466 - How Embracing the Indie Spirit Unblocks Your Path with Yoni Wolf

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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A chat with Yoni Wolf of the band WHY? - I have been a massive fan for YEARS and you've heard their music every week on the show! You may also have heard more of the the band in our Right Side Out Series. This episode is for you if you are sick and tired of waiting for someone to let you do the creative work you want to be making, if you need inspiration for how to put more of yourself into your work or if you need a fresh helping of that feeling of why we do creative work at all - and stick until the end for a CTIA called NO MITT FOR THESE PITCHES on the mindset shift that helped me go from a place of fruitlessly pitching tons unsuccessful book ideas to publishers and into a place where I’ve been consistently making books for the past four years! Riverside - The easiest way for you and your team to record, edit and share professional grade Videos and Podcasts, from anywhere in the world. https://creators.riverside.fm/creativepeptalk SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com WHY? https://whywithaquestionmark.com/ WHY?'s latest album: The Well that I Fell Into https://lnk.to/twifi Yoni Wolf's Substack https://yoniwolf.substack.com/ ANTICON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticon Adam "Doesone" Drucker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doseone SPONSORS: Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met - Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way. Check out Immaterial here: https://bio.to/ImmaterialPodcast!PScreativepeptalk Riverside - The easiest way for you and your team to record, edit and share professional grade Videos and Podcasts, from anywhere in the world. https://creators.riverside.fm/creativepeptalk

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0:00.0	On the creative journey it's easy to get lost but don't worry you'll lift off
0:10.0	sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.
0:15.0	Hey, you're listening to Creative Pep Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your creative journey.
0:26.7	I'm your host, Andy J. Pizza.
0:28.3	I'm a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and this show is everything
0:32.4	I'm learning about building and maintaining a thriving
0:35.2	creative practice. This episode is for you if you are sick and tired of waiting for someone to let you do the creative work that you want to be making.
0:52.0	If you need inspiration for how to put more of
0:55.4	yourself into your work or if you just need a fresh helping of that feeling of why we do creative work at all and stick until the end for a CTIA called
1:09.4	no MIT for these pitches on the mindset shift that helped me go from a place of fruitlessly
1:16.7	pitching tons of unsuccessful book ideas to publishers and into a place where I've been consistently making books for the past few years.
1:25.0	Let's get into it. And
1:35.0	massive thanks to Square Space.
1:41.0	Square Space is an all-in- one website platform that makes making a website easy, peasy.
1:47.6	For a moment, creative websites were kind of looking all the same and I really wanted to break
1:52.0	out of the templity look.
1:54.0	Then I heard that Square Space has this new fluid engine
1:59.0	and boy am I glad I checked it out because this thing is what I always dreamed making a website could be like for me.
2:07.6	Drag and drop stuff and then drag it all over the place, text, images, videos, you can put it wherever you want, layer it up, tear it up.
2:15.8	Everything I cooked up in my mind I could figure out how to do without any knowledge of coding.
2:21.2	Got a lot of comments like, hey helped you build this and I was like square
2:25.2	space is fluid engine baby you can see it at anti-J pizza.com and head to
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