516 - How to Recognize Your Ideas, Juggling Different Roles and More with Cartoonist Grant Snider

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 60 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. --- I used to think I didn’t have ideas. I would hear other artists talk about how an idea presented to them and think “oh that never happens to me, I must not have ideas!” But over time, I’ve come to realize that ideas present in different ways to everyone. That’s what makes them unique. In this chat I talk with cartoonist Grant Snider. He has LOADS of great ideas and we get into how to recognize an idea when it comes up. We also talk managing his two roles, one being a cartoonist and the other being a part time orthodontist. This balance actually seems to suit him well and I think there’s a lot to take away from this conversation for all of us juggling lots of things! SHOW NOTES: Grant Sniderhttps://www.grantsnider.comhttps://incidentalcomics.substack.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	on the creative journey it's easy to get lost but don't worry you'll lift off sometimes you just need
0:12.7	a creative peps talk where do good ideas come from?
0:23.0	That's a question you hear a lot in creative circles, and I get it.
0:28.2	But I'm less kind of concerned about where they come from and more, how do you generate them on purpose?
0:35.7	If you're trying to do this, not just as a hobby,
0:38.0	but as a creative practice, you have to learn how to do this. How do you steadily cook up ideas
0:47.6	consistently rather than just wait and hope you figure out where they come from or hope that
0:53.6	they just show up in your lap.
0:55.5	Today on the show, I have Grant Snyder, who is an orthodontist a couple days a week.
1:02.4	Not only part of the reason I want to talk to him.
1:06.0	The main reason I want to talk to him is because he's an incredible comic artist with a bunch of great books tons of great comics online on his substack and Instagram and elsewhere he's super
1:16.7	prolific has so many great ideas really clever heartwarming interesting stuff I did want to talk
1:26.1	to him because he's also an orthodontist, and I think it's a really
1:31.2	interesting aspect of how his creative practice works, and I know that most of us have to do a lot
1:36.5	of different things to keep the lights on, whether that's full-time work, part-time work, or just
1:43.4	different aspects of our creative
1:44.6	practice. And so we talk a little bit about that. We also talk a lot about how to have ideas.
1:51.0	And I'm going to come back at the end with our creative call to adventure, something you could do
1:56.0	today with the ideas and inspiration from this show. so it doesn't just stay as inspiration.
2:02.1	It's called automatic filter,
2:04.4	and it's about having ideas on purpose automatically,
2:09.0	and I will come back with that.
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