

Creative Pep Talk
Andy J. Pizza
A Weekly Podcast Companion for Your Creative JourneyTransform your creative potential into reality by making your creativity a practice. A “creative discipline” can feel like an oxymoron. Creativity is about doing something new. Discipline is about doing something consistently. The aim of this podcast is to help you strike that elusive balance. Each week, New York Times Bestselling Author Illustrator Andy J. Pizza shares everything he’s learning about building a thriving creative practice. Through solo episodes and interviews with top-tier creatives, Pizza brings you the strategies and stories that you need week in and week out to keep your inner critic at bay, bust through creative blocks and stay creatively pepped to the max!!Learn more: creativepeptalk.comCheck out the host: andyjpizza.com
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Mar 29, 2023 • 58min
403 - How to Access Creative Flow Through a Grounded Spiritual Approach with Eric Zimmer
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comEric Zimmer’s The One You Feed PodcastThe One You Feed Podcast - How to Improve Your Life with Atomic Habits with James Clear (Part 1)The One You Feed Podcast - How to Improve Your Life with Atomic Habits with James Clear (Part 2)Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Book by Betty EdwardsEither/Or: A Fragment of Life - Book by Søren KierkegaardCALL TO ADVENTURETake an upside down perspective.How can you approach your practice or project from different angles of intention?SPONSORSSTORYBLOCKSVideo is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimited Downloads, and 1M+ Royalty Free Assets - you can level up your content at storyblocks.com/CreativePepTalkADOBE FRESCOAdobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists, illustrators, animators, sketchers, and anyone who wants to discover, or rediscover, the joy of drawing and painting. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Windows. https://adobefresco.app.link/CPT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 22, 2023 • 39min
402 - Why Crafting Perfect Creative Work is Backfiring and How to Break Free
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comGrease (Movie)Indigo De Souza’s Website (Musician)Nancy Duarte Ted Talk - The Secret Structure of Great TalksCALL TO ADVENTUREWhat would you do if social currency or coolness didn’t exist?What would you do? What would you make?SPONSORSSTORYBLOCKSVideo is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimited Downloads, and 1M+ Royalty Free Assets - you can level up your content at storyblocks.com/CreativePepTalkOUR PATREON BACKERSThank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mar 1, 2023 • 57min
401 - The Creative Journey Survival Guide: The 3 Must Have Essentials
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comCALL TO ADVENTUREIdentify your three P’s.
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SPONSORSCANVASThe Canvas lamp makes it easy to get the right lighting every time for the videos you make with your phone. Enjoy this super stable and well made product while supporting a small, family owned business in Birmingham, Alabama. Go check out this lamp at shopcanvas.co/peptalkOUR PATREON BACKERSThank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 22, 2023 • 1h 24min
400 - How to Find a Creative Battle Cry that Will Ground and Guide Your Next Season
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comSophie Miller’s WebsiteSophie Miller’s InstagramCALL TO ADVENTUREDefine your creative battle cry!What is a want that is getting in the way of a need? Find your anti-goal of your creative practice.SPONSORSCANVASThe Canvas lamp makes it easy to get the right lighting every time for the videos you make with your phone. Enjoy this super stable and well made product while supporting a small, family owned business in Birmingham, Alabama. Go check out this lamp at shopcanvas.co/peptalkJAKPRINTSThanks to our wonderful Ohio based print partner Jakprints.com Jakprints has always been a different kind of company: Independent printers focused on giving designers, musicians, artists and everyday businesses access to the print quality (and customer service) that the biggest brands take for granted. Twenty-some years later, 100,000 clients can attest to our success -- and we have the five-star reviews to prove it.OUR PATREON BACKERSThank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Feb 15, 2023 • 53min
399 - How to Unearth the Hidden Depth Already Present in Your Creative Work
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comThe Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers - Book by Christopher VoglerMan and His Symbols - Book by Carl G. JungTerrestrials - Podcast from Radiolab for Kids, hosted by Lulu MillerCALL TO ADVENTUREBULK UP.Add layers and levels to your practice. Can you make something an acquired taste and acquire a new guilty pleasure?SPONSORSCANVASThe Canvas lamp makes it easy to get the right lighting every time for the videos you make with your phone. Enjoy this super stable and well made product while supporting a small, family owned business in Birmingham, Alabama. Go check out this lamp at shopcanvas.co/peptalkJAKPRINTSThanks to our wonderful Ohio based print partner Jakprints.com Jakprints has always been a different kind of company: Independent printers focused on giving designers, musicians, artists and everyday businesses access to the print quality (and customer service) that the biggest brands take for granted. Twenty-some years later, 100,000 clients can attest to our success -- and we have the five-star reviews to prove it.OUR PATREON BACKERSThank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 8, 2023 • 1h 18min
398 - How Your Inner Critic Can Surprisingly Help You Overcome Creative Block
