it's so easy to use that I will use it to create pitches.
1:51.0	If I'm pitching a book or I'm pitching something to a client,
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