Andy J. Pizza is an American illustrator, podcaster, and public speaker. You may also know him as the founder of the much-loved podcast, Creative Pep Talk podcast. In this episode, Andy shares his boundless enthusiasm and lays down some wisdom on: reciprocity in creative work the key to finding your creative voice working it out in the work how your art can make a bigger impact This podcast is sponsored by Going Graphic. Going Graphic specializes in logo design, print design, and marketing inclu...
May 19, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Hope Meng is a graphic designer and branding studio founder with a focus on typography and lettering. In this episode, we talk about how to bring your different interests together (a big theme this season, lots of multi-passionate creatives!), sustaining long-term projects, and how to prioritize your project. This podcast is sponsored by Going Graphic. Going Graphic specializes in logo design, print design, and marketing including social media management, email marketing, blog writing, and more....
May 13, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Nkechi is a talented multi-hyphenate – neuroscientist, mindfulness expert, choreographer. It's actually one of the reasons I invited her on the show. As a creative person with many interests, how do you bring them all together? Especially at this point in the project where it's not uncommon to lose a little steam (or maybe a lot of steam), how do you draw deeper? Elle says that this is when the project really starts – when you get bored, when you run out of ideas, when you have no idea how to co...
May 05, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Adam and Robyn are hilarious and insightful and we cover so much in this episode – how to create space to be yourself, higher powers, hoodies, Instagram culture, and more. About Adam + Robyn: Adam J. Kurtz (aka ADAMJK) is an artist and author. His books including 1 Page at a Time have been translated into over a dozen languages and his “very personal” work for clients like Facebook and Urban Outfitters has been featured in the New Yorker, VICE, Adweek and more. His latest book, Things Are What Y...
Apr 28, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Windy Chien is best known for her 2016 work, The Year Of Knots , in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child's hand to majestic, room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. Following long careers at Apple and in the music industry, she launched her studio in 2015. Select clients include IBM, the Four Seasons, and the National Geographic Society, and her work has been covered by Wired , The...
Apr 22, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Aside from roller skating the treacherous streets of Los Angeles, Zang splits his time between performing Salsa at dance festivals across the world, and his day job as guitarist, producer, and music-video director in the American alt-pop group MAGIC GIANT. The band has played festivals such as Coachella , made TV appearances including The Today Show , broken the top 25 on the US Alternative Chart, and was named one of “10 Artists You Need to Know” by Rolling Stone. In this episode, Zang and Lind...
Apr 14, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp , a 4-week online course designed to help women who are ready to break up with diet culture. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. She is a contributor for Forbes and pens a weekly column called Take the Cake on Ravishly.com. Tovar edited the anthology Hot & He...
Apr 06, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Elle is a painter, designer, author of The Crossroads of Should and Must , and co-author of Your Story is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice . You may also know her from her many years of facilitating #The100DayProject. In this episode, Elle and Lindsay talk about the history of the project, why Elle is passing the baton, creative collaboration, and a new kind of leadership.
Mar 30, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 1