Episodes
254 - HOW TO: Avoid Slow Slumps / Get Published / Find and Express Your Value and MORE!
WARNING THIS IS A WEIRD EPISODE! THERE IS NO EDITING OR MUSIC AND I GET REAAAAAL REAL.
LET’S CUT THE CRAP.
Every once in awhile I feel the need to do an episode with NO EDITING, NO MUSIC and NO AUDIO TRICKS.
WHY? Because it’s VERY IMPORTANT to me that we forever come back to the true pulse of this show: SEEING CREATIVE PEOPLE THRIVE IN THEIR CAREERS.
ALL THE STRATEGY and BRANDING is good but sometimes it gets in between us and clouds what this is all about.
253 - What a Big Idea Looks Like with Joey Ellis
Sometimes I wonder if the secret to having great ideas is just developing the ability to notice them when they show up. I think we all have great ideas from time to time but if we haven’t developed the eye to recognize them, we won’t do what it takes to realize them to their full potential.
In this conversation with my friend author and illustrator Joey Ellis we dive into the big idea that’s being driving his career for the past few years.
Joey’s new book “Wolfie Monster and …
252 - Which of the 3 Stages of The Creative Path are You in Right Now?
TODAY ON THE SHOW I want to explore some territory we’ve touched on in the past in a totally new way.
WHY? Because I’ve had some personal breakthroughs on this content that have me PEPPED OUT OF MY MIND!!!!!
AND because I believe the content in this show is FOUNDATIONAL to a thriving creative career. The framework in this episode is a pattern I see in EVERY one of my thriving creative heroes and it’s information I revisit on a WEEKLY BASIS.
For that reason I want to D…
251 - 6 Tips That Helped Me Gain 20,000 New Instagram Followers in a Year
About a year ago I had this realization: if I had more Instagram followers, everything else I was trying to do would be easier.
It was the domino that I had to knock over, to knock over all the others.
AND YET I wasn't pumped about it. WHY? Probably the same reasons social media frustrates you: it seems like a random lottery and nothing I ever do seems to have much of an impact.
BUT I was determined to reach my goal!!!
SO this past year I've been ap…
250 - How to Find Your Style
This is one of the questions I get more than any other, and yet I've never done an episode where we attacked it head on!
250 episodes into the show and I finally feel ready to tackle this monster of a topic!!
This episode has 6 practical things you can do to actively find your style ON PURPOSE!
There are 5 quick ideas in this show that might be exactly what you need to have a style breakthrough today.
HOWEVER... THE LAST idea in this episode I am particul…
249 - 3 Ways How to Make More Money So You Can Have More Time to Be Creative
Nothing drives me more crazy than not having enough time to make creative work. Sacrificing quality, deadline stress and lack of margin can ruin what makes a creative career worth having in the first place.
In our society MONEY really does mean TIME. If you can make more money, you have the power to slow down and give your creative work and life the time it deserves.
In this episode I want to share two quick tactics that have helped me find more time and money and one bigger …
248 - How to Find Your Artistic Voice with Lisa Congdon
Lisa Congdon RETURNS to the show!
In this episode I chat with creative superhero Lisa Congdon about her new book "Find Your Artistic Voice".
In this episode we talk about the tips and tricks of finding your creative voice. We chat through:
- The essential ingredient of "Openness to Experience"
- How being fluent in your medium is essential to FLOW state
- How quantity leads to quality
- AND MUCH MUCH MORE!
LISA has SO MUCH creative wisd…
247 - The Top 6 Most Important Things My Creative Heroes Taught Me
Like all my creative heroes I am standing on the shoulders of my creative heroes!
In this episode I go through the 6 talks that changed my creative career, the crucial lesson each one taught me and how it impacted my creative career and a dramatic way.
I cut all the fat from this episode and it is a super shot of creative pep!! DRINK UP!!!
246 - Embracing Your Essence with 'The Dark Crystal' Executive Producer Halle Stanford
Today on the show we have the President of Television at the Jim Henson Company, Halle Stanford!!!
For anyone who has listened to half an episode of this podcast knows how huge this is for us! WE ARE THE BIGGEST HENSON FANS!
Halle is the executive producer on the new Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and if you haven't seen it, go binge this thing right now! It's a creative masterpiece and a scale of puppetry the world has never seen before!
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245 - How To Find Next Level Influences That Equal Next Level Work
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami
If you want work that feels like no one else's you need to be consuming totally different influences. You art what you eat!
Should you be influenced by your modern heroes and peers or only with your own life? I would say YES... AND MORE!
In this episode I run through my Creative Influences Pyramid and share everything I've …
244 - Where Your Most Powerful Creative Work is Hiding with Frannerd!!
FRIENDS!!! OR SHOULD I SAY FRANDS!? FRAN IS BACK!!!!
You're favorite illustrator and YouTuber is BACK on the show and this is a very very special chat. I hung out with Fran while I was in NYC recently and and during one of our chats I flipped on some microphones so I could share this conversation with you.
PUT YOUR SCUBA GEAR ON CUZ we go DEEP in this one.
REAL DEEP.
And I think that's good because this is where our most powerful creative work is fou…
243 - How to Find Your Medium, Quit Second Guessing, Get Out of Your Head and MORE!
