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 it
• How we become clearer about who we are while simultaneously releasing what we thought we knew
• The unlived parts of ourselves that finally get permission to come forward
• What Jane has learned about invisibility, authenticity, and the freedom of caring less about others' opinions
• How daily practice becomes the ground for transformation and creative expression
• The beautiful paradox of time: having so much ahead of us, even as we become more awake to its preciousness

Join 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

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Subscribe to Jane's Substack Goddess Gram

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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.

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.

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 flow
• The 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 more
• Why self-care has become another productivity metric and what genuine rest actually looks like
• How our scarcity mindset keeps us gorging on information we don't need
• Practical ways to create breathing space through small, intentional choices that cost nothing
• What our ancestors knew 10,000 years ago that we've forgotten about living well

This 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: @practicingsimplicity

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.