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The episode is CREATIVE REAL TALK. No music. No frills. One take. In this episode I share my current struggles, the lessons I'm learning right now in real time, and why I've been doing some unprecedented (for me) levels of soul searching in my life over the past 3 months. This is a very vulnerable / real / authentic episode. I hope it's a welcome brief change of pace that encourages and comforts you! We talk about: - The question to ask yourself if you want more followers - Why you're not able to be authentic in your work - Your role in the hero's journey as an artist - Dealing with nagging put downs from the past or present ---- Conferences Dreamtopia Workshop with Cathy Heller & Friends in L.A. PROMO CODE: ANDY for 30% OFF SIGN UP NOW! bit.ly/andydreamtopia Creative Works Skill Camp PROMO CODE: CPT50 for $50 off https://www.creativeworks.co/skillcamp/ ---- CREDITS Support Creative Pep Talk on Patreon: www.patreon.com/creativepeptalk Thanks to Yoni Wolf and the band WHY? f…

The episode is CREATIVE REAL TALK. No music. No frills. One take. In this episode I share my current struggles, the lessons I'm learning right now in real time, and why I've been doing some unprecedented (for me) levels of soul searching in my life over the past 3 months. This is a very vulnerable / real / authentic episode. I hope it's a welcome brief change of pace that encourages and comforts you! We talk about: - The question to ask yourself if you want more followers - Why you're not able to be authentic in your work - Your role in the hero's journey as an artist - Dealing with nagging put downs from the past or present

This episode covers a grab bag of topics with lots of tactics, fresh ideas and new perspectives designed to get you jazzed about making stuff today! I hope most of these topics will hit you in the sweet spot, but I bet one or two of these will be exactly what you need to hear today. Some topics we cover in this episode: - Finding Your Style - Managing productivity and or ADHD - Battling Imposter Syndrome even after success! - Pricing - Synesthesia! - Zelda soundtracks! - AND MORE! Submit questions for Ask Dr. Pizza episodes by emailing your written or recorded question to andy@andy-j-miller.com - Please state whether you'd like to remain anonymous or featured with a shout out to your work / social links. ---- Conferences Dreamtopia Workshop with Cathy Heller & Friends in L.A. PROMO CODE: ANDY for 30% OFF SIGN UP NOW! bit.ly/andydreamtopia Creative Works Skill Camp PROMO CODE: CPT50 for $50 off https://www.creativeworks.co/skillcamp/ ---- SHOW NOTES Philosophize This! Gi…

This episode covers a grab bag of topics with lots of tactics, fresh ideas and new perspectives designed to get you jazzed about making stuff today! I hope most of these topics will hit you in the sweet spot, but I bet one or two of these will be exactly what you need to hear today. Some topics we cover in this episode: - Finding Your Style - Managing productivity and or ADHD - Battling Imposter Syndrome even after success! - Pricing - Synesthesia! - Zelda soundtracks! - AND MORE! Submit questions for Ask Dr. Pizza episodes by emailing your written or recorded question to andy@andy-j-miller.com - Please state whether you'd like to remain anonymous or featured with a shout out to your work / social links.

The New Year is an exciting time but often the excitement is short lived. We have such high hopes for all the changes we're going to make, but most often our hopes are crushed by someone who's very hard to defeat: OURSELVES! YES. The OLD YOU you want to leave behind is the number 1 thing standing in the way of the NEW YOU you'd like to become and if you try to repress this OLD YOU it just seems to get stronger! So I guess we should all just give up right? NO! You have so much untapped potential and there are a few principles that will help you unleash your BEST SELF from the confines of your OLD SELF. In this episode I want to share what's helped me become a better version of myself and ultimately become the type of person that can build and wield a thriving creative career! SHOW NOTES James Clear - Atomic Habits https://jamesclear.com/ NYT Article - Resistance Is Futile. To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/your-money/resistance-is-fut…

The New Year is an exciting time but often the excitement is short lived. We have such high hopes for all the changes we're going to make, but most often our hopes are crushed by someone who's very hard to defeat: OURSELVES! YES. The OLD YOU you want to leave behind is the number 1 thing standing in the way of the NEW YOU you'd like to become and if you try to repress this OLD YOU it just seems to get stronger! So I guess we should all just give up right? NO! You have so much untapped potential and there are a few principles that will help you unleash your BEST SELF from the confines of your OLD SELF. In this episode I want to share what's helped me become a better version of myself and ultimately become the type of person that can build and wield a thriving creative career!

