This episode is for you if you: 
- Can’t seem to stand out in your creative field 
- The competition is too steep or too crowded in your creative world 
- Feel like there’s a cutthroat / gossipy culture in your creative industry because everyone sees each other as competition and you feel lonely in your creative community 
- IF YOU STICK TIL THE END: I’m going to share the hidden place where your attention grabbing creative superpower might be hiding - and an action you can do today to get you one step closer to cutting through the noise in your genre: it’s called WEDDING CRASH LANDER
On Air Fest

444 - Unlock Your Creative Superpower with This Hidden Key

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Angus Fletcher Wonderworks
Moomin - Comet in Moominvalley

443 - Which of the 4 Inspiration Types Do You Need Now?

Amy Devers is the host of the design podcast Clever, Check it out here: https://www.cleverpodcast.com/

442 - How Pain Points Can Point To New Possibilities with Amy Devers

441 - 3 Solutions if Your Practice is Stuck in The Spinning Wheel of Death

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Todd Henry
Daily Creative Podcast
Born Standing Up by Steven Martin

440 - For When You're Stuck in The Old Thing & The New Thing’s Scary w/ Todd Henry

Listen to this episode if you:

Want to dig deeper and personally interpret new expressions of your daydreams into actionable steps.

Are looking for ways to get excited about what you’re dreaming up.

Finding where those more fantastical dreams are valuable and practical in the world.


Episode four celebrating January Dreamuary.

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Episode 435 - For drawing your dreams without judgement.

CALL TO ADVENTURE
Find the best exchange rate. Where are people who most value what you do? Look for the folks from similar life experiences and non-negotiables, create a possible unique selling point.

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439 - How to Transform Risky Daydreams into Empowering Goals

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Meera’s Substack
Meera’s Website
Meera’s illustration on Instagram mentioned around 18min.
CALL TO ADVENTURE
Flip the script.
Be mindful the next time you create something and come at it from the opposite end.
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438 - Something that's a Quick Fix to Overcome a Creative Rut + More with Meera Lee Patel

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CALL TO ADVENTURE
Review any of these 12 ideas/episodes that stood out to you from last year of Creative Pep Talk:
🌊 410 - How to Build The Foundation of a Creative Practice that Cultivates Superfans
🐾 385 - How to Reverse Engineer What Creative Goal to Focus On Next
🤖 377 - 3 Steps on Building The Essential Relationships in Your Creative Sphere
🌷 390 - How to Make Work that's More Creative and Less of a Grind
🍔 383 - 3 Steps for Creating the Work that Gets You The Work You're Perfect For
🥤 384 - 3 Sources of Creative Fuel for When You're Running on Empty with Hanif Abdurraqib
🚀 381 - Tried Everything but Nothing's Working? Studies Show This Creative Tactic is Often Overlooked
🐌 412 - A Process for Using Creative Influences to Find A Unique Path for Yourself
⏰ 396 - The 5 Flavors of Creativity & How Knowing Yours Can Reignite Your Spark
💀 413 - Step by Step How to Insert Yourself Into Your Work in a Powerful Way
🕹️ 415 - The Dream Unlocking Art of Mastering How to Give Up
🦅 417 - The 2 Essential Elements of a Game Changing Creative Collaboration with Sophie Miller
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JAKPRINTS
Special thanks to our wonderful Ohio based printer, Jak Prints (Jakprints.com) for their help with the 2024 Creative Pep Talk Calendar – be sure to check them out for your print needs!

437 - How To Start Your Year Right: The 12 Creative Essentials Checklist

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This Jungian Life Podcast
Episode 076 on Animus and Anima
Lisa Marchiano’s Website
The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire by Lisa Marchiano – Out February 6th, 2024!
Other mentionings:
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph. D.
The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman
Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by Thomas Moore
Vasilisa the Beautiful - Fairy Tale
Inanna's Descent: A Sumerian Tale of Injustice
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
Dionysis - Greek Mythology
Hephaestus - Greek Mythology
The Elves and The Shoemaker by The Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tale
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436 - 3 Powerful Tools from Depth Psychology for Making Deeper Work with Lisa Marchiano, LCSW

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CALL TO ADVENTURE
Create your daydream.
Dream in your medium!
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435 - How to Dream Again When You're Tired and Unready for the New Year

