Episodes 563
Avg. Duration 53m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (2,011)
Since Oct 2014
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

A Weekly Podcast Companion for Your Creative Journey Transform your creative potential into reality by making your creativity a practice. A “creative discipline” can feel like an oxymoron. Creativity is about doing something new. Discipline is about doing something consistently. The aim of this podcast is to help you strike that elusive balance.  Each week, New York Times Bestselling Author Illustrator Andy J. Pizza shares everything he’s learning about building a thriving creative practice. Through solo episodes and interviews with top-tier creatives, Pizza brings you the strategies and stories that you need week in and week out to keep your inner critic at bay, bust through creative blocks and stay creatively pepped to the max!! Learn more: creativepeptalk.com Check out the host: andyjpizza.com

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Recent Episodes

559 - Make Before Thinking, Sales Mode, Get Weird with It, The Opposite of Depression and MORE with Austin Kleon

Jun 10, 2026 1h 10m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if you need: 1 - Tactics for escaping overthinking. 2 - More fun in your creative…

558 - Start, Do, Finish: Get Around What's Blocking You from Doing Stuff

Jun 03, 2026 24m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Most creative people don’t need help being creative.  You have the ideas. Where you trip up is the…

557 - Finding Your Scene, IRL Creativity, the Hopeful Return of Indie / DIY with Hanif Abdurraqib

May 27, 2026 1h 3m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Your genius might be hiding in your backyard. This episode is for you if: 1 - You need to find real…

*FIXED SEE SHOW NOTES* 556 - Make This Shift to Reclaim Your Creative Spirit from Your Phone

May 21, 2026 28m

This episode was initially published without the end of the story and the main point of the episode spelled out! We had one essential portion of this episode missing in the previous edit!! Thank you…

555 - Overcome Dead Ends & Open Up to New Directions with Hrishikesh Hirway

May 13, 2026 1h

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You have hit a dead end and need to open up to totally new directions. 2…

554 - Get Back to Creativity that Actually Helps Your Mental Health with Gemma Correll

May 06, 2026 50m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Most of us start making things because on some level it feels good! It feels like a meditation. It brings…

553 - Recover Sense of Self & Creative Voice with These 6 Juicy Prompts

Apr 29, 2026 45m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You have been pretending to be someone else for so long that you have…

552 - Listen to This if You Need Help Remembering Who You Are (Right Side Out 1 of 6) *RE-AIR*

Apr 22, 2026 48m

Check out the rest of the “Right Side Out” series on it's own podcast feed here: andyjpizza.com/rso --- It’s been 2 years since we originally aired this episode. This is part 1 of our 6 part audio…

551 - Consume and Create Art to Get Your Brain Back with Scientist Daisy Fancourt

Apr 15, 2026 30m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You’re feeling like you’ve lost the thread and your point of view as a…

550 - Get Back to Your Creative Path with These 3 Counterintuitive Things

Apr 08, 2026 44m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Listen to this if: 1 - You feel creatively off or can’t find your creative thread at the moment 2 -…

549 - This is How Sensitive Creative People Make Big Changes with Eric Zimmer

Apr 01, 2026 1h 13m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- Listen if: 1 - All the habit advice doesn’t work you as an emotional creative type 2 - You are tired of…

548 - 5 Creative / Neurodivergent Friendly Productivity Hacks to Become a Doer

Mar 25, 2026 35m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You have so many ideas but struggle to realize many of them! 2 - Most…

547 - Find the Creative Voice You're Holding Back with Claire Keane

Mar 18, 2026 1h 8m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word: invisiblethings.co --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You have had a hard time tapping into your unique creative voice. 2 - You…

546 - How to Transform What You're Drowning in Into High Octane Creative Fuel

Mar 11, 2026 28m

This episode is for you if: 1 - You want to figure out how to put your deep personal experiences into your work, but you have never seemed to figure out how to. 2 - You are currently overwhelmed and…

545 - Make Your Life & Creative Work More Rich with Meaning with Jarod K. Anderson

Mar 04, 2026 1h 12m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word! --- This episode is for you if: 1 - You need a reminder to feel how vital making personal creative work is to your life. 2 - You…

Introducing Planet Visionaries

Mar 04, 2026 2m

Want to hear bold ideas and big solutions for our planet? We have been listening to Alex Honnold as he hosts Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each week,…

544 - Quit Focusing on Being Discovered and Sales and Do This Instead

Feb 25, 2026 35m

You can join the Creative Pro Talk meetups by supporting the podcast on Substack here: andyjpizza.substack.com or on Patreon here: Patreon.com/creativepeptalk --- I got it wrong for so long. When I…

Introducing Planet Visionaries

Feb 25, 2026 2m

Want to hear bold ideas and big solutions for our planet? We have been listening to Alex Honnold as he hosts Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each week,…

Introducing Planet Visionaries

Feb 25, 2026 2m

Want to hear bold ideas and big solutions for our planet? We have been listening to Alex Honnold as he hosts Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each week,…

543 - 3 Shifts to Make if You Feel Off Creatively

Feb 18, 2026 39m

Pre-Order My New Book “Mysterious Things” and Help Us Spread the Word http://invisiblethings.co --- It is VERY easy to get off balance as a creative person because creativity is a delicate balance of…

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