The Daily Pep! | Rebel-Rousing, Encouragement, & Inspiration for Creative & Multi-Passionate Women
Building a life you love takes a boatload of courage. But you don’t have to do it alone.
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Join your host, writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser Meg Kissack every weekday as helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter.
Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
The Daily Pep! is a sister podcast of The Couragemakers Podcast.
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT.
For more information, show-notes and to join a community of like-minded Couragemakers, visit: therebelrousers.com/dailypep
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 1422
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
021: The first pancake
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As it turns out, pancakes are the perfect metaphor for our work, trying anything new, shitty first drafts and creativity in general.
020: Before you give up, do this
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Next time you’re feeling like giving up, please just take a minute to check this one thing. Sometimes when you dig into what’s actually going on, the wanting to gi…
019: Treat your creativity like a dog
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Ray Bradbury once said that the great secret of creativity is to “treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you”. Respectfully, I want to edit his quote a bit to…
018: On all or nothing thinking
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Next time you’re beating yourself up because you missed a day of a new habit, or you’re tempted to throw a whole painting or a document away because it didn’t come…
017: When life takes you off course
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We start off with a destination in mind, and we start thinking of our route, our game plan and how we’re going to get there. That in and of itself is challenge eno…
016: You are not your tools
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Your tools are not a pre-requisite for having good ideas and your tools are not your thoughts. You can start a new creative project without the precise paints you …
015: Do the thing already
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If you’re waiting for permission, then you’re going to wait for a very long time because no one is going to give it to you - apart from yourself. And if you’re wai…
014: You know you best
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For today’s pep talk, I’m giving you FULL permission to do whatever you need to do and also sharing some suggestions of things you can do that are kinder to yourse…
013: You don't have to burn everything to the ground
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We’ve all been there: it’s not working out, it feels too hard and we just want to pack it in. But what if there was another option instead of burning it all to the…
012: Don't lock yourself in a vault
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Today we're focusing on what I’ve termed the secret recipe effect: the idea that we have to be really secretive about our ideas and about what we’re working on.
011: The creative power of anger
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Today I'm sharing how to harness the creative power of anger in the hope that it’ll be a strategy you can lean on when you’re feeling stuck for ideas.
010: It's okay to not feel like doing the thing
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In our heads, I think most of us create this fantasy where everyone gets everything they want to do done, apart from us. So today I want to remind you that you’re …
009: The problem with inspiration
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We all know they’re a myths about inspiration, yet I think we all still get caught up in the notion of creating when we feel inspired. So what can we do about it?
008: The hidden generosity of vulnerability
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Sharing your behind the scenes can feel really vulnerable, like putting your heart out on a platter for the world to judge. But it might just be one of the most ge…
007: Would it just be easier to give up?
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It's so easy to give up, and it's so hard to keep going. How do you know which one to do? That’s what we’re diving into in today’s show.
006: Stop looking for signs
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Reading into everything is dangerous. And not only because in doing so we’re able to let ourselves off the hook for things we really want to do.
005: You are not a machine
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Today I want to offer up a compassionate and kinder definition for trying your best.
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004: The myth of the lone creative genius
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It's one thing to stubbornly chase after your dreams, it's another to make things harder for the sake of it. Today we're diving into the myth of the creative geniu…
003: Belly laughs & making room for the unexpected
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The unexpected joy of being open to whatever happens in the moment, regardless of what was supposed to happen.
002: On procrastination & creative resistance
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Ever got excited about a project, bought a new notebook especially for the occasion, and then just got stuck? That's what we're diving into today!