In this episode, I’m joined by Amie McNee, author, speaker, and podcaster whose love letters to creators have inspired a global community of artists. Amie’s mission is radical: to dismantle the limiting narratives that keep us from making the work only we can create.
Together, we explore the tender and challenging parts of the creative life: learning to honour where we are in the process (even when it feels uncomfortable), and embracing vulnerability as a vital part of art-making. We also discuss what it means to claim authority in our own lives as artists, and why that act is both personal and revolutionary.
Our conversation moves into her latest book, We Need Your Art, a powerful manifesto inviting us to reclaim creativity as an essential, transformative, and deeply human responsibility.
About Amie McNee
Amie McNee is the author of both empowering nonfiction and bold, imaginative fiction. Through her books on creativity, including We Need Your Art, she encourages artists to take up space, embrace their unique voices, and build lives around what they love. Her historical fiction novels, rich with intrigue, defiance, and forgotten women, reimagine the past with sharp detail and emotional depth.
About me
Pascale Côté is a creativity guide, therapeutic arts practitioner, artist, and writer who helps creatives meet, understand, and express themselves by guiding them to work *with* their (creative, complex, unconventional) nature instead of against it. She helps artists, visionaries, disruptors and earth stewards break free from the vortex of overthinking and move forward with their bold, rebellious ideas. Her work challenges conventional norms, inviting creatives to explore what’s possible when they release outdated narratives and embrace their true, authentic expression. Pascale believes that art is a powerful vehicle for both individual and collective change when it’s grounded in truth—created outside the rigid systems that stifle our creative spirit.
About the podcast
Creative minds are the architects of a new world, and their art holds the keys to reimagining our reality. The challenge is, creative minds often spend just as much time crafting self-limiting narratives as they do creating their art. Dear Creative Mind is a space for creative liberation—a pathway out of the cycle of overthinking, burnout, and stagnation. This podcast is for artists & creative entrepreneurs where Pascale, creativity guide, shares grounding meditations, gentle coaching guidance and heartfelt conversations with inspiring artists. The podcast explores the real challenges that come with being creative—overthinking, self-doubt, burnout—and how to navigate them while staying true to our vision.
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A special thank you to Alexandra Moreno for the original music of the podcast.