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Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 80 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 --- We cover a LOT in this episode. If you want some PEP but you’re not sure exactly what it is you need, we probably cover it in this episode! We explore: When the reality of creating isn’t what we thought it would be. How to find your flow when things got stale. Escaping the voices that tell you to hide. Finding that “magic thread” on your creative path again. Creative Habits! How to keep your taste fresh over a lifetime! SHOW NOTES: Jake Martin - Guest Host:https://www.instagram.com/stanky.art/https://stankyart.substack.com/ 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 AEROPRESSCheck out Aeropress and use my code PEPTALK for a great deal: https://aeropress.com 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.
0:10.9	Sometimes you just need a creative pepsa.
0:20.5	This is the kind of episode you throw on when you're in a creative funk, but you don't know exactly what you need.
0:28.9	It might be in here because we're going to cover a lot of stuff because this is a special edition of an Ask Doctor Pizza episode.
0:38.1	Ask Dr. Pizza episodes, we cover a few different topics.
0:41.0	Usually their questions sent in by an audience.
0:43.3	They are a listener favorite that people usually tend to enjoy these episodes.
0:49.1	This one's special because we have a listener live in the studio.
0:53.7	Here he is. Just kidding. He's not actually here. We talked in the studio. Here he is.
0:54.5	Just kidding.
0:55.1	He's not actually here.
0:56.3	We talked over the internet.
0:58.1	But Jake Martin volunteered.
1:01.2	He had some questions.
1:02.5	He wanted to ask me.
1:03.6	And it just sounded like a good fit.
1:05.5	So we set this up.
1:07.5	We chat through so many different things.
1:09.5	He was really,
1:12.3	really great at this.
1:21.0	He has some experience and we covered some grounds. We covered creative discipline, the oxymoron.
1:26.4	How do you find any consistency in your creative practice? When being creative is about doing new things. We talk about how to find
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