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Aug 2024
30m 13s

Radical Generosity with Tina Roth Eisenb...

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About this episode

Teresa Au talks to the legendary founder of Creative Mornings and design blogging pioneer Tina Roth Eisenberg, also known as Swiss Miss. 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 Creative Mornings, 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 Creative Mornings 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 Creative Mornings host, and 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 Swiss Miss design blog. She's the founder of Creative Mornings, 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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