Teresa Au talks to the legendary founder of Creative Mornings and design blogging pioneer Tina Roth Eisenberg, also known as swissmiss. They explore how Tina’s love of gathering and community both feeds her soul and has led to three thriving design businesses. Tina shares the next big idea from CreativeMornings, the importance of experiments, and why she turned her kitchen into a coffee shop.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

What led Tina to open Brooklyn’s first creative co-working space
How CreativeMornings started
The business that came up over lunch with creative colleagues
The importance of iteration and experimentation
Tina’s hobby of human gathering
What it takes to be a CreativeMornings host, and how they survived the pandemic
Scaling a community that self-regulates and self-organizes
Commitment and showing up
Neighborhood Coffee Shop
When it’s time to let go

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Tina Roth Eisenberg is known to over half a million followers as the creator and talent behind the swissmiss design blog. She's the founder of CreativeMornings, a volunteer driven organization that gathers designers in 240 cities across 67 countries for free talks and community. Tina also created the design-forward temporary tattoo business Tattly, which she eventually sold to BIC. She also co-created a to-do app called TeuxDeux and founded and runs a Brooklyn coworking space called FRIENDS.

Teresa Au (@tautastic) is an executive for community engagement at Adobe, where she focuses on empowering creatives and students via workshops, panels, and podcasts. On creating In the Making, Teresa says “I knew I wanted to amplify the incredible personal stories of the talented and unique humans I’ve been meeting online and at our Create Now events across the world.”

Learn more about this podcast, and find transcripts and links, at adobe.ly/inthemaking. In the Making is brought you by Adobe Express and Adobe Creative Cloud.

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