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Join Amie McNee from @inspiredtowrite and her writer husband James Winestock for a podcast about building a sustainable creative life. A place to take your art seriously where you can go to reflect on your journey and build a thriving creative practice.
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Gen Z are unemployable (complimentary).
We begin with the dreaded leaf-blower situation, we move onto the concept of work, specifically, whether Gen Z are bad at working. This conversation looks at why Zoomers gets so much FLack and why we should all be refusing the conditons bei
Artists, let's talk about money.
What is with the stigma against artists who don't just make money with art? Do we just make money with our art? How do we handle our finances? What would we do if we made a million dollars a year? And much more. A convo about money stuff, o
How to collaborate with other creatives.
A big episode that looks at what happens to a relationship when you create a piece of art together. How should you communicate? What issues could and will certainly arise? How do you navigate conflict? How to give feedback? An episode, wher
Is it okay to make silly art?
A conversation about the books and art that inspired our co-written novel, that meanders into a conversation about taking your art seriously, versus allowing it to be playful / silly. It is so fun to talk about the art that allowed our own
Things will go wrong ... good.
Creatives must make thousands of mistakes, they are inevitable, unavoidable, and crucial to reaching your potential. Amie and James are back and they're discussing the many things that go wrong in their art, business, books - and how, whils
Business Tactics for Creatives
In this episode, we talk about the practical tactics we actually use to sell our art and make money as artists. This is not a mindset episode. We briefly acknowledge the shame, fear and awkwardness artists often carry around selling, but th
The System Is Broken. You Still Have Power.
Is the problem systemic, or individual? In this episode, we sit with the messy middle. Creative industries are full of scarcity, gatekeeping, bad incentives, exploitation, and cooked economics. But if we only talk about the broken system, a
How We Built a Creative Life Together
Welcome to the Jamesy and Amsy Q&A, in which we discuss high school romance, creative chemistry, business roles, blurred boundaries, editorial bluntness, Steam Deck timing, Space Story, travel chaos, alternative careers, and whether an ibis
Your Creative Time Is Not Free Time
This episode is about saying: no, I cannot come to coffee at 12pm just because my calendar looks technically empty. I am busy being available to my art. We talk about creative devotion, guilt, boundaries, people-pleasing, small business wei
Creative Help Hotline
Welcome to the Creative Help Hotline. How can we help you? In this Q&A episode, we answer your questions about being exhausted by muggle life, creating through depression and anxiety, losing momentum, comparing yourself to other artists, wo
Could Art Cure the Manosphere?
In this episode, we ask a strange and sincere question: could art help cure the manosphere? We talk about lonely men, alpha influencers, Andrew Tate, online rage, economic hopelessness, shame, identity, patriarchy, creativity, and why so ma
How Creatives Should Manage Their Energy
In this episode, we talk about creative energy, burnout, routines, self-preservation, and what it takes to build a sustainable creative life. We explore why burnout is not always caused by doing too much. Sometimes it comes from working aga
You’re Allowed to Speak Before You’re an Expert
What if you didn’t have to know everything before you were allowed to speak? In this episode, we talk about the way artists and thinkers self-censor when they’re afraid of being wrong, mocked, misunderstood, or exposed as “not expert enough
How to Become an Anti-fragile Artist
What if rejection wasn't bad news? What if chaos, disappointment and rejection could become part of your creative power? What if the more 'bad stuff' that happens to you, the more brilliant you become? In this episode, we explore the idea o
What You Consume Is What You Create
We're recording from a hotel room with questionable acoustics and a very concerned James. Welcome to the Hotel Season! In Episode 1, Amie makes the case that if you want to be a serious artist, you need to be an equally serious consumer, no
Become Confident or Die
We're back! Topics: Creating while travelling/busy The importance of confidence in your own work Whether James' justice streak makes his life harder (feat. sauan etiquette) And lessons from the biggest year of our life I Don't Want a Job, t
What We've Learned from Ten Years of Writing
We take you on a journey from Amie's first painful attempt to write a book to now, Amie's settled routine as a professional author, with all the steps along the way. Pre-order To Kill a Queen now (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/80
You Have to Believe You're Exceptional
Join us for a rambling discussion that starts with us assessing how successful we feel, goes on to a long digression about preserving energy for hard times, talks about honesty in the publishing industry, and finished with Amie's message to
How Much Work Do We Do in a Day (plus all your writing questions answered)?
Q+A ep! It just so happened to be that most of your questions were about our work and writing routines. There are also a few other Q's answered including: how exactly is making art generous, big breaks we've almost had (and why they may not
How Do We Deal with the Enshittification of the Internet?
We're talking: When the internet gives you the ick The flattening of culture by algorithms How social media sows the seeds of its own destruction when it prioritises attention over quality And more! Pre-order To Kill a Queen (https://www.pe
Are More People Making a Living with Art Now than Ever?
Hello friends! Today we're talking about the rise of the middle class artist. Based on Amie's substack post (https://substack.com/home/post/p-165713457). Buy Amie's book for F***'s sake! (https://www.amiemcnee.com/order-we-need-your-art-boo
Building Utopias: Why Artists Must Envision a Better Future
I'm so sorry everyone but it's another AI episode :(Listen to us, two people who aren't experts on anything really, talk about AI, climate change, utopias, the housing crisis, Australian politics and what's wrong with the left these days.
Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan: How Creativity Trumps Anxiety
We had so much fun recording a very fancy in person episode with THE Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan! How 'bout those production values? Don't forget Amie's new book, We Need Your Art (https://www.amiemcnee.com/pre-order-we-need-your-art-book-
You Should Celebrate Your Own Art
Join us as we remind you how important it is to celebrate your own art (coz no one's gonna do it for you!). Fully raw ep today. No music (sorry to our composer/intro creator Matilda Eyre (https://www.instagram.com/matildaeyre/)) I ran out o
WE NEED YOUR ART, STOP F***ING AROUND AND MAKE SOMETHING
BOOK OUT THIS WEEK BOOK OUT THIS WEEK BOOK OUT THIS WEEK BUY BOOK BUY BOOK BUY BOOK (https://www.amiemcnee.com/pre-order-we-need-your-art-book-amie-mcnee) 00:00 Introduction and Holiday Hat00:30 Book Tour and Podcast Plans03:05 The Importan
How NOT to Finish Projects and Improve as an Artist
00:00 Introduction 02:13 Housekeeping and Upcoming Events03:39 25 Things to Avoid 03:45 Obsessing Over Details04:57 The Pitfalls of Excessive Research09:09 Setting Unrealistic Goals10:16 Managing Expectations and Pressure15:40 The Importanc
We Need Men's Art Too!
Today we're talking to the boys! Or, given our audience demographics, we're talking to the girls and gender non conforming folks about the boys... Buy We Need Your Art here (https://www.amiemcnee.com/pre-order-we-need-your-art-book-amie-mcn
How to Make Heaps of Art
Yes I kept Amie's preamble in on purpose because I thought it was funny! Today we're talking about locking in, getting stuff done, and thriving as creatives. Expect a discussion about how to treat ourselves and our bodies well, not striving
Can Ambition be Healthy?
We talk about ambition! How ambitious are we? Is it good to be ambitious? Is it HEALTHY to be ambitious? Inspired by Amie's substack post (https://amiemcnee.substack.com/p/is-my-ambition-just-a-trauma-response). We Need Your Art pre-order g
How to Be Consistent When You Have Multiple Projects, How We Rest, and Artists' Money Issues (Q+A)
MORE AUDIENCE QUESTIONS PLS 00:00 Welcome to the Unpublished Podcast 01:16 Audience Questions Introduction 03:34 Multidisciplinary Creativity 16:18 Self-Publishing Insights 24:30 The Emotional Side of Money for Artists 28:56 Financial Stres
