Welcome to Creative Living After Hours, where we remember how to tell the truth.

In this first episode, Lois + Maia sit down (chaotic, laughing hysterically, and fully unfiltered as per usual) to talk about what it really means to live creatively — not just to make things, but to inhabit life through the lens of creativity as a FORCE.

We cover:

💧 Why “creativity as optimization” isn’t it (and why we’re not here to give you 5 hacks to be more creative)

💧 What happens when you stop measuring your creativity by output and start measuring it by how alive you feel

💧 The myth of “writer’s block” (hint: it’s your nervous system, not your lack of ideas)

💧 Why creativity lives in the body — especially in the sacral energy center — and how to tend to it

💧 How to create a relationship with your voice so it actually sticks around

💧 The messy, chaotic, fertile “mud” that precedes every evolution (and why we love it)

💧 What truth in creative expression actually means — and how to return to it when you’ve been parroting the voices of others

💧 The role of fear in art + how to build a relationship with it instead of fighting it

In Creative Living After Hours, we’re not talking about “creative performance”. This space is about stepping into the vortex of creativity as a way of being, letting it pull you in, and learning how to dance with the chaos instead of resisting it.

Your practice for this episode:

We’re sharing a page from the Creative Living Workbook (Vol. 1) — 12 daily prompts to help you build a sacred writing practice.

Choose one prompt a day, write freely (unedited + uncensored), and see what happens when you commit to a conversation with your own voice.

✨ To get the workbook page, DM Maia or Lois on Instagram with the word AFTERHOURS and we’ll send it to you.

Or, you can also get it right here.

SO MUCH LOVE,

L + M