Creative Pep Talk
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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This episode is for you if:
1 - You struggle to find the joy in your creative practice.
2 - You’re constantly distracted by schemes to fix all your problems.
3 - You get taken out and waste time with feelings of jealous or envy and they make you want to give up.
4 - You need shift gears and reorient yourself for the...
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This episode is for you if you need:
1 - Tactics for escaping overthinking.
2 - More fun in your creative practice.
3 - Insights on how to find your child like passion for creating again.
4 - Something unexpected to spark you!
This is a phenomenal chat with the great Austin Kleon.
The guy is full of creative wisdom and ...
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June 3, 2026 • 24 mins
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Most creative people don’t need help being creative.
You have the ideas. Where you trip up is the executive dysfunction. It’s getting yourself to start, middle, and finish the thing strong.
In this episode I want to share with you the number 1 things that’s helped me, a creative with MEGA ADHD,...
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Your genius might be hiding in your backyard.
This episode is for you if:
1 - You need to find real people to collaborate with.
2 - You need to cultivate real creative connection in real life.
3 - You need hope of a more human future for creativity.
4 - You want to be inspired by a brilliant creative mind like Hanif!
I ...
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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 messages so that I could clear this up. I really love this episode and I am glad we fixed it!
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May 13, 2026 • 60 mins
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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 nothing and need a small place to start.
3 - You need to find new guidance from an outside perspective.
This is a chat with musician Hrishikesh Hirway. You may know Hirway from his phenomenal podc...
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Most of us start making things because on some level it feels good! It feels like a meditation. It brings flow. It helps us process.
But if you ever get serious about your work, you may also accidentally lose all these positives and replace them with negative side effects like pressure, anxiety, and even despair.
If you wan...
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April 29, 2026 • 45 mins
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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 - You want to put more of your real self into your work and need help understanding how to do that.
3 - You need some fun and unexpected exercises to get back in touch with what you really care abo...
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April 22, 2026 • 48 mins
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It’s been 2 years since we originally aired this episode.
This is part 1 of our 6 part audio memoir series “Right Side Out”.
On the surface it’s about my journey with ADHD and making peace with being “just like my mom”. But underneath, what it’s really about, is YOU. It&rs...
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April 15, 2026 • 30 mins
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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 fed up with consuming so much junk online and need tactics to start consuming better creative stuff that inspires you again.
3 - Need to dive deeper into the science of why your rela...
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April 8, 2026 • 44 mins
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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 you’re not making as much as you want to be
3 - You feel in a low place creatively and need to remember why you care about creating
4 - You feel ill from so much doomscrolling and ...
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April 1, 2026 • 73 mins
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Listen if:
1 - All the habit advice doesn’t work you as an emotional creative type
2 - You are tired of fighting yourself to make the changes you want to make
3 - You need an exercise for discovering your deepest held values
If these hit home, this deep dive with author and podcaster Eric Zimmer was made for you!
S...
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March 25, 2026 • 35 mins
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This episode is for you if:
1 - You have so many ideas but struggle to realize many of them!
2 - Most productivity advice doesn’t work for you.
3 - You need to feel excited and hopeful again about your creative practice.
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Creative Pep Talk Ep 548 with Jarod K. Andersonhttps://www.creativepeptalk.com/draf...
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March 18, 2026 • 68 mins
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This episode is for you if:
1 - You have had a hard time tapping into your unique creative voice.
2 - You feel disempowered as a creative and feel like you need agents, managers, or talent scouts to succeed.
3 - You need help clearing out the noise in your brain and hearing your creative voice again.
This is a chat with p...
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March 11, 2026 • 28 mins
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 or ideas for your creative practice.
3 - You are ruminating on painful things from your life or from the state of the world, and it’s stopping you from taking action.
4 - You feel your best ideas ar...
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March 4, 2026 • 72 mins
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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 or neurodivergent person needing an example of how to do lots of things well.
3 - Your soul could use some warmth and grounding!
This chat is with wonderful Poet and Author Jarod K. Anderson AKA Th...
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February 25, 2026 • 35 mins
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I got it wrong for so long. When I started my creative practice I thought I needed two things: 1 Get Discovered and 2 Make the Sale. I was missing the secret 3rd ingredient. In this episode we explore this secret hidden sauce and how to make it the center...
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February 18, 2026 • 39 mins
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It is VERY easy to get off balance as a creative person because creativity is a delicate balance of many things. In this episode, we will explore 3 areas that require creative tension and how to diagnose where you may be off and need a pivot.
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February 11, 2026 • 55 mins
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My editor Conner loved this episode, which is always a good sign!
Two reasons to listen to this:
1 - If your work feels stale or a long term project feels stuck, and you have been wondering if you need to switch it up, reboot, or pivot, this episode is for y...
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February 4, 2026 • 43 mins
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This episode is for you if:
1 - The idea of making something often feels scary.
2 - You don’t like your work anymore.
3 - You forgot why this used to be fun.
4 - You want to stand out in your field but don’t know how.
5 - You want an exercise that unlocks the flowy fun feeling part of your creative brain.
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