468 - How to Save Your Creativity from Toxic "Business Mind" Quicksand

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This episode is for you if: -You keep giving up -You violently swing your focus from money-making, to never mixing money and creativity ever again -You need a method for staying true to your creative core and not getting swept away by all the shiny objects 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 Lisa Miller PhD - The Awakened Brain https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608347/the-awakened-brain-by-lisa-miller-phd/ Jill Bolte Taylor PhD - Whole Brain Living https://www.drjilltaylor.com/whole-brain-living/ Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/314324/the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces-by-joseph-campbell/ Carl Jung - The Tension of Opposites https://www.amazon.com/Man-His-Symbols-Carl-Jung/dp/0440351839 Christopher Nolan - Inception https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/ The Matrix https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ Susan Cain - Bittersweet https://susancain.net/book/bittersweet/ Lin-Manuel Miranda - Hamilton https://www.hamiltonmusical.com/ About Time https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194499/ Charlie Brown Christmas https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059026/ Joe Hisaishi - Composer for Miyazaki Films https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386749/ Hayao Miyazaki - Animator and Filmmaker https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594503/ The PodGlomerate network https://www.podglomerate.com/ Newsletter signup https://andyjpizza.substack.com/ "Invisible Things" project Invisiblethings.co Invisible Things Enamel Pins https://www.etsy.com/shop/CreativePepTalk?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1290656010&from_page=listing§ion_id=33163429 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

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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. I don't know about you but for me it's really easy to fall into
0:49.7	obsessing over the career aspect of my creativity, the numbers, the views, the clicks, the money, etc.
1:00.8	It's extremely easy to become obsessed with that once you let it enter the idea of having a creative practice.
1:11.0	Once your creativity is not just for you, just as a hobby, it's really hard to
1:18.4	continue to strike that balance and remember why you like to make creative stuff in the first place.
1:24.3	It's super easy to get distracted by what other people are doing and what seems to be
1:30.7	working, what seems to be making the most money or taking off or getting the most views,
1:36.1	it's really hard to, once you let that voice in, to quiet it enough to tap back into your own inner voice and your own inner perspective
1:47.4	and why you chose to make creative work or what you care about or what your personal
1:51.8	taste is or what you're most passionate
1:53.8	about right now it's really really hard to strike that balance and it can become a
1:59.2	very all or nothing thing. If you find yourself swearing off ever thinking about money
2:05.5	or ever selling your work or ever letting that infiltrate your creativity ever
2:09.8	again and then going back and forth and back and forth this episode is for you and if you stick to the very end I'm going to come back with a
2:18.9	method a tool called the right token that is a thing that you can carry with you
2:25.1	throughout the rest of your creative journey that can help you course correct and
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