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Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Join our January Virtual Pep Rally by supporting on Substack or Patreon! andyjpizza.substack.com https://www.patreon.com/c/creativepeptalk Special edition of Ask Dr. Pizza! Mega creative, long time listener Jen Kwok asks Andy questions around navigating transitions, parenting as a creative, getting stuff done and the key to keep longer projects interesting. 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 Jen Kwok https://www.jenkwok.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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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 PEPTAR.
0:19.0	How do you get through really long projects that have all kinds of phases, all kinds of feelings, ups and downs, excitement, frustration, and then worst of all, apathy, and even boredom?
0:36.7	Like, if you do a long enough project, you're going to experience probably all of those things.
0:42.3	How do you keep going?
0:43.3	How do you know if you even should keep going and actually finish this thing?
0:47.5	We're going to figure this out and get into all of that.
0:50.7	Today's episode is a special one because it's a 10-year anniversary edition of Ask
0:57.5	Dr. Pizza. Ask Dr. Pizza are our Q&A episodes, except in this version, we're going to have a listener
1:06.5	live asking the questions in real time, which we've never done before.
1:11.7	Jen Kwok is a musician, actor, and comedian with a bunch of great credits to her name,
1:18.3	appearing in shows like Netflix's friends from college and Showtime's nurse Jackie,
1:23.5	and has had tons of fun internet comedy songs travel all over the place.
1:29.9	Jen is a longtime listener of the show.
1:32.9	She actually coined the name of what we call listeners of the show, creative pepperonies.
1:38.3	She came up with that.
1:39.7	And I was just thrilled to be interviewed for this Q&A episode by such a talented, creative
1:47.1	person.
1:48.1	And the questions really teased out things in me that I've never explored on the show or
1:54.1	even anywhere, just things I hadn't really thought about.
1:57.7	So I'm excited for you to hear it.
1:59.4	We talk about a super helpful trick to staying
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