CENTER
Creative advising, visionary ideation, and personalized business support with Cody Cook-Parrott
All sessions are available over zoom or in my home studio in Cedar, MI
Books are currently open
The Classic Creative Advising : $225
(ONE HOUR)
Together we will put everything on the table - what projects do you want to bring forth? What creative desires are emerging? We will then list out strategies for how to move forward with next steps.
Drafting a book proposal
Strategizing a new online class
Launching your first newsletter
Rebranding a website
Looking at a sales page together and editing it
Starting a new business from scratch
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Deep Dive : $400
(TWO HOURS)
Deep Dive is your chance to go deep into the depths of visioning and strategizing. This is great for someone who is at the beginning stages of naming and organizing a project and wants to develop it further.
Starting your own artist residency
Mapping out what you want to do on a retreat that you teach or set up for yourself
Designing weekly rituals and systems that support your creative work
Digging into the spaciousness of two hours to create specific goals to reach beyond our session
Creating the outline for writing a book
This offering comes with a custom document with next steps outlined for you and whatsapp text support for a week after our call while you integrate what we invented together.
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“After working with Cody, I’m more inspired than I’ve been in a long, long time. They helped me turn an absolute jumble of ideas into a clear vision for my rebrand, a plan to finally tackle my long-abandoned MFA thesis, and ideas for a brand new offer—which is a lot to accomplish in just an hour!
Now, they'd be my go-to for just about any question—whether it’s “how can I bring more creativity into this project?” or something more practical like “how do I file an LLC?”
In short: if you’ve got a creative business (or creative life) question, Cody’s 100% the person you want to help you figure it out.”
Nicole Cloutier, Copy Writer and Poet
“I’ve been a fan of Cody’s work for years and was excited to book a recent Creative Advising session with them to help me get unstuck with a couple work and personal projects that felt stagnant. Cody created a container in our session for me to talk through what was feeling challenging and they asked keen questions to guide me to imagine paths forward.
I especially appreciated how Cody shared examples from their own experience with similar obstacles—it normalized the nervousness I was feeling and encouraged me to feel confident about my ability to be achieve my goals.
I left my call with Cody with both a list of actions to take and eagerness to put them into practice—and since then I’ve found the process of chipping away at that to-do list to be fun. I’m grateful for Cody’s unique perspective and skillset with strategizing and will certainly book more calls with them as I continue to develop these projects and dream up new ones.”
Kate Henry, PHD
Together we will see where we can turn our desire for discipline into a skill of deep devotion. We will engage in and design rituals that support your business and your practice. We will talk about pricing, money, and valuing our time and expertise. While I am the facilitator I am also your collaborator in the Center retreat portal!
DEEPER OFFERINGS :
Swan Dive Weekend : $1000
(FIVE HOURS OVER TWO DAYS)
Set up a 15 min call to see if this is the right fit and for booking information : BOOK CALL HERE
The best thing if you don’t want to travel but you do want to dive in all the way. Over two days we will spend our time doing the hard work and the heavy lifting. This might look like playing with your website, developing a new suite of offerings, writing copy for a sales page, reinventing your business, and more.
This offering comes with a custom document with next steps outlined for you and whatsapp text support for a week after our time together while you integrate what we invented together.
The Celestial Plunge : A Creative Advising In Person Immersion : $2000
Set up a 15 min call to see if this is the right fit and for booking information : BOOK CALL HERE
(THREE DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN)
Ten Hours of dedicated creative advising, strategizing, and co working
Your own guest room and work area
All meals provided
Beach field trip
Pickup and drop off from Cherry Capital Airport
You can split your payment into two payments but must be paid in full at time of retreat
WHERE : Cedar, MI on the Leelanau Pensinula of Northern Michigan - 15 min to the beach 15 min to the food co-op.
Another note on the space : June is a 60lb lab mix mutt who lives here. She can be high energy in the first 20 seconds of meeting you and then is a total chiller.
View a sample agenda and read more HERE
“Any creative advisor can help you strategize, but only Cody Cook-Parrott can prove to you that you deserve to reap every benefit of the strategy. During our creative advising session, they helped me majorly simplify several of my educational offerings, which led to increased revenue with less burnout: something I didn't think was possible, and certainly something I didn't think I deserved. Cody both improved my business and demonstrated to me my worth in the process.”
Hurley Winkler, Writer
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SMALLER OFFERINGS :
Collaborative Co-Working : $65/hr
(UP TO TWO HOURS)
We will check in for ten minutes, silently co-work for the remainder of the time, and check in again with the last five minutes. This is great for returning creative advising clients who just need some hand holding to knock some tasks out of the park.
Opening the mail
Paying the IRS
Making a difficult phone call
Opening up a long neglected google doc
Responding to emails
Anything you’ve been avoiding!
Leaving Social Media Audit : $88
(30 MIN)
This is for any artist or small business owner who wants to leave social media and needs to develop practical next steps for doing so. You can do it! You don’t need social media if it’s killing you inside.
Step by step on making an exit plan
Planning finances around leaving
Starting your newsletter
Creating rituals around using it until its time to leave
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“Working with Cody is THE BEST! I came to them with an idea I wanted to develop into an offering, and I left with not only a ton of practical logistical clarity and ideas, but a feeling of excitement, enthusiasm, trust in my vision and motivation to actually do the next steps. It’s amazing to have a thought partner who can meet me wherever I am in the process and support me in weaving the threads together. “
mari mu, Craniosacral therapist
“I have followed Cody's work for the last year or so, via their podcast, newsletter, and digital products. I see them as, maybe, the only person in the online business and marketing world that is a personality fit for me. I appreciate the way their work is purpose-focused, informed by spirituality, and still very practical.
It is so rare to find someone who is as dedicated to supporting the creative work of others as Cody is, and my Creative Advising session was proof of that. I was searching for advice on how to grow my business with good marketing while staying true to my project's core mission. Cody was able to give me some actionable strategies for attracting the right kinds of people to my products, and lots of encouragement.
I left the session with some ideas for new things to try AND the sense that there is someone in the online business who I can trust, who understands what I'm trying to do, and who I can contact for support. Such a great experience!”
Bodhi Landa, Musician and Producer
ENERGETICS OF ALL SESSIONS : This is not therapy and I am not a therapist. I say this lovingly and to make sure when you understand that all sessions are facilitated through my specific lens as an artist with a BFA in Dance who has been self employed since 2013 with a career in shop keeping, residency facilitation, book writing, online teaching, and more! It is important that you show up to Study Hall with your own tools as well as be open to me reminding you of the beautiful tools that you already have in your toolbox. Big feelings are welcome here! Stories of your past and current lived experiences and how it affects your creative practice, business visions, and personal life are encouraged. But understanding the clarity of the exchange before investing is important.
Cody Cook-Parrott (formerly M@rlee Gr@ce) is a dancer and writer whose work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, creativity, and art making. Their practice is rooted in improvisation as a compositional form that takes shape in movement videos, books, quilting, online courses, and hosting artists. Grace’s Instagram dance project Personal Practice has been featured in the New York Times, Dance Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and more.
They have a newsletter that comes out every Monday called Monday Monday. Sometimes it comes out on different days but usually it comes out on Monday. If you love it and want to also read the monthly advice column YES YES you can become a paid subscriber.
Cody’s most recent book is Getting to Center: Pathways to Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown. You can buy it here. They also wrote the book How to Not Always Be Working.
Cody received a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan and is currently getting their MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics