521 - How to Quit Worrying About Other’s Opinions & Finally Create What You Want

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 42 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 --- Are you so worried about other people’s opinions you don’t make or share anything? Need a tool for finding the thing you’re so passionate about that you’ll finally have the courage to put yourself out there? If so, this episode is for you! We all wish we could quit caring so much about what other’s think, but what if it’s a hopeless cause? In this episode we examine how caring about others might actually unlock the boldness we need to finally put our deepest selves into our work and rise above our imagined critics! SHOW NOTES: Angus Fletcher - Primal Intelligencehttps://www.angusfletcher.co 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	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 PEPToc.
0:20.0	At some point in your creative journey, you're going to get to a block where you can't go any further and you're going to realize the thing that is in my way is me.
0:32.6	And the reason why I'm blocking myself and blocking my path is because I don't want to put myself out
0:40.8	there because I am afraid of what other people might think. I am afraid of what other people
0:48.0	might say about this piece of work or this story or this thought that I have, or this style that I want to do,
0:56.1	whatever it is,
0:57.2	there comes a point in almost every creative person's journey
1:00.3	that has any bit of social sanity
1:03.4	where they are afraid to step any further.
1:08.4	How do you put yourself out there when you have that fear?
1:14.2	I can tell you something on that because I've made over 500 episodes of this show
1:20.0	through fear and trembling.
1:23.2	I am not above worrying about other people's stuff,
1:28.1	but I have managed to find little parts of myself
1:31.8	that have the bravery to put this stuff out
1:35.2	in books and podcasts and in talks and in an illustration.
1:41.0	So this episode is for you.
1:43.2	If you need that, if you're looking for, how do I find that little bit of courage, that little bit of bravery that allows myself to break free from the pack?
1:52.0	If you're looking for that, this is the episode for you. Stick to the end. I'm going to come back with a call to adventure called dumb pride. And it's going to give you an exercise that will help
2:02.7	you sift through your experiences and find those things that you feel supercharged enough,
2:11.3	brave enough about to build momentum to break out from the pack. So stick around for that. Let's get into exactly why we get held
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