500 - 5 Steps from ADHD Serial Quitter to Podcaster with 500 Episodes

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Discuss this episode, share creative wins and obstacles at our next monthly meetup! Join this month’s Creative Pep Rally by supporting the show on Substack or Patreon: andyjpizza.substack.com https://www.patreon.com/c/creativepeptalk If you’re like me, you have more trouble with following through with ideas than you do coming up with new ideas. I am a serial quitter. I have ADHD and I am often working on 5 things at once. BUT. In this episode I want to share 5 things that have helped me stay consistent long enough to make 500 episodes of the same podcast, publish over 10 books and work with clients like X-Box, Nickelodeon and Apple over the past 15 years. This episode ends with a CALL TO ADVENTURE called “MAKE SUM-THING OF YOURSELF”. This action is something you can do in an instant, that in my experience INSTANTLY increases your ability to follow through and achieve what you set out to achieve. 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 Susan David - Emotional Agility https://www.susandavid.com/book/ Steven Pressfield - The War of Art https://stevenpressfield.com/books/the-war-of-art/ Julian Glander on Creative Pep Talk https://www.creativepeptalk.com/474-the-obstacle-is-the-swagway-with-julian-glander/ Sophie Yanow https://www.sophieyanow.com James Clear - Atomic Habits https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits Undermining Children’s Intrinsic Interest with Extrinsic Rewards: A Test of the ‘Overjustification’ Hypothesis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281453299_Undermining_Children's_Intrinsic_Interest_with_Extrinsic_Reward_A_Test_of_the_Overjustification_Hypothesis 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.
0:20.6	So this is a really special episode of the podcast because it is episode 500, man.
0:28.4	And I thought, what better time than now to explore, what does it take to stick to something,
0:35.3	to stick to a creative project for a long time. How do you do
0:38.7	longer-term creative projects? Especially when you're somebody who doesn't struggle with having ideas.
0:46.0	You struggle with ideas having you right where they want you, starting them constantly,
0:51.9	but never finishing them. Like ideas love to be started but you
0:56.4	have to do other things than have ideas in order to realize them you have to stick to it you have to
1:06.4	have some discipline and some habits and so this episode is five steps from ADHD serial quitter.
1:13.7	That's me into a podcaster with 500 episodes.
1:19.1	And we're going to explore all these different things that have helped me continue to show up
1:24.2	for a long time in the same direction.
1:27.4	And at the very end of this episode, I'm going to come back for a long time in the same direction.
1:29.7	And at the very end of this episode,
1:32.9	I'm going to come back with a creative call to adventure,
1:35.2	something that you can do instantaneously that will increase the likelihood that you become somebody
1:39.3	who can finish the kinds of things that you want to finish
1:42.1	and achieve the kind of things you want to achieve. And it's called make something of yourself. Now it sounds really intense and
1:50.5	kind of like a drill sergeant or something. But I promise you that is something that you can do
1:56.4	right away that will help you become the kind of person you want to become and do the kind of
2:02.6	things you want to do.
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