Gather Connect Create || (formerly Cream City Dreams)
Cream City Dreams is now Gather Connect Create!
New name, same host 👋🏼 Bite-sized episodes with big connection!
Join me weekly for inspiration, interviews and simple ideas you can use in your own community to create more connections IN REAL LIFE, no matter where you find yourself!
Episodes
189 episodes
When music is the medicine | In praise of connecting through song with Holly Haebig
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 music...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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47:36
How to host women's circles with Nora Oaks
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, le...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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38:43
How to (re)define a successful gathering
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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14:37
In praise of poetry and prose in person with Angela Voras-Hills of Book Drop MKE
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 loc...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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29:19
Getting people to talk at the Thanksgiving table (or any table!)
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 I'm ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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10:43
In praise of the potluck
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 t...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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30:29
In praise of the humble name tag
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 t...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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17:56
Welcome to Gather Connect Create and why this matters!
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 t...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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19:47
Why aren't we gathering?
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 it more...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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15:22
Gather Connect Create: the NEW podcast trailer!
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 S...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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2:06
An Update from my Cream City Dreams Hiatus!
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 ... or what I'...
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Season 9
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Episode 178
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11:49
Season 8 finale plus what's next for Cream City Dreams?
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 bee...
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Season 8
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Episode 177
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10:02
Takeaways from the 14 INCREDIBLE Milwaukee women from Season 8 on finding JOY!
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. ...
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Season 8
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Episode 176
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40:00
Cream City Digest on why I just can't get back online
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...
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Season 8
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Episode 175
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7:21
Reflections on a JOYFUL summer away from the socials with Thekla Brumder Ross
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 ...
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Season 8
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Episode 174
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31:55
Cream City Digest on facing the fears and living creatively
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 f...
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Season 8
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Episode 173
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8:11
From Heartbreak to Hope: The Story Behind Stella’s Playground with Rese Schneider
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,&n...
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Season 8
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Episode 172
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58:56
Cream City Digest on what I would have shared if I'd been online this summer!
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...
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Season 8
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Episode 171
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15:10
JOY in the (Creative) Mornings with Annie Werner and Kelly Winarski, Milwaukee Chapter Hosts
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 mon...
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Season 8
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Episode 170
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1:04:31
Cream City Digest with tips on returning to social media (if and when!) with Thekla Brumder Ross
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, this...
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Season 8
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Episode 169
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25:11
Finding JOY behind Open Doors in Milwaukee with Grace Fuhr of Milwaukee Historical Society
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 ...
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Season 8
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Episode 168
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49:28
Cream City Digest gets existential with Thekla Brumder Ross
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 and clinical ...
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Season 8
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Episode 167
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17:52
When a dream becomes a reality for Rosha Brister at Style Pop Cafe
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 o...
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Season 8
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Episode 166
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29:45
Cream City Digest with an update from Thekla Brumder Ross
Thekla is back today! Regular listeners will remember that Thekla is a clinical psychologist specializing in addiction medicine and self-compassion who shared the mic with me in May for my series on attention. She's also along for the ride on t...
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Season 8
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Episode 165
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17:49
JOY at the Threshold with Rita Bertrand and Marjorie Moon of Milwaukee's Threshold Choir
Today on the podcast, I'm talking with Rita Bertrand and Marjorie Moon, the founding members of Milwaukee's very own Threshold Choir. These two women, along with eleven other members of the Milwaukee chapter's choir sing soft, quiet and calming...
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Season 8
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Episode 164
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49:22
