Listen to this episode if you: Want to dig deeper and personally interpret new expressions of your daydreams into actionable steps. Are looking for ways to get excited about what you’re dreaming up. Finding where those more fantastical dreams are valuable and practical in the world. Episode four celebrating January Dreamuary. SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Episode 435 - For drawing your dreams without judgement. CALL TO ADVENTURE Find the best exchange rate. Where are people who most value what you do? Look for the folks from similar life experiences and non-negotiables, create a possible unique selling point. SUPPORT THE SHOW You can support Creative Pep Talk and my creative practice on Patreon (patreon.com/creativepeptalk) or Substack (andyjpizza.substack.com). Either membership provides you access to our monthly Creative Pep Rally Zoom calls, tentatively planned for the last Monday of each month! Join us for the next virtual meetup on February 26th, 2024! You can also support the show by getting merch in our online shop: creativepeptalk.etsy.com SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much!

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439 - How to Transform Risky Daydreams into Empowering Goals

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Meera’s Substack Meera’s Website Meera’s illustration on Instagram mentioned around 18min. CALL TO ADVENTURE Flip the script. Be mindful the next time you create something and come at it from the opposite end. SUPPORT THE SHOW You can support Creative Pep Talk and my creative practice on Patreon (patreon.com/creativepeptalk) or Substack (andyjpizza.substack.com). Either membership provides you access to our monthly Creative Pep Rally Zoom calls, tentatively planned for the last Monday of each month! You can also support the show by getting merch in our online shop: creativepeptalk.etsy.com SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much!

438 - Something that's a Quick Fix to Overcome a Creative Rut + More with Meera Lee Patel

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path CALL TO ADVENTURE Review any of these 12 ideas/episodes that stood out to you from last year of Creative Pep Talk: ? 410 - How to Build The Foundation of a Creative Practice that Cultivates Superfans ? 385 - How to Reverse Engineer What Creative Goal to Focus On Next ? 377 - 3 Steps on Building The Essential Relationships in Your Creative Sphere ? 390 - How to Make Work that's More Creative and Less of a Grind ? 383 - 3 Steps for Creating the Work that Gets You The Work You're Perfect For ? 384 - 3 Sources of Creative Fuel for When You're Running on Empty with Hanif Abdurraqib ? 381 - Tried Everything but Nothing's Working? Studies Show This Creative Tactic is Often Overlooked ? 412 - A Process for Using Creative Influences to Find A Unique Path for Yourself ⏰ 396 - The 5 Flavors of Creativity & How Knowing Yours Can Reignite Your Spark ? 413 - Step by Step How to Insert Yourself Into Your Work in a Powerful Way ?️ 415 - The Dream Unlocking Art of Mastering How to Give Up ? 417 - The 2 Essential Elements of a Game Changing Creative Collaboration with Sophie Miller SUPPORT THE SHOW You can support Creative Pep Talk and my creative practice on Patreon (patreon.com/creativepeptalk) or Substack (andyjpizza.substack.com). Either membership provides you access to our monthly Creative Pep Rally Zoom calls, tentatively planned for the last Monday of each month! You can also support the show by getting merch in our online shop: creativepeptalk.etsy.com SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! JAKPRINTS Special thanks to our wonderful Ohio based printer, Jak Prints (Jakprints.com) for their help with the 2024 Creative Pep Talk Calendar – be sure to check them out for your print needs!

437 - How To Start Your Year Right: The 12 Creative Essentials Checklist

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Our PATREON virtual meetup, now on the last Monday of every month! Join us for the next one on January 29th, 2024! This Jungian Life Podcast Episode 076 on Animus and Anima Lisa Marchiano’s Website The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire by Lisa Marchiano – Out February 6th, 2024! Other mentionings: Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph. D. The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by Thomas Moore Vasilisa the Beautiful - Fairy Tale Inanna's Descent: A Sumerian Tale of Injustice The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist Dionysis - Greek Mythology Hephaestus - Greek Mythology The Elves and The Shoemaker by The Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tale SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS  Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

436 - 3 Powerful Tools from Depth Psychology for Making Deeper Work with Lisa Marchiano, LCSW

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Our PATREON virtual meetup, now on the last Monday of every month! Join us for the next one on January 29th, 2024! CALL TO ADVENTURE Create your daydream. Dream in your medium! SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS  Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

