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Creative Pep Talk

495 - 3 Steps To Get Un-Lost As A Creative

Creative Pep Talk

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Are you in survival mode? Do you feel like something is failing, broken, wrong? In this episode I talk through 3 things that help me when I'm feeling lost on the Creative Journey. Join our next 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 Mentioned/Referenced: Andy Mineo LOST EP Song 'Clarity' Oak Island tv show 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.

0:10.9

Sometimes you just need a creative pepsa.

0:20.4

What's up, y'all? It's me, Andy J. Pizza.

0:25.7

Coming at you with a new episode. Today on the show, I'm going to talk about when you feel lost on your creative journey.

0:34.7

Okay, this is a feeling that when I first started this podcast, I didn't know if

0:39.1

other people felt this way, but it's a topic we've explored on the show a handful of times.

0:46.3

And it seems like, from what I can tell on this side of the screen, that I'm not the only one.

0:52.5

And this feeling of being lost is very disconcerting.

0:57.7

It is panic-inducing because you don't want to do anything.

1:03.3

You don't want to move.

1:04.7

Because when you're lost, if you're actually lost, like in the woods or somewhere,

1:09.8

every step you take is filling you with anxiety because

1:14.9

you don't know if you're getting further away from where you want to be or closer to where

1:19.9

you want to be. That's the feeling of being lost. It makes you paralyze in analysis and it's a terrible place to be. Now, when I think about being creatively

1:31.8

lost in my own creative path, it has a very particular feeling. And the only way I can really

1:40.4

think about it is comparing it to the opposite feeling, which is the place that I

1:44.8

love to be, which is just feeling like I am right on the freaking creative trail, man.

1:51.6

I am like locked in to what I feel I should be doing.

1:56.4

Like things are coming together.

1:58.3

There's synchronicities.

2:00.1

There's breakthroughs.

2:02.1

I'm making stuff I'm proud of.

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