A Weekly Podcast Companion for Your Creative Journey
Transform your creative potential into reality by making your creativity a practice. A “creative discipline...
491 - Determining Your Current Creative Stage and Shifting Focus with Illustrator Chris Piascik
What should you focus your creative energy towards right now? It helps to tune into the creative stage you’re currently in. Today on the show we chat with Illustrator Chris Piascik about how he went from a daily drawing practice to shifting gears and focusing on building his YouTube to nearly 100k subscribers.
If you’re feeling out of sync with your creative season or need inspo for reigniting your personal work, this episode is for you!
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Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co
Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co
Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com
Chris Piascik
https://www.chrispiascik.com
https://www.youtube.com/@chris-piascik
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490 - An Unlock of Motivation in the Face of Chaos on Repeat
If you’re struggling to find motivation in the face of bad habits and bad news, this episode is for you. Repeat episodes of burn out, procrastination or lack of progress can wear you down, so if you’re looking for a fresh perspective, check this episode out!
THIS EPISODE IS INSPIRED BY MY LOVE OF THE SHOW SEVERANCE, BUT CONTAINS NO SPOILERS!
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Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co
Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com
Severance
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series)
Tim Ferriss 770 with Elizabeth Gilbert
https://tim.blog/2024/09/26/elizabeth-gilbert-2/
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489 - How to Make Your Work More Personal with Comedian Alice Fraser
Andy sits down to have a joint podcast episode with master storyteller and comedian Alice Fraser for both of their podcasts.
In this episode we explore:
- Making work that’s more personal and meaningful
- The things to consider when sharing elements of your personal life in your work
- Being a parent when you have a creative practice
- Navigating the different stages of life / the creative journey
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Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co
Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co
Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com
Alice Fraser https://www.alicecomedyfraser.com
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488 - Frozen During Slow Times? How to Activate Self Starter Energy
Freeze up during slow times? Waiting for a BIG IDEA to get started? Overwhelmed by the blank page? In this episode, we explore how to tap into your effortless creativity and get yourself to start TODAY.
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Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller SOPHIE MILLER
Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones Pending Beautiful Collective
Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? WHY?
Institutional Validation
https://www.tiktok.com/@faganchelsea/video/7275799035351452960
TEMI COKER Temi Coker on Substack
Taika Waititi How Being Yourself Can Make You Hilarious | Taika Waititi on Filmmaking
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Miro
Miro is a collaborative virtual workspace that syncs in real time for you and your team so that you can innovate an idea into an outcome seamlessly - Miro | The Innovation Workspace
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487 - Apathetic About Goals? Uncover A Different Source of "Infinite" Motivation
If you’re struggling to create goals that feel motivating, this episode is for you! Goals have their place, but sometimes we need to tap into a more renewable motivation. In this episode I share a shift that freaking changed the game for me! For real! Hope you get the same boost from this that I did!
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Albert Camus - Sisyphus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
Austin Kleon - Keep Going
https://austinkleon.com/keepgoing/
Stephen Pressfield - The Artist’s Journey
https://stevenpressfield.com/books/the-artists-journey/
Uri Shulevitz - Writing With Pictures
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Pictures-Write-Illustrate-Childrens/dp/0823059359
James P. Carse - Finite and Infinite Games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games
Simon Sinek - The Infinite Game
https://simonsinek.com/books/the-infinite-game/
Sufjan Stevens
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/sufjan-stevens-on-songwriting-collaboration-and-the-myth-of-the-tortured-artist/
Brian McDonald
https://writeinvisibleink.com
Ira Glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Glass
Colin Rigsby
https://www.instagram.com/vesperteen/?hl=en
Clairo - Charm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charm_(Clairo_album)
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A Weekly Podcast Companion for Your Creative Journey
Transform 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 block and stay creatively pepped to the max!
Learn more: creativepeptalk.com
Check out the host: andyjpizza.com