Building Community As A Creative Act
In our February conversation with Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, we brushed up against the idea that community building is a creative act. After that, we wanted to explore this topic in its own episode—a closer look at what friendship looks like on the internet, in person, and when “internet friends” become your regular, in-person friends. Who better to talk to about all this than with C+C Founder, Ashlee Gadd, whose vision for an online gathering space for creative mothers led to the founding of our Exhale community in 2018? We hope our conversation will encourage you where you are at—whether you feel like you have a strong community around you or if you are in the starting places of building something up.
Bio: Ashlee Gadd is author of Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood and the founder of Coffee + Crumbs—a beautiful online space where motherhood and storytelling intersect. As a writer and photographer, Ashlee has spent her entire motherhood creating in the margins. When she's not writing or vacuuming Cheerios out of the carpet, she loves making friends on the internet, eating cereal for dinner, and rearranging bookshelves.
Links:
Laura Rennie and Laura Bass on the Exhale Podcast
Stay in the know about the Making A Mother Podcast, set to premier in Fall 2024
Read Ashlee’s Substack detailing her vision for the final chapters of Coffee+Crumbs
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