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comAmerican Masters: Creative Spark - Podcast by PBSTHE GAP by Ira GlassEpisode 291 - Tapping Into Your Creative Compass with Lulu MillerTerrestrials - Podcast from Radiolab for Kids, hosted by Lulu MillerCALL TO ADVENTUREGet high on your own supply. Bring taste testing into your process; reference, be influenced by, and become a consumer of your own work sometimes.SPONSORSAMERICAN MASTERS: CREATIVE SPARKThe new season of the Webby Award winning podcast from PBS American Masters: Creative Spark is OUT NOW! From First Cow director Kelly Reichardt and up-and-coming actor John David Washington to Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, host Joe Skinner taps into the minds of artists and icons across disciplines. Follow American Masters: Creative Spark on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts.JAKPRINTSThanks to our wonderful Ohio based print partner Jakprints.com Jakprints has always been a different kind of company: Independent printers focused on giving designers, musicians, artists and everyday businesses access to the print quality (and customer service) that the biggest brands take for granted. Twenty-some years later, 100,000 clients can attest to our success -- and we have the five-star reviews to prove it.OUR PATREON BACKERSThank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Feb 1, 2023 • 55min
397 - How to Find Your Creative Sensibility and Unlock Your Creative Magic
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comSupport the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk! Thank you patrons!American Masters: Creative Spark - Podcast by PBSMichael Perry’s Book on Hand-LetteringCALL TO ADVENTURECreative Magnetic Resonance.Find your creative sensibility using your personal taste.SPONSORSAMERICAN MASTERS: CREATIVE SPARKThe new season of the Webby Award winning podcast from PBS American Masters: Creative Spark is OUT NOW! From First Cow director Kelly Reichardt and up-and-coming actor John David Washington to Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, host Joe Skinner taps into the minds of artists and icons across disciplines. Follow American Masters: Creative Spark on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts.JAKPRINTSThanks to our wonderful Ohio based print partner Jakprints.com Jakprints has always been a different kind of company: Independent printers focused on giving designers, musicians, artists and everyday businesses access to the print quality (and customer service) that the biggest brands take for granted. Twenty-some years later, 100,000 clients can attest to our success -- and we have the five-star reviews to prove it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 25, 2023 • 53min
396 - The 5 Flavors of Creativity & How Knowing Yours Can Reignite Your Spark
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comAmerican Masters: Creative Spark - Podcast by PBSWhy Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life - Book by Lulu MillerCALL TO ADVENTUREIdentify your super taste.Go through these five categories, sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami – what lights you up on a visceral level?SPONSORSJAKPRINTSThanks to our wonderful Ohio based print partner Jakprints.com Jakprints has always been a different kind of company: Independent printers focused on giving designers, musicians, artists and everyday businesses access to the print quality (and customer service) that the biggest brands take for granted. Twenty-some years later, 100,000 clients can attest to our success -- and we have the five-star reviews to prove it.AMERICAN MASTERS: CREATIVE SPARKThe new season of the Webby Award winning podcast from PBS American Masters: Creative Spark is OUT NOW! From First Cow director Kelly Reichardt and up-and-coming actor John David Washington to Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, host Joe Skinner taps into the minds of artists and icons across disciplines. Follow American Masters: Creative Spark on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 18, 2023 • 50min
395 - When You Feel Your Only Shot on Social Media is to Become Someone Else, Do This Instead
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comAmerican Masters: Creative Spark - Podcast from PBSMake Noise: A Creator’s Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling - Book by Eric NuzumOlivia Rafferty - Music on SpotifyPATREON ZOOM Meetup! February 17th, 2023 at 10:00AM (EST) Join us for Creative Pepperoni Pizza for Breakfast at: patreon.com/creativepeptalkCALL TO ADVENTUREForget the masses and find your true patrons.Start plugging yourself into that ecosystem.SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTSFONTSELFIf you’ve ever wanted to make your own font, Fontself makes it both fun & easy. With the Fontself app on iPad, you can start drawing and enjoying your own personal fonts in minutes! Just draw your letters and characters, and Fontself will handle the rest. Search for Fontself on the App Store or visit this link https://apple.co/3hJOw5KOUR PATREON BACKERSThank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 1min
394 - Find Your Way Like a Great Creator with This Tactic with Guy Raz
SHOW NOTESTRANSCRIPTSign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/pathCheck out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.comSupport the show on Patreon at patreon.com/creativepeptalkGuy Raz’s WebsiteThe Great Creators Podcast with Guy RazMark Maron's Interview with Rian JohnsonCALL TO ADVENTUREStudy a creative case study and identify the elixir.Find your story and substance as a creator by first identifying stories that resonate at the same frequency as yours. Try using a guest from Guy’s show, The Great Creators, and try to find the elixir in that creators journey.SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTSFONTSELFIf you’ve ever wanted to make your own font, Fontself makes it both fun & easy. With the Fontself app on iPad, you can start drawing and enjoying your own personal fonts in minutes! Just draw your letters and characters, and Fontself will handle the rest. Search for Fontself on the App Store or visit this link https://apple.co/3hJOw5KJAK PRINTSSuper quality printing and production from Jak Prints, check them out at jakprints.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


