There is SO much goodness happening around here, and I don’t want you to miss a thing!! 🎨 So…I did a little organizing. 😂

I separated my personal blog & short stories from The Creative Club, gave our club its VERY OWN DOMAIN, and made it much easier for you to find exactly what you’re looking for!!

🎨 OURCREATIVECLUB.COM

Yay yay yay!! 🌷 We’re still hosted through Substack, so you can still log into the Substack app and join us in the chat! But now you can also go directly to OURCREATIVECLUB.COM whenever you want to see what’s happening in the Club.

And because I never want you digging through 47 emails trying to figure out where each Google Meet link went 😂, bookmark the website!!!

& VISIT FROM YOUR DESKTOP TO SEE EVERYTHING!

Here’s where everything lives:

📖 Get Your Digital Zines + Downloads

Every month, we explore a new Creative Club theme together—something designed to help us bring a little more creativity, joy, curiosity, and whimsy into our lives! As a member, you get access to our digital mini-zines, monthly exclusive essays, prompts, and other downloadable goodies.

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💌 Want the physical zine in your mailbox?

Your monthly/yearly memberships includes the digital edition of our monthly mini-zine. But if you’re an analog girlie like me and want something you can actually hold, highlight, scribble on, and keep on your bookshelf, you can add the Snail Mail Club to your membership! For just $9.99 more than the yearly digital membership, you’ll receive the physical mini-zine and a little surprise from The Creative Club in your actual mailbox each month. 💌

Upgrade to The Snail Mail Club!

Wait…so where did all of Isis’s other writing go?! 😂

I’m still writing. A LOT. I’ve just given my different kinds of writing their own little homes. So from now on, you’ll see three different names pop up in your inbox as “sender” — 🧑🏾‍🎨 THE CREATIVE CLUB, 🎨 A Colorful Life with Isis Bradford, and 💌 little love stories.

💌 little love stories

BI-WEEKLY SHORT STORIES

And then there’s little love stories. This is its own little world for my fiction and short stories about love in all it’s forms. You can expect stories that encourage you to notice the beauty around you — on relationships, grief, sisterhood, and sometimes a hilarious romcom!

I only added you to this list of you were subscribed to my short stories in the past. You can subscribe here if you’re an avid reader:

little love stories

Short stories about love in all its forms.

By Isis Bradford

So when you see one of these names in your inbox:

• THE CREATIVE CLUB 🎨

• A Colorful Life with Isis Bradford 🌷

• little love stories. 💌

…you’ll know exactly what kind of email you’re about to open!

And of course, you can read all three. Please do. 😂

I just wanted each part of my creative world to have enough room to become what it’s supposed to become—without making you dig through one giant publication trying to figure out where everything went.

For now, ONE thing I need you to do:

Go check out the September Creative Club calendar!! 🎉

There is so much fun ahead, and I want to see your face at something this month!!

And while you’re there, bookmark:

OURCREATIVECLUB.COM

We officially have a clubhouse!! 🥹🎨🌷

I’m so excited about where this community is going.

See you inside!!

— Isis

🗓 VIEW THE SEPTEMBER CALENDAR →

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One thing I’ve noticed about creative entrepreneurship is that my breakthrough seasons — and most people’s — always happen in quantum leaps. Things feel like they’re happening superrr slowly and then they take off all that once!!

For years, I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do. Then on a random workday, I had to run out of the teacher’s lounge to journal the million ideas that flooded my brain! Months later, I was posting content and hearing crickets. And then, seemingly out of nowhere — I was quitting my job and never looked back!

It’s not just me. I’ve watched it happen to peers and friends too. One day, nobody knows their name. The next, they’re a D-list celebrity (which, by the way, is huge! I know I joke too much, but this time I’m serious! — can you imagine thousands of people recognizing you from your amazing, creative work?!)

I’m telling you what’s possible because sometimes you have to borrow someone else’s experience — someone else’s faith†. Because I know you might read “five months” I think that’s absolutely absurd but I see five months left in the year I think “oh my gosh I can do absolutely anything!!” (except become a surgeon, probably. Let’s not get carried away! Lol

So here it is — my simple, but very proven, two-step plan for a creative, financial, and opportunity boom by the end of this year. And I invite you join me, if you’re ready!!