435 - How to Dream Again When You're Tired and Unready for the New Year

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Our PATREON virtual meetup, now on the last Monday of every month! Join us for the next one on January 29th, 2024!  ____ Bob Dylan - Magical Youth Clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wAZ02JUtM Original Creative Pep Talk on Booby Traps https://www.creativepeptalk.com/episodes/2018/10/9/202-for-when-you-feel-like-giving-up Right Side Out Pizza Story https://www.instagram.com/p/CAX66GsgYfX/ Lynda Barry https://drawnandquarterly.com/author/lynda-barry/ Dieter Rams Good Design Rules https://designmuseum.org/discover-design/all-stories/what-is-good-design-a-quick-look-at-dieter-rams-ten-principles Sister Corita Kent Art Class Rules https://www.creativelivesinprogress.com/article/corita-kent Everything is a Remix Kirby Ferguson https://www.everythingisaremix.info/ George Carlin Cardboard Cut Out Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewUVZZMXT8 Seth Godin More Good Ideas by Having More Bad Ideas https://seths.blog/2018/06/the-two-simple-secrets-to-good-ideas/#:~:text=Secret %231 is the biggest,easier than the opposite approach. James Clear Atomic Habits https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Creative-Habit/Twyla-Tharp/9780743235273 1000 True Fans Kevin Kelly https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ Austin Kleon Seasons https://austinkleon.com/2016/08/11/seasons/ Todd Henry Seasons https://accidentalcreative.com/podcasts/ac/ac-podcast-seasons/ Pantsers vs Plotter https://whenyouwrite.com/plotter-vs-pantser/#:~:text=A plotter is someone who,their pots on the stove SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS  Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!  

434 - Creative Pep Talk's 10 Rules of A Thriving Creative Practice *REPLAY*

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available at creativepeptalk.com/episodes! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Our PATREON virtual meetup, now on the last Monday of every month! Join us for the next one on January 29th, 2024! Human Rhythms Series: Part Four Do Less - Hidden Brain episode with Leidy Klotz Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less - Book by Leidy Klotz Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Book by Greg McKeown Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Book by Cal Newport Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Book by Oliver Burkeman CALL TO ADVENTURE The Zeigarnik Cache Clearing Brain dump for 10 minutes on a piece of paper. 80-20 your list. How much time will they take? Do as many of the shorter tasks as possible in one chunk of time! SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS  Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

433 - Tried Everything but Nothing's Working? Studies Show This Creative Tactic is Often Overlooked *REPLAY*

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Scott Erickson on Instagram - “I Get To” post Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories by Angus Fletcher Frankenstein by Mary Shelley “Give what you didn't get.” — Garry Shandling CALL TO ADVENTURE Three magic words. I Choose You SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at

432 - Creatively Drowning? The 3 Magic Words that Helped Me

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday The Artist’s Journey by Steven Pressfield CALL TO ADVENTURE Brain dump. Brain buckets. Brain balance. SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS  Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

431 - How to Get Out of Your Own Way When You Can’t Seem to Start or Finish Something

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Marlee Grace’s Podcast, Common Shapes Off the Grid Podcast CALL TO ADVENTURE Three questions before you make anything for free: Is this the right channel for the medium? What is the purpose? Is that the purpose I need to be focused on? SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS  Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

430 - How To Break Free From Serving Social Media In 3 Steps

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Melissa’s Website Melissa’s TED Talk, How I found myself – by impersonating other people Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by by Soren Kierkegaard You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith PeteyUSA on TikTok CALL TO ADVENTURE The either or method.   SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

429 - Insights on Juggling Multiple Art Forms Well with Melissa Villaseñor

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs CALL TO ADVENTURE Convertible mooning!  Top down, bottoms up assessment of your personal needs. Coin, community, confidence, and connotation. SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS  Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

428 - The Remedy for When You’re Running in Ten Different Directions & Getting Nowhere

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path OR get the Creative DIet Pyramid https://www.creativepeptalk.com/diet Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Fran Meneses (Franerd)’s Youtube Channel - [Rolling Stone Music Challenge] CALL TO ADVENTURE Turn the other cheek! Find your guide and humble yourself, lean into the discomfort, and feel the burn anyway! SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS  Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

427 - Do This When Your Tried and True Method is Now Killing Your Creative Spark

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Lizzy Stewart’s Instagram Alison by Lizzy Stewart Walking Distance by Lizzy Stewart CALL TO ADVENTURE Redefine your mountain. How can you rethink the things you want to do? How can you downsize it in your mind to make it less intimidating? SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

426 - Mind Tricks to Move Past Your Own Mountains with Lizzy Stewart

SHOW NOTES Transcripts available on the Creative Pep Talk episode! Sign up to the newsletter and receive a FREE copy of The Creative Career Path e-book! https://www.creativepeptalk.com/path Check out the Creative Pep Talk shop at creativepeptalk.etsy.com Leave us a voicemail for a future Ask Dr. Pizza episode, by clicking the mic in the corner of https://www.creativepeptalk.com/! Austin Kleon’s Desk(s) Design Matters Podcast with Debbie Millman Brad Montague on the Insatiable Monster Internet 1000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly BCG Growth Share Matrix Creative Pepped Growth Share Matrix at https://www.creativepeptalk.com/p/growth/ SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

425 - Creative Work Not Working? It's One of These 3 Things + How to Not Get Stuck In Your Head

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