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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.

Unpublished Amie McNee and James Winestock

    • Arts
    • 4.9 • 103 Ratings

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.

    How To Fight For Your Art with Author Emma Couette

    How To Fight For Your Art with Author Emma Couette

    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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    Amie's sister Kirsty on starting a business at 21, motherhood and, parenting.

    Amie's sister Kirsty on starting a business at 21, motherhood and, parenting.

    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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    • 39 min
    Do We Need to "Normalise the 9-5"?

    Do We Need to "Normalise the 9-5"?

    First off, friends, audio continues to betray us at every turn. We had multiple glitches again this week so, if James suddenly starts talking about the Patriarchy seemingly mid-sentence, we apologise for the non sequitur. I think things mostly make sense though? Let us know.



    So, what's the episode about? Amie has an arch nemesis, and that arch nemesis is a man called Hubs who goes by the social media handle @Hubs.life (not normalise the 9-5 as we mistakenly say in the ep). Hubs doe not know Amie. Amie has never met Hubs. But Hubs made the mistake of making a series of reels and tiktoks urging his followers to "normalise the 9-5".



    We talk about why we in fact do not need to do this (spoiler, because it is already incredibly normalised).



    If you soldier through the "life update" section at the 2/3s mark, we go on to discuss our tips for those of you trying to create around your job (which we also have a full podcast episode on).



    Xoxo Amie and James



    P.s. Amie's novels are going gangbusters at the moment! Regrettably, I am About to Cause Trouble is flying off the proverbial shelf largely thanks to a massive shoutout from Emmi.Reads. If you've read Regrettably, we'd love if you could review it on goodreads, to get it higher in that sweet book nerd algo, or on the non-Amazon affiliated Story Graph. Remember it is both free on Youtube, and included in a Spotify Premium membership.


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    • 34 min
    Planning and Preparing When You'd Rather Not

    Planning and Preparing When You'd Rather Not

    REAL PODCAST STARTS AT ABOUT 07:00, everything before that is bullshit chat.



    We talk you through how we like to plan out projects (or don't). Sit with us in a sort of ASMR, fly on the wall type way as we plan what we want to work on for the rest of the year.



    We try to give our chaotic lives a loose structure. Which doesn't always work.



    Expect: pros and cons of planning, what we think of ultra long term planning, how we choose projects to work on, finding our rhythm, and more rambles!



    Guess what! We are offering two free, hour long masterclasses for anyone who's ever wanted to check out our live teaching. Sign up here.


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    • 51 min
    Vulnerability over Comfort with Performance Coach Sion Cousins

    Vulnerability over Comfort with Performance Coach Sion Cousins

    Today we have Creative, Performance Coach, Mentor and good friend Sion Cousins on the podcast.

    An incredibly important episode for Creatives who have big dreams. In this episode we talk about what gets in the way between us and our goals. James gets his own mini coaching session, we talk about when I first started instagram, and lots lots more.

    Our Rhode mics did not work (name dropping because I am pissed) so please bare with the audio!



    Sions information:

    You can work one on one with Sion, just email him and you can set up a free call!

    Website: https://www.sondervail.com/home

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sondervail/


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    • 51 min
    Artists need to learn to say NO, with Augustine Charles

    Artists need to learn to say NO, with Augustine Charles

    It's time to reclaim our creative power, and Augustine leads the way. An incredible conversation around putting up boundaries with gatekeepers and creative institutions, how to embrace your multi-disciplinary magic, and how to bring about all your creative dreams



    Website: nfinitethreat.comCreative Mentorship page: nfinitethreat.com/creative-coachingCharlie and the Cloud Kingdom: https://www.amazon.com/Charlies-Adventures-Cloud-Kingdom-Adeventures/dp/B0BQ3WBD5Z/ref=sr_1_1?crid=MY3Q7HW4A9UE&keywords=charlie%27s+adventures+the+cloud+kingdom&qid=1673045241&sprefix=charlies+adventures+the+cloud+kingdom%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-1Social Media: Instagram: @nfinitethreatOther Link: Leenadria Books: https://cupcakepink.com/shop


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    • 46 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
103 Ratings

103 Ratings

hannasammantha_ ,

An amazing, cozy and insightful podcast

I discovered Amy on Instagram, and that’s how I stumbled across the Unpublished podcast.

I love how real Amy and James are. They speak their mind, and I love it. It’s a very cozy, and insightful listening experience.

Highly recommend tuning into it!

alisonnwonderlaandd ,

THE podcast for any aspiring creative

Amie and James podcast is such a gem. Pretty much everything they say resonates on such a deep level. As an ex numbers/corporate girl turned aspiring creative, this podcast has saved me. They leave me feeling inspired and motivated every time I listen. Thank you for taking up space!!!

Cheeve ,

Love these two!

This is a great podcast for creatives, Amie and James bring so much value, insight and joy whenever I listen!

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