Your Creative Push
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!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 390
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2020
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://y…
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 th…
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 proj…
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…
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…
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 a…
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 …
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-…
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…
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 workpl…
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://your…
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 sculptu…
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…
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 i…
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!
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, ethn…
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…
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: Th…
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 ti…
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 th…