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Your Creative Push
by Youngman Brown
Your Creative Push is the daily podcast that pushes YOU to pursue your creative passion. Every week, Youngman Brown interviews artists, musicians, writers, photographers, graphic designers, and other inspirational creative individuals in an attempt to get them to inspire you to put aside your excuses and START DOING WORK. Each artist opens up to YOU, revealing the things that hold THEM back on a daily basis, and how they FIGHT THROUGH IT. They then give you one final push, in an attempt to motivate you to start doing work as soon as the episode is over. If you have a full-time job or full-time responsibilities and WISH that you had the COURAGE and MOTIVATION to FINALLY do that thing that has been on your mind, this podcast is for you!
Episodes
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An Important Update
This is very difficult for me, but today I give a brief message for you all as to why I decided to slow down the pace of the podcast in a major way.
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367: Your Art and The Beholder's Share (w/ Yana Zorina)
Yana Zorina, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist with a lifelong passion for the arts. In her scientific career, Yana has always been attracted to microscopy as a means to take a closer look at the beautiful structures that compose the mammalian brain. In her microscopy-inspired artwork, she uses her...
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366: The Pyramid, The Pool & Artists (w/ Martha Beck)
Martha Beck is an American sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve personal and professional goals. Her books include Expecting Adam, Leaving the Saints, Finding Your own North Star, The Joy Diet, and Diana, Herself: An...
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365: Transparency and being true to your art (w/ Carla Grace)
Carla Grace is a self taught artist with a love for wildlife and beautiful, high quality art work. Born in South Africa, Carla has immigrated 5 times and currently lives in Australia. With a childhood that was dominantly based in Africa, she was able to experience wildlife in a way that has…
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364: Be a deliberate amateur artist (w/ Jonny Bloozit)
Jonny Bloozit is a post-apocalyptic landscape cartoonist who believes in the value of being a deliberate amateur so that you don't lose the joy of making art. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/364 In this episode, Jonny discusses: -How he lost his joy for music. -What brought him back…
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Fear Stretching (Best of YCP: Stephen)
Stephen is a singer/songwriter who has just released his first album, "Sincerely." In his own words: "My album is a story of triumph, of letting go of all the uncertainty in my head and learning to walk the path of my own heart. "Sincerely" is about realizing how much better this world would be…
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363: Don't be satisfied with the world that's offered to you (w/ Will Terry)
Will Terry is a freelance illustrator and children's book illustrator who shares his 23 years of experience on his YouTube channel and his blog. He also co-owns SVS Learn and co-hosts the 3 Points Perspective Podcast with Jake Parker and Lee White. Will has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund...
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362: Would YOU follow you? (w/ Mike Janda & Tom Ross)
Mike Janda and Tom Ross are successful creative entrepreneurs who have come together to create the Biz Buds Podcast. Biz Buds is value-packed weekly discussion where Tom and Mike share their journeys from struggling freelancers to both running multi 7-figure businesses, and the lessons picked up...
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361: Sneaky Hacks to Get Engagement (w/ Xabio Arts)
Xabio Arts aka Andrew Bosch is a drawing YouTuber that makes funny and helpful videos. Along with his drawing tutorials and speed paintings, he also offers a candid look into the life of an artist and how he navigates resistance. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/xabioarts In this...
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360: Do it for YOU, not Tommy from Oklahoma (w/ Talia Jackson)
Talia Jackson is an actress, model and singer. She is a series regular on Netflix's Family Reunion (which won an NAACP Award for "Children's Program") and ABC's Station 19. With productions all on hold, she's focusing on her music career and is producing / release music directly from home. Her...
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359: If you don't DO YOU, who will? (w/ Kasey Golden)
Kasey Golden is an illustrator and YouTuber with the dream of illustrating children's books. She shares her illustrations, challenges and process as an artist on her YouTube channel where she has over a million subscribers following her journey. Full shownotes:...
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358: Rejectomancy, Resolutions & Random Number Generators (w/ Mur Lafferty)
Mur Lafferty is the author of Solo: A Star Wars Story and the Hugo and Nebula nominated novel Six Wakes, The Shambling Guides series, and several self pubbed novels and novellas, including the award winning Afterlife series. She is also the host of the Hugo-winning podcast Ditch Diggers, and the...
