I remember you know meeting kids that were like the same energy level as me and being like

dude this person's awesome and then finding out they're like I got to go to the

office to get my meds and I'm like what are you talking about are you sick right no I'm just hyper I was like huh I thought

that was just being awesome.

Welcome back to working I'm your host June Thomas and I'm your other host Ronald Young Jr

Ronald it's a bittersweet day today because this is our last regular episode of working, but we get to hear one more instructive interview.

Tell me whose voice did we hear at the top of the show?

I am so excited that we got this guest for our last instructive

interview and that voice was Andy J Pizza. He is a New York Times best-selling

author and illustrator

and obviously has the greatest name we've ever heard.

Indeed.

And he has a podcast called Creative Pep Talks.

We met recently at an audio conference and we hit it off

and we've built a kinship over the past few months.

That is awesome and why did you want to speak to Andy for the podcast?

So Andy is very public with his ADHD diagnosis and because he's a booked and busy person who is also

married with children I wanted to have a conversation with him about how he gets

everything done I felt like it might be useful to hear from someone who has their own unique struggles with a typical job or a standard work day.

Yeah, well, I am really excited to hear this interview, but tell me, do you have anything special exclusively for Slate Plus

members?

Yes, I do. I talk to Andy a bit about what gets him recharged and what he consumes

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