489 - How to Make Your Work More Personal with Comedian Alice Fraser

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Andy sits down to have a joint podcast episode with master storyteller and comedian Alice Fraser for both of their podcasts. In this episode we explore: - Making work that’s more personal and meaningful - The things to consider when sharing elements of your personal life in your work - Being a parent when you have a creative practice - Navigating the different stages of life / the creative journey Join our January Virtual Pep Rally by supporting on Substack or Patreon! andyjpizza.substack.com https://www.patreon.com/c/creativepeptalk SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.co Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.co Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com Alice Fraser https://www.alicecomedyfraser.com SPONSORS: SQUARESPACE Head to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK

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0:00.0	What do you
0:01.0	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.
0:19.0	What do you do when you end up in a place in your creative journey that you never expected to be?
0:29.4	Where everything you knew about being creative and what you loved about it and what it looked like and how it worked dramatically changes. I didn't ever see that
0:41.1	coming in my own creative practice, but over the past four years, so much has changed in the
0:46.9	world and also in my life that I've had to change my relationship to creativity and even to how I saw myself.
0:58.0	Today on the show, I have a chat with Alice Fraser.
1:02.8	Alice is an incredible stand-up comic who weaves in storytelling.
1:08.2	I would probably put it in that category of laydown tragedy, which is the opposite of
1:12.3	stand-up comedy, but she's also just a great stand-up comic.
1:16.2	She has an incredible special on Amazon Prime called Savage, where she talks a lot about
1:24.1	her mother who had MS before she was even born and her relationship to that.
1:31.8	And it's really moving, powerful.
1:34.8	You can also check out that as part of this trilogy that is a free podcast series.
1:41.3	If you just go search Alice Fraser trilogy, you can find it wherever podcasts are.
1:47.5	You can check it out in a link in the show notes. Highly recommend all six of those parts.
1:54.2	She also has, you can go buy the digital download of her latest special. It's called Twist and it's about becoming a mother.
2:03.3	It's an incredible, incredible show. I said this at the start of our conversation together,
2:09.1	but it was a gift that this kind of landed where we're doing this conversation. It's going
2:16.2	appear on my podcast, also on her podcast called Tea with Alice.
2:20.3	It was just a thrill to talk to somebody as talented as she is at this art form that I respect so much,
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