558 - Start, Do, Finish: Get Around What's Blocking You from Doing Stuff

Creative Pep Talk

Arts, Education, Business, Design

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🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Most creative people don’t need help being creative. You have the ideas. Where you trip up is the executive dysfunction. It’s getting yourself to start, middle, and finish the thing strong. In this episode I want to share with you the number 1 things that’s helped me, a creative with MEGA ADHD, transform ideas into 10+ books, projects that lead to work with X-Box, Apple and Nickelodeon and more. Stick around until the end for our “Creative Call to Adventure” it’s called “Out Block” and it will help you turn your current creative block into a starting block today! SHOW NOTES: ICON 13 ILLUSTRATION CONFERENCE $100 OFF:www.eventbrite.com/e/1808652431109/?discount=ICON13FriendofBoard 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_BzDZjQgqSpoaLXdVACg&pi=h4HsIKG0SP6Kg SPONSORS:SQUARESPACEHead to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK RULARula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/peptalk #rulapod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is not an ad. It's a gift. I'm going to be at the Icon illustration conference this year in July doing a handful of different things.
0:07.0	And I asked them if they could give me a discount for the listeners of the show because I would love to see you there and hang out at the after parties and whatnot.
0:14.2	And they let me have a $100 discount to share with you, which is just so generous and so awesome.
0:21.3	If you're an illustrator, I highly recommend going to ICON.
0:23.9	It's been a magical experience, the times that I've gone, even the first time in 2014
0:28.1	that I went.
0:28.8	It was a very scary leap, but so worth it.
0:31.1	Go to icon.
0:32.9	com to learn more.
0:35.5	The discount is automatically applied to that link. icon.com. Hope to learn more. The discount is automatically applied to that link.
0:38.1	Icon.com.
0:39.3	Icon.com.
0:41.0	Hope to see you there.
0:43.3	Are you stuck doing nothing?
0:46.0	Overtinking.
0:46.7	Analysis, paralysis, imposter syndrome.
0:49.6	Can't pick a project.
0:50.9	Can't get through the constraints that you're facing.
0:53.1	You don't have enough time.
0:54.0	You don't have enough resources.
0:56.0	All of these things are against you doing stuff, taking action.
1:00.6	Are you making the work that you want to be making?
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