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
196 episodes
In praise of screen free childhoods (and the parents behind the movement!) with RECONNECT MILWAUKEE
In today's episode, Christina Dinur and Amanda Metropolus from RECONNECT MILWAUKEE talk about how and why they founded this group and what they hope to offer kids instead of endless (and mindless) screen time. A screen free childhoo...
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Season 9
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Episode 195
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41:54
In praise of the voice memo friendships!
If you've ever met someone and thought 'GAH I wish we lived closer, I'd love to be friends.' This episode is for you! It's also for you if you are tired of texting or emailing and want to put more emotion (and less emojis) into your...
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Season 9
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Episode 194
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21:11
How to host a women-only dance party in YOUR city! (sorry, guys!)
Another week, another way to gather and connect! Join me today as I talk with Rebecca Jankowski and Theresa Kopak of Interwovxn who alongside professional Event Planner Grace Fuhr are organizing quarterly dance parties for midlife w...
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Season 9
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Episode 193
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33:38
A standing dinner date with friends: A simple way to build community
I love this story of my friend Dorthy and her family, who share a meal, week after week, with the same family. They rotate houses, they cook the food, they share the meal, they put away the dishes and then they go home. It's simple. It's no fus...
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26:37
An update on life OFF social media (and what I'm doing instead)
It's been over seven months since I've been on the socials! And it feels GREAT. AND ... also slightly disconnected from reality, from my community and from my creativity. So I'm back in a new way. Or, really, an old-school way. A bl...
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Season 9
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Episode 191
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8:41
In praise of wonder seeking with a professional Wonder Seeker, with Andrea Scher
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, att...
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Season 9
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Episode 190
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In praise of extraordinary deeds!
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 extr...
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Season 9
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Episode 189
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10:14
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 9
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Episode 188
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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 9
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Episode 187
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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 9
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Episode 186
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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 9
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Episode 185
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28:26
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 9
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Episode 184
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9:50
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 9
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Episode 183
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29:35
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 9
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Episode 182
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17:02
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 9
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Episode 180
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18:53
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 9
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Episode 181
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14:29
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 9
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Episode 179
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1:12
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
