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A Field Guide for Creatives Ready to Grow Outside the Grind
Field Zine Vol. 01 is part manifesto, part field guide—a creative offering for artists, makers, and thinkers ready to break up with hustle culture and reclaim their creative practice. Designed with intention, this zine moves through four organic phases—Compost, Seed, Tend, and Bloom—offering gentle prompts, collage-style visuals, and room to return to your most instinctual creative rhythms. This blog shares the story behind the zine, its purpose, and why it was created as an act of resistance and return. Perfect for creatives seeking slow growth, deeper meaning, and liberation from content culture.
How to Begin Again in Business: with Alignment, Not Pressure
After a year of intentional dormancy and creative reflection, I’m pressing reset—not from a place of pressure, but from a place of truth. This essay explores what it means to compost old strategies, trust your creative timing, and build a business that grows like a garden: with patience, presence, and care. If you're craving slower rhythms, deeper meaning, and a return to alignment—this one's for you.
Nature’s Blueprint: A Guide to Biomimicry and Decolonized Creativity in Business
Discover how biomimicry and decolonized creativity can reshape the way you work. In this blog, we explore what it means to rewild your creative practice by learning from nature’s patterns and unlearning colonized approaches to productivity, perfectionism, and self-censorship. If you’ve ever felt stuck in hustle culture or disconnected from your creative flow, this is your invitation to return to rhythm, reciprocity, and regeneration.
A Regenerative Path to Creativity and Business: How to Cultivate Your Own Creative Ecosystem
In this guide, we explore how to design a creative ecosystem—a regenerative, nature-inspired business model that reflects your unique creativity, values, and purpose. Unlike traditional hustle culture or hierarchical empires, creative ecosystems are built for sustainability, flexibility, and personal fulfillment. Learn how to map out the core components of your ecosystem—like offerings, revenue streams, nourishment, and community—and see examples tailored to artists, coaches, healers, and storytellers. This blog offers practical inspiration for growing a business that breathes with you.
What It Means to Build a Creative Ecosystem (Not Just a Business)
Explore what it means to build a creative ecosystem instead of chasing the traditional empire-style business model. Drawing lessons from time spent in the garden — from companion planting to soil regeneration — Natalie shares a grounded, personal reflection on how sustainable, relationship-centered business practices can transform not just how we work, but how we contribute to the world. If you’ve felt resistant to hustle culture, extractive growth, or one-size-fits-all business advice, this blog offers a gentle, powerful reframe rooted in reciprocity, slowness, and care.
Making Your Marketing Matter in 2025: Sustainable Strategies for Creative Small Businesses
Explore a refreshing approach to marketing that goes beyond social media. This blog shares actionable strategies like long-form content creation, PR opportunities, and authentic networking to help small businesses and entrepreneurs build lasting connections and achieve sustainable growth. Step into 2025 with intentional marketing that aligns with your values and vision.
Rethinking Success: Holistic Business Metrics Beyond Profit
Success isn’t just about revenue. Discover holistic success metrics that measure impact, fulfillment, and sustainability in your business.
How to Plan Your New Year as a Small Business Owner Who Doesn’t Like Planning
Discover a creative and intuitive approach to planning your new year as a small business owner. This guide shares practical steps for designing a purposeful and aligned business strategy without the rigidity of traditional planning.