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Inspiring Stories & Actionable Strategies for Building a Thriving Creative Practice

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Inspiring Stories & Actionable Strategies for Building a Thriving Creative Practice

    455 - How to Work with Your Brain Instead of Against it with Jessica McCabe

    455 - How to Work with Your Brain Instead of Against it with Jessica McCabe

    This episode is for you if:

    You need a boost of encouragement from someone who has also felt the burden to conform to expectations of others

    You need examples and ideas on how to creatively adapt your lifestyle to be more conducive to your nature

    You want to learn about leaning into your strengths and tips on following curiosity and how to work with who you are and not against it!


    SHOW NOTES
    Jessica McCabe https://howtoadhd.com/
    How to ADHD Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710890/how-to-adhd-by-jessica-mccabe/
    How to ADHD YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/howtoadhd
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    • 57 min
    454 - Show & Tell

    454 - Show & Tell

    This episode is for you if you get in your head and struggle to share your story and your work with the world, if you worry that it’s just not relevant or interesting or maybe that it’s too weird… and just a heads up - we’ve been doing a series called Right Side Out - this is episode 6 and the last episode of the series - it really won’t make sense without working through the episodes - go back to episode 449 of this show to start back at episode one.

    Episode 1 of Right Side Out

    SHOW NOTES
    ----------------
    Sophie Miller
    sophiemiller.co
    https://www.sophiemiller.co/

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

    Angus Fletcher
    https://www.angusfletcher.co/
    Wonderworks
    https://swiftpress.com/book/wonderworks/

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

    CreativeMornings
    https://creativemornings.com/

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    • 53 min
    453 - Let Her Be

    453 - Let Her Be

    All the parts come together and I share the conversation with my mom.
    Part 5 of Right Side Out

    SHOW NOTES
    Lulu Miller
    https://www.instagram.com/lutimestwoo/?hl=en

    CreativeMornings
    https://creativemornings.com/

    SWISSMISS / Tina Roth Eisenberg
    https://www.instagram.com/swissmiss/?hl=en

    James Acaster
    https://www.jamesacaster.com/

    A Pizza with Everything On It
    https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/a-pizza-with-everything-on-it
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    • 57 min
    452 - Collect Yourself

    452 - Collect Yourself

    This episode is for you if:

    You want to get more personal or deep in your creative work but you don’t know practically where to start

    You struggle to take a personal interest in yourself and you feel like every one else is more interesting or worthy

    You are prone to low self and esteem and sometimes feel like why even bother making anything at all

    STICK TIL THE END of this episode I am going to share a prompt that unlocked the most significant creative breakthrough in finding my own creative voice


    SHOW NOTES
    EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!
    
    Stuff by Andrew Neyer:
    https://andrewneyer.com/
    Color Me Collaborative Exhibit:
    https://andrewneyer.com/projects/color-me

    Charles Schulz on 60 Minutes in 1997:
    https://youtu.be/kjTpdUs-pfw
    Creative Mornings:
    https://creativemornings.com/
    https://creativemornings.com/talks/aaron-james-draplin/1
    https://creativemornings.com/talks/kate-bingaman-burt/1
    https://creativemornings.com/talks/joseph-wu/1

    IFS:
    https://ifs-institute.com/
    BOOK 'No Bad Parts' by Dr Richard C. Schwartz
    https://ifs-institute.com/nobadparts

    'Muppet Guys Talking'
    Dave Goelz and Jerry Nelson
    https://muppetguystalking.com/

    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/

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    • 47 min
    451 - Write Your Inner Monologue

    451 - Write Your Inner Monologue

    THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF:

    You struggle to find where the literal voices of others and the metaphorical creative voices of your hero’s end and where you begin

    If limitations were put on you by others that you have a hard time shaking off

    You need help finding a starting place to build off of in terms of building your creative identity

    Stick til the end for an exercise to kickstart finding your creative voice


    SHOW NOTES
    Dr Ken Benau
    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ken-benau-kensington-ca/279286

    NPR - Social media posts warn people not to call 988. Here's what you need to know
    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/11/1116769071/social-media-posts-warn-people-not-to-call-988-heres-what-you-need-to-know

    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/
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    • 59 min
    450 - The Timeless You

    450 - The Timeless You

    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/
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    • 51 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
148 Ratings

148 Ratings

Six Inch Knuckles ,

Awesome Pod

Found this pod in during a low time creativity. I’ve been on and off with my project and your enthusiasm and the enthusiasm of your guests has been truly inspiring. You’ve reignited my creative flame and thank you for that. Keep it up, love from Aus 🦘

Craftschool ,

I love your podcast - such good stuff - the analogies are so helpful

Thanks Andy all your podcast. I got heaps of of The Six Step Process to Unlock Powerful..... And your latest one How to transform risky daydreams.
I am going to try some of the techniques you have suggested. I have heard so many things but nothing like you have spoken about. Cheers - Ruth

C.A. Rogers ,

Forever thankful

I have been listening to this show since 2018 and I cannot express how much it’s help my art and sort my I’ve active mind. So humble, true and extremely applicable and inspiring.

Thank you Andy J I feel like I’ve known you for years now, even though I have to carry you around in my podcast library like a little art fairy. Haha

You’ve helped me give permission to myself to create despite my fear of aging within the art industry and you’ve allowed me to push myself in ways they are only helpful and not cruel. I hope to cross paths one day to thank you and your team for all the blessings you’ve shared through this podcast!

Forever thankful.

Chloe

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