This episode is just what you need if you want to make a living doing creative work you love, without having to win the creative career lottery of randomly going viral or being famous! Our guest for the show today is musician and podcaster Cathy Heller. I wanted to have Cathy on the show because she is a living breathing example of what it looks like to have a thriving creative career through strategy, incremental progress and serving your audience AKA a CREATIVE PEP TALK CREATIVE! She brings so many helpful perspectives, personal stories and ideas to the table that I am sure this will help you get inspired and get you unstuck! Cathy is a musician by trade and she's made her living working with brands like McDonald's, Wal-Mart and Kellog's by providing them with beautiful for songs for their ads. Cathy's podcast, Don't Keep Your Day Job, helps people get paid doing work they love. She's conducted interviews with the likes of Jenna Fischer, Seth Godin, Daniel Pink and Lisa Loeb!

This episode is just what you need if you want to make a living doing creative work you love, without having to win the creative career lottery of randomly going viral or being famous! Our guest for the show today is musician and podcaster Cathy Heller. I wanted to have Cathy on the show because she is a living breathing example of what it looks like to have a thriving creative career through strategy, incremental progress and serving your audience AKA a CREATIVE PEP TALK CREATIVE! She brings so many helpful perspectives, personal stories and ideas to the table that I am sure this will help you get inspired and get you unstuck! Cathy is a musician by trade and she's made her living working with brands like McDonald's, Wal-Mart and Kellog's by providing them with beautiful for songs for their ads. Cathy's podcast, Don't Keep Your Day Job, helps people get paid doing work they love. She's conducted interviews with the likes of Jenna Fischer, Seth Godin, Daniel Pink and Lisa Loeb! …

The most important part of business is sales and the number 1 rule in sales is this: BELIEVE IN YOUR PRODUCT! You see, if you TRULY believe in your product and believe it will enrich the lives of your customers, you'll see marketing as a public service. If you have something that will really make people's lives better, you owe it to them to spread the word! This is even more true in creative careers and creative business! You owe it to your potential true fans to get your work in front of them! In this episode we share numbers 7 - 12 of our FRESH TACTICS for direct marketing so that you can make 2019 your best year yet! This episode also features SPECIAL GUEST Kyle Scheele. Kyle is a full time public speaker and out of everyone I know he is the BEST at email cold calls and direct marketing and I asked him to share his tricks in this episode. THIS ONE IS A DOOZY! ---- CREDITS THANK YOU SPECIAL GUEST Kyle Scheele! http://kylescheele.com/ Instagram: @kylescheele Thanks to Yoni Wo…

The most important part of business is sales and the number 1 rule in sales is this: BELIEVE IN YOUR PRODUCT! You see, if you TRULY believe in your product and believe it will enrich the lives of your customers, you'll see marketing as a public service. If you have something that will really make people's lives better, you owe it to them to spread the word! This is even more true in creative careers and creative business! You owe it to your potential true fans to get your work in front of them! In this episode we share numbers 7 - 12 of our FRESH TACTICS for direct marketing so that you can make 2019 your best year yet! This episode also features SPECIAL GUEST Kyle Scheele. Kyle is a full time public speaker and out of everyone I know he is the BEST at email cold calls and direct marketing and I asked him to share his tricks in this episode. THIS ONE IS A DOOZY!

It's the start of a new year and I don't know about you, but I feel the drive to take as much action as I can at the start of this season, to enable as much creative career growth as I possibly can. I built this episode to help you capitalize on that sometimes quickly fading new-year FIRE with 12 new ideas to help you spread the word about your art!!! In part 1 of this 2 part episode, I will share with you my latest tactics and ideas that are helping me approach people directly with my work in such a way that gets real results. Direct marketing can feel hopeless and SELLING your art is a tricky game, and this is why it's so important to be highly inventive and strategic with your marketing if you want your work seen in 2019! ---- CREDITS Thanks to Yoni Wolf and the band WHY? for our theme music. Thanks to Alex Sugg for editing and the podcast! www.alexsugg.com Patreon Shoutout! KIT COLLINS https://www.kitschcollins.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kitschcollins/ ---- SPONSORS …

It's the start of a new year and I don't know about you, but I feel the drive to take as much action as I can at the start of this season, to enable as much creative career growth as I possibly can. I built this episode to help you capitalize on that sometimes quickly fading new-year FIRE with 12 new ideas to help you spread the word about your art!!! In part 1 of this 2 part episode, I will share with you my latest tactics and ideas that are helping me approach people directly with my work in such a way that gets real results. Direct marketing can feel hopeless and SELLING your art is a tricky game, and this is why it's so important to be highly inventive and strategic with your marketing if you want your work seen in 2019!

