Today’s episode of Common Shapes is about why I love newsletters and why you (yes, you) should have one.

Together we’ll explore the marketing side and the creative side of newsletters. I’ll also share—

• My journey starting my newsletter
• How to choose your email service provider
• The newsletter tech I recommend
• What to put in your newsletter
• Examples from my favorite newsletters
• How to decide if your newsletter should be paid or free

After you listen, go get my free Creative Ideation Portal, and get ready to hit send on your first (or next) newsletter today.

Links

• Get the Creative Ideation Portal
• Sign up for my weekly newsletter
• Take my Newsletter class
• Click here to get 50% off your first year of Flodesk
• Newsletters I mentioned in this episode: Fariha Roisin’s Substack How to Cure a Ghost, Liz Migliorelli’s Sister Spinster newsletter, Kevin Morby’s Substack
• Off the Grid episode, “To Substack or Not to Substack”
• Find all these links & more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes

Thanks to Softer Sounds, Saltbreaker, and Jess Herrera for their help making this podcast. If you'd like to support the show, please become a paying subscriber of my newsletter, Cody's World.

Today’s episode of Common Shapes is about creating creative containers for our work and convening the spiritual committees that help us make and share our art.

Tune in to hear me share—

• The many shapes my work has taken
• How I select and gather my spiritual committee for each creative project
• Why you need an email list
• All kinds of containers your work can take
• The importance of being in community with other artists

Then grab my free Creative Ideation Portal and start gathering your committee and outlining your first project today.

Links

• Get the Creative Ideation Portal
• Sign up for my weekly newsletter
• Take my Newsletter class
• Teachers I shared: Bear Hebert of Marketing for Weirdos & Amelia Hruby of Off the Grid
• Find all these links & more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes

Thanks to Softer Sounds, Saltbreaker, and Jess Herrera for their help making this podcast. If you'd like to support the show, please become a paying subscriber of my newsletter, Cody's World.

Welcome to Common Shapes! This week’s episode is about the art of beginning AKA the moment just before the sunrise of our projects when anything and everything is possible.

Tune in to hear me share—

• Stories of my many creative beginnings
• My favorite visioning process
• Reflections on imposter syndrome
• The magic of starting small

Then grab my free Creative Ideation Portal and start dreaming up your own beginnings today.

Links

• Get the Creative Ideation Portal
• Sign up for my weekly newsletter
• Sign up for my class, The Art of Beginning
• Take my Newsletter class
• Find all these links & more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes

Thanks to Softer Sounds, Saltbreaker, and Jess Herrera for their help making this podcast. If you'd like to support the show, please become a paying subscriber of my newsletter, Cody's World.

Welcome to Common Shapes, a podcast about practices, systems and rituals for creative life.

It’s hosted by me, Cody Cook-Parrott.

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.

Links

• Get the Creative Ideation Portal
• Sign up for my weekly newsletter
• Find all these links & more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes

Thanks to Softer Sounds, Saltbreaker, and Jess Herrera for their help making this podcast. If you'd like to support the show, please become a paying subscriber of my newsletter, Cody's World.