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Hey! The Paywall is coming up so I should probably tell you about myself and our creative club! I’m Isis Bradford! A teacher turned Harvard-certified creative strategist, business coach, and marketing manager. But, long ago, I escape the grind to creative full-time! Now, I’m a writer with two trad-published books! I’m also a commercial travel photographer who’s learning urban sketching and watercolor! In short I’m a creative who helps other creatives make a living from their creativity!

Behind the paywall is my guide for quantum leaping and the link to today’s co-working call!

You should know before joining that The Daily Yes is much more than essays — we’re a creative community with co-working, workshops, mastermind/feedback sessions, member-led classes, craft nights, book club, snail mail, and creative retreats (we’re in Italy right now!!)

So, if you desire a real, invested creative community with likeminded creative women, please join us! We’re at 56 members currently and the calls are always special!

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If you’ve been on the platform a while and you’re thinking “what’s not to understand?” Then this post isn’t for you, clearly! But if you’re like…

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I’ve been wanting to send you this letter for days but life has been beautifully busy. I spent the past week sending snail mail to The Creative Club and sold some of my paintings and photography locally. And tomorrow, after hosting a call for paying subscribers, I’ll be on a flight to Italy for our community’s first creative retreat!

This might sound like a to-do list to you, but to me, it’s a realization that I’ve finally done it: THE THING. My calling. My assignment.

A few months ago, I finally got annoyed with myself! I was tired of not walking in my purpose and sick of feeling stagnant. I was doing a lot of things simply because they were the smart choice, and I knew it was time to break out of that rut!! So, I did the thing I’ve been dreaming about for years: becoming a novelist, artist, and host of a creative community!!

It was terrifying, by the way. When I was a business coach, I’d convinced myself that people only liked me because I helped them make money. A ridiculous thought, I know! But having this belief meant I had to push past the fears that my gifts and creativity weren’t enough!!

I prepared to fail, honestly. But I didn’t. I sold my art. I launched the club. I mailed the letters. I pitched the books. And this July became my largest grossing revenue month since leaving Instagram. It’s also the month I enjoyed life the most — laughed a lot, took creative classes almost daily, and felt like every inch of my dull life had been filled in with color!

I have so much to want to share about this — thoughts on creative freedom, abundance, designing a life you absolutely adore!! And I’ll share all of it in coming weeks!! But before I head off for Italy, I just wanted to remind you of this. THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR ART. YOUR IDEAS. YOUR CREATIVITY! So please, friend, please do the thing! There’s so much joy on the other end of finally saying YES!

BEHIND THE PAYWALL: The link for tomorrow’s call!

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Rediscover your joy. Reconnect with your creativity. Find your people.

The Creative Club is a community for women who want to make whimsical moments a consistent part of their lives!

Join us for creative co-working, snail mail, Sunday Studios, meetups, retreats, and plenty of little adventures along the way.

I started this community because between work, responsibilities, routines, and everything in between, we tend to lose touch with the parts of ourselves that make life feel exciting.

• The hobbies we used to love.

• The ideas we haven’t made time for.

• The projects we keep saying we’ll start.

• The friendships we’re craving.

• The random Tuesday afternoon that could have been spent painting, wandering around a museum, writing at a coffee shop, or doing something simply because it sounded fun!!

I want more of those moments for us.

Join The Creative Club

Welcome to The Creative Club

The Creative Club is part creative community, part accountability club, part social club, and part excuse to make your life a little more colorful!!

• Some of us are writers.

• Some are artists, photographers, designers, entrepreneurs, crafters, content creators, and makers.

• Some of us have built entire careers around our creativity.

• Some of us haven’t made anything in years

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• Some of us don’t even know what our “thing” is yet.

You don’t need a creative career to have a creative life!!

You just need the desire to make a little more room for curiosity, creativity, connection, and joy.

That’s what we’re doing here.

Become a Member

What happens inside?

💻 Creative Co-Working

You know that project you’ve been saying you’re going to work on? Bring it!! We meet virtually throughout the month to work alongside each other, get things done, and make space for our creativity in lives that are already very full. Write your book. Edit your photos. Paint. Journal. Work on your business. Crochet. Build your website. Finish your scrapbook. Or bring something completely different. You bring the project. We’ll bring the company!