They have been lying to you since you were born. You've been told "that's just the way it is" about taxes, school, work, and pretty much everything. But the truth is that nothing is ever "just the way it is", it's the way people before you decided it would be. The world isn't just the way it is, it's the way you make it and until you realize this not just in your head, but in your heart, you will be held back from living your full creative potential. In this episode I want to share with you how I've started to unlearn this limitation and how it's dramatically impacted my approach to creative work. In this episode you will... - Learn about a post modern philosophy that will unlock your best work - Be introduced to a system for leveling up your creative work - Hear me do an impression of Morpheus from The Matrix ---- SHOW NOTES Philosophize This! http://philosophizethis.org/ ---- CREDITS Thanks to Yoni Wolf and the band WHY? for our theme music. Thanks to Alex Sugg for editing a…

They have been lying to you since you were born. You've been told "that's just the way it is" about taxes, school, work, and pretty much everything. But the truth is that nothing is ever "just the way it is", it's the way people before you decided it would be. The world isn't just the way it is, it's the way you make it and until you realize this not just in your head, but in your heart, you will be held back from living your full creative potential. In this episode I want to share with you how I've started to unlearn this limitation and how it's dramatically impacted my approach to creative work. In this episode you will... - Learn about a post modern philosophy that will unlock your best work - Be introduced to a system for leveling up your creative work - Hear me do an impression of Morpheus from The Matrix

THIS MAY BE THE MOST EXCITING EPISODE I'VE EVER SHARED WITH YOU!!! If you've listened to 25 seconds of this podcast you've probably heard me mention his name: Seth Godin. Who is he? He is a world changer going around calling himself a 'marketer'. This man has had a bigger impact on the way I do business and marketing than anyone else and I owe him so much! Seth shows up to this show and knocks every question out of the park. I haven't stopped thinking about this conversation since we had it, and I know there are ideas in here that are going to cause big breakthroughs in your creative career! Don't forget to check out Seth's new podcast Akimbo! Seth Godin https://www.sethgodin.com/ https://seths.blog/ This Is Marketing https://seths.blog/tim/ Check Out Seth's Amazing Podcast Akimbo https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akimbo-a-podcast-from-seth-godin/id1345042626 ---- CREDITS Thanks to Yoni Wolf and the band WHY? for our theme music. Thanks to Alex Sugg for editing and the pod…

THIS MAY BE THE MOST EXCITING EPISODE I'VE EVER SHARED WITH YOU!!! If you've listened to 25 seconds of this podcast you've probably heard me mention his name: Seth Godin. Who is he? He is a world changer going around calling himself a 'marketer'. This man has had a bigger impact on the way I do business and marketing than anyone else and I owe him so much! Seth shows up to this show and knocks every question out of the park. I haven't stopped thinking about this conversation since we had it, and I know there are ideas in here that are going to cause big breakthroughs in your creative career! Don't forget to check out Seth's new podcast Akimbo!

In the movie Mean Girls, Regina George believes that these carb bars will make her lose weight, when in fact they are intended to make you GAIN WEIGHT! . Why does she believe this? Because Lindsay Lohan lies to her. . My point? Don’t eat carb bars… AND believing a lie can have TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES EVEN ABOVE AND BEYOND NOT BEING PROM READY! . In the latest episode I show my SALTY SIDE. THIS IS A SALTY PIZZA EPISODE. I’m mad because I believe we creative types are force fed lies that hurt our ability to thrive to our full potential. . In this episode of Creative Pep Talk podcast, I’ll tell you why I’m mad, what lies are hurting you and I’ll share tactics to transcend these lies to live your full creative potential. ---- CREDITS Thanks to Yoni Wolf and the band WHY? for our theme music. Thanks to Alex Sugg for editing and the podcast! www.alexsugg.com ---- SPONSORS Astropad App - Turn Your iPad into a Graphics Tablet! The episode art was made using Astropad! Use promo code PIZZA …

In the movie Mean Girls, Regina George believes that these carb bars will make her lose weight, when in fact they are intended to make you GAIN WEIGHT! . Why does she believe this? Because Lindsay Lohan lies to her. . My point? Don’t eat carb bars… AND believing a lie can have TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES EVEN ABOVE AND BEYOND NOT BEING PROM READY! . In the latest episode I show my SALTY SIDE. THIS IS A SALTY PIZZA EPISODE. I’m mad because I believe we creative types are force fed lies that hurt ...