Today's episode is EXTREMELY SPECIAL! WHY? Because we have a SUPER SPECIAL GUEST: SOPHIE... MY WIFE!!
Sophie is reading me questions for this super special episode of Ask Dr. Pizza and it's a delight!!
Lot of practical takeaways from this episode, things that have recently helped me gain clarity, take action and create some breakthroughs in my creative career. LOTS OF GOLD NUGGETS in here, including some from my wise partner Sophie. DON'T MISS IT!!
We c…
242 - What to Do When the Flow Stops with Loveis Wise
Nothing's better than feeling like you're right at the center of your path and everything is just FLOWING... but the flip side is true too: NOTHING IS WORSE than feeling completely lost and miles away from your calling.
What do you do when your old goals become obsolete for one reason or another, and you find yourself lost and untethered?
In this conversation with my friend Loveis we explore this very tricky topic and what we've learned about getting back on th…
241 - Crucial & Inspiring Insights That You Need to Hear Today (HitRECord X 5 Year Anniversary Special!)
Had I known the 3 insights I share in this episode 5 years ago, I might be twice as far in my creative career as I am today.
ALSO this episode is CHOCKED FULL of insights like this from the Creative Pep Talk and HitRECord communities!!
240 - 3 Ways to Get Back On The Right Path When You Feel Lost
It's so easy to get lost. The creative path is a treacherous journey, with numerous pitfalls and distractions.
AND
I don't know about you... but...
ALL MY PRODUCTIVITY STOPS when I start feeling lost and I can't remember where I'm going, what to do next or even why I'm on this path in the first place.
Early in my career this feeling would nearly sink my ship and throw me off for weeks, but over time, I've learned some insights tha…
239 - The 10 Business Books That Saved Me & Their 10 Secrets
My creative career was a mess before I started reading business books. I'm not some crazy reader either, it doesn't take a ton of business books to change everything for your creative career, it just takes the RIGHT ONES.
In this episode I share my top 10 favorite business books and the top lesson from each one that enabled me to build a creative career that I absolutely love.
238 - The Powerful 3 Step Mid-Year Tune Up That Will Make THIS Year YOUR Year
WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH THE YEAR! This is usually about the time we all realize we've failed most of our goals for the year and call it a wash and quit trying to change things until next year rolls around.
BUT in this episode we are gonna reboot the system, recalibrate, re-strategize and make the 2nd half of this year TWICE as good as the first half.
237 - 8 Ways How to Use The Most Potent Marketing Strategy In The World
This episode is more jammed full of tactics than maybe any episode we've ever done!!
236 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt and The Magic of Just Hitting Record
Interview with actor, writer, director and creative entrepreneur Joseph Gordon-Levitt. We talk the creative magic of making now and saving the editing until afterward.
235 - The Creative Voice Secret, Find Your Value, Instagram Success Despite the Algorithm & MORE!
Today is an Ask Dr. Pizza episode! These episodes have become most downloaded fan favorites. Why? Because no matter what kind of a creative business you have, there's sure to be a few nuggets in this episode that gets you exactly what you need to hear, exactly when you need to hear it!
Questions we tackle today:
1 - How do I get the money I deserve for my work?
2 - How do a network when I'm shy and just starting out?
3 - Marketing on Instagram - What do you do abou…
234 - 9 Marketing Tactics to Gain The True Fans You Need to Thrive Now
If you make super great creative work, the word will spread. The problem is this: will it spread as fast as you need it to to keep the lights on? Will you run out of steam before your time has come?
The solution is good marketing. In this episode I want to share the 9 pieces of advice I'd give any artist whose work isn't catching on at the rate they want it to.
The ideas in this episode have been HUGE for me lately. Hope they are for you too!
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233 - From Doing Stand Up in a Living Room to a Role on an NBC TV Show - Comedian Johnny Pemberton
FRIEEEEENDS!!!!!! This is one of my favorite conversations we’ve ever had on the podcast!!!!
Today on the show we have hilarious comedian Johnny Pemberton! You may know Johnny as Bo from the NBC comedy Superstore or the voice of Peanut from the Disney XD show Pickle and Peanut.
Beyond his extensive IMDB credits, Johnny has a phenomenal (and super ridiculous) podcast called “Live to Tape”. From Tim Meadows to Duncan Trussell to Johnny’s Mom to ME, “Live to Tape” has a deep ba…
232 - Starbucks Doesn't Sell Coffee: This Is The Secret to Unbelievable Growth
Most artists have a feast or famine, tumultuous rollercoaster sort of creative career path. It's nearly impossible to thrive in these sorts of extreme conditions.
Building a consistently thriving business while navigating such enormous peaks and such treacherous valleys is a completely unattainable achievement.
In this episode we explore the secret ingredient to getting consistent results, sales and opportunities in your creative career.
We explore how to, on a s…
231 - The Power of Finding Your People with Jessica Hische
Jessica Hische RETURNS!!!
There are few people who had a bigger impact on my creative career than Jessica Hische and I am SO THRILLED to have her back on the show. Jessica's approach to her side projects and creative career deeply influenced my biggest breakthroughs and I am SO THRILLED to have her back on the show for round 2!
If you don't know, Jessica is a New York Times Best Selling Children's Author and Illustrator, as well as a commercial lettering artist…