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

Episodes

535 - If You Only Listen to One Episode of this Podcast This Year Make it This One

December 17, 2025 • 45 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- The Creative Pep Talk Top 5 BEST IDEAS from 2025. This is a FUN BLITZ through the most essential ideas and tactics from our past year of episodes. This was exciting and helpful for me to review, and I can’t wait for you to hear this jam packed, end of year episod...

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534 - New Fire for Sticking to the Path with Filmmaker Seth Worley

December 10, 2025 • 107 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- This was one of my favorite chats!!! DEEP DIVE with my friend and Filmmaker Seth Worley! We get into: 1 - Finding the drive to stick to long creative quests, especially when you’re not sure you’re going to reach your goal! 2 - Why to make a proof of concept of ...

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533 - Make People Feel Things, Hope in AI Crazed World AND Create to Your Taste

December 3, 2025 • 75 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- This is a favorite! Special edition of ask Dr. Pizza episode! This time the questions come from the hosts of the Grupo de Autoayuda de Dibujo podcast! THE CRUSHED IT! SHOW NOTES: Grupo de Autoayuda de Dibujohttps://www.instagram.com/grupodeautoayudadedibujo/h...

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532 - THIS is Your Creative Secret Weapon that You’re Ignoring

November 26, 2025 • 34 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- Who doesn’t want better opportunities? The key is standing out and having a unique creative offering. But that is much easier said than done, when it feels like EVERYTHING has been DONE! How do you find your edge? I have had some client opportunities come may wa...

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531 - Risks that Land Big Jobs, Be Your Own Client & Find Your Sound with Composer Oli Julian

November 19, 2025 • 59 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- If you’re used to doing work for clients, it can be tough to then create your own solo project. On the other hand, if you’re only used to doing your own thing, working for a client can feel impossible! How do you find yourself and your creative voice in the mix of...

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530 - Something Simple to Do When Mental Health Derails You with Frannerd

November 12, 2025 • 73 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- FRANNERD RETURNS! Illustrator, Comic Artist and YouTuber Fran Meneses is a long time friend of the show and it’s been 6 years since her last episode! We dive deep into: 1 - When mental health “gets in the way” of your creative plans and what has seemed to help bo...

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529 - Escape Your Creative Rut with This 5 Part Creative Hygiene Checklist

November 5, 2025 • 41 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- Like sleep, creativity is something you can’t force. It’s a brain state that you have to slip into. But that doesn’t mean you can’t create the perfect conditions for this state to be more likely to occur. If you have been blocked or in a rut, this episode will give...

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528 - Overcome Urge to Bury Artwork, Escape Overthinking, Cultivate Your Spark & Re-Find Magic

October 29, 2025 • 78 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- We cover a LOT in this episode. If you want some PEP but you’re not sure exactly what it is you need, we probably cover it in this episode! We explore: When the reality of creating isn’t what we thought it would be. How to find your flow when things got stale. E...

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527 - Visual Journaling: Generate Ideas, Mindfulness and Creative Voice with Samantha Dion Baker

October 22, 2025 • 53 mins

Stay pepped ALL NEXT YEAR with our 2026 Calendar: creativepeptalk.etsy.com --- Visual journaling can unlock your creativity, but it can also enhance your life. If you are struggling to tune into your everyday life and find inspiration there, this is the episode for you! Samantha Dion Baker has written the book on this! Well 3 books on this!! So much goodness in this episode! SHOW NOTES: Samantha Dion Bakerhttps://www.sdionba...

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526 - Your Niche is Hiding in The Last Place You’d Look

October 15, 2025 • 31 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- Find your niche. Stand out from the competition. Find your unique selling point. Easier said than done. Right? In this episode we explore where your creative edge might be hiding and how to strategically think about your place within the creative markets you find ...

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525 - The Prerequisite to Connecting with Potential Fans

October 8, 2025 • 42 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- Do you feel like the stuff you’re putting out is white noise in an already noisy world? In this episode we explore what you need to cut through and connect with the hearts of your potential fans. SHOW NOTESStudy: “Seeing your life story as a Hero's Journey incr...

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524 - How to Know Whether to Push On or Give Up

October 1, 2025 • 39 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- Does this sound familiar? You find a new thing. You’re certain this is THE thing. It all makes sense! You get started with tons of energy… but then you hit a wall. It all feels wrong. You bail. Find a new thing and the loop starts all over. If you can relate. This...

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523 - The Power of Finding Your Attention Aperture, Neurotype and School of Thought

September 24, 2025 • 45 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- This episode contains three small things that made a huge difference in my creative practice! Tune in if you know you need a creative boost, but you’re not EXACTLY sure what it is you need because this is like THREE mini episodes in ONE. SHOW NOTES: Strengths...

