You don’t have to choose between making a living and making
what you love.
Whether you’re building a creative business or dreaming of leaving your 9-to-5, here is where you belong. Learn how to turn your skills, ideas, and passion into a business or a flexible freelance career that works—for your life, your goals, and your sanity.
Your creative career doesn’t have to be this hard.
We know the struggle: balancing everything you want to achieve in your creative work with the demands of everyday life.
It’s the clash between wanting your work to be seen and fearing it’s not good enough.
It’s the fight to carve out time when you’re exhausted from another day of the day job.
It’s the quiet hope that you’re capable of more, overtaken by the fear that ‘tomorrow’ will always feel out of reach.
This is the unrequited creative. Full of dreams, never quite fulfilled.
It’s time to give yourself what you need so you can achieve what it is you’re capable of.
Turn ambition into action in the Greenhouse.
Greenhouse Sessions use The Four Modes to give us the structure, tools, and support to turn creative potential into real progress.
Make: Weekly co-working sessions with accountability to carve out time, focus, and get your work done.
Manage: Access a done-for-you management system - and then we’ll show you how to shape it to meet your needs and equip you to realise your goals.
Move: Stop planning and start doing. Move sessions challenge you to take bold actions that drive results.
Mindset: Cut out the mental noise. Get to the core of what’s holding you back and replace it with something far more exciting: the truth about what you’re capable of.
the antidote to overwhelm
The Greenhouse turns ambition into action - and action into outcomes.
Bring your wildest creative dreams and we’ll be with you every step of the way as you bring them to life.
Launching in January 2025… unless you’re one of the lucky ones.
The Greenhouse opens its doors to its first cycle in January 2025.
But! Before we do, we’ve got a sneak peek pre-launch you’re invited to be a part of.
We’re looking for our fellow creatives who want to make the most of December 2024 to…
Take stock of where you are right now at the end of the year
Deep-dive on your big, juicy, ambitious creative business and career goals for 2025
Experience Greenhouse sessions across the Four Modes in an intimate and supportive environment, led by Cristel Smith Agüero and Danielle Redford
Develop your creative toolkit through strategic action
Discover opportunities to make money from your creative craft in the year to come
Grab the opportunity to be a founding member of the Greenhouse community in January 2025 (with never-again founding member pricing!)
If you’re desperate to see your work, business, or career grow in 2025, and you’re sick of doing it the hard way, this is the place you need to be in December.
And we can’t wait to be there with you.
take me to the greenhouse
We get it, because we’ve been there ourselves.
The Greenhouse by Fruitful Muse is built for people like you - freelancers, creatives, and entrepreneurs who want to build a business they’re over the moon about without running themselves into the ground in the process.
We know the late nights, the self-doubt, the ‘maybe the next course will help’ doom spiral. We know how overwhelming it can be to take a creative skillset and build a sustainable, joyful income from it.
We know how close you’ve likely come to throwing in the towel and giving it all up.
You’re not alone - and you’re not crazy.
We’ve built the Greenhouse directly on the back of our collective decades of experience. In that time, we’ve built sustainable freelance incomes, birthed and grown creative businesses, secured and managed millions in creative project funding, and found out just what we’re capable of when we’re in the deep end.
After scouring the internet to find the resources that would have made these journeys easier, we couldn’t…
So we’re building it ourselves. And you’re invited to do so in real time right alongside us.
MEET YOUR TEACHERS
DANIELLE REDFORD
Danielle Redford is a creative producer working within the Australian screen and audio landscape. She works alongside a motley/marvellous crew of fellow producers, writers, directors, and storytellers to build story experiences across various formats. She’s all too quick to fall in love with brand-spanking-new ideas as Fruitful Muse’s resident project obsessor, and loves delving into the world of creative tools and workflows that can strategically bring them to life. You’ll find her whispering ‘but what you COULD make it happen?’ in the ears of fellow creatives more often than not.
CRISTEL SMITH AGÜERO
Cristel Smith Agüero is a freelance marketing creative and designer who works with purposeful businesses to bring their visions to vivid life. With 10 years in creative marketing, advertising and events and 3 years deep in the trenches of wellness and service-based businesses, she’s helped business owners do just this, working with both internationally recognised brands and one-woman-bands to craft brand magic. She’s an overthinking extrovert, zealous in her pursuit of a meaningful life. Obsessed with how humans behave. Always ready for a dance. And luckily for us, she’s Fruitful Muse’s resident pair of artistic eyes.
Here’s the deal
Join us today for the Greenhouse’s pre-launch and receive two weeks of Greenhouse membership for $5 in December 2024 - plus the opportunity to lock in founding member pricing when we launch in January 2025.
You’ll receive:
A one-on-one onboarding session with Cristel or Danielle to deep dive on your goals, your challenges and frustrations, and prep what you need to make the most of this planning window
Weekly sessions (live and on-demand) built around the Four Modes: Make, Manage, Move and Mindset
Access to a supportive community, where you can connect with fellow creatives, freelancers, and entrepreneurs
Tools and resources that are custom-designed for creative projects and professional momentum
Ongoing support from Fruitful Muse’s founders through our community chat channels
Space to feedback on the Greenhouse’s model and sessions ahead of the public January 2025 launch
Locked-in founding member pricing opportunities that won’t be repeated
The push you need to set big, juicy, rewarding financial and personal goals for the year ahead - and the strategies to make them a reality
The tools you need to uplevel your creative work and upskill your professional capabilities
If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and start making real progress on your creative ambition, you’re ready to join us in the Greenhouse.
if this is you, we want you