October 1-4, 2026
Coleman, Alberta, Canada

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Through our hands-on workshops, retreats, conversations, and creative tools, we help women live a meaningful, courageous and curious life.

Creative experiences and conversations that connect you to your joy and purpose.

Welcome!

What you'll find here....

meet jan & erin

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Two generations.
Two perspectives.

One ongoing conversation about what it means to live a meaningful life from the view of a mother and daughter.

Each week, Jan and Erin explore life's big questions through stories, personal experiences, creativity, and honest conversation. From navigating change and trusting yourself to finding joy, meaning, and what's next, these are thoughtful conversations for women who want to live with more courage, curiosity, and creativity.

Pull up a chair, make something with your hands, and join us as we explore the braver road together.

For more than twenty-six years, we've built businesses, raised families, navigated unexpected detours, and reinvented ourselves more than once.

What we've learned is that life isn't about having everything figured out.

It's about staying curious. 
It's about asking better questions.
It's about finding the courage to begin again when the path changes.

We believe there is wisdom in stories, meaning in creativity, and something powerful that happens when women gather to share their experiences and explore life's deeper questions together.

Through conversation, creativity, and reflection, we invite women to reconnect with themselves, trust what they already know, and take the next step on their own braver road.

We're Jan and Erin!

Mother and daughter, creators, storytellers and longtime entrepreneurs.

Hi!

Throughout the year, we gather with women who are craving more connection, creativity, and a deeper sense of themselves.

Together, we share stories, explore meaningful questions, create with our hands, and make space for honest conversation about what it means to live a courageous, curious, and fulfilling life.

The projects we create are simply the starting point.

What emerges is often something much deeper: fresh perspective, renewed clarity, meaningful connection, and a reminder of who we are beneath all the roles we carry.

It's always a meaningful experience.

The Creative Pause

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Experiences

October 1-4, 2026

Coleman, Alberta, Canada

A creative wellness retreat for women craving more connection, clarity and meaning

BraverYou

Retreat

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When women slow down, something shifts.

Beneath the responsibilities, expectations, and endless to-do lists, there is often a quieter voice waiting to be heard.

The questions we've been too busy to ask.
The parts of ourselves we've neglected.
The dreams, curiosities, and possibilities we've set aside for another day.

We believe creativity is one of the ways back.

Not because everyone needs to be an artist, but because making something with our hands creates space to reflect, notice, wonder, and reconnect.

That's why everything we create—from retreats and workshops to conversations — begins with one simple invitation:

Pause.
Get curious.
And listen for what might be waiting to emerge.

The world doesn't need more perfect women.

It needs more women who are curious.
Creative.
Connected.
Fully alive to their own lives.

That's the road we're walking.

We'd love for you to join us.

Love,

Jan & Erin