511 - A Message for Sensitive Creatives Who Are Struggling Right Now

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 34 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. --- Listen to this if you are feeling overwhelmed, struggling to focus and unable to find the fuel you need to show up. There’s a cliche that says artists are depressive types, and although this isn’t completely unfounded, this disposition creates a powerful opportunity that you may be missing! SHOW NOTES: Andre 3000 on Broken Recordhttps://youtu.be/LjHcHTJ8D5k?si=KLoYwQMotdWJxHQj Past Liveshttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt13238346/ 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	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 pep talk.
0:20.6	All right, y'all, I want to check in with all of you for a minute with this episode,
0:28.3	because let's face it, it's, uh, there's a lot of scary stuff going on.
0:34.7	There's a lot of violence.
0:36.9	There is a lot of, uh There is a lot of current events and
0:40.9	it's a tough time to be a human on an emotional mental health level and more. And that's not even taking into account the fact that you're a creative person.
1:00.0	It's well known that creative people can tend to the melancholic and the depressive.
1:09.7	And it can be tough to be a creative person and not be depressive. And it can be tough to be a creative person
1:12.6	and not be depressive on the good days
1:16.9	when the things are great
1:18.2	and everything's trending positively.
1:20.5	But when the news is as scary as it's been
1:23.6	and the world's systems are being threatened
1:26.9	the way that they are. It can become incredibly
1:30.4	difficult not to just, not to even make stuff, but to get out of bed sometimes. And I feel it.
1:37.9	I can get, there can be new cycles where my ability to empathize and also create futures bad and good
1:52.2	and anxious and terrible and positive and negative, just the ability to imagine can become
1:59.4	twisted back on yourself and can put you in such a vulnerable
2:04.4	state that it's hard to not create, hard to just get on with anything, like taking care of yourself,
2:12.9	taking care of your kids, getting out of bed doing stuff. it can be tricky at the best of the times,
2:20.1	let alone times that are in flux and, uh, and this tricky as they have been. And so I want to do
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