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357: A Student's Take on Evolve Artist (w/ Michael Ray)
Michael Ray was one of the very first students to go through the Evolve Artist Program curriculum. Throughout his education and work with Evolve, Michael has been an inspiration for how to get work done and get it done well. Michael has a family, a full-time job and many other responsibilities…
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356: Don't go to art school. Evolve instead (w/ Kevin Murphy)
Kevin Murphy is an internationally recognized award-winning portrait painter and illustrator. Since 1993, he's delivered nearly 600 commissioned works within the fields of Illustration and Portraiture. Kevin is also the cofounder of The Evolve Artist Program, where he teaches all traditional...
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355: Let someone walk you to your artistic dreams (w/ Piper Talladay)
Piper Talladay is a contemporary realist painter currently residing in Tacoma, Washington, but working with clients across the United States. Her work is centered around equine portraiture, rendered in oil. In addition to her own work, Piper is head instructor at Evolve Artist, an online academy...
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354: The Evolve Artist Program Review (w/ Mitch Bowler)
Mitch Bowler is the founder of Pencil Kings and cofounder of The Evolve Artist Program. He is an expert in remote art production, having spent a decade building AAA Art Studios in Shanghai, China. Through Evolve, he is realizing his dream to make serious art education accessible and affordable...
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353: How to stream your art on Twitch (w/ Mioree)
Mioree is a digital artist and illustrator who specializes in stylized character illustrations. She is also a partnered Twitch streamer who livestreams her art while explaining her methods and thought process to inspire and interact with her growing community. Full shownotes:...
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352: Gain momentum in your creative playground (w/ Dan Ekis)
Dan Ekis is an American comic artist and writer best known for creating the series Odyssey, Inc. and Soul of the World on Webtoons. He frequently interviews other artists and creators on his YouTube Channel and he currently works as a freelance illustrator doing commissions for various clients…
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351: Make your 5-year goal then GO CRAZY (w/ Ashleigh Izienicki)
Ashleigh Izienicki aka Miss Upacey is a Colorado born illustrator and tattoo artist who works in both digital and traditional mediums. She graduated from Laguna College of Art and Design and now resides in Califonia. Her work often features dark and macabre themes with a cute and feminine touch....
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350: Make the impossible inevitable (w/ James Gurney)
James Gurney is the artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia. He specializes in painting realistic images of scenes that can't be photographed, from dinosaurs to ancient civilizations. He is also a dedicated plein air painter and sketcher, believing that making…
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349: The world needs your creativity (w/ Suzanne Santo)
Suzanne Santo is an American singer/songwriter and actress. Before branching out on a solo musical career, she spent a decade as the fiddle-playing frontwoman of HoneyHoney. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/349 In this episode, Suzanne discusses: -The power of podcasts, especially Joe...
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348: Navigating changes in the world and ourselves (w/ Alatar)
Alatar is a nonbinary artist and mystic weirdo from Nashville, Tennessee. They enjoy drawing figurative erotic art, and see their artistic practice as one facet of a spiritual practice which draws them ever closer to their authentic self. Their mission is to enchant and inspire the world with…
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347: The Art (and Mattress Tag) Police (w/ Djamila Knopf)
Djamila Knopf is an independent artist and Schoolism instructor based in Leipzig, Germany. She creates illustrations that evoke a sense of wonder and nostalgia, and primarily focuses on personal projects. She believes that art is a unique accumulation of experiences, beliefs and aesthetics.…
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346: Breathe in, breathe out (w/ Adam Paquette)
Adam Paquette is a painter from Australia, currently living in Berlin. He has been creating artwork for Magic: the Gathering since 2009 and in that time has illustrated over 250 cards. He also works with Sterling Hundley for Legendeer, which aims to be the connection between a life well-lived and...
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345: Something new, THOUSANDS of days in a row (w/ Piper Thibodeau)
Piper Thibodeau a former full-time character designer for DreamWorks TV and a freelance designer. Her clients include DreamWorks TV, Nickelodeon, Intel, Sesame Street and GameLoft. In a self-imposed challenge, she has created a new painting every day before midnight since 2012. Full shownotes:...
