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

About this episode

In this episode, Andy J. Pizza discusses overcoming creative blocks and the challenges of executive dysfunction, particularly for those with ADHD.

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 executive dysfunction. It’s getting yourself to start, middle, and finish the thing strong. In this episode I want to share with you the number 1 things that’s helped me, a creative with MEGA ADHD, transform ideas into 10+ books, projects that lead to work with X-Box, Apple and Nickelodeon and more. Stick around until the end for our “Creative Call to Adventure” it’s called “Out Block” and it will help you turn your current creative block into a starting block today! SHOW NOTES: ICON 13 ILLUSTRATION CONFERENCE $100 OFF:www.eventbrite.com/e/1808652431109/?discount=ICON13FriendofBoard Producer / Editor: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.comSpotify Playlist of WHY? Songs Used on This Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZIE7PHG5I1Ddg1BuVGRzj?si=4x_BzDZjQgqSpoaLXdVACgπ=h4HsIKG0SP6Kg SPONSORS:SQUARESPACEHead to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK…

People in this episode

Host: Andy J. Pizza

Topics covered

• creativity
• executive dysfunction
• ADHD
• creative block
• book promotion

Keywords

• creativity
• ADHD
• executive dysfunction
• creative block
• book promotion

Sponsors

SQUARESPACE, RULA

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: X-Box, Apple, Nickelodeon

Books & works: Mysterious Things

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