Craftshop
No refunds so make sure