541 - Are You Afraid of The Art? How to Get Past the Fear and Have Fun Again

Creative Pep Talk

Arts, Education, Business, Design

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word! --- This episode is for you if: 1 - The idea of making something often feels scary. 2 - You don’t like your work anymore. 3 - You forgot why this used to be fun. 4 - You want to stand out in your field but don’t know how. 5 - You want an exercise that unlocks the flowy fun feeling part of your creative brain. SHOW NOTES: Stranger Thingshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things Angus Fletcher - Wonderworks / 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.comSpotify Playlist of WHY? Songs Used on This Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZIE7PHG5I1Ddg1BuVGRzj?si=4x_BzDZjQgqSpoaLXdVACgπ=h4HsIKG0SP6Kg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you afraid of making art?
0:04.0	Are you, and maybe you don't even realize it, but do you have anxiety around it?
0:08.0	Do you get analysis, paralysis, imposter syndrome?
0:11.0	You sit down, the prospect of sitting down and making something spikes your stress on your watch.
0:16.0	Like, do you have all of this fear around your art?
0:20.0	And is it stopping you from showing up authentically,
0:23.9	showing up in an excited, fun way where you can participate?
0:27.5	If that's you, this episode is for you.
0:30.5	I want you to feel like, I'm not afraid anymore.
0:33.1	I said I'm not afraid anymore.
0:36.1	I am excited about making stuff.
0:39.2	That's what this episode is hopefully going to give you,
0:43.7	is a new lens where you're feeling like you did before about making stuff.
0:49.2	For me, this lens changed everything where now,
0:53.8	when I'm looking at the prints of my latest book
0:57.5	that I hand-painted, I'm excited about the mistakes.
1:02.4	I'm excited about the way that the paint looks messy in different places.
1:06.6	I'm excited about the ways that it's not perfect.
1:14.9	And so that's what I'm hoping to pass on to you and to me and to embrace in a deeper way. If you're into that, this episode is for you. Here's
1:20.5	the plan. We're going to talk about the lens that will help you do that. We're going to talk about
1:24.6	why it's so important. And then we're going to go to the
1:27.5	call to adventure, something you can do with these ideas today. It's called Right Side Up. And it is a
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