Chaotic Creatives

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.
Episode Mentions
Check out Rachael’s Online Community, The Juice Box here!
Please explore “River Scars,” the work of Robert Hodgin who presented at OFFF MX 2025
If you liked this episode, check out Episode 12 “The Spark: How Advice for Dating is Advice for Creating”
We are now booking workshops and speaking engagements as a duo! To bring us to your conference or organization, reach out to us at [email protected]. 
For a transcript of this episode, contact us at [email protected]

Cover art designed and photographed by Kristle Marshall for Hom Sweet Hom
If you love what we are doing and want to support us, head to patreon.com/chaoticcreatives
Follow the pod on Instagram @chaoticcreativespod and tag us in the projects you’re working on while listening!
Say hi or tell us a silly lil joke: [email protected]
Lauren’s links:
Website
Instagram
Online Classes
Rachael’s links:
Website
Instagram
The Juice Box
Creative Coaching

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.
Episode Mentions:
Rachael’s Soup Gala Birthday Party
Rachael’s Orange-Themed Birthday Party
We are now booking workshops and speaking engagements as a duo! To bring us to your conference or organization, reach out to us at [email protected]. 
For a transcript of this episode, contact us at [email protected]

Cover art designed and photographed by Kristle Marshall for Hom Sweet Hom
If you love what we are doing and want to support us, head to patreon.com/chaoticcreatives
Follow the pod on Instagram @chaoticcreativespod and tag us in the projects you’re working on while listening!
Say hi or tell us a silly lil joke: [email protected]
Lauren’s links:
Website
Instagram
Online Classes
Rachael’s links:
Website
Instagram
The Juice Box
Creative Coaching

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 curiosities? Listen to learn more!
Episode Mentions:
Check out The Juice Box here!
For more portfolio advice, watch Lauren’s Adobe course.
We are now booking workshops and speaking engagements as a duo! To bring us to your conference or organization, reach out to us at [email protected]. 
For a transcript of this episode, contact us at [email protected]

Cover art designed and photographed by Kristle Marshall for Hom Sweet Hom
If you love what we are doing and want to support us, head to patreon.com/chaoticcreatives
Follow the pod on Instagram @chaoticcreativespod and tag us in the projects you’re working on while listening!
Say hi or tell us a silly lil joke: [email protected]
Lauren’s links:
Website
Instagram
Online Classes
Rachael’s links:
Website
Instagram
The Juice Box
Creative Coaching

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.
Episode Mentions
Lauren’s NYC Bedroom Storage Project
Lauren at Creative Mornings NYC
We are now booking workshops and speaking engagements as a duo! To bring us to your conference or organization, reach out to us at [email protected].
For a transcript of this episode, contact us at [email protected]

Cover art designed and photographed by Kristle Marshall for Hom Sweet Hom
If you love what we are doing and want to support us, head to patreon.com/chaoticcreatives
Follow the pod on Instagram @chaoticcreativespod and tag us in the projects you’re working on while listening!
Say hi or tell us a silly lil joke: [email protected]
Lauren’s links:
Website
Instagram
Online Classes
Rachael’s links:
Website
Instagram
The Juice Box
Creative Coaching

In the conclusion of this first Crash Course mini-series, the hosts are sharing some of the commonly overlooked aspects of selling a workshop. They discuss how to navigate specific scenarios that they've encountered in hosting creative events and send you off with some encouraging words. 
Join us for this special in-person creative workshop in NYC on November 13th! Get tickets here!
For a transcript of this episode, contact us at [email protected]

Cover art designed and photographed by Kristle Marshall for Hom Sweet Hom
If you love what we are doing and want to support us, head to patreon.com/chaoticcreatives
Follow the pod on Instagram @chaoticcreativespod and tag us in the projects you’re working on while listening!
Say hi or tell us a silly lil joke: [email protected]
Lauren’s links:
Website
Instagram
Online Classes
Rachael’s links:
Website
Instagram
The Juice Box
Creative Coaching