Unpublished Amie McNee and James Winestock

Failure is non negotiable. So how can learn and grow from our failures?



We share some of our failures, what they taught us, how we dealt with them at the time, and what we think of them now.



Included: dealing with rejection from gatekeepers, why failure should excite us, letting ourselves be upset, and more!



There are still tickets to both of our US workshops!


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Another spice one provoked by some online discourse.



Is it wrong to make money from our art? Does making art with the intention to sell it sully it?



It's a strong no from us. Listen to learn why!



Don't forget we have two workshops in California coming up.



LA on the 25th of May



San Francisco on the 1st of June



Both are going to be 5 hours long (including a lunch break), with teaching, QandA, journaling, and a chance to mingle with other artists.

Cheapest tickets start at $50.


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Back to our favourite punching bag: Perfectionism.



We talk about how perfectionism leads to stagnancy, stunts your growth as a creative, and ultimately leads to worse art.



LA and San Francisco artists (or anyone who wants to travel there!), we are coming to your city!

LA workshop: 25th of March

San Fran workshop: 1st of June

Pricing is on a sliding scale to accomodate different budgets.



Learn more here




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Join us on a walk and talk as we play a little game of Would You Rather, artist edition!

We would love for you to check out Amie's fiction.

Her witchy tudor novel, Regrettably, I Am About to Cause Trouble, and her Sexy medieval romp, The Rules Upheld by No One are available in audio, e-book, and print on most major platforms.


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This is one of our favourite ever conversations! Emma Couette, six novels in the last five years. All while holding down a full time job.

We talk about how she juggles a 9-5 job with this sort of release schedule, doing her own promo, fighting for her novels, finding good people to give feedback, making difficult choices about how to allocate resources to creative projects, and much more!

We learned so much about the Indie publishing space and came away with heaps of things we want to action.

We reached out to Emma and asked her on the podcast because we are blown away by how she fights for her writing. How diligent she is. How much care she puts into her promotion and her social presence (@emmacouetteauthor).

Here are links to Emma's novels, please support her:

Silent Night purchase link: https://www.books2read.com/guildtrilogybookone

Summer's Revenge purchase link: https://www.books2read.com/summersrevenge

Winter's Wrath purchase link: https://www.books2read.com/winterswrath



Emma's website: ⁠https://www.emmacouetteauthor.com⁠

Emma is @emmacouetteauthor on Insta, Tiktok, and Threads.


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Welcome Amie's sister Kirsty to the show! At 29 years old, Kirsty is the founder and director of Made Home, a Sydney based home transition company, with fifteen employees and dozens of customers!

We spend a lot of time trying to get to the bottom of why Amie and Kirsty both became Entrepreneurs and what exactly it was about their childhood that made them bounce off traditional work.

We also discuss the challenges of more traditional businesses versus creative businesseses, how motherhood has changed Kirsty's relationship with work, and much more!




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