Today's episode is an interview with the brilliant mind that is Saiman Chow. I saw him give a talk at the ICON Illustration conference and my mind was seriously blown. I had to track him down and beg him to let me interview him. Saiman's illustration and animation looks like a beautiful chaotic brain, forever in play. This chat will inspire you to burst through self doubt and get lost in the play of your creative practice! saimanchow.com @chowsaiman ---- CREDITS Thanks to Yoni Wolf and the band WHY? for our theme music. Thanks to Alex Sugg for editing and the podcast! www.alexsugg.com ---- SPONSORS Astropad App - Turn Your iPad into a Graphics Tablet! The episode art was made using Astropad! Use promo code PIZZA for 10% Astropad Studio! http://astropad.com/?utm_source=Creative%20Pep%20Talk&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Creative%20Pep%20Talk This week’s episode is brought to you by Wix.com  With Wix, the web your playground. Start with a blank page and design your website …

Today's episode is an interview with the brilliant mind that is Saiman Chow. I saw him give a talk at the ICON Illustration conference and my mind was seriously blown. I had to track him down and beg him to let me interview him. Saiman's illustration and animation looks like a beautiful chaotic brain, forever in play. This chat will inspire you to burst through self doubt and get lost in the play of your creative practice!

This episode covers a grab bag of topics with lots of tactics, fresh ideas and new perspectives designed to get you jazzed about making stuff today! I hope most of these topics will hit you in the sweet spot, but I bet one or two of these will be exactly what you need to hear today. Some topics we cover in this episode: - How to find your focus - Why you need to rethink time management - Making BIG CHANGES in your work - How to unlock a deep well of motivation you didn't know you had! - AND MORE! This episode is Ask Dr. Pizza episode where I answer questions submitted via Instagram Stories @andyjpizza NEW 2019 Creative Pep Talk Calendar creativepeptalk.etsy.com ---- CREDITS Thanks to Yoni Wolf and the band WHY? for our theme music. Thanks to Alex Sugg for editing and the podcast! www.alexsugg.com Dr. Pizza Theme by Ben Worley http://benworley.work/ ---- SPONSORS Astropad App - Turn Your iPad into a Graphics Tablet! The episode art was made using Astropad! Use promo code PIZ…

This episode covers a grab bag of topics with lots of tactics, fresh ideas and new perspectives designed to get you jazzed about making stuff today! I hope most of these topics will hit you in the sweet spot, but I bet one or two of these will be exactly what you need to hear today. Some topics we cover in this episode: - How to find your focus - Why you need to rethink time management - Making BIG CHANGES in your work - How to unlock a deep well of motivation you didn't know you had! - AND MORE!

Guys I'm a little bit burnout. This year has been incredible career wise, but also completely and utterly exhausting. I'm not a stranger to burnout, but this latest experience has taught me something brand new about about it. I think this lesson is a game changer and we dive into it and more in this episode. If you're tired, hopeless or you've just about lost your ability to care about creativity at all anymore, this episode is for you. If you're burnout, fed up, exhausted or blocked creatively, it's my hope that this episode is a gift that relights your excitement and enthusiasm for making stuff again!! NEW SHOP STUFF!!! creativepeptalk.etsy.com ---- CREDITS Thanks to Yoni Wolf and the band WHY? for our theme music. Thanks to Alex Sugg for editing and the podcast! www.alexsugg.com ---- SPONSORS Astropad App - Turn Your iPad into a Graphics Tablet! The episode art was made using Astropad! Use promo code PIZZA for 10% Astropad Studio! http://astropad.com/?utm_source=Creative%…

Guys I'm a little bit burnout. This year has been incredible career wise, but also completely and utterly exhausting. I'm not a stranger to burnout, but this latest experience has taught me something brand new about about it. I think this lesson is a game changer and we dive into it and more in this episode. If you're tired, hopeless or you've just about lost your ability to care about creativity at all anymore, this episode is for you. If you're burnout, fed up, exhausted or blocked creatively, it's my hope that this episode is a gift that relights your excitement and enthusiasm for making stuff again!!