our story
get your most meaningful work out into the world
The creative trap
For years, I watched myself, and the creatives around me, fall into the same quiet trap. We longed to make work that mattered. We just kept trying to make it alone. So the work waited. The projects went quiet. The dreams we swore we'd get to grew stale on the shelf.
The antidoteThe answer, it turned out, was not in trying harder, but in finding ways to connect and do our work alongside others.
The founder
Hi, I'm Enrika Greathouse, multi-hyphenate creative and founder of Create Space. A few years ago, I noticed a gap: how much we meaning makers longed to create, and how alone we felt doing it. And I saw the flip side too. Creatives working alongside each other, in community, seemed to thrive.
The rooms
I saw it from inside some of the best rooms I know, as head coach for Seth Godin's altMBA, where I learned how good a community can be when it's built with care.
At Bob Goff's Oaks retreat center in San Diego, where I practiced holding safe space, helping people make and rediscover their meaning.
Alongside my mentor Bernadette Jiwa, as I helped lead the online storytelling community, Story Republic, where stories that only lived in someone's head finally took flight.
The ache
But even in those rooms, the ache was there. For everyone who showed up, so many more couldn't. They wanted, deeply, to get their most meaningful work out into the world. But under the weight of it all, caregiving, bills, the kids, the work, the endless roles, they got buried.Dreams collecting dust
Play. Creativity. Dreaming, and making those dreams real, all got left on the back burner, if it made it to the stove at all. I've talked with countless women and men about quiet dreams collecting dust. I watched it happen to people I loved. I watched it happen to me.
But then I started paying attention. What levers worked, which didn't. What practices stuck, which fell to the side, and why. After collecting notes and experimenting, I decided to throw myself a buoy, and to offer it up for everyone else drowning.
Create Space is that buoy. Simple practices that lift you above the water long enough to catch your breath, find your strength, and do the work that matters to you most.
here's what's built in
- Small groups and peer accountability, so you can create on your own without ever feeling alone.
- Micro-experiments to uncover your meaningful work.
- A simple practice of showing up that keeps you encouraged while gently nudging you forward.
- Simple tools and harnesses that help you do your work.
- Generous peer-to-peer feedback at every turn, for every project.
- Real support to publish and ship your work, OUT into the real world.
- Plus integrated seasons of rest all along the way, because no one blooms in burnout.
The letters
I even wrote a book about all this, back in 2020. Now it's finding its way to you a piece at a time, as The Create Space Letters, sent straight to your inbox.