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522 - The Unexpected Thing that Suddenly Unlocked My Creative Brain

September 17, 2025 • 33 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- If you’re a creative type, you probably don’t quite fit into the systems you were born into. This can be VERY DIFFICULT. There’s a lot of pressure for folks like us to beat ourselves up into a shape that fits society. In this episode, I want to share the number 1 ...

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CPT Presents: Origin Stories - Dan Taberski on Hysterical

September 15, 2025 • 34 mins

Sharing a new podcast from Campside Media called Origin Stories, about the creative process and the craft of writing and reporting. Each episode drills down on a single work. What inspired it? How was it created, and why? What kind of challenges and hurdles cropped up along the way? And above all, what can the rest of us learn from the guest’s creative process? In this episode, Matt talks to Dan Taberski about his podcast “Hyster...

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521 - How to Quit Worrying About Other’s Opinions & Finally Create What You Want

September 10, 2025 • 40 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- Are you so worried about other people’s opinions you don’t make or share anything? Need a tool for finding the thing you’re so passionate about that you’ll finally have the courage to put yourself out there? If so, this episode is for you! We all wish we could q...

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520 - Does Creating Feel Hollow Right Now? How to Unlock New Fire

September 3, 2025 • 34 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- This episode is for you if: - The chaos of the world is making creative work feel meaningless- Need to remember why making creative work is your passion- You need a dose of art that makes you remember what life is about SHOW NOTES:Producer / Editor: Sophie Mill...

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519 - Access Imagination and Intuition that Ai Can’t Touch with Angus Fletcher PhD

August 27, 2025 • 98 mins

This episode is for you if you need: - To tap into your intuition and imagination in a deeper way than ever before - A boost of hope for your creative future and the future of human creativity - To hear two creativity nerds getting EXTREMELY excited about art, story and human potential!!! Pretty much everyday you are told that AI is coming for your job, but NOT TODAY, because today we talk with Angus Fletcher PhD. Angus is an ...

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518 - The Hope I Found in This Rapidly Changing Creative Landscape

August 20, 2025 • 37 mins

Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter: http://andyjpizza.substack.com --- The chaotic changes we are currently experiencing are truly unreal. Tech. Platforms. Politics. Economy. It’s an upheaval. It’s very easy to slip into a full on panic when looking into your creative future. In this episode I want to share something that helped me fi...

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CPT Presents: The Ghost Frame Podcast Episode 1 "The Endless Hallway"

August 13, 2025 • 48 mins

Check Out the rest of the Ghost Frame series:Ghost Frame on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ghost-frame/id1814128797 Ghost Frame on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/4dpUSAANUNsukVTMbkuEDC?si=1cbe0dba190045c5 --- This week we are featuring an episode of the “Ghost Frame” podcast by animator / illustrator / director Sarah Beth Morgan. This 5 part narrative non-fiction series is about the rapid flux in th...

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Creative Pep Talk

Episodes

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.css-r6mb8g{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:1;overflow:hidden;}534 - New Fire for Sticking to the Path with Filmmaker Seth Worley

533 - Make People Feel Things, Hope in AI Crazed World AND Create to Your Taste

532 - THIS is Your Creative Secret Weapon that You’re Ignoring

531 - Risks that Land Big Jobs, Be Your Own Client & Find Your Sound with Composer Oli Julian

530 - Something Simple to Do When Mental Health Derails You with Frannerd

529 - Escape Your Creative Rut with This 5 Part Creative Hygiene Checklist

528 - Overcome Urge to Bury Artwork, Escape Overthinking, Cultivate Your Spark & Re-Find Magic

527 - Visual Journaling: Generate Ideas, Mindfulness and Creative Voice with Samantha Dion Baker

526 - Your Niche is Hiding in The Last Place You’d Look

525 - The Prerequisite to Connecting with Potential Fans

524 - How to Know Whether to Push On or Give Up

523 - The Power of Finding Your Attention Aperture, Neurotype and School of Thought

522 - The Unexpected Thing that Suddenly Unlocked My Creative Brain

CPT Presents: Origin Stories - Dan Taberski on Hysterical

521 - How to Quit Worrying About Other’s Opinions & Finally Create What You Want

520 - Does Creating Feel Hollow Right Now? How to Unlock New Fire

519 - Access Imagination and Intuition that Ai Can’t Touch with Angus Fletcher PhD

518 - The Hope I Found in This Rapidly Changing Creative Landscape

CPT Presents: The Ghost Frame Podcast Episode 1 "The Endless Hallway"

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