Creative oxygen for your week 🪩

Building something meaningful by yourself is a mindf*ck... so let's change that.

“I know you’re trying to do your own thing, but it has taken long enough!!”

Ouchies!

Someone close to me spat this out a few days ago and I’ve been replaying it overandoverandover again, along with second, triple, and quadruple guessing myself.

These kinds of comments — whether they’re coming from a partner, a parent, or friend — cut deep. They rock you. They have you thinking:

💭 Maybe I should give up
💭 Maybe this isn’t anything because it should have become something by now
💭 What am I bringing to the table while I’m in the messy middle? When progress is measured in increments rather than quantum leaps? When it doesn’t match someone else’s definition of “real work?”

Take any day that ends in the letter ‘y’ and you’re likely already questioning your ideas, your “progress,” your dreams. Few people on the outside understand what a big deal it is if all you did today was not let your inner critic win.

(Which feels like defeating Goliath, am I right??)

Building a dream by yourself — a hopeful, human thing, no less — is a mindf*ck.

😫 You’re brainstorming with… yourself
😫 Holding yourself accountable by yourself
😫 Battling your inner critic by yourself
😫 Trying to climb a Very Big Mountain by yourself

That is no small endeavor! It’s also… incredibly lonely.

Loneliness is one of the biggest threats to creating/building anything. I’m not gonna lie. Those words knocked me down, but they didn’t knock me out. It put into perspective how much proximity matters. How much energy matters. And how much those fuel the courage to continue.

In the swirl of trying to do it all by yourself, you’ve probably listened to endless podcasts, watched countless videos, and consumed approximately 47 million productivity strategies. Same!

But to continue — to keep moving — you don’t need another strategy. You need to sit at a table with other people who GET IT and are building things too.

People who understand that showing up again is progress. People who know creative work is full of zigs, zags, and squiggles. People who remind you — just by being in the (zoom) room — that ideas, creativity, businesses, dreams, all of it, takes time to build.

Which is why I’m starting weekly Creative Coworking sessions for people building hopeful, human things.

🎉 Throws confetti 🎉

These coworking sessions are 2-hour blocks where you can come (virtually) to lock in and build momentum. A place to settle in with your work, sip your little drink (I’ll be drinking matcha ofc), and leave feeling like your brain got better oxygen.

When you spend too long working in isolation, your world can start to feel very small. I was part of a coworking group earlier this year and I can’t even tell you how much being around creative energy again — even quietly on zoom!! — changed my energy.

What you can expect:

✨ Tuesdays from 9–11AM PDT
✨ Weekly on Zoom
✨ Bring your work, your ideas, your Very Big Mountain

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Hiii! I’m Alison and I seek out, gather, and champion people whose work is foundationally sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction 🌎

I offer mentorship, coworking, and creative retreats for people building hopeful, human things 🫶🏼

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