525 - The Prerequisite to Connecting with Potential Fans

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 45 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 --- Do you feel like the stuff you’re putting out is white noise in an already noisy world? In this episode we explore what you need to cut through and connect with the hearts of your potential fans. SHOW NOTESStudy: “Seeing your life story as a Hero's Journey increases meaning in life”https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36972106/ The Awakened Brainhttps://www.lisamillerphd.com Primal Intelligencehttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740110/primal-intelligence-by-angus-fletcher/ Producer / Editor: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do you
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 pep talk
0:19.0	What do you do if your work is white noise?
0:26.4	It just is background.
0:29.0	It's not enough to stop the scroll.
0:33.8	Not the scroll, but the scroll.
0:36.0	Like when you're scrolling, you you can't nobody stops to take any
0:39.9	notice what do you do when you just can't seem to connect with an audience I understand
0:48.5	this problem on a deep level because back in 2011 when I was doing my first daily project,
0:57.0	it was a daily drawing project. There were lots of days where I hit this incredible
1:03.0	milestone that you might never have experienced, which was many posts that got zero likes.
1:11.6	Zero likes.
1:13.6	It was back on Tumblr where that happened.
1:15.6	I don't even know if meta will let you experience that death
1:19.6	the way that I did, but I'm doing this year-long project.
1:24.6	Lots of posts were getting zero likes.
1:25.6	It was discouraging in some ways,
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