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

All the parts come together and I share the conversation with my mom. Part 5 of Right Side Out SHOW NOTES Lulu Miller https://www.instagram.com/lutimestwoo/?hl=en CreativeMornings https://creativemornings.com/ SWISSMISS / Tina Roth Eisenberg https://www.instagram.com/swissmiss/?hl=en James Acaster https://www.jamesacaster.com/ A Pizza with Everything On It https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/a-pizza-with-everything-on-it Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for you if: You want to get more personal or deep in your creative work but you don’t know practically where to start You struggle to take a personal interest in yourself and you feel like every one else is more interesting or worthy You are prone to low self and esteem and sometimes feel like why even bother making anything at all STICK TIL THE END of this episode I am going to share a prompt that unlocked the most significant creative breakthrough in finding my own creative voice SHOW NOTES EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!  Stuff by Andrew Neyer: https://andrewneyer.com/ Color Me Collaborative Exhibit: https://andrewneyer.com/projects/color-me Charles Schulz on 60 Minutes in 1997: https://youtu.be/kjTpdUs-pfw Creative Mornings: https://creativemornings.com/ https://creativemornings.com/talks/aaron-james-draplin/1 https://creativemornings.com/talks/kate-bingaman-burt/1 https://creativemornings.com/talks/joseph-wu/1 IFS: https://ifs-institute.com/ BOOK 'No Bad Parts' by Dr Richard C. Schwartz https://ifs-institute.com/nobadparts 'Muppet Guys Talking' Dave Goelz and Jerry Nelson https://muppetguystalking.com/ Yoni Wolf / WHY? https://whywithaquestionmark.com/ AOKOHIO https://yoniwolf.substack.com/ Sophie Miller https://www.sophiemiller.co/ Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF: You struggle to find where the literal voices of others and the metaphorical creative voices of your hero’s end and where you begin If limitations were put on you by others that you have a hard time shaking off You need help finding a starting place to build off of in terms of building your creative identity Stick til the end for an exercise to kickstart finding your creative voice SHOW NOTES Dr Ken Benau https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ken-benau-kensington-ca/279286 NPR - Social media posts warn people not to call 988. Here's what you need to know https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/11/1116769071/social-media-posts-warn-people-not-to-call-988-heres-what-you-need-to-know Yoni Wolf / WHY? https://whywithaquestionmark.com/ AOKOHIO https://yoniwolf.substack.com/ Sophie Miller https://www.sophiemiller.co/ Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for you if: You need some ideas on how to tap into a more timeless sense of yourself You cant figure out what’s you and what’s you trying to be cool Or you need help breaking free from your creative influences and find something that truly unique to you to build a more unique creative sensibility  STAY TIL THE END and I will give you a creative thought exercise that broke open the development of my creative identity in a major way early on in my practice  SPONSORS EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! SHOW NOTES Yoni Wolf / WHY? https://whywithaquestionmark.com/ AOKOHIO https://yoniwolf.substack.com/ Sophie Miller https://www.sophiemiller.co/ Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF: You want to find your style and voice and make authentic work If you know to do so you have to put yourself into the work But you don’t know how to do that or worse you don’t really know who you are! This episode is the start of a new series all about that - and is especially relevant to neurodivergent ppl or those of us that constantly feel like we have had to hide ourselves or become smaller to get by in society Stay until the end and I will share a creative prompt that didn’t just break open my creativity - it broke open whole layers of my self and my life SPONSORS EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! SHOW NOTES Lulu Miller https://www.instagram.com/lutimestwoo https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Trucky-Roads/Lulu-Miller/9781665919173 Yoni Wolf / WHY? https://whywithaquestionmark.com/ AOKOHIO https://yoniwolf.substack.com/ On Air Fest https://www.onairfest.com/ Connor Jones / Pending Beautiful https://www.pendingbeautiful.co/ Charley Locke https://charleylocke.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF: You feel super inconsistent in your creative practice You’re work isn’t going anywhere because it happens in fits and starts You’re relationship to your work is like a on again off again thing and you’re ready to make at least a short term commitment STICK UNTIL THE END: I will give you are the 4 essentials to a thriving creative practice and a journal prompt to figure out which you’re missing - or which you need to add SPONSORS EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! SHOW NOTES Book Mentions: "A Sunday with Everything on It" by Andy J. Pizza and Kyle Scheele "Emotional Agility" by Susan David "Deep Work" by Cal Newport "Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport "Invisible Ink" by Brian McDonald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF: You feel like you’re being left behind ALL THE TECH advancements and shifts in the past couple years has you scrambling OR you just feel like you’re not locked into making progress in a meaningful direction that your whole heart and soul can embrace IF YOU STAY UNTIL THE END - I will come back with a CALL TO ADVENTURE called THE HEADS UP 7 SECONDS exercise that you can use TODAY to make your creative session more aligned with where you are in the moment right now and make that effort count SPONSORS EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! SHOW NOTES Josh Linkner - https://joshlinkner.com/ Josh's podcast Mic Drop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for you if: No longer having fun making stuff Your passion and enjoyment have been replaced by anxiety and pressure You always find yourself trying to outdo the last thing you made and end up overthinking Or you worry if you don’t stay afraid you’re going to end up washed up Stay til the end for a practice for finding fun, focus and clarity again called “Rename the Game” SPONSORS EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! SHOW NOTES Atomic Habits by James Clear The Weeknd Dr Rex Jung Ted Talk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for you if you: Feel your work lacks depth Don’t know what to make Or you have lots of ideas and don’t know which to choose next  If you stick until the end of the episode I’m going to give you a tool called CREATIVE KINDLING that you can use to help you decide what to focus on and keep you fueled throughout a project, even when you feel you’re running on fumes SPONSORS EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! SHOW NOTES Rian Johnson on Creative Processing J Gonzo El Mano Del Destino Zone of Interest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 SPONSORS EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/peptalk Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! On Air Fest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices