The World Needs Creatives with Rachael Sardelich

Rachael Sardelich

The World Needs Creatives is hosted by Rachael Sardelich, Vedic Meditation Teacher and Consultant to Creatives. Rachael has spent over two decades working at the confluence of creativity and spirituality and now leads her clients to explore, germinate and birth their creative visions into the world. During this weekly podcast, Rachael shares wise and inspired conversations to expand our creative consciousness. Join Rachael in a space where the deeper questions are always asked and learn exactly what has shaped the humans behind remarkable ideas, cultural movements and visionary art in all of its forms.  Within you’ll find stories on embracing darkness and finding wholeness, the blurred boundaries between human and nature, breaking limitations and building legacies, rich inner-landscapes that hold untapped potential, and prophecies that will open portals of possibility within you.   These conversations are regenerative moments of incubation, creation and renewal. They won’t ask you to sit still and play nice. They will awaken your senses, wildly inspire the muse within and remind you: the world needs what you’ve got.

  1. 11/20/2025

    42. The Unravelling: On Aging Into Our Original Selves with Jane McCann, The Middle Aged Goddess

    We've arrived at the finale of the third season of The World Needs Creatives and I cannot think of a more fitting person to close this journey with than with my dear friend Jane McCann, known to many as The Middle Aged Goddess. What Jane reveals to us in this episode — what she lives and breathes and shows us through her own unraveling — is that our deepest authenticity and originality is hidden in the very place we try to avoid, halt, and resist: the process of aging itself. In a culture that teaches us to fight time, preserve youth, and stay forever fixed in one season, Jane has made a different choice.  She's let herself be seen in all her changing, aging, becoming. And in doing so, she's discovered that what we thought was an ending is actually a return — to the most original version of ourselves that was waiting beneath all the performance and perfection we've been taught to present to the world. In our conversation, we explore: The great unraveling that comes with perimenopause and midlife — and what wisdom emerges from itHow we become clearer about who we are while simultaneously releasing what we thought we knewThe unlived parts of ourselves that finally get permission to come forwardWhat Jane has learned about invisibility, authenticity, and the freedom of caring less about others' opinionsHow daily practice becomes the ground for transformation and creative expressionThe beautiful paradox of time: having so much ahead of us, even as we become more awake to its preciousnessJoin us as we close this season with a conversation about finding our way home to ourselves by letting go of who we've been told to be. EPISODE LINKS: Jane's website Travel with Jane Follow Jane on Instagram Subscribe to Jane's Substack Goddess Gram You can follow The World Needs Creatives on Instagram HERE. Explore working or collaborating with Rachael at rachael@rachaelsardelich.com and learn more about her work HERE. You can join the wider conversation and our community over on Substack via THIS LINK. The original painted work in the show design was hand painted by artist Sarah Darling. The creation of our original musical score was created by Camilla Rose Sullivan.

    1h 11m

  2. 11/13/2025

    41. On Vision, Intention, and How to Architect Your Year Ahead with Rachael Sardelich

    As the year begins to softens into rest, Rachael invites you into her personal year-end ritual — a process of reflection, visioning, and tending to what wants to emerge. She shares how to honor the thresholds you've crossed, illuminate the patterns holding you back, and architect a year that feels nourishing, spacious, and alive. This is about building your creative life around seasons, listening to the intelligence of your desires, and trusting what wants to move through you. Join our Begin Again virtual new moon gathering on Thursday 20 November at 6pm AEST via THIS LINK. Explore Rachael's 1:1 Creative Partnership via THIS LINK. You can follow The World Needs Creatives on Instagram HERE. Explore working or collaborating with Rachael at rachael@rachaelsardelich.com and learn more about her work HERE. You can join the wider conversation and our community over on Substack via THIS LINK. The original painted work in the show design was hand painted by artist Sarah Darling. The creation of our original musical score was created by Camilla Rose Sullivan.

    27 min

  3. 11/06/2025

    40. How to Find Breathing Space with Jodi Wilson

    There's no space left. Not in your calendar. Not in your mind. Not in those quiet moments between tasks — because there are no quiet moments anymore. And somewhere beneath the endless scroll and packed schedule, there's a part of you that remembers what it felt like to create from ease. To let ideas arrive instead of forcing them. To feel spacious instead of squeezed. Burnout has been a running theme throughout this season. Today, we sit with the question underneath it all: In a world designed to keep us constantly available, what does our brain actually need to be both creative and productive? Join us as we enter the intentional world of Jodi Wilson — bestselling author, health journalist, and founder of Practicing Simplicity. Her new book, A Brain That Breathes, explores the neuroscience behind our collective overwhelm and offers a radical solution: breathing space. In this conversation, we explore: Why your nervous system is stuck in survival mode and how it blocks creative flowThe concept of "soft fascination" — how gazing at trees and clouds isn't wasted time but how your brain actually declutters"Enoughness" — an Indigenous economic principle that teaches us about sufficiency in a culture of moreWhy self-care has become another productivity metric and what genuine rest actually looks likeHow our scarcity mindset keeps us gorging on information we don't needPractical ways to create breathing space through small, intentional choices that cost nothingWhat our ancestors knew 10,000 years ago that we've forgotten about living wellThis conversation is permission to stop filling every moment. To trust that your brain doesn't need more input — it needs space to breathe. Links mentioned: Explore Rachael's 1:1 Creative Partnership (Enrolments close November 21) Pre-order A Brain That Breathes by Jodi Wilson:  Follow Jodi Wilson: Practicing Simplicity on Substack: Instagram: @practicingsimplicityYou can follow The World Needs Creatives on Instagram HERE. Explore working or collaborating with Rachael at rachael@rachaelsardelich.com and learn more about her work HERE. You can join the wider conversation and our community over on Substack via THIS LINK. The original painted work in the show design was hand painted by artist Sarah Darling. The creation of our original musical score was created by Camilla Rose Sullivan.

    1h 10m

  4. 10/30/2025

    39. Rewilding Industries with Celeste Tesoriero

    What happens when the work you love is built on systems that break the world? What if you stood face-to-face with the devastation your industry creates and walking away wasn't an option? Today's guest, Celeste Tesoriero, chose to stay. She decided to rebuild her industry from the inside out. Celeste spent over seventeen years building a formidable fashion career, working for iconic Australian brands and luxury houses like Roland Mouret. She launched her own label that garnered seven international design award nominations and collaborated with sustainability leaders at Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney through the British Fashion Council. A transformative moment in Bali changed everything, when she was confronted with the harm hidden within the fashion production industry. Instead of walking away, Celeste got curious. She studied sustainability, permaculture, and Indigenous knowledge systems. Then she did something that takes tremendous courage: she went back to transform the industry she loves. For the past eight years, through Sonzai Studios, she's been bridging worlds — the commercial and the sacred, the extractive and the regenerative. She helps businesses integrate Indigenous wisdom and genuinely sustainable practices, fundamentally challenging how we think about growth, profit, and our responsibility to the natural world. Together, we explore the themes of: What it means to be humbled by nature and learn to work with rather than against ecological systemsThe courage it takes to close what's successful but misaligned, and how that grief becomes a gateway to something more realHow to bridge the sacred and the commercial without compromising eitherWhy personal sustainability — your own capacity to endure — must come before any business strategyThe art of holding a mirror to broken systems with empathy rather than condemnationWhat happens when we stop asking "how do I grow?" and start asking "what do I value?"And how indigenous wisdom offers us a 60,000-year blueprint for working in right relationship with the natural worldJoin us for a conversation about rewilding industries, bridging worlds, and what happens when you refuse to accept that the way things are is the way they have to be. KEY SHOW LINKS: Explore Rachael's 1:1 Creative Partnership Follow Celeste on Instagram Follow Sonzai Studio's on Instagram Get in touch with Celeste Protocols for Non-Indigenous People working with Indigenous Knowledge 5 Steps to a Sustainable Wardrobe & More Resources You can follow The World Needs Creatives on Instagram HERE. Explore working or collaborating with Rachael at rachael@rachaelsardelich.com and learn more about her work HERE. You can join the wider conversation and our community over on Substack via THIS LINK. The original painted work in the show design was hand painted by artist Sarah Darling. The creation of our original musical score was created by Camilla Rose Sullivan.

