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.

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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.

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