473 - The 3 Steps from Strangers to True Fans

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Why aren’t more people discovering and embracing your work? It must not be good enough, right? You’ve heard it a billion times: Just do the work. But what if obsessively overthinking and over-tinkering is just as dangerous of a distraction as procrastination? What would it look like if you redirected some of your focus away from micro-creative improvements and towards developing a more intentional relationship with new fans? In this episode we explore how to get new people to discover your work and form a meaningful long lasting connection with them as well! Head to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK 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 Nancy Duarte https://www.ted.com/speakers/nancy_duarte Billy Eichner https://www.instagram.com/billyeichner Invisible Things Books https://www.andyjpizza.com/invisiblethingsbook Also Mentioned: Andy Stanley 'Don't plan on winning the lottery'

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0:00.0	Take a deep breath in and then breathe out.
0:07.0	Did you know that conscious breathing can significantly decrease stress and anxiety?
0:11.0	And if you're wanting less of those in your life, then meditation is key.
0:14.7	The Meditation for Women Podcast provides free daily guided meditations covering just about
0:19.5	every topic so it's easy to press play and let yourself be guided to more calm and clarity.
0:25.8	Listen and follow meditation for women on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your
0:29.7	podcasts. guests. Don't worry you'll lift off sometimes Pep Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your
0:58.0	creative journey. I'm your host, Andy Jay Pizza. I'm a New York Times
1:01.2	best-selling author and illustrator and this show is everything I'm learning about building and maintaining a thriving creative practice. This is chapter one in a new series we're doing called Journey of the True Fan.
1:24.8	Have you ever made something that you love so much,
1:29.3	but when you put it out into the world,
1:31.5	it just totally fell flat. Like maybe it's even worse than that. Like you
1:38.1	made something you knew was your best work. You knew that on a creative level, this was a breakthrough.
1:46.1	You knew that it should generate more positive momentum in your creative practice than the
1:52.2	things that you made before because it was better.
1:55.7	But when you finally put it out there, when you finally let the cat out of the bag, even though you
2:02.1	know this stuff is the good stuff and you maybe even also know that you shouldn't get your hopes up,
2:10.0	you have built up this launch or this post or this moment so much in your mind as this thing that is going to change everything and you know mark this totally new chapter in your creative practice but when you let it out
2:28.6	the world is crickets It's just nothing.
2:35.0	This is an awful experience.
2:37.6	It's happened to me plenty of times,
2:40.0	but it's even riskier than just some hurt feelings or unmet expectations because if you do this
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