How To Identify Your Creative Allies and Overcome Self Doubt with Amy Bernstein

Amy L. Bernstein is an award-winning author, a former journalist, and a professional nonfiction book coach helping authors find their best path to publishing. She teaches writing and creativity workshops and brings an empowering message to writers and multi-media artists around the world. Her nonfiction book, Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration, won first place from BookFest 2025 for self-help and inspiration. In this episode, we discuss Amy’s writing career, why she loves storytelling, why Amy struggled with calling herself a writer, why creative people specifically suffer from self doubt, where self doubt comes from, how to identify and deal with your creative allies and adversaries, how to be a better ally, why women are affected by self doubt more than other identities, how to stop comparing yourself to others, how to shift validation from external to internal, and more.    Follow Amy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amylbernstein/  Visit Amy’s website: https://amywrites.live/  Buy Amy’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Wrangling-Doubt-Monster-Fighting-Inspiration/dp/1610886380  Subscribe to Version 1's substack: version1podcast.substack.com/  Follow Version 1 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/version1podcast/ Support the show: https://buymeacoffee.com/waverlycolville