Creative Pep Talk

Creative Pep Talk helps you build a thriving creative practice! Each week, host Andy J. Pizza serves up monologues and interviews with creative powerhouses like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Abbi Jacobson and Morgan Harper Nichols that are chocked to the brim with creative performance hacks and fresh marketing tactics. Time to fill up your tank with a generous helping of PEP! Open up your ears and get that breakthrough perspective you need, the second you need it! Andy J. Pizza is an illustrator for the likes of The New York Times, The Washington Post, Google, YouTube and Nickelodeon. Andy J. Pizza - instagram.com/andyjpizza

560 - Get Back to Passion, Ignore the Internet, Reorient to "Bad" Creative Feelings and Find Your Next Season

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559 - Make Before Thinking, Sales Mode, Get Weird with It, The Opposite of Depression and MORE with Austin Kleon

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558 - Start, Do, Finish: Get Around What's Blocking You from Doing Stuff

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557 - Finding Your Scene, IRL Creativity, the Hopeful Return of Indie / DIY with Hanif Abdurraqib

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*FIXED SEE SHOW NOTES* 556 - Make This Shift to Reclaim Your Creative Spirit from Your Phone

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555 - Overcome Dead Ends & Open Up to New Directions with Hrishikesh Hirway

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554 - Get Back to Creativity that Actually Helps Your Mental Health with Gemma Correll

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553 - Recover Sense of Self & Creative Voice with These 6 Juicy Prompts

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552 - Listen to This if You Need Help Remembering Who You Are (Right Side Out 1 of 6) *RE-AIR*

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551 - Consume and Create Art to Get Your Brain Back with Scientist Daisy Fancourt

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550 - Get Back to Your Creative Path with These 3 Counterintuitive Things

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549 - This is How Sensitive Creative People Make Big Changes with Eric Zimmer

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548 - 5 Creative / Neurodivergent Friendly Productivity Hacks to Become a Doer

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547 - Find the Creative Voice You're Holding Back with Claire Keane

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546 - How to Transform What You're Drowning in Into High Octane Creative Fuel

This episode is for you if: 1 - You want to figure out how to put your deep personal experiences into...

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545 - Make Your Life & Creative Work More Rich with Meaning with Jarod K. Anderson

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544 - Quit Focusing on Being Discovered and Sales and Do This Instead

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543 - 3 Shifts to Make if You Feel Off Creatively

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542 - When to Reboot Your Work + A Better Option than Beating Yourself Up with Zak Rosen

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541 - Are You Afraid of The Art? How to Get Past the Fear and Have Fun Again

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540 - Why the Creative Path Has to Be Twisty and Turny with Nishant Jain

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539 - This Super Easy Thing Will Make A Massive Impact On Your Creative Practice

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538 - Find Your Point of View, Story Insights, and Artist / Audience Dynamics with Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen

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537 - Reignite Creative Drive with This Energizing New Year's Exercise

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