Episodes
230 - The Number 1 Most Essential Tactic I Used to Build My Creative Career
Don't you just love that moment the trailer drops for a sequel you've been dying to see?
That huge secret drop moment is so sexy we all fantasize about replicating this moment in our own creative work.
But the problem is if no one cared about your 'first film' no one's gonna be stoked about your super top secret trailer for movie 2 when you drop it.
So...
If an album drops on the internet and no one's there to hear it, does it mak…
229 - The 6 Step Process to Unlock Powerful Creative Business Momentum
What makes a good musician, writer or illustrator?
We’re told that it’s practice. Put in the time and you’ll become a master. But how many technically-masterful creative hometown heroes do you know that never even got close to making it?
Yes. They can shred the guitar like Hendrix. They can draw photorealistic portraits. They can write with perfect grammar and command a vast vocabulary.
They’ve put in their 10,000 hours...
And technically their craft is perfec…
228 - James Victore Gives Me A Pep Talk
It's time for Creative Pep Talk's cowboy uncle James Victore to come give you and me a pep talk!
If you're looking for some fresh determination, newfound inner strength and to embolden your self confidence, look no further!
In this episode James shares wisdom from his new book Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life.
We talk about:
- Finding your voice
- The mantra behind making great work
- The power of failure
- The defini…
227 - You'll Never Make Your Best Work While Believing This Lie
The mindset you approach your creative work with determines so much of the outcome, so it's super important that you have a healthy approach to your creativity.
Hollywood hasn't helped much on this front. There are hundreds of movies that perpetuate unhelpful creative stereotypes.
In this episode I want to address one of the most toxic creative myths plaguing creatives today. My hope is that this will help you establish a new perspective that will unleash your best …
226 - Beating Over Analysis, Leap into Full Time, Harsh Critics, Self Care and MORE
It is one of our fan favorite Ask Dr. Pizza Episodes!!
In this episode my studio mate Chris Graham asks me questions you sent in to the show.
We cover a range of topics including:
- When to Quit Your Job and Go Full Time
- How to not fall into over analysis
- Why your mental health might be in a fragile state
- Dealing with harsh critique
- Balancing Impact vs Glory
This feels like a really fresh take on this format for our show, and I have a feeling it…
225 - Resonance Breadcrumbs, Finding Your People & Courage to Let Go w/ Morgan Harper Nichols
225 - Resonance Breadcrumbs, Finding Your People & Courage to Let Go w/ Morgan Harper Nichols
Today we have a SUPER SPECIAL GUEST! Morgan Harper Nichols!!
There's not many creatives who are a better fit for our show than MHN!
Morgan's work has deep heart and it resonates deeply with her audience. Morgan's work is a gift to her audience and she shows up daily to provide value and love to her people through her lettering and illustration.
In t…
224 - How to Get Into Your Flow State (PT 3 of Call the Midwife Series)
Business planning is the easy part, now here comes the hard part: actually making the work! But it's supposed to be the fun part. How did we forget this?
When you try to make creativity your work it can kind of feel like trying to force yourself to have fun. Nothing is less fun than TRYING to have fun. Fun is something that just happens... or does it?!
Your best creative work will come from that joyous flow state of play and it's hard to find it under the weight of …
223 - The Strategy I Used to Crush My 2018 Goal in 12 Weeks (Call the Midwife Series Pt 2)
For years my goal setting strategy was less like a business tactic and more like a time capsule. I'd write my goals on my phone and then forget about them until a year later when I was making new ones.
Upon seeing the previous years goals my reaction was "Oh yeah, I forgot I even wanted to do that... well that didn't happen..."
LAST YEAR THOUGH this changed! I took a different approach to goal setting and action planning that caused my yearlong goal to be…
222 - How to GET SUPER PUMPED by Unearthing Your True Desire (Call the Midwife Series Pt 1)
Does your story feel stuck?
If you're feeling stuck it may be because you quit letting yourself dream. It may be because you're not really sure what your dream even is.
Stories only start because the main character wants something. It moves the plot forward, it calls the hero to action, it pushes them through conflict and obstacles.
And yet we often walk around day to day without any clear sense of desire. No wonder we feel apathetic and crushed by even th…
221 - How Personal Life Experience Leads to Deeply Authentic Work w/ Suzy Ultman PART 2
PART 2 of my conversation with my friend Suzy Ultman!
THIS IS THE PART WHERE we go DEEP into Suzy's life story as she graciously shares her experiences with having a sibling with terminal cancer, moving through a divorce and finding a self worth fighting for. We also talk about how these formative life experiences translate to new depths in your creative work.
This conversation was deeply transformative for me as a person and artist and I know it will be the same for you…
220 - 6 Tactics to Routinely Unlock Your Best Creative Self w/ Suzy Ultman PART 1
This two part conversation with my friend Suzy Ultman is sure to go down as one of our all time favorites in the Creative Pep Talk Podcast Hall of Fame!
It's no secret that I've been stressed out as of late, and that's part of the reason I reached out to my friend Suzy to be on the show. Suzy has this peaceful / intentional quality about her, and I invited over to the studio to share her mental health secrets with us!
Not only is Suzy just a great person to be …
219 - The 3 Journeys to Creative Transcendence & How to Know Which You're Stuck On
Do you feel like you haven't quite hit that level that you've been searching for in your creative career?
Maybe you know you haven't quite made it where you want to go, but you're not really sure where you're stuck?
In this episode, we discuss the 3 journey's every creative person much travel to get to the place we all want to go: CREATIVE TRANSCENDENCE!
What is creative transcendence? Well, you know it when you see it. It's that in…
218 - Want More Followers? Ask Yourself This
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 …
217 - Finding Your Style, Tricks for Getting Stuff Done, Imposter Syndrome & MORE
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
- …
216 - The Thing That's Always Held You Back & The Scientific Way to Defeat It
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?
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215 - Don't Keep Your Day Job with Cathy Heller
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! <…
214 - How to Send E-Mails that Change Your Life & MORE (BEST YEAR YET 2019 Pt 2 of 2)
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 w…
213 - 12 FRESH TACTICS to Get Your Work Seen That Will Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet! (Pt 1 of 2)
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 pe…
212 - How to Have Your True BIG BREAK!
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…
211 - Get Your Work Seen w/ Marketing Legend Seth Godin
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 sto…
210 - You've Been Lied To And It's Holding You Back
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!
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Why does she believe this? Because Lindsay Lohan lies to her.
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My point? Don’t eat carb bars… AND believing a lie can have TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES EVEN ABOVE AND BEYOND NOT BEING PROM READY!
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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…
209 -Self Doubt, ADHD and Breakthrough with Saiman Chow
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
208 - Find Your Focus, Motivation Secrets & Time Management
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…
207 - Defeat Burnout & Get Stoked Out of Your Mind About Making Stuff Again!
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 bur…