560 - Get Back to Passion, Ignore the Internet, Reorient to "Bad" Creative Feelings and Find Your Next Season
6/17/202640 min
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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 new creative season you find yourself in today. SHOW NOTES: ICON 13 ILLUSTRATION CONFERENCE $100 OFF:www.eventbrite.com/e/1808652431109/?discount=ICON13FriendofBoard Ira Glass - Tastehttps://vimeo.com/85040589 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 RULARula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/peptalk #rulapod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAndy J. Pizza· Host0:00
[upbeat music] This is not an ad, it's a gift. I'm going to be at the Icon Illustration Conference this year in July, doing a handful of different things, and I asked them if they could give me a discount for the listeners of this show, because I would love to see you there and hang out at the after parties and whatnot, and they let me have a $100 discount, uh, to share with you, which is just so generous and so awesome. If you're an illustrator, I highly recommend going to Icon. It's been a magical experience the times that I've gone. Even the first time in 2014 that I went, it was a very scary leap, but so worth it. Go to icon.creativepeptalk.com to learn more. The discount is automatically applied to that link, icon.creativepeptalk.com. Hope to see you there. Are you creatively hungry for something that you just don't even know what it is? You're creatively hungry for you don't know what. "I just know I need something. Feeling needy creatively. I know I need a boost. I know I need an insight. I know I need a fresh perspective, but I just don't even know what it is, so I can't even pick an episode. I can't even find any book or resource that's gonna help me get out of it, 'cause I don't even know what it is." If that's you, this is your freaking episode. It's a smorgasbord. It's a grab bag of [laughs] of different ideas. So something in this is gonna do it for you. We're gonna explore a handful of different things that may be happening in your creatively creative emotional state or in your creative journey, obstacles you're facing. So something on this episode