Welcome to Common Shapes, a podcast about practices, systems and rituals for creative life.
It’s hosted by me, Marlee Grace.
And on this show, I talk about crafting business ecosystems that are in alignment with our values, marketing as a creative practice, and crossing the bridge between artist and small business owner.
Tune in to the first four episodes for my Creative Ideation Portal guide, and then stay tuned for conversations with artists, writers and thinkers I’m grateful to be in community with.
Whether you’re dreaming up a book, a newsletter, a thoughtful text to a friend, an online class, a podcast, a collection of beautiful paintings in an art gallery, a membership site, a dog walking service, or anything else — Common Shapes is here to support you on your path to creation and to service. Subscribe to join us.
Thank you so much to the team who makes this podcast possible :
🔹 Softer Sounds Studio for the guidance to dream this up and editing
🕸️ Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo for the beautiful art and friendship support
🎵 Saltbreaker for the music and being my collaborator in turning feelings into sounds for over a decade
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Description text goes hereHello, and welcome to common shapes, a podcast about practices, systems and rituals for creative life. I'm your host Marlee Grace, and I am delighted that you are listening. This podcast is about crafting business ecosystems that are in alignment with our values. This podcast is about marketing as a creative practice. This podcast is named common shapes because I am devoted to thinking about the ordinary, the ordinary that exists in the art and the magic that we make. I'm thinking a lot about this sort of bridge, artists are on one side of the bridge and the small business marketing strategy world is on the other side. And it is my hope that I can sort of walk us across that bridge, and have certain things not feel so confusing to us anymore, like sharing about our work publicly and using the digital realm to do so. So it is my hope that this podcast is for anyone who wants to create something, a book, a newsletter, a thoughtful text to a friend, a recipe book, a self published novel, an online class, a podcast, bumper stickers, a collection of beautiful paintings in an art gallery, a membership site, a dog walking service, whatever it is you want to bring into the world and tell the people about, I want common shapes to support you, on your path to creation and to service. Common shapes is a place to gather inspiration from artists and thinkers and writers who I am so grateful to be in community with, I cannot wait to share the guests for season one with you. It's going to be a really special season here on the podcast. The first few episodes serve as a teaching portal. So I have created a three day guide called the creative ideation portal, which you can download now. And it's a place for you to really vision and dream up the projects that you want to bring into the world. You can find that app Marley Grace dot space slash common shapes, that is also where all the shownotes will live, where you can find links and resources to people, places and things that I mentioned here on the podcast. It's a place where you to link and share it with your friends or with your own ecosystem. So the guide, and the first few episodes of this podcast sort of go together. And so I will sort of take you through those three days and help you to go deeper into the process that the creative ideation portal starts you at. And when you download it, you also get this free notion dashboard that has a database to organize your projects and all these great things. So again, you can find that in the Episode Notes of this trailer or at Marley Grace dot space slash common shapes. And then I hope you come to classes that I teach and that you want to be a part of the bigger community of listeners, whether it's coming to flexible office, my experimental digital co working space, or being a reader of Monday, Monday, which is my substack, my weekly newsletter, where you can read for free every Monday or participate as a paid subscriber in our Friday threads where we come together and gather resources of inspiration, share what podcasts were listening to what documentaries we're watching tools for sticking to our daily rituals and more.
The first class I'm teaching this season is the art of beginning it's alive on zoom on Sunday, May 28. So you can read more about that, as well at murli Grace dot space, I'd love to have you there. And if you can't make it live, it will be recorded and has live captioning. I invite you to become a part of my ecosystem, and to be thinking about how to put thoughtful and interesting and exciting work in the world, even if it's just as a listener of this podcast. So thank you for tuning in. I would love if you wanted to subscribe and leave a review of this podcast share on social media or in your own newsletter or text it to a friend. I want to thank the team of people who make this podcast possible. Thank you to salt breaker for making the music and the sounds to Luke Kaysa Bronfman reshimo for the graphics and to softer sound studio for editing and podcast. itens thank you so much for being a listener of common shapes