553 - Recover Sense of Self & Creative Voice with These 6 Juicy Prompts
4/29/202646 min
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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 about and who you really are. Check out the “Right Side Out” Series here: http://andyjpizza.com/rso SHOW NOTES: Producer / Editor: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.comSpotify Playlist of WHY? Songs Used on This Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZIE7PHG5I1Ddg1BuVGRzj?si=4x_BzDZjQgqSpoaLXdVACg&pi=h4HsIKG0SP6Kg SPONSORS:SQUARESPACEHead to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAndy J. Pizza· Host0:00
I'm guessing most of you have seen the movie The Lion King. There's a moment in that movie where Simba's father, Mufasa, is in the clouds, and he says, "Remember who you are." And in that moment, I think there's probably two types of people that see this movie. One type is just like, "This is pr- this is a pretty cool kids movie." And then the other type is like that lady in Napoleon Dynamite with the, uh, ship in the bottle and turns to her husband and is like, "I want that." Like, I want that. I want a being from my past in the clouds to show up and be like, "Remember who you are, Andy." Because I have a sense that I have often forgotten who I am. I don't know if it's because I'm neurodivergent, and I'm ADHD, and I feel the need to mask everywhere I go, often to hide weird ways that I am or ways that I feel like I'm gonna be judged. And so I do that. I have that mask on so often that I can forget that that's not me, and I can lose touch with who I am. And that's a huge problem just in life, but it's an even bigger problem if you're an artist because what you're trying to do is be yourself on purpose and then repeat it. Like Dolly Parton, uh, said that art is being yourself on purpose. And I feel like that's hard to do if you don't know who you freaking are. And I can look back on myself