Hello all,
How are you?
What season of motherhood are you in right now? We had a whole family swim yesterday for over an hour, I managed a cheeky sauna and no one fell out so I’m taking that as a win! (Claire).
We’ve had such a wonderful time developing our ideas for this space over the last few months. It’s been a joy to receive and read so many stories from mums across the world and to podcast together. We have a few more guest posts to post… watch this space.
The topics of being, balance and business are so core in everything we do and we realised that there’s an opportunity here for you too.
is a ‘slow grow’ mixed media online magazine here on Substack for mums curated by two mums and .We always wanted to give Company of Two space to breathe. We think it could publish weekly but that’s ambitious. Perhaps for now it’s one or twice a month.
It was brave to try and co-host a platform here back when we set it up and we’re delighted to see more examples of this popping up.
For us, it was about working together in partnership because that felt fun but also about co-creation with you and breathing space for the model.
What could this be? What form might it take? Were we committed forever? What would that look like through the seasons?
We adore it and we want it to offer more, do more and hold more mums in creative ways 2024 and beyond.
The invitation
In 2024 we’d love to work with at least 3 mums who would like to curate posts, art and video here for others. Imagine a spacious “take over” where you post a body of work edited and curated by you for the audience here. It could be all your work or a blend of yours and others, a partnership or a space to test something new outside of the perimeters of your own Substack?
Perhaps you’re a mother artist who wants a platform for their art, photography, poetry? Perhaps you want to share audio and song, perhaps you have a video tutorial to share or a download that would delight our readers here?
We are looking to call out to NEW sponsors for our next creative wave here at Company of Two and so would include your pitch in that call out so you can be paid towards your time.
All ideas are welcome and at this stage we’re just inviting you to tell us more about those in the comments. Once we get a sense of those, we’ll formalise the pitch and work out timelines and the sponsorship ask.
As always share this post with a re stack or in your own communities so we can grow this space and the opportunities it brings.
We can’t wait to hear from you in the comments, we know this is going to be such a beautiful thing.
Laura and Claire
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We ever grateful to our sponsors for season one and the pilot of this project. Thanks
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and and we run our own multi-passionate businesses. Claire is an Engagement Consultant and Mentor and runs and Laura is a professional singer and coach and writes more about that and podcasts too over on . We both host other podcasts here too.We nearly met in London once and then again in Alnwick but it didn’t quite happen so for now we are enjoying the magic of connection over the inter waves. 🌀
This is exciting Claire and Laura. I’d love to help out with any graphic design/branding bits if you haven’t already got that sorted. 🙌🏻❤️
I love this, I would absolutely love to be involved. I could share some of my own work, happy to curate work from others. I could be your resident fiction or non-fiction person (I write both, happy to focus on whichever you don't have!), or maybe there's a collaborative project around wellbeing in motherhood through creativity that we could bring people together for...?