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This episode is for you if you need to: 1 - Make your work more "you" but don't know what that means or how to do it. 2 - Find a style. 3 - Find ways to stand out in your creative field.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF: 1 - You want a process for finding the hidden clues for what to make unique work about within the work of your creative heroes. 2 - You get stuck doing nothing because you want to do everything. 3 - You know what you love but you don't know how to be appropriately influe…

We often dream of someone showing up out of nowhere and giving us a real chance to get creative and unleash our potential, but the most important creative opportunity to take advantage of is taking a deep interest in your We often dream of talent scouts showing up with dream creative opportunitie…

You know that having the creative practice you're after means gaining new fans and maybe even followers of your work, but why does this feel impossible? In this episode we explore the idea that you may be approaching this completely backwards. By the end of this episode, you will have a tool for …

We've all been convinced from movies and media that we must CHASE OUR DREAMS and it will ALL WORK OUT! But what happens when you've given it everything you've got and it really hasn't worked out anything like what you were dreaming of? Today on the show I have Illustrator and YouTube Anoosha Syed.…

You can’t always be in high demand. We all have slow times, but what you do with these seasons can be make or break. Looking back I’ve noticed there’s 3 simple things that make these times either the worst of times or the most pivotal. If you’re in a season that’s slow or quiet, tune in!

It’s very easy to get creatively blocked waiting for all the answers. In fact, I have been in that exact phase with a personal project of my own! So it was a relief to speak with our guest Poet, Maggie Smith, who just wrote and published a new New York Times Best Selling memoir with the premise of …

This episode is a step by step practical roadmap to building a thriving creative practice that does not require making it big on social media, in fact it excludes any mindset of going big whatsoever. Do you worry that you have to make it big on social media in order to succeed in your creative pur…

If you are feeling stuck and don’t know what you need to reignite your spark, this episode is for you! This episode will give you tips in the areas of self development, marketing your work, as we as new prompts that are designed to help you have creative breakthrough!

In this episode we serve up a flavorful buffet of creative inspiration for when you don't even know what you're creatively hungry for! We recommend seven unique podcast episodes from other podcasts from various categories that relate to Creative Pep Talk, offering bite-sized takeaways and lessons I…

Have you ever noticed the striking similarities between the creative flow state and mystical experiences, which are often associated with spirituality, religion, or nature? Our guest, Eric Zimmer, certainly has. As the host of the popular podcast The One You Feed, Eric takes a practical, grounded a…

How shedding inauthentic layers in your practice can lead to true connection - In this episode, we dive into the struggles of constructing the perfect creative image and how it can hinder genuine connections. Drawing inspiration from the classic (yet problematic) movie Grease alongside personal exp…

If I could only give a creator 3 pieces of advice - this would be it. It’s very easy to get lost on the creative journey, but with these three calibrating elements, you don’t have to stay lost long. If you’re stuck and unsure of what your creative practice is missing, tune in and see which of thes…

THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE! It’s still early in the year, so, many of of us are still wrestling with goals or even still struggling with goal setting, but sometimes the most clarifying and energizing thing you can do is to determine what you are NOT going to do. This is your anti-goal. This …

If you’ve ever felt like your work wasn’t deep enough or that when you tried to make it deeper that it actually just got worse overall - this episode is for you. In this episode we explore how to find the hidden layers of depth ALREADY PRESENT in the work you’re doing and in yourself. Tune in for …

Does your creative work seem to get worse the better you try to make it? Is the only option to just quit trying? In this episode we explore how to approach improving your creative work in such a way that it actually works and maybe even makes the process more enjoyable as well!

Do you ever feel like your only option for making peace with your creative practice is just accepting that maybe you just don’t have it? It’s ironic that for many of us - the magic of our creative heroes is what attracts us to the creative journey, but then years into the process, we’ve yet to cap…

Do you ever feel like you have to force yourself to make something? It’s such a shame because, for most of us, the reason we wanted a creative practice in the first place was because we were so desperate to spend as much time making things as possible! This episode is for you if you: 1 Have become…

Most of us feel like social media is constantly requiring us to redefine ourselves, but in this episode we will explore how to achieve our goals by redefining what we think of as social media. This episode contains specific strategies and tactics for showing up online in ways that others aren’t an…

Today on the show we have podcast legend Guy Raz of How I Built This and The Great Creators! This episode is for you if: - You feel like the creative path is so random, if it feels impossible where to go next - You feel like new skills are necessary and then obsolete before you can even start to l…

This episode is for you if you: - You’re looking for your big inflection point in your creative practice - The competition is too steep and you’re not talented enough to even try - The speed of the world is overwhelming you - You struggle with Imposter Syndrome - You’re worried or curious about AI…

Have you ever longed to have a creative style that is as FULL OF LIFE and COMPELLING as the style of your creative heroes, but when you go to find your own style, it feels impossible or the style you DO HAVE just doesn’t measure up? If this is a problem you face in your creative practice, THIS EPI…

If you’ve always longed to make deeper work, that’s not just a tad cooler than the last thing you made, or a bit cooler than the work of your peers, this episode is for you. In this episode we explore how to make your work more creative not by reinventing the wheel, but by finding renewable strate…