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Bob Dylan - Magical Youth Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wAZ02JUtM
Original Creative Pep Talk on Booby Traps
https://www.creativepeptalk.com/episodes/2018/10/9/202-for-when-you-feel-like-giving-up
Right Side Out Pizza Story
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAX66GsgYfX/
Lynda Barry
https://drawnandquarterly.com/author/lynda-barry/
Dieter Rams Good Design Rules
https://designmuseum.org/discover-design/all-stories/what-is-good-design-a-quick-look-at-dieter-rams-ten-principles
Sister Corita Kent Art Class Rules
https://www.creativelivesinprogress.com/article/corita-kent
Everything is a Remix Kirby Ferguson
https://www.everythingisaremix.info/
George Carlin Cardboard Cut Out Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewUVZZMXT8
Seth Godin More Good Ideas by Having More Bad Ideas
https://seths.blog/2018/06/the-two-simple-secrets-to-good-ideas/#:~:text=Secret %231 is the biggest,easier than the opposite approach.
James Clear Atomic Habits
https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Creative-Habit/Twyla-Tharp/9780743235273
1000 True Fans Kevin Kelly
https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
Austin Kleon Seasons
https://austinkleon.com/2016/08/11/seasons/
Todd Henry Seasons
https://accidentalcreative.com/podcasts/ac/ac-podcast-seasons/
Pantsers vs Plotter
https://whenyouwrite.com/plotter-vs-pantser/#:~:text=A plotter is someone who,their pots on the stove

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434 - Creative Pep Talk's 10 Rules of A Thriving Creative Practice *REPLAY*

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Human Rhythms Series: Part Four
Do Less - Hidden Brain episode with Leidy Klotz
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less - Book by Leidy Klotz
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Book by Greg McKeown
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Book by Cal Newport
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Book by Oliver Burkeman
CALL TO ADVENTURE
The Zeigarnik Cache Clearing

Brain dump for 10 minutes on a piece of paper.

80-20 your list.

How much time will they take?

Do as many of the shorter tasks as possible in one chunk of time!

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433 - Tried Everything but Nothing's Working? Studies Show This Creative Tactic is Often Overlooked *REPLAY*

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Scott Erickson on Instagram - “I Get To” post
Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories by Angus Fletcher
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“Give what you didn't get.” — Garry Shandling
CALL TO ADVENTURE
Three magic words.

I

Choose

You

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432 - Creatively Drowning? The 3 Magic Words that Helped Me

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Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
The Artist’s Journey by Steven Pressfield
CALL TO ADVENTURE

Brain dump.

Brain buckets.

Brain balance.

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431 - How to Get Out of Your Own Way When You Can’t Seem to Start or Finish Something

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Marlee Grace’s Podcast, Common Shapes
Off the Grid Podcast
CALL TO ADVENTURE
Three questions before you make anything for free:

Is this the right channel for the medium?

What is the purpose?

Is that the purpose I need to be focused on?

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430 - How To Break Free From Serving Social Media In 3 Steps

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Melissa’s Website
Melissa’s TED Talk, How I found myself – by impersonating other people
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by by Soren Kierkegaard
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
PeteyUSA on TikTok
CALL TO ADVENTURE
The either or method.
 
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429 - Insights on Juggling Multiple Art Forms Well with Melissa Villaseñor

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
CALL TO ADVENTURE
Convertible mooning! 
Top down, bottoms up assessment of your personal needs. Coin, community, confidence, and connotation.
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428 - The Remedy for When You’re Running in Ten Different Directions & Getting Nowhere

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Fran Meneses (Franerd)’s Youtube Channel - [Rolling Stone Music Challenge]
CALL TO ADVENTURE
Turn the other cheek!
Find your guide and humble yourself, lean into the discomfort, and feel the burn anyway!
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427 - Do This When Your Tried and True Method is Now Killing Your Creative Spark

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Lizzy Stewart’s Instagram
Alison by Lizzy Stewart
Walking Distance by Lizzy Stewart
CALL TO ADVENTURE
Redefine your mountain.
How can you rethink the things you want to do? How can you downsize it in your mind to make it less intimidating?
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426 - Mind Tricks to Move Past Your Own Mountains with Lizzy Stewart

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Austin Kleon’s Desk(s)
Design Matters Podcast with Debbie Millman
Brad Montague on the Insatiable Monster Internet
1000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly
BCG Growth Share Matrix
Creative Pepped Growth Share Matrix at https://www.creativepeptalk.com/p/growth/
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