Introducing - Company of Two
A co-hosted creative space and podcast for mothers by Laura Oldfield and Claire Venus
Welcome to Company of Two! How’s your day going?
We created this space as a cosy invitation so please feel free to introduce yourself in the comments. Tell us about what brought you here?
We’re both mothers with ‘companies of one’ and we met online via Instagram before the pandemic.
Since then, we have supported each other in creative project work, as accountability pals and shared how our new babies and the transition has shaped and changed our work and family balance.
We’ve never met in real life but we’ve stayed in touch in a myriad of ways from zoom chats to creative whatsapp groups and it’s all been so beautiful. Our friendship has blossomed as has our trust in each other and we’re so excited to launch a new creative project together for 2023.
We started the Company of Two space here on Substack to house our brand new podcast and to further encourage creativity and quiet ambition through motherhood.
As self employed creatives, we both continued to work in intentional ways while our babies were small, through the intensity of the toddler years and beyond.
It’s now been nine years of weaving our creative lives and work into motherhood.
We want to invite you to be part of the next step of our journey and make space for yours too.
The Company of Two podcast
We have a set of four hour long podcast episodes planned around our life as creatives, business owners and mothers.
The podcast will launch in Summer 2023 shared in all the usual spaces and on Substack too.
The episodes will all follow the same format.
Balance - a chat about what’s working & what’s not for us in our creative life and business
A ‘Help I’m stuck’ question from our community of working mothers and a twenty minute long mentoring and coaching answer from us
Gratitude Notes - a set of shout outs for what you are creating and sharing in the world. We love to cheerlead you and your quiet ambitions and big dreams!
Would you like to be part of our collective sharing and lifting up creative mothers in business?
You’re welcome to be here as a free subscriber and join our comment chats - we love a cuppa and a catch up we also have a SPONSORSHIP offer to you to lift up the work you’re doing and help you reach a bigger network.
We have a combined social media following of over 10,000 followers/ subs and have each had thousands of podcasts downloads from other podcasts we’ve hosted, guested on so we have high hopes for this space.
We’re curious about how it might shape and change with us over the next year and we’re looking forward to offering more to you. There’ll be guest posts, posts from us and our hour long podcast episodes here too.
We want to create a space where women feel held during pregnancy, maternity leave and in their business whilst balancing motherhood and as part of that we’re inviting you to build this with us.
The offer to you
Be our sponsor - £150 donation. Sponsor of the podcast with the option to submit a question to us to be answered live by us on the podcast plus all your links and logo shared back here in every article we publish in 2023. (X4 spots available)
Be our friend - £50 donation. Read at the end - your bio, story and links to your business shared on the podcast and show notes. (20 spots available) 19 left
Support our work - £10 donation. Be on our ‘thanks to you’ list published in our gratitude notes each episode. (Unlimited spots available)
How donations will be spent;
5% of all donations go to Postpartum Matters CIC
Pod hosting, music and edits
Identity - Visuals and illustration
Nursery fees (for when we record together).
Pay it forward - if there’s more in the pot than we need we’ll pay it forward and donate to a mother who is keen work with us and wouldn’t be in a position to pay.
You absolutely don’t have to invest to be here. We are building a community through this interactive magazine and everyone’s welcome.
Ready to invest? Have questions about that part?
Fill in this short form and we’ll be in touch.
Want to stay in touch with us?
You can subscribe here now on Substack and more posts and the podcast will be delivered straight to your inbox. Can’t wait to hear what you think in the comments.
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Looking forward to this! 💫
This sounds amazing! As a new mom I love seeing this type of community forming and really appreciate you both carving out space for other creative moms. That’s really generous of you ♥️