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Your Creative Push

Your Creative Push is the podcast that pushes YOU to pursue your creative passion, even though you have a busy, full-time life. Twice a 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!
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Apr 9, 2018

Amy Dresner is a former professional stand-up comic, having appeared at The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, and The Improv. Since 2012, she has been a contributing editor of the online addiction and recovery magazine TheFix.com. She’s also written for the Good Men Project, The Frisky, Refinery 29, and has been a regular contributor to Addiction.com and PsychologyToday.com, where she has her own addiction blog entitled “Coming Clean.” My Fair Junkie is her debut book.

Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/amydresner

In this episode, Amy discusses:

-How she got into the position to write her first book.

-The misconception of creative people that you need drama, tragedy or addiction to have a significant life or art.

-Finding inspiration by simply being outside of your comfort zone.

-The connection between addiction and creativity and seeking a connection to something outside of yourself or something greater.

-How she was able to be so open, honest and vulnerable in writing My Fair Junkie.

-If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write about it.

-Dealing with the resistance of not wanting to put herself in the headspace of active addiction.

-How it is never too late to start something or to change (and how you’ll never feel ready).

-How you do anything is how you do everything.

-Allowing yourself to have “shitty first drafts.”

-How she writes for herself and why she never reads the comments on her articles.

-Putting yourself out there and owning all of your mistakes, flaws and humanness.

Amy's Final Push will encourage you to take consistent action every day, despite your feelings.

 

Quotes:

“I’d finally had a real narrative arc where I had a transformation and a story to tell.  I landed in a different place and I had something to say.”

“What was comfortable for me was the chaos.  What’s uncomfortable is any kind of normalcy and things going well.”

“As a writer, I know that the stuff that you don’t want to put down on the page is exactly the stuff that you need to put down on the page.”

“Ironically, the more specific it is, the more universal it is.”

“You get ready by doing it.  If you’re waiting to feel ready, you will wait forever.”

“I feel weirdly bullet-proof.  A big way that I deal with my own shame is to own it.  I put it out there.  Because then what is anyone going to say?”

“There is a freedom in owning it.  Because nobody has anything on you.  There’s no secret.”

“It’s always scary when it’s new.  The more you do it, the less scary and hard it becomes.”

“I faked that I didn’t care for a long time.  Until I didn’t care.”

“Fuck your feelings and take your action.  Take consistent action every day.”

Links mentioned:

Too Sober to Be Creative (The Fix)

My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean by Amy Dresner

Connect with Amy:

Website / The Fix / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter

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