Crash Course - Part 4: Tips for Hosting Your First Creative Workshop (from Gals with Experience!)

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   E35 · 2 Mar 2026 · 44 min

   Oops! I Overcommitted (Again)

   After a long period away, Rachael found herself packing it all in when she returned to Detroit. Lauren was there to bear witness and support Rachael through the overwhelm, which inspired today’s discussion. They debrief on Rachael’s chaotic week, and talk ways to do all of what you truly want, while incorporating guardrails to prevent spiraling into burnout.

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   E34 · 16 Feb 2026 · 41 min

   Automation, Convenience, and Connecting with your Audience

   Lauren and Rachael discuss the tools and rules they use to navigate running their creative businesses online. They talk about the line between convenience and spoon feeding, pitching clients, and accepting the pros and cons that come with going your own way.

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   E33 · 2 Feb 2026 · 36 min

   What’s On Your Secret Menu?

   This episode is all about the “secret menu”, a concept that Lauren dreamed up for offering unprofitable skills that she still enjoys doing for herself and others. The hosts discuss the value of thinking of your own secret menu and how it can become a creative form of community care. This conversation is an invitation to pull your untapped abilities out of skill purgatory and put them to good use.

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   E32 · 19 Jan 2026 · 42 min

   Portfolios: Curating Your Creative Work Like a Pro

   Rachael is ready to get serious about being an artist; so she and Lauren discuss a common component of presenting yourself as one: a portfolio. When describing your creative work and ambitions, it can be extremely helpful to have a curated selection of pieces to back it up; but many questions arise when attempting to build an online portfolio. In this episode, you’ll gain some insight towards answering those questions for yourself. Is it okay to have one-off works vs a series? How can you focus your practice around certain theme or through-line while allowing yourself to follow all of your…

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   E31 · 5 Jan 2026 · 47 min

   Unexpected Biz Lessons from FB Marketplace

   Lauren sold most of her things in the months leading up to moving back to BK and absorbed helpful lessons around sales, customer service, and communication that she brought back to her business. In this episode she shares these lessons with Rachael and reflects on how they were more easily absorbed when she was selling “stuff” (chairs, furniture, etc) as opposed to her creative work and services.

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   20 Oct 2025 · 24 min

   Crash Course - Part 3: Workshop Planning, Pricing, and Preparation

   With a workshop concept locked in, Lauren and Rachael begin developing their idea into a more well-rounded offering. They work through how to provide the most valuable experience for workshop attendees, how to market the event, and what price point will cover costs while making a worthwhile profit for them as hosts. Throughout this phase of planning, they provide nuanced insight on what to consider when tailoring a gathering toward your own goals.

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   13 Oct 2025 · 20 min

   Crash Course - Part 2: Figuring Out What Type of Workshop to Teach

   Lauren and Rachael brainstorm on a guided experience that merges both of their skills and teaching styles. In pitching ideas to one another, they land on a workshop that they are both jazzed to facilitate. The big question is: Can they develop this idea into a strong, marketable offering?

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   6 Oct 2025 · 22 min

   Crash Course - Part 1: How to Host a Creative Workshop

   Welcome to Crash Course! A Chaotic Creative mini series about gathering in the material world. Follow Lauren and Rachael as they plan a workshop that you can actually attend this November in New York City! In part one, the gals share how they began teaching and why they believe workshops are a great way to grow your creative community and business.

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   E30 · 8 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 13 min

   Staying Creatively Grounded While Grieving

   In this wide-ranging conversation, Rachael and Lauren discuss how they stay creatively grounded in periods of grief; they then realize that the conversations they’ve had as friends and co-hosts have had a grounding effect as well. This season’s closing coincides with the closing of chapters in the respective lives of the Chaotic Creatives team and in this long indulgent sendoff, your gals are looking forward even while holding the sadness that comes with change.

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    E29 · 25 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 2 min

    Choosing Our Own Adventures

    In this penultimate episode of season 3, Rachael and Lauren both find themselves at the precipice of major change in their lives. They discuss how the nature of these changes have influenced their priorities and styles of decision-making. Expanding beyond the new seasons in their lives, they raise the importance of doing what you can to prioritize your creative work, and honing your intuition by practicing decisiveness in everyday scenarios.