534 - New Fire for Sticking to the Path with Filmmaker Seth Worley

Creative Pep Talk

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 110 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 was one of my favorite chats!!! DEEP DIVE with my friend and Filmmaker Seth Worley! We get into: 1 - Finding the drive to stick to long creative quests, especially when you’re not sure you’re going to reach your goal! 2 - Why to make a proof of concept of your idea and put it out there! 3 - Why the path has to take a long time some times! 4 - A trick for finding your edge among your creative peers! SHOW NOTES: Seth Worleyhttps://sethworley.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	You know, I give the creative journey a lot of fanfare, a lot of celebrating the glory of the
0:08.0	creative journey, and yet you know as well as I do that it's not all great. There are lots of
0:16.3	times on your path where you feel like I don't think I can keep going, especially when you feel like
0:24.4	where the target that you have in mind, the destination you have in mind, you know you may
0:30.9	never reach it. And that can make it so difficult to keep going.
0:38.3	Today on the show, I have a friend of mine.
0:41.4	His name is Seth Warley.
0:43.4	He is a director.
0:44.7	He's a writer.
0:46.0	He knows his visual effects.
0:47.9	He's worked in that area.
0:49.8	And he's a filmmaker that made the movie sketch that came out this year.
0:55.4	And I've known Seth for probably 10 years at least.
1:00.9	And I've watched him from the start of this idea of a movie all the way to making it a reality.
1:08.4	And it being in theaters and starring Hollywood legends,
1:15.6	Tony Hale, Darcy Cardin, like these very beloved actors and get celebrated by all the critics.
1:24.1	It's got a 95% from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
1:27.9	He's got all these comparisons to Spielberg.
1:30.2	And it's just been the most amazing.
1:34.1	I feel so lucky to have been able to watch that journey unfold.
1:39.1	Because even before he had that idea 10 years ago or whatever it was, he had been working his way to be
1:46.4	a feature-length filmmaker his whole life. And it was, it's just been, I felt so privileged to
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