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344: Just tell the f*ing story! (w/ Daniel José Older)
Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Middle Grade historical fantasy series Dactyl Hill Squad, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, Star Wars: Last Shot, and the award winning Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher, which won the International Latino Book...
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343: What art school doesn't teach you (w/ Emilija Angelovska)
Emilija Angelovska (born in Macedonia, living in the Netherlands) is an artist, educator, and change agent. She is fascinated with the popularity of community art projects and does a deep dive into creative communities in her Back to the Drawing Board podcast. Emilija has shown her work in...
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342: If it exists, then you've done it right (w/ Dan Berry)
Dan Berry is a cartoonist, illustrator, podcaster and educator based in the town of Shrewsbury, UK. He is a frequent collaborator with the author David Gaffney and is currently working on the follow-up to The Three Rooms in Valerie's Head; a book called Rivers. Since 2012 he has produced the...
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341: Inspiration can take a back seat (w/ Danielle Clough)
Danielle Clough is a multi-disciplinary artist from Cape Town, South Africa who specializes in the mediums of embroidery, photography, graphic design and video art. She has been profiled by Instagram, Colossal, CNN, Vogue and The New York Times and had her work and in various exhibitions in South...
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340: How to design your CREATIVE SPACE (w/ Donald Rattner)
Donald M. Rattner is an award-winning residential architect and educator. As a consultant he draws on scientific research to help individuals and organizations maximize occupant creativity in workplace, residential, wellness, hospitality and retail environments. In his new book, My Creative…
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339: Do you even create, bro? (w/ David Cheifetz)
David is an internationally acclaimed and collected artist who continues to push the limits of contemporary realist oil painting. David and his family live in Olympia, WA. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/davidcheifetz In this episode, David discusses: -His early interest and later...
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338: Your Creative POINTS! (w/ Tiffany Miller Russell)
Tiffany Miller Russell is a wildlife artist and natural history illustrator. She delights in the unique and unusual, and her goal is to communicate that excitement with her viewer. Her paper sculptures are created with found specialty papers. After drawing is carefully made, she hand-cuts the...
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337: Ignorance is bliss when you're learning something new (w/ Nick Ulivieri)
Nick Ulivieri is a photographer who likes his verticals parallel, his skies wild, his colors bold, and hanging above Chicago. Shooting structures & architecture is his profession. He is a commercial photographer based in Chicago who specializes in shooting architecture, real estate, food &...
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In Defense of Sabbaticals (Best of YCP: Karan Bajaj)
Karan Bajaj is a #1 bestselling Indian novelist with more than 200,000 copies of his novels in print, both optioned into major films. Karan's first worldwide novel, The Yoga of Max's Discontent was inspired by Karan's one year sabbatical traveling from Europe to India by road and learning yoga…
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Where has Youngman been? (and the future of YCP)
Just a quick update as to why there hasn't been a new episode in the past month and plans for the future of the podcast!
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336: The creative act of working on YOURSELF (w/ Alatar)
Alatar is a genderfluid digital artist who creates character-driven adult illustrations. Their work includes both fanart and original content, and attempts to explore a wide range of body types, ethnicities, gender identities and sexualities (with perhaps slightly more attention paid to abs).…
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335: How to become ADDICTED to your art (w/ Nick Runge)
Nick Runge grew up in Colorado. Coming from a creative family of professional artists, he was always interested in drawing and imagining ideas visually. After working as an illustrator full time from 2004-2015 he shifted focus to more personal work using oils and watercolor. As a...
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334: NAME YOUR MONSTER (w/ Jeff Wright)
Jeff Wright is a storyteller and a podcaster. He specializes in "edu-tainments": storytelling with depth and message AND presentations enriched through entertaining story. His podcasts, Odyssey: The Podcast and Trojan War: The Podcast are now available everywhere. Jeff's live show, "A Whack on…
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333: TELL YOUR STORY
If there is one thing that Youngman has learned in the three years of creating this podcast, it is the fact that the best creative output comes when you share your own story. Often times, it takes time and effort to figure out what that story is. In today's episode we are going to explore the…
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332: GUARD YOUR ATTENTION (w/ Daniel Robinson)
Daniel Robinson is a television writer for ABC's hit drama How to Get Away With Murder. He's self publishing his first novel, First They Ignore You, a deeply personal work of fiction that explores the decade it took for him to establish his career in Hollywood and the lifetime it continues to…
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331: Planners and Pantsers and Plantsers, oh my! (w/ Suzanne Clay)
Suzanne is an asexual woman with a great love for writing erotic romance and enjoys spending her time confusing people with that fact. She believes there is a need for heightened diversity in erotic fiction and strives to write enough stories so that everyone can see themselves mirrored in a...
