Why I'm Finally Committing to My Creativity

The Story Behind The Creator’s Collective

When I left the corporate world, one of the things I wanted most was freedom.

Freedom from someone else deciding what my days should look like. Freedom from calendars filled with meetings. Freedom from productivity for productivity’s sake. Freedom to follow my curiosity, my creativity, and the things that genuinely felt alive for me. And suddenly, I had it. Which was wonderful...And also… surprisingly difficult. Without the structures that had organized my life for so long, I suddenly had to create my own.

And I resisted that hard.

I didn’t leave the corporate world just to recreate another version of the grind for myself. I wanted spaciousness. I wanted creativity. I wanted to be able to follow inspiration when it arrived.

And there were so many things I wanted to explore.

Making music. Learning to paint. Writing. Creating experiences. Developing new offerings. Growing my business. Following the bigger visions I could feel wanting to come through me.

The problem was that I often waited until I felt inspired to work on them.

And inspiration, as beautiful as it is, is not particularly reliable when it comes to scheduling.

So I would have bursts of creative energy. I’d start something. Get excited about something else. Follow another thread. Come back to the first idea weeks later.

Until eventually I looked around and realize I had a LOT of loose threads floating around.

Maybe you know this feeling.

You have a book you want to write.

A business you want to build.

A song you want to learn.

A painting you want to make.

A podcast you keep thinking about starting.

A course you want to finish.

A garden you want to design.

A project that doesn’t even have a name yet, but keeps quietly tapping you on the shoulder.

There are so many possible directions our lives can take now. And for those of us with particularly curious or creative brains, that possibility can be both exhilarating and completely overwhelming.

Call it ADHD. Call it creative overwhelm. Call it living in a world where there are approximately 47 things you could become fascinated by before breakfast. Whatever we call it, I’ve realized something about myself:

Freedom without any structure doesn’t necessarily make me more creative.

Sometimes it actually makes it harder to create. Can you relate?

So here I am, admitting that what helped me be successful all of those years in the corproate world, was knowing that I had to show up at a certain time each day, regardless of whether I felt inspired or not. What helped me to create anything was the coaching groups or the schooling, or the courses.

Because what helps me is a container.

Not the kind of structure that says produce more, hustle harder, optimize yourself.

A different kind.

A structure that says:

For these few hours, focus on this.

A space where I can put down the million other things asking for my attention and turn toward the thing I want to bring into the world. Sometimes I know exactly what I want to work on. Sometimes I need to sit quietly and listen for what wants to come through. Sometimes I spend half the time meeting the resistance, fear, perfectionism, or uncertainty that has been keeping me from beginning. Interestingly, I've discovered that these moments are all a part of the creative process too. Not just the moments when it wants to flow through.

I’m now starting to see that creativity needs both freedom and form.

It needs the wildness of inspiration, curiosity, play, experimentation and possibility.

But it also needs somewhere to land.

A canvas.

A page.

A practice.

A few hours on the calendar.

A room full of other people saying, in their own ways:

I’m showing up for this too.

And that is where the idea for The Creator’s Collective came from.

I wanted the space I kept wishing existed for me. A place to show up consistently without feeling like I was stepping back into the grind. A place where I could bring whatever I was creating—my business, my writing, my music, an idea I was still trying to understand—and simply have protected time to be with it. And I wanted to do it alongside other people.

Because there is something powerful about creating in community. Sometimes we need collaboration or conversation. Sometimes we need inspiration. And sometimes we simply need another human being quietly working beside us. There’s a reason body doubling can be so effective: somehow, doing the thing becomes easier when we’re not doing it entirely alone. So that’s what I’m creating.

The Creator’s Collective is a space for people who have something they want to bring into the world.

It doesn’t have to be a business. You don’t have to call yourself an artist. You don’t even have to know exactly what you’re creating yet. You might come to write your book. Build your website. Paint. Make music. Develop an offering. Work on a project that has been sitting half-finished on your computer for six months (anyone else have a million tabs open?). Or simply sit in a space with other creative humans and ask:

What wants my attention today?

There will be room to connect and share, and there will also be room to put your head down and work. You can come for the accountability. You can come for the body doubling. You can come for the commnity. You can even come because you;re tired of trying to make your dreams happen entirely on your own.

And so, here we are. It's not lost on me that the funniest part of creating this is that I’ve had to move through the exact block The Creators Collective is designed to support:

A Commitment to Creation

I’ve finally stopped waiting to feel ready, inspired, clear, confident, or certain - and decided that showing up might be what creates those things in the first place.

I’m choosing to show up consistently, because what if we don't have to wait for inspiration to show up before we arrive, and see that sometimes inspiration arrives because we showed up?

I’d love to invite you to show up with me, and see what wants to come through.

Come Create With Us