    1h 31m

  5. 10/23/2025

    38. How Does the World Respond to Your Energy? With Rachael Sardelich

    Your energy is the most important resource you have. It's the most influential, the most impactful thing you can share with the world, and learning how to understand and read and be intentional with your own energy is a game changer. In this solo episode, we're entering into the realm of energetics. What influences our energy? How do we manage it? And how it shapes everything from the work we create to the opportunities that flow toward us. This is about discovering who you really are underneath all the noise. Because our energy is how we perceive the world, and how the world perceives us. I'll guide you through a two-part energetic audit to purify and fortify your energetic presence. We'll look at your environment, your relationships, how you nourish yourself, the state of your nervous system, and even the words you speak.  This episode is packed with practical exercises you'll want to return to, so come with your journal and pen ready.  This is the tending that makes everything else possible. Enrol for Rachael's 1:1 Creative Partnership HERE. You can follow The World Needs Creatives on Instagram HERE. Explore working or collaborating with Rachael at rachael@rachaelsardelich.com and learn more about her work HERE. You can join the wider conversation and our community over on Substack via THIS LINK. The original painted work in the show design was hand painted by artist Sarah Darling. The creation of our original musical score was created by Camilla Rose Sullivan.

    38 min

  6. 10/16/2025

    37. How To Trust in The Great Mystery with Josh Schrei of The Emerald Podcast

    Do you hear the pulse of creation speaking to you? Have you ever wondered how to cultivate a deeper relationship with this vast, omnipresent force? Today we venture into the sacred and animate world of Josh Schrei — a teacher, writer, mythologist, and founder of The Emerald Podcast. If you're yearning to deepen your relationship with source, with the great mystery itself, this conversation is for you. Joshua invites us to remember what our ancestors knew across time and tradition: that we live not in a world of inert objects, but in a living, sentient, singing cosmos. That creation pulses through all things — through water and stone, through breath and blood, through the spaces between heartbeats. And that we are not separate from this pulse. We are woven into it.  In this mystical conversation, we explore what it means to move from the mindset of extraction to one of cultivation. We talk about why the ache for originality many of us feel is actually a cellular memory — a longing to return to our role as vessels for something ancient and ever-present. We discover how the seasons of stillness in our creative lives are not failures, but sacred incubations. And we learn why the most radical act of creativity in our fractured world is choosing reciprocity over consumption, reverence over extraction. Joshua speaks to the mysteries of how creation reaches us — through the voice of waters, through the wisdom held in stones, through felt dialogue with the land itself. He reveals why the constant pressure to produce is a wound we carry, and what becomes possible when we finally align with the actual rhythms of the cosmos. In this episode we explore: The difference between summoning inspiration and cultivating a real, living relationship with the creative forces of the cosmosWhy creativity as service, rather than extraction — transforms not just your art, but your entire relationship to being aliveThe burden of believing creativity must come from you alone, and the liberation that comes when you release that weightWhy stillness and incubation are not failures, but sacred architecture woven into the fabric of existenceThe cost of constant production, and what it means to align with the natural rhythms of creationHow to anchor yourself to place and develop a felt dialogue with the living worldThe essential role of dreamers, artists, and visionaries in guiding culture toward healing and wholenessWhy we need communal circles of dreaming in a world that has forgotten how to listenSHOW LINKS: Explore Rachael's 1:1 Creative Partnership The Emerald Podcast Josh's Mythic Body Course Follow The Emerald on Instagram You can follow The World Needs Creatives on Instagram HERE. Explore working or collaborating with Rachael at rachael@rachaelsardelich.com and learn more about her work HERE. You can join the wider conversation and our community over on Substack via THIS LINK. The original painted work in the show design was hand painted by artist Sarah Darling. The creation of our original musical score was created by Camilla Rose Sullivan.

