You've already started, but you're doing it alone.
You've built something real — maybe a shop, a following, a body of work you're proud of. But you've been figuring it out all by yourself.
Get the strategy, guidance, and accountability to turn your ideas into focused offers, consistent marketing, and a creative business that moves forward.
Explore the StudioThe women who thrive with me aren't the ones who had it all figured out first. They're the ones who decided to stop doing it in isolation.
You're not short on ideas. You're short on someone to think it through with.
So you read the blog posts and take the courses and save the things you mean to get to. You make progress, then you stall. You circle back. Some weeks it's moving; some weeks it isn't, and you're hard on yourself about the weeks it isn't.
Here's what I need you to know: that's not a character flaw. That's what building something real looks like when you're doing it by yourself.
What you actually want
You don't need a bigger hustle. You need a guide, a roadmap, and a small room of women who get it — so the work stops feeling like guesswork.
Something meaningful, built on your own terms, without burning down the rest of your life to do it.
Introducing
The Creative Business Studio
a small-group coaching program — a year of building your creative business with me as your guide, alongside a handful of women doing the same.
Here's what that looks like:
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Monthly Studio Sessions
These monthly strategic working sessions are two hours long. We focus on one business priority at a time and turn ideas into decisions and action. Sessions are recorded so you can catch up if you miss one.
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Monthly Office Hours
These are 90-minute sessions where you bring your copy, offer, launch plan, pricing question, technology issue, or business decision and receive direct coaching. These are also recorded in case you miss one.
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Quarterly Guest Experts
Once a quarter, I hand-pick a special guest to join us. Guests are selected based on what members need most. Guests are personal connections of mine who are running real creative businesses and are willing to show you how it really works behind the scenes.
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Private Community & Access to Me
Studio members are highly active in a private Facebook group. Members have access to me via my private email Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Members who pay-in-full for the year get a quarterly one-on-one call with me.
Is the Creative Business Studio right for you?
The Studio is designed for women who have already begun building something meaningful—and are ready for the guidance, structure, and support to move it forward.
The Studio is for you if…
✔ You have already started your creative business but lack a clear path forward.
✔ You have too many ideas and need help deciding what to prioritize.
✔ You want to strengthen your audience, offers, marketing, launches, or customer experience.
✔ You value thoughtful growth more than hustle-at-all-costs growth.
✔ You are willing to take action, receive feedback, and support the other women in the room.
The Studio is probably not the right fit if…
✗ You are still deciding whether you want a creative business.
✗ You are looking only for self-paced lessons.
✗ You want someone else to build or run your business for you.
✗ You are unwilling to test ideas or implement between sessions.
You do not need to have everything figured out or be earning a certain amount. But you do need to have begun—and be ready to participate, make decisions, and put what you learn into practice.
By the end of your year in the Studio, you'll have...
Because when you are ready to move forward, another year of trying to figure it all out alone costs more than you think.
- Progress stalls. You second guess yourself or get stuck doing too much thinking and not enough doing.
- You lose belief. When it's slow and solitary, 'maybe I'm not cut out for this' starts to feel true.
- It's harder to make decisions. Which offer, which price, what to build next — the questions pile up when there's no one to think them through with, so you keep circling instead of choosing.
- It's lonely. The people around you are proud of you, but they don't quite get it — and doing something creative and hard in isolation slowly wears down the part of you that started.
You are cut out for this. You've just been doing it the hard way.
What changes when you stop building alone.
The women who join the Studio arrive with different businesses, ideas, and challenges. What they have in common is the difference it makes to have thoughtful guidance, honest feedback, and a small group invested in their progress.
“The structure helped me move forward—even with a product-based business.”
“The program was exactly what I needed to move forward. The structure, covering essential topics like list building and launching, was invaluable—even as a product-based business. The intimate group gave me the kind of encouragement and support I hadn’t found in larger programs.”
Lizzie Clark - lizzieclarkdesigns.com
Hand drawn, sustainably made, home decor + gifts.
“Anne sets the rails that keep my ideas grounded.”
“Having someone like Anne, who has been there and paved the path, has given me the confidence to build my creative business. Her guidance provides a solid foundation, allowing me to focus on my creativity while knowing I’m on the right track.”
Virginia Wygal - virginialeighstudio.com
Artist, designer, educator and creative director.
“I learned to make choices through the lens of a business owner.”
"One of the most valuable things I learned in the program was how to identify a goal, determine the steps required, and turn those steps into actionable tasks. That shift changed the way I think about and run my business. I also formed meaningful connections within the group, and four women went on to hire me to help them create brands with personality and purpose."
Monique Johnson - designwithmojo.com
Crafting visual stories. Branding with personality + purpose.
Guest experts
A few of the guest experts who have joined us in prior years
Megan Flatt
Author and creator of the Do Less Better method that helps you reclaim your time and ditch the overwhelm.
cody burch
Serial entrepreneur, author of One Hour Funnel and the founder of the Laid Back Business Blueprint.
amy small
Founder of Knit Collage and creative entrepreneur running a 7 seven-figure business while fully embracing her role as a wife and mother of three.
ellen johnson
Author and founder of Serendipity Needleworks, a multi-six-figure creative business covering all things needlepoint.
Hi, I'm Anne.
I spent 30 years in strategy and business development before I built my own creative business — so I know both sides. I know the strategy that actually moves a business forward. And I know exactly what it feels like to start over and bet on your own creativity, because I did it in my late 50s after my corporate job was eliminated out from under me.
That's the seat I sit in with you. Not a guru with a formula. Someone who's done the reinvention herself and can walk it with you — the wins and the failures both.
When you become part of this room,
I don't forget you.
I keep the Studio small on purpose. I get to know the women who join—not just their businesses, but their lives. And those relationships often continue long after their year in the Studio ends.
Maria found me in 2019. She’s a watercolor artist who lives in Sweden, half a world away from my studio in California. We worked closely together, and when her time in the program came to an end, our friendship didn’t.
A few years later, during my annual trip to Paris, I decided it was time to meet her in person. I flew to Copenhagen, Maria took the train across from Sweden, and we spent three days together—two women who had never been in the same room, laughing as though we had known each other our whole lives.
Because, in every way that mattered, we had.
That is the kind of room I create. I pay attention. I care about what you are building and about the woman building it. And when your year in the Studio ends, you don’t simply become someone I used to know.
Frequently asked questions
Am I far enough along in my business to join the Studio?
How much time will the Studio require?
What happens if I miss a live session?
Is the Studio appropriate for a product-based or service-based business?
Is the Creative Business Studio only for surface-pattern designers?
How is the Studio different from Anne’s Atelier?
Will I receive individual feedback?
What happens during the private Studio conversation?
Are payment options available?
The next Creative Business Studio starts in January 2027
I accept only 16 women into the Studio each year. Fit conversations will take place December 1–11, 2026, and enrollment will close when the group is complete.
Your investment
The investment for the full year in the Creative Business Studio is $8,000, with payment options available.
Members who pay in full also receive a private one-on-one session with me each quarter.
Curious whether the Studio is right for you?
The next step is a private conversation.
We’ll talk honestly about where you are, what you are building, and the kind of support you need. There is no pressure and no obligation. If the Studio is the right fit, I’ll explain the details and answer your questions. If it isn’t, I’ll tell you honestly and, when possible, point you toward a more appropriate next step.
That’s genuinely how I do this. The conversation comes first.
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