Creative Pep Talk

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 ___ BCG Growth Share Matrix Creative Pepped Growth Share Matrix CALL TO ADVENTURE Organize your practice through the lens of the BCG growth share matrix. What is your dog, cash cow, question mark, and star? 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!

SHOW NOTES Episode Transcript 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 The One Thing by Jay Papasan and Gary Keller Atomic Habits by James Clear Lisa Congdon Jessica Hische Kate Bingaman-Burt The NOD Daily Drawing Project Gretchen Rubin - The Four Tendencies   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!

SHOW NOTES Episode Transcript 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 Invisible Things – NEW PICTURE BOOK, OUT NOW! Follow Invisible Things on Instagram! CALL TO ADVENTURE Create a tension board. Similar to a mood board, but through the lens of a medium that feels opposite to you, being yourself in a place that is completely uncomfortable to you. What are the similarities to how you approached this, to how you approach your work? 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!

SHOW NOTES Episode Transcript 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 Follow Invisible Things on Instagram! PRE-ORDER INVISIBLE THINGS! Upcoming picture book out July 18th, 2023! *Currently with all pre-orders you can get a FREE poster! Hrishikesh Hirway’s Website What you discover when you really listen - TED Talk by Hrishikesh Hirway CALL TO ADVENTURE The Creative Key. Break down a favorite piece of your work into some behind the scenes kind of way, then create some new work that really makes this idea accessible. 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!

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Follow Invisible Things on Instagram! PRE-ORDER INVISIBLE THINGS! Upcoming picture book out July 18th, 2023! *Currently with all pre-orders you can get a FREE poster! ___ The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit - Book by Seth Godin The Gap by Ira Glass CALL TO ADVENTURE Focus on the locus of your control. Write down an action that is still able to move the needle towards what you’re after. If you don’t have an action, what is an opportunity you can pivot towards? Determine where to stick with the line you’re stuck in, or just keep pivoting. 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!

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT  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 Follow Invisible Things on Instagram! **PRE-ORDER INVISIBLE THINGS! Upcoming picture book out July 18th, 2023!** *Currently with all pre-orders you can get a FREE poster! ___ Grace Miceli’s Instagram Grace Miceli’s Website Draw It Out: Transform a Journal Entry into an Evocative Comic - Skillshare Class by Grace Miceli The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images "The Kekulé Problem" - Nautilus Article by Cormac McCarthy CALL TO ADVENTURE Write a life list (with no judgement). What do you associate with those things? What do they represent for you personally? SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS VOICE123 This episode is sponsored by Voice123, the first online marketplace for voice actors to grow their voice over business. Got a creative project you’d like to bring to life? Download our free step-by-step guid

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Follow Invisible Things on Instagram! PRE-ORDER INVISIBLE THINGS! Upcoming picture book out July 18th, 2023! *Currently with all pre-orders you can get a FREE poster! ––– Greek Myth - Theseus and the Minotaur CALL TO ADVENTURE Active Imagination Take the connections from your collections, put them on the page and start asking yourself, what are these about? Daydreaming into intention, without judgment. (The Creative Self Excavation Series) SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS ADOBE FRESCO Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists, illustrators, animators, sketchers, and anyon

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Follow Invisible Things on Instagram! PRE-ORDER INVISIBLE THINGS! Upcoming picture book out July 18th, 2023! Currently with all pre-orders you can get a FREE poster! ––– Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings) by Maria Popova Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity - The Marginalian by Maria Popova EPISODE 392 with Kirby Ferguson Everything Is A Remix by Kirby Ferguson CALL TO ADVENTURE Make a dry bones collage. Erase the boundaries and find connecting points between the collections you’ve unearthed. (The Creative Self Excavation Series) SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS ADOBE FRESCO Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes,

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Follow Invisible Things on Instagram! PRE-ORDER INVISIBLE THINGS! Upcoming picture book out July 18th, 2023! *Currently with all pre-orders you can get a FREE poster! Greek Myth - Theseus and the Minotaur CALL TO ADVENTURE Psychological mudlarking! Unearthing psychically charged symbols, stories, and archetypes from your life. Digging into, collecting the things holding energy. mud•lark (n): a person who scavenges in river mud for objects of value. (The Creative Self Excavation Series) SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS ADOBE FRESCO Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Follow Invisible Things on Instagram! PRE-ORDER INVISIBLE THINGS! Upcoming picture book out July 18th, 2023! *Currently with all pre-orders you can get a FREE poster! James Acaster’s new project, “Temps” CALL TO ADVENTURE Flip the pyramid. Maslow’s upside down flow chart – finding self, finding the scene, and finding the superfans. (The Creative Self Excavation Series) SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS ADOBE FRESCO Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists, illustrators, animators, sketchers, and anyone who wants to discover, or rediscover, the joy of drawing and painting.

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Anoosha Syed’s Website Anoosha’s YouTube Channel CALL TO ADVENTURE Own your monster. What do you think is the number one thing holding you back? Can you face it head-on? SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS STORYBLOCKS Video is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimited Downloads, and 1M+ Royalty Free Assets - you can level up your content at storyblocks.com/CreativePepTalk ADOBE FRESCO Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists, illustrat

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 CALL TO ADVENTURE Start with just one word. Use your creative medium to explore that from all these different angles. SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS STORYBLOCKS Video is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimited Downloads, and 1M+ Royalty Free Assets - you can level up your content at storyblocks.com/CreativePepTalk ADOBE FRESCO Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists, illustrators, animators, sketchers, and anyone who wants to d

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Maggie Smith’s Website “You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir” New Book from Maggie Smith SPONSORS & SHOUT OUTS ADOBE FRESCO Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists, illustrators, animators, sketchers, and anyone who wants to discover, or rediscover, the joy of drawing and painting. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Windows. https://adobefresco.app.link/CPT STORYBLOCKS Video is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimi

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Check out Conner Jones' - Pending Beautiful Collective CALL TO ADVENTURE The Super-Fan Flow Chart What is the verb you associate with what you want to create? Do you know where are people doing that? Do you know who they are? Have you made a project that would connect to them? SPONSORS ADOBE FRESCO Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists, illustrators, animators, sketchers, and anyone who wants to discover, or rediscover, the joy of drawing and painting. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Windows. https://adobefresco.app.link/CPT STORYBLOCKS Video is one of

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 WTF with Marc Maron - Ep. 1412 with the Daniels The Grow Show - Ep. 49 How to Make Your Podcast & Target Audience More Specific This Jungian Life Podcast Off the Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster CALL TO ADVENTURE Trust, embrace, follow, and be open to your curiosity. SPONSORS OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 In Writing with Hattie Crisell - S5 Ep46. Ruben Östlund In Writing with Hattie Crisell - S4 Ep41. Georgia Pritchett) You Are a Storyteller with Brian McDonald and Jesse Bryan - The Land of the Dead and Its Use in Stories NPR’s Life Kit - Making art is good for your health. Philosophize This - Ep173. Simone Weil, The Need for Roots CALL TO ADVENTURE Dissolve into the whole. Open up to losing your sense of individualism to get in touch with the collective experience. SPONSORS ADOBE FRESCO Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built for the latest stylus and touch devices. Fresco brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary live brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience. For artists, illustrators, animators, sketche

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Eric Zimmer’s The One You Feed Podcast The One You Feed Podcast - How to Improve Your Life with Atomic Habits with James Clear (Part 1) The One You Feed Podcast - How to Improve Your Life with Atomic Habits with James Clear (Part 2) Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Book by Betty Edwards Either/Or: A Fragment of Life - Book by Søren Kierkegaard CALL TO ADVENTURE Take an upside down perspective. How can you approach your practice or project from different angles of intention? SPONSORS STORYBLOCKS Video is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimited Downloads, and 1M+ Royalty Free Assets - you can level up your content at storyblocks.com/CreativePepTalk ADOBE FR

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Grease (Movie) Indigo De Souza’s Website (Musician) Nancy Duarte Ted Talk - The Secret Structure of Great Talks CALL TO ADVENTURE What would you do if social currency or coolness didn’t exist? What would you do? What would you make? SPONSORS STORYBLOCKS Video is one of my most effective ways to stand out as a creator online these days - and with Storyblocks you can take your videos to the next level - with Affordable Subscriptions, Unlimited Downloads, and 1M+ Royalty Free Assets - you can level up your content at storyblocks.com/CreativePepTalk OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 CALL TO ADVENTURE Identify your three P’s. People Practice/Project Product SPONSORS CANVAS The Canvas lamp makes it easy to get the right lighting every time for the videos you make with your phone. Enjoy this super stable and well made product while supporting a small, family owned business in Birmingham, Alabama. Go check out this lamp at shopcanvas.co/peptalk OUR PATREON BACKERS Thank you patrons, we appreciate you so much! If you have the means, support the show at patreon.com/creativepeptalk!

SHOW NOTES TRANSCRIPT 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 Sophie Miller’s Website Sophie Miller’s Instagram CALL TO ADVENTURE Define your creative battle cry! What is a want that is getting in the way of a need? Find your anti-goal of your creative practice. SPONSORS CANVAS The Canvas lamp makes it easy to get the right lighting every time for the videos you make with your phone. Enjoy this super stable and well made product while supporting a small, family owned business in Birmingham, Alabama. Go check out this lamp at shopcanvas.co/peptalk JAKPRINTS Thanks to our wonderful Ohio based print partner Jakprints.com Jakprints has always been a different kind of company: Independent printers focused on giving designers, musicians, artists and everyday businesses access to the print quality (and customer service) that the biggest brands take for granted. Twenty-so