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330: Turn your list UPSIDE DOWN (w/ John Wentz)
John Wentz is a contemporary painter whose work is an exploration of process and technique. Working within the classical idiom of the human figure, his goal is to reduce and simplify the image to it's core fundamentals: composition, color, and mark making. John was born and raised in the San...
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What you create is a part of people's lives (Best of YCP: Ron Pope)
In the ever-evolving landscape of today's music industry, Nashville-based independent artist Ron Pope has plotted his own course. Uncompromising and relentless, Pope has evolved into one of the top grossing independent acts in the business while garnering a legion of devoted fans the world over....
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329: Speak up, Stand out, Stay CREATIVE (w/ Johnny Anomaly)
Johnny Anomaly is a spoken word poet, author and public speaker who has been entertaining audiences with the emotionally charged storytelling of his life for the past six years. He is also the creator and host of The Creative Coping Podcast, where he and his guests discuss the trauma that has…
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328: Flagging DISTRACTIONS and focusing on GRATITUDE (w/ Andrew Tischler)
Andrew Tischler is an artist from New Zealand who has been a professional artist for the last fifteen years. He was born in the United States and moved to Australia when he was 10 years old, where he studied his craft for more than twenty years. He also has a popular YouTube channel in which he...
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327: Hustle + Hustle + Hustle = Opportunity (w/ Vanessa Vakharia)
Vanessa Vakharia is the Founder and CEO of The Math Guru, a boutique math and science tutoring studio in Toronto with a unique approach that works - like actually! She is also the co-founder of Goodnight, Sunrise, an indie-rock-and-roll-superfun-party band based in Toronto, Canada. Vanessa is…
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326: Clean out your DIRTY SOCKS (w/ Teresa Coulter)
Canadian emerging Artist, Teresa Coulter lives in Calgary Alberta Canada. She is known for her Abstract Expressionism. Her portrait series called " Sock Drawer Stories" forged a new pathway to address the social stigmas associated with Mental Health in the workplace. What started as a small...
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325: What to do when things get interrupted (w/ Alisa Kennedy Jones)
Alisa Kennedy Jones is an American memoirist, blogger, novelist, and awkward public speaker. A regular contributor to NPR, her wildly popular blog Gotham Girl has amassed nearly 50K avid followers worldwide. She also writes for television and theater and lives with the absurdly titled "ecstatic...
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324: Defining yourself as a MAKER (w/ Sada Crawford)
Sada Crawford is an artist and athlete who has always struggled with the question, "Am I an artistic athlete or an athletic artist?" as she strove for balance between passions. She moved from Pasadena to Teton Valley six years ago, healing from a divorce and personal issues as she buried herself…
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323: Make a mark to adjust a mark (w/ Jason Polins)
Jason Polins graduated from Boston University's Visual Arts Program then attended Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. After graduating, he returned to Boston area to pursue direct studies with notable painters such as Nelson Shanks, Thomas Dunlay and Gary Hoffmann. All of whom Jason…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Your Creative Push is the daily podcast that pushes YOU to pursue your creative passion. Every week, Youngman Brown interviews artists, musicians, writers, photographers, graphic designers, and other inspirational creative individuals in an attempt to get them to inspire you to put aside your excuses and START DOING WORK. Each artist opens up to YOU, revealing the things that hold THEM back on a daily basis, and how they FIGHT THROUGH IT. They then give you one final push, in an attempt to motivate you to start doing work as soon as the episode is over. If you have a full-time job or full-time responsibilities and WISH that you had the COURAGE and MOTIVATION to FINALLY do that thing that has been on your mind, this podcast is for you!
HOSTED BY
Youngman Brown
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