I'm ready to join!

💌 Snail Mail Club

Your mailbox deserves better than bills and coupons. Every month, members receive a little piece of The Creative Club in the mail. Always a mini-zine and another trinket! Sometimes a desk calendar, or something beautiful to keep! Whatever arrives, it’s our little screen-free reminder to slow down, look around, and make room for something delightful.Good mail only. 💌

Can't wait for my zine!

🎨 Sunday Studio

Not everything needs to be productive! Sometimes we create simply because it’s fun. Sunday Studio is our time to play, experiment, and try something different together. One Sunday we might paint. Another we might collage, write, make something with our hands, or try a creative activity none of us have done before. You don’t have to be good at it. Actually, we’d prefer if you weren’t. Come curious. Leave a little more colorful.

This is so fun!

💭 Creative Masterminds

Sometimes you need people who will listen to your big idea and say, “Okay, let’s figure this out.” Our Creative Masterminds are a place to bring the projects, ideas, dreams, questions, and creative blocks bouncing around in your head. We’ll talk them through together, share honest feedback, celebrate what’s working, and help you figure out what comes next. Because creative dreams are a lot easier to keep believing in when you have people who believe in them with you.

I want in!

☕ Meetups & Little Adventures

Sometimes the best plans start with: “Does anybody want to…?”

• Get coffee.

• Go to the museum.

• Write together.

• Try a pottery class.

• Visit a bookstore.

• Have a picnic.

• Take our cameras somewhere pretty.

The Creative Club isn’t only about scheduled programming. We want this to be a community where actual friendships happen.! Our in-person community is beginning in Dallas, with local gatherings, write-ins, creative dates, and plenty of room for spontaneous adventures. And who knows where we’ll gather next.

I'll be at the next meetup!

✈️ Creative Retreats

Every once in a while, we want to get completely out of our routines. Our Creative Retreats are opportunities to travel somewhere beautiful, spend intentional time with other creative women, make things, explore, eat good food, rest, laugh, and come home feeling a little more like ourselves. There will be time to create, wander, and do absolutely nothing!! Consider it a little vacation for your creative spirit.

I'd love a retreat!

This isn’t another thing you have to keep up with.

Seriously.

You don’t have to attend every co-working session, participate in every conversation, finish twelve projects this year, or turn your hobby into a side hustle!

You don’t have to become more productive.

The Creative Club is here to add something to your life—not become another obligation in it. So, come when you need accountability. Come when you want company. Come when you need inspiration or when you’re craving a little fun!!

Come because you haven’t touched your novel in three months and you need somebody to make you open the document. (speaking to myself! Lol)

We’ll be here.

A little about your host 🌷

Hi! I’m Isis Bradford. I’ve spent more than a decade building a creative career—writing books, selling art and travel photography, creating content, building businesses, and following a whole lot of creative curiosities along the way.

I’m also the author of Rising from the Rut: Reawaken Your Spirit, Rediscover Your God-Given Gifts, and Reclaim Your Joy.

And if there’s one thing my own creative life has taught me, it’s this:

Creativity isn’t just about what we make. It’s about how alive we feel while we’re living.

I’ve had seasons where I felt deeply connected to that part of myself and seasons where I had to find my way back to it. That’s a big part of why The Creative Club exists.

I don’t want to teach you how to become a creative person.

You already are one.

I just want us to have a place that makes it a little easier to live like it!

Join The Creative Club

What I hope happens here

• I hope you rediscover something you forgot you loved.

• I hope you finally start the thing you’ve been thinking about for years.

• I hope you make something terrible and have an incredible time doing it.

• I hope you receive something in the mail that makes an ordinary Wednesday feel special.

• I hope someone in the club becomes the person you text when you have a ridiculous new idea.

• I hope you travel somewhere you never would have gone.

• I hope you laugh a lot.

• I hope you play more.

• I hope you become curious again.

• I hope you stop waiting for special occasions to make your life feel special.

And I hope that a year from now, you can look around at the things you’ve created, the places you’ve gone, the friendships you’ve made, and all those tiny whimsical moments you’ve collected and realize:

Life feels a little more like me again.

That’s The Creative Club.

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Welcome. 🌷

— Isis