520 - Does Creating Feel Hollow Right Now? How to Unlock New Fire

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 37 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: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- This episode is for you if: - The chaos of the world is making creative work feel meaningless- Need to remember why making creative work is your passion- You need a dose of art that makes you remember what life is about SHOW NOTES:Producer / Editor: 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	I don't know
0:01.0	on the creative journey
0:04.0	it's easy to get lost
0:07.0	but don't worry
0:08.0	you'll lift off
0:10.0	sometimes you just need
0:12.0	a creative PEPTA
0:15.0	I don't know if it's just me, but in this moment in time, it hasn't been easy to find my creative spark.
0:35.5	Making picture books, drawing pictures, telling stories, making art.
0:41.2	It can feel a little bit hollow in contrast to the very real problems and crises and madness and chaos that are happening outside of this door and throughout the world.
0:59.7	That there are times when things get really tough that making art can feel like such a luxury.
1:07.8	It can feel like the first thing that needs to be cut from your life, right? And when you feel
1:15.1	that impulse, like, what am I even doing? Why am I wasting my time with this? It's hard to keep at it.
1:20.8	It's hard to silence that voice long enough to get through making anything. Now, I have never been through times like we're experiencing
1:30.4	at this moment, but I have been doing freelance illustration work since 2008, and the world has
1:40.0	gone through all kinds of things in that time. The recession, a pandemic, a lot of personal ups and downs.
1:47.9	And I can say for sure that the time
1:52.1	that that art making was most vital
1:57.0	were the times when things were tough.
2:00.0	When I figured out how to tap into that spark in the midst
2:04.3	of the chaos, that those were, where the biggest opportunities were, also just where art ended up
2:12.4	meaning the most to me and some of the work that I made there meant the most to others as well. And so my
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