550 - Get Back to Your Creative Path with These 3 Counterintuitive Things

Creative Pep Talk

Arts, Education, Business, Design

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Listen to this if: 1 - You feel creatively off or can’t find your creative thread at the moment 2 - You’re in a season where you’re not making as much as you want to be 3 - You feel in a low place creatively and need to remember why you care about creating 4 - You feel ill from so much doomscrolling and consuming short form video! SHOW NOTES: Cal Newport’s Podcasthttps://calnewport.com/podcasts/ Simon Critchley - On Mysticismhttps://www.nyrb.com/products/mysticism Angus Fletcher - Wonderworkshttps://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wonderworks/Angus-Fletcher/9781982135980 Lizzy McAlpine - Drunk, Runninghttps://youtu.be/Xa8iMI0yRVY?si=De3Uia0x0VkHL-mM Wolf Childrenhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140203/ Wolf Children Soundtrackhttps://open.spotify.com/album/3vZyva1XWxRbf0wq4MsU8q Piranesi by Susanna Clarkehttps://www.bloomsbury.com/us/piranesi-9781635575637/ 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 SPONSORS:SQUARESPACEHead to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you look back, can you remember a time where you felt really connected to the pulse of your creative path?
0:11.4	Like you felt grounded in it.
0:13.2	You felt like you could.
0:15.0	You were on the way to where you wanted to go.
0:20.3	For me, I've been doing this for 20 years. I've been on this
0:24.0	creative path and throughout that journey, there have been times where I felt squarely on the path
0:29.5	and it feels really good and I feel like I'm getting somewhere and I can feel like this is
0:33.5	where I need to be. And then there are times where I get really, really lost.
0:39.0	As a creative person, I always wanted to be someone that was continually finding my way
0:43.9	back to my voice and my thread and what I wanted to be doing and not to just have like a few
0:50.2	good moments and kind of lucky hits at the start and then be like a one hit wonder and then
0:57.2	kind of fizzle out. I always wanted to refine myself and find new threads and and just feel that
1:03.2	sense of like, oh, I'm doing, I'm like digging into the real work. And I feel like over this 20 year
1:10.3	period, I've been really lucky to start my
1:13.1	career by trying to break in and getting some great clients like Nickelodeon and then
1:17.8	moving into this podcast and getting some really great guests and speaking gigs at places
1:24.0	like Sesame Street and then move into making picture books. And all along that
1:29.4	journey, there were times where there were those highs of breaking through. Then there were
1:33.2	those times where I felt really lost and I nearly lost my way. And this episode is going to be three
1:38.8	things that will help you find that pulse again today. And we're going to start with talking about why this has to do with
1:49.2	creative nutrition. And we're going to end with our CTA. It's called fill your creative
1:55.2	prescription. It's going to give you a way to act today to feel that pulse of your creative path again.
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