515 - Want to Quit Social Media? 3 Essential Considerations for Any Creative Practice

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 23 July 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: andyjpizza.substack.com --- Social media has become a very difficult space for artists and lots of folks are looking for other places to share their work. Before we all bail, there are a few things to consider. This episode identifies 3 essential needs we have been attempting to satisfy with social media, so that we can be clear on what it is we’re leaving and how we may go about finding these things elsewhere if necessary. SHOW NOTES: Chief Audience Officerhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chief-audience-officer/id1534942246 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.
0:10.0	Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.
0:19.0	This is the question that I think so many of us are asking today.
0:27.2	Should I quit social media?
0:30.9	Can I quit?
0:31.9	Please.
0:32.8	I'm sick of it, man.
0:34.0	Social media has been, has become such a difficult space to engage in not just as a human
0:45.0	but as a creative person if you're trying to build a creative practice have a creative career
0:51.0	for a long while having social media felt like it was non-negotiable
0:56.6	you had to do it and I think yeah in some ways for a lot of us that was true and
1:02.2	nowadays I think it's a little bit more complicated than that and that's why we're
1:08.7	going to talk about you know some of us maybe should some
1:12.1	of some of us maybe shouldn't what have you but if you're thinking about doing it i think you need
1:18.1	to ask yourself these three questions before you quit social media and if you stick around
1:26.5	to the end i'm going to give you something you can do
1:29.2	that is going to be more effective for you know engaging getting your work out there more than just
1:38.8	doing whatever random trend is happening on social media right now it's called follow their leads and it's our creative
1:47.2	call to adventure for today. We'll get to that at the end. But for now, let's talk about those three
1:52.3	questions that I think you need to ask yourself if you're considering quitting social media.
2:10.0	This episode is sponsored by Squarespace.
2:11.8	I love Squarespace.
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