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 blocks and stay creatively pepped to the max!! Learn more: creativepeptalk.com Check out the host: andyjpizza.com
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Andy J. Pizza hosts Creative Pep Talk, a arts show with 565 episodes published.
561 - The Best Case for Not Fearing AI, Help with Email and Creative Diet with Cal Newport
Jun 24, 20261h 13mEp. 561
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- BUCKLE UP! This episode is CHOCK FULL of powerful insights from bestselling author Cal Newport! This episode is for you if: 1
560 - Get Back to Passion, Ignore the Internet, Reorient to "Bad" Creative Feelings and Find Your Next Season
Jun 17, 202640mEp. 560
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You struggle to find the joy in your creative practice. 2 - You’re constantly distracted by sc
559 - Make Before Thinking, Sales Mode, Get Weird with It, The Opposite of Depression and MORE with Austin Kleon
Jun 10, 20261h 10mEp. 559
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if you need: 1 - Tactics for escaping overthinking. 2 - More fun in your creative practice. 3 - Insigh
558 - Start, Do, Finish: Get Around What's Blocking You from Doing Stuff
Jun 3, 202624mEp. 5580
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Most creative people don’t need help being creative. You have the ideas. Where you trip up is the executive dysfunction. It’s
557 - Finding Your Scene, IRL Creativity, the Hopeful Return of Indie / DIY with Hanif Abdurraqib
May 27, 20261h 3mEp. 5570
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Your genius might be hiding in your backyard. This episode is for you if: 1 - You need to find real people to collaborate with
*FIXED SEE SHOW NOTES* 556 - Make This Shift to Reclaim Your Creative Spirit from Your Phone
May 21, 202628mEp. 5560
This episode was initially published without the end of the story and the main point of the episode spelled out! We had one essential portion of this episode missing in the previous edit!! Thank you for those who sent me
555 - Overcome Dead Ends & Open Up to New Directions with Hrishikesh Hirway
May 13, 20261h 0mEp. 5550
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You have hit a dead end and need to open up to totally new directions. 2 - You are stuck doing
554 - Get Back to Creativity that Actually Helps Your Mental Health with Gemma Correll
May 6, 202650mEp. 5540
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Most of us start making things because on some level it feels good! It feels like a meditation. It brings flow. It helps us pr
553 - Recover Sense of Self & Creative Voice with These 6 Juicy Prompts
Apr 29, 202645m0
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You have been pretending to be someone else for so long that you have forgotten who you are. 2
552 - Listen to This if You Need Help Remembering Who You Are (Right Side Out 1 of 6) *RE-AIR*
Apr 22, 202648mEp. 5520
Check out the rest of the “Right Side Out” series on it's own podcast feed here: andyjpizza.com/rso --- It’s been 2 years since we originally aired this episode. This is part 1 of our 6 part audio memoir series “Right Si
551 - Consume and Create Art to Get Your Brain Back with Scientist Daisy Fancourt
Apr 15, 202630mEp. 5510
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You’re feeling like you’ve lost the thread and your point of view as a creative. 2 - You’re fe
550 - Get Back to Your Creative Path with These 3 Counterintuitive Things
Apr 8, 202644m0
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Listen to this if: 1 - You feel creatively off or can’t find your creative thread at the moment 2 - You’re in a season where y
549 - This is How Sensitive Creative People Make Big Changes with Eric Zimmer
Apr 1, 20261h 13mEp. 5490
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Listen if: 1 - All the habit advice doesn’t work you as an emotional creative type 2 - You are tired of fighting yourself to m
548 - 5 Creative / Neurodivergent Friendly Productivity Hacks to Become a Doer
Mar 25, 202635mEp. 5480
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You have so many ideas but struggle to realize many of them! 2 - Most productivity advice does
547 - Find the Creative Voice You're Holding Back with Claire Keane
Mar 18, 20261h 8mEp. 5470
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You have had a hard time tapping into your unique creative voice. 2 - You feel disempowered as
546 - How to Transform What You're Drowning in Into High Octane Creative Fuel
Mar 11, 202628mEp. 5460
This episode is for you if: 1 - You want to figure out how to put your deep personal experiences into your work, but you have never seemed to figure out how to. 2 - You are currently overwhelmed and can’t find the energy
545 - Make Your Life & Creative Work More Rich with Meaning with Jarod K. Anderson
Mar 4, 20261h 12mEp. 5450
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word! --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You need a reminder to feel how vital making personal creative work is to your life. 2 - You are a creative type
544 - Quit Focusing on Being Discovered and Sales and Do This Instead
Feb 25, 202635mEp. 5440
You can join the Creative Pro Talk meetups by supporting the podcast on Substack here: andyjpizza.substack.com or on Patreon here: Patreon.com/creativepeptalk --- I got it wrong for so long. When I started my creative pr
Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word http://invisiblethings.co --- It is VERY easy to get off balance as a creative person because creativity is a delicate balance of many things. In this
542 - When to Reboot Your Work + A Better Option than Beating Yourself Up with Zak Rosen
Feb 11, 202655mEp. 5420
Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- My editor Conner loved this episode, which is always
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