Creative Pep Talk Andy J. Pizza

This episode is for you if:

You need some ideas on how to tap into a more timeless sense of yourself

You cant figure out what’s you and what’s you trying to be cool

Or you need help breaking free from your creative influences and find something that truly unique to you to build a more unique creative sensibility 

STAY TIL THE END and I will give you a creative thought exercise that broke open the development of my creative identity in a major way early on in my practice 


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SHOW NOTES
Yoni Wolf / WHY?
https://whywithaquestionmark.com/
AOKOHIO
https://yoniwolf.substack.com/

Sophie Miller
https://www.sophiemiller.co/

Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful
https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You want to find your style and voice and make authentic work

If you know to do so you have to put yourself into the work

But you don’t know how to do that or worse you don’t really know who you are!

This episode is the start of a new series all about that - and is especially relevant to neurodivergent ppl or those of us that constantly feel like we have had to hide ourselves or become smaller to get by in society

Stay until the end and I will share a creative prompt that didn’t just break open my creativity - it broke open whole layers of my self and my life


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SHOW NOTES
Lulu Miller
https://www.instagram.com/lutimestwoo
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Trucky-Roads/Lulu-Miller/9781665919173

Yoni Wolf / WHY?
https://whywithaquestionmark.com/
AOKOHIO
https://yoniwolf.substack.com/

On Air Fest
https://www.onairfest.com/

Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful
https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/

Charley Locke
https://charleylocke.com/

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You feel super inconsistent in your creative practice

You’re work isn’t going anywhere because it happens in fits and starts

You’re relationship to your work is like a on again off again thing and you’re ready to make at least a short term commitment

STICK UNTIL THE END: I will give you are the 4 essentials to a thriving creative practice and a journal prompt to figure out which you’re missing - or which you need to add


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Book Mentions:
"A Sunday with Everything on It" by Andy J. Pizza and Kyle Scheele
"Emotional Agility" by Susan David
"Deep Work" by Cal Newport
"Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport
"Invisible Ink" by Brian McDonald

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

You feel like you’re being left behind

ALL THE TECH advancements and shifts in the past couple years has you scrambling

OR you just feel like you’re not locked into making progress in a meaningful direction that your whole heart and soul can embrace

IF YOU STAY UNTIL THE END - I will come back with a CALL TO ADVENTURE called THE HEADS UP 7 SECONDS exercise that you can use TODAY to make your creative session more aligned with where you are in the moment right now and make that effort count


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SHOW NOTES
Josh Linkner - https://joshlinkner.com/
Josh's podcast Mic Drop

This episode is for you if:

No longer having fun making stuff

Your passion and enjoyment have been replaced by anxiety and pressure

You always find yourself trying to outdo the last thing you made and end up overthinking

Or you worry if you don’t stay afraid you’re going to end up washed up

Stay til the end for a practice for finding fun, focus and clarity again called “Rename the Game”


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SHOW NOTES
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Weeknd
Dr Rex Jung Ted Talk

This episode is for you if you:

Feel your work lacks depth

Don’t know what to make

Or you have lots of ideas and don’t know which to choose next 

If you stick until the end of the episode I’m going to give you a tool called CREATIVE KINDLING that you can use to help you decide what to focus on and keep you fueled throughout a project, even when you feel you’re running on fumes


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SHOW NOTES
Rian Johnson on Creative Processing
J Gonzo
El Mano Del Destino
Zone of Interest