    1h 15m

  7. 10/09/2025

    36. Let Your Freak Flag Fly with Holly Ryan

    What  does it take to be real? To create something pure in a world addicted to replication? To stay true when the cost of that truth is everything you've built? Today we enter the alchemical world of Holly Ryan,  — a bespoke jeweller, environmental pioneer, and founder of iconic Australian brand Holly Ryan Jewellery, and together we explore what it means to let go of a vision you've spent your entire adult life creating.  Holly shares her thirteen-year journey building a cult brand to global heights —from Vogue to Bella Hadid, from fashion weeks to prestigious retailers worldwide — only to face the complete dissolution of burnout that demanded she dismantle everything at the peak of her career. This is a story of personal alchemy and metamorphosis. We witness the bone-deep unraveling that cracks you open and strips you bare, the exhaustion of creating something pure in a world addicted to replication, and what happens when your truth becomes everyone's tagline. Holly reveals the pivotal moments that shifted her trajectory — from fighting greenwashing, to reconnection with source and stepping back into her power as an educator and voice for radical transparency. You'll hear about how to befriend the liminal space between worlds, to trust what intuition whispers beyond the noise, and to embrace the process of personal alchemy with radical honesty and courage. This episode is an invitation to every creative navigating dissolution and resurrection. It's for those standing at the threshold, feeling called to evolve, and seeking permission to let their freak flag fly. Key Topics Explored: Cultivating her craft — how nature shaped Holly's earliest understanding of creation and transformationBuilding a cult brand — from fashion week to global recognition, and the price of pioneering sustainability before it was coolBeing ahead of your time Greenwashing and heartbreak The anatomy of burnoutLetting everything burnThe liminal space — inhabiting the sacred threshold between dissolution and resurrectionReconnecting to sourcePersonal alchemy — how melting down precious metals became the map for melting down and remaking yourselfFrom visibility to intimacyWhat it takes to be realRedefining successThe other side of people pleasingSHOW LINKS: - Explore Rachael's 1:1 Creative Partnership - Explore Holly Ryan Studio & Holly Ryan Jewellery & Holly's website - Link to Holly's short film - El Agua Mágica - Chris Hood - Jeweller from Tasmania You can follow The World Needs Creatives on Instagram HERE. Explore working or collaborating with Rachael at rachael@rachaelsardelich.com and learn more about her work HERE. You can join the wider conversation and our community over on Substack via THIS LINK. The original painted work in the show design was hand painted by artist Sarah Darling. The creation of our original musical score was created by Camilla Rose Sullivan.

    1h 31m

  8. 10/02/2025

    35. On Leaping and Landing with Rachael Sardelich

    In this solo episode, I'm opening up about what it really takes to leap and land when your creative work is calling you toward something new. Last week we explored the invisible lines that limit our potential in the subconscious. Today is about breaking through those glass ceilings we find ourselves pressed against, knowing exactly where we want to go but unable to move toward it. We unpack the patterns that keep us circling in place: comparison, imposter syndrome, scarcity, the comfort of what we already know, and the essential inner work that makes leaping possible: cultivating a deep sense of safety in our bodies, building unshakeable self-worth, and learning to move from a grounded, authentic place. I also dive into expanding your work through collaboration and how to land ideal partners, how to ground down and back yourself when fear arrives, and trusting that when you leap, you will be met. This is for anyone feeling the pull toward expansion but frozen at the edge. For the creatives who can see their next chapter but don't know how to step into it. Because on the other side of that leap, when you finally trust yourself enough to take it, everything changes. You can follow The World Needs Creatives on Instagram HERE. Explore working or collaborating with Rachael at rachael@rachaelsardelich.com and learn more about her work HERE. You can join the wider conversation and our community over on Substack via THIS LINK. The original painted work in the show design was hand painted by artist Sarah Darling. The creation of our original musical score was created by Camilla Rose Sullivan.

    31 min
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The World Needs Creatives is hosted by Rachael Sardelich, Vedic Meditation Teacher and Consultant to Creatives. Rachael has spent over two decades working at the confluence of creativity and spirituality and now leads her clients to explore, germinate and birth their creative visions into the world. During this weekly podcast, Rachael shares wise and inspired conversations to expand our creative consciousness. Join Rachael in a space where the deeper questions are always asked and learn exactly what has shaped the humans behind remarkable ideas, cultural movements and visionary art in all of its forms.  Within you’ll find stories on embracing darkness and finding wholeness, the blurred boundaries between human and nature, breaking limitations and building legacies, rich inner-landscapes that hold untapped potential, and prophecies that will open portals of possibility within you.   These conversations are regenerative moments of incubation, creation and renewal. They won’t ask you to sit still and play nice. They will awaken your senses, wildly inspire the muse within and remind you: the world needs what you’ve got.

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