You Don’t Have to Give Up Parts of Yourself

There’s No Control Z With Kids

Good morning and welcome back to Creative Parenting Club. This week, we speak with Travis Hoffart [https://www.instagram.com/travisalexanderhair/], a Canadian hairstylist based in Berlin. Originally on a different path, Travis shifted from studying business to hairstyling after realizing he wanted a more creative and people-centered way of working. After building his career in Canada, he moved to Berlin, where he eventually opened a private one-chair studio at home, focused on working more directly and closely with his clients. We came across Travis through his partner Barbara Woolsey (Babxi), who we recently featured. What stood out was Travis’s perspective on working closely with people, building something of his own, and navigating parenthood while running a creative career from home. In this conversation, we talk about changing direction, building a life in a new city, and the everyday reality of balancing work, family, and structure. Press play to hear the full conversation. New here? Creative Parenting Club is for parents who are leading creative lives: whether that's a business, a practice, a project, or simply trying to find time for long-lost hobbies. If you’ve got big ideas and small kids — or if you're in a different stage of parenting and have some lived experience to share — subscribe to our newsletter and come join our global family. creativeparents.substack.com [http://creativeparents.substack.com] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe [https://creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

You Don’t Have to Give Up Parts of Yourself

Good morning and welcome back to Creative Parenting Club. This week on Creative Parenting Club, we speak with Barbara Woolsey [https://www.instagram.com/xo.babxi/], a Canadian travel writer and DJ based in Berlin. Barbara grew up in a small town in the middle of Canada, a place that shaped her curiosity about the world and eventually led her into travel writing and music. From studying and working in Thailand to becoming part of Berlin’s club scene, her path reflects a steady movement toward creative expression and new environments. We first came across Barbara through the nightlife scene, where she was already an established DJ. Around that time, she began sharing her pregnancy publicly, offering a rare look into what it means to be part of club culture as a pregnant woman and later as a mother. Not long after, she joined Kinder Rave, bringing that experience into a space where music and parenthood meet. In this conversation, we talk about creativity as both work and necessity, how parenthood shifts priorities, and what it means to stay connected to your creative identity while raising a child. Press play to hear the full conversation. New here? Creative Parenting Club is for parents who are leading creative lives: whether that's a business, a practice, a project, or simply trying to find time for long-lost hobbies. If you’ve got big ideas and small kids — or if you're in a different stage of parenting and have some lived experience to share — subscribe to our newsletter and come join our global family. creativeparents.substack.com [http://creativeparents.substack.com] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe [https://creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

If you gonna fail in anyway, why not do what you love?

Good morning and welcome back to Creative Parenting Club. This week on CPC, we’re joined by filmmaker Jamie Effros and actor Jake Hart, creators of the short film Big George [https://www.instagram.com/biggeorgefilm/], for a conversation about creative work, family life, and how those two constantly reshape each other. What makes this episode especially interesting is that Jamie is not a parent, yet he created a deeply personal story about fatherhood based on the lives of artists around him. Together with Jake, who stars in the film alongside his daughter, the conversation moves beyond the film into the realities behind it. We talk about creativity as instinct, about building a life around what you care about even when it is unstable, and about how parenthood shifts your relationship to ambition, time, and responsibility, as well as the less visible side of creative careers and what success actually means over time. Press play to hear the full conversation. New here? Creative Parenting Club is for parents who are leading creative lives: whether that's a business, a practice, a project, or simply trying to find time for long-lost hobbies. If you’ve got big ideas and small kids — or if you're in a different stage of parenting and have some lived experience to share — subscribe to our newsletter and come join our global family. creativeparents.substack.com [http://creativeparents.substack.com] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe [https://creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Resilience Is a Talent

Good morning and welcome back to Creative Parenting Club. This week on CPC we present a new episode of the Creative Parenting Podcast with Emo Rugene, a DJ [https://soundcloud.com/emo-rugene], community builder, and father from Kenya who has been living in Berlin for more than a decade. Emo is involved in several creative communities across the city, from music to running culture. Alongside his work as a community manager in the footwear industry, he is part of projects such as In Living Colour [https://www.inlivingcolor.de/] and Run & Rave [https://www.runrave.fun/], initiatives that bring people together around music, movement, and shared cultural spaces. In the conversation, Emo speaks about the path that brought him from Kenya to Europe, from starting a shoe brand and studying in Austria to building a life in Berlin while raising two children. His story includes questions of resilience, identity, and the unexpected directions that careers and family life can take. We also discuss parenting from the perspective of a father raising children between cultures. Emo explains how he approaches creativity at home, why asking questions can sometimes be more useful than giving answers, and how he tries to pass on confidence and cultural roots to his children. Press play to hear the full conversation. New here? Creative Parenting Club is for parents who are leading creative lives: whether that's a business, a practice, a project, or simply trying to find time for long-lost hobbies. If you’ve got big ideas and small kids — or if you're in a different stage of parenting and have some lived experience to share — subscribe to our newsletter and come join our global family. creativeparents.substack.com [http://creativeparents.substack.com] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe [https://creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Holding Two Worlds

Good morning and welcome back to Creative Parenting Club. This week on CPC, we’re publishing a new interview with Berlin-based musician, singer, saxophonist, and maker Jessie Evans [https://www.instagram.com/jessieevansworld?igsh=cTgyOGUweWI1endp]. For more than two decades, Jessie has worked in music, spending years touring extensively around the world. Over time, and especially after becoming a parent, the balance between life on the road and life at home began to shift. In this interview, Jessie talks about making art with limited time and how parenthood has reshaped her relationship with work, alongside creative frustration, financial uncertainty, and learning patience with her children in a much more constrained rhythm of life. Press play to hear the full conversation. New here? Creative Parenting Club is for parents who are leading creative lives: whether that's a business, a practice, a project, or simply trying to find time for long-lost hobbies. If you’ve got big ideas and small kids — or if you're in a different stage of parenting and have some lived experience to share — subscribe to our newsletter and come join our global family. creativeparents.substack.com [http://creativeparents.substack.com] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe [https://creativeparents.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]