About this episode

Austin Kleon joins Andy J. Pizza to discuss creativity, overcoming overthinking, and his new book.

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 practice. 3 - Insights on how to find your child like passion for creating again. 4 - Something unexpected to spark you! This is a phenomenal chat with the great Austin Kleon. The guy is full of creative wisdom and is BACK with another banger of book for creatives. It’s called “Don’t Call it Art” and it is chock full of stuff to get you making stuff and having fun again doing it! SHOW NOTES: ICON 13 ILLUSTRATION CONFERENCE $100 OFF:www.eventbrite.com/e/1808652431109/?discount=ICON13FriendofBoard Austin Kleonhttps://austinkleon.com Don’t Call It Art by Austin Kleonhttps://geni.us/iHeRR 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…

People in this episode

Host: Andy J. Pizza

Guest: Austin Kleon

Topics covered

• creative practice
• overthinking
• childlike passion
• mental health
• artistic inspiration

Keywords

• creativity
• overthinking
• art
• inspiration
• mental health
• Austin Kleon

Sponsors

SQUARESPACE, RULA

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Mysterious Things, Don’t Call It Art

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