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Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 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 --- Like sleep, creativity is something you can’t force. It’s a brain state that you have to slip into. But that doesn’t mean you can’t create the perfect conditions for this state to be more likely to occur. If you have been blocked or in a rut, this episode will give you 5 ways to cultivate your higher creative states and unlock your next favorite piece of work. SHOW NOTES: Master and His Emissary by Ian McGilchristhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameronhttps://juliacameronlive.com/book/the-artists-way-a-spiritual-path-to-higher-creativity/ Cultivating Life Force by Phil Stutzhttps://www.thetoolsbook.com/blog/practices-to-build-your-life-force Christoph Niemann - Good Not Great Talkhttps://vimeo.com/130898948 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 sometimes you just need
0:12.7	a creative peps talk so this episode is about creative block.
0:23.1	You might not feel like you're blocked creatively because you're actively making stuff.
0:28.4	Maybe you've made a bunch of stuff in the past week or month or year.
0:32.9	But have you been creative?
0:36.1	Have you really gotten into that state? There are lots of times in my
0:41.5	creative journey where I get afraid that my best creative work is all in the past, that I haven't
0:47.0	been able to tap into my creative potential or that creative brain state that really gets my best
0:53.2	work cooking.
0:57.7	And yet, every other year or so, I am able to surprise myself with something
1:00.5	that feels better than anything I've ever made.
1:03.0	I'm currently working on a book with my wife, Sophie, right now,
1:07.1	that feels like it might be the best thing we've ever made.
1:09.7	And that feeling is just so,
1:11.2	so good. And so if you are struggling to get into your highest creative state recently, you're
1:18.6	feeling a bit blocked in that area. This episode is going to give you five different things,
1:23.8	five different tools that are going to help you create the conditions to access that flow,
1:29.7	that creativity, that stuff that is just the juiciest, mediast creativity that we all love
1:36.1	and want to fill our creative work up with.
1:41.0	And if you stick until the end, I'm going to review all five, and you're going to try to feel out which one you need to employ today to make the difference.
1:50.5	So let's get into it.
2:04.0	This episode is sponsored by Squarespace.
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