Gather Connect Create || (formerly Cream City Dreams)

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Today I am SO excited to introduce you to the woman who has inspired me for the last two decades (at LEAST). I've been following Andrea Scher from her earliest blogs back in the early 2000s and have learned so much about creativity, wonder, attenti...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Happy ALL THE Holidays today. A short and sweet episode about a book I recently read with my daughter. Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed , by Emily Pearson. A beautiful book with an extraordinary message about the power of kindness.  AND an invita...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Today on the show, how can we gather, connect and CREATE through music? With voice, with song and with breath, we are ALL musicians and creators. Today's guest Holly Haebig is Milwaukee's musical maven and talks with me about the power of musi...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! If you have been longing for connection in a safe and - dare I say - sacred space, filled with people who are authentic, and who bring their full selves, look no further than a circle. And if you've not experience the magic of a good circle, let th...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! What does it mean when you invite dozens of people but only three show? Is bigger always better? Is more really merrier? This week I dive into how we define successful gatherings and whether we should be looking at numbers as the holy grail of a well pl...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Today on the show: a gathering of words. I'm talking with Milwaukee Poet and interdisciplinary artist, Angela Voras-Hills. She and her co-host Danielle Harms have organized a semi-regular book reading they call Book Drop MKE, inviting local and nat...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Today a tiny tip for getting people to share when it's their turn at the table. Use this at the Thanksgiving table, or any table where there's a go-around that requires a creative answer. It's my new favorite trick at any gathering where...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Today, meet my friend Lizzie. Lizzie is super cool. Earlier this year, Lizzie was angry, overwhelmed, disheartened  and ________ with the state of the world (fill-in-the-blank with any/all the exhausted words) . So Lizzie decided to do something. Lizzie...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Call me crazy, but I love name tags. So much, that I've got an entire episode devoted to the art of the name tag: why to use them, when to use them, how to use them, and why I think they are so special.  If you are gathering people together this ho...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! On today's episode, I'm wondering why we aren't gathering as much these days? I have some ideas, maybe you do too? I also share a simple practice of noticing the ways in which we gather, connect and create on the daily. (and psst: we do i...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! The podcast about gathering, connecting, and creating in community, together.  Today a bit of background on the move from Cream City Dreams (don't worry Milwaukee, I love you, still!) to Gather Connect Create. What I hope listeners take away from t...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! It's here, it's here!  Well, the trailer anyway! Hear what I've got up my sleeve for the new iteration of the podcast. Move over Cream City Dreams, here comes Gather, Connect, Create.  Who's with me!?  And I'm STILL off the soci...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! It's been a whirlwind of a month over here at Cream City Dreams! Which, as you know, is a one-woman-show. (that's me!) Today, after a month away from the airwaves, I'm returning with an update of what's next for Cream City Dreams ......

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Thank you thank you thank you! From the bottom of my heart, thank you for listening, subscribing, sharing and enjoying the pod. In today's episode a look at what might be ahead for Cream City Dreams after an indeterminate hiatus. See what's be...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Another week, and this time hear from FOURTEEN of this season's guests about JOY. I've taken snippets from each conversation with these incredible women and compiled them to help YOU, dear listeners, find more joy in your own life.  I hope you...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Another week off the socials ... and I thought this week I'd FINALLY hop back online to see what I've missed. But I just couldn't pull the trigger. Find out why in this week's short and sweet Cream City Digest.  But if I would have p...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Another week, another incredible Milwaukee woman!  She's back, for the last episode (with a guest) of the summer, and today we are reflecting on a summer off the socials. The JOMO, the FOMO, the emotional triggers (and baggage) that come with our d...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Every so often, I reread books. I don't have that many that I'll put up with again and again, but Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic is one of them. So today, a little excerpt from the book for you. Something *I* needed to re(read) this week,...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Rese Schneider is Stella’s mom. And when life handed her the kind of news no parent should ever have to hear, she didn’t shut down—she rolled up her sleeves.  When Stella was eight, she looked at a neighborhood playground and said,  “That playground isn...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Another Digest and I've got lots of links for you, SO MANY incredible Milwaukee women doing cool things this summer. I would have shared ALL of these online (and more) had I been on the socials ... so instead, a summer roundup.  Here are the links...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Another week, TWO more incredible Milwaukee women!  If today's episode is the first time you're hearing about Creative Mornings, you are in for a TREAT. A global movement with a chapter here in Milwaukee, Creative Mornings is the monthly burst...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! This week's episode is chock FULL of tips on how to set boundaries if and when we decide to return to social media after this summer detox. If you've been following along on your own detox, but fear the dip back into the socials like I do, thi...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Another week, another incredible Milwaukee woman!  In this episode I'm talking with Grace Fuhr, Events Director at Historic Milwaukee, and she is cracking open the city for us —one door at a time— to explore some of the Cream City's most uniqu...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! This week we are going deep! If you've been following along this social media detox I've been taking this summer, you've heard me talk about the spaciousness it has allowed. And today, I'm talking with Thekla Brumder Ross - friend an...

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Another week, another incredible Milwaukee woman.  Talk about bringing a dream to life. Style Pop Cafe has been at LEAST two years in the making (and MANY more years in the dreaming) ... and finally, coffee is brewing on the corner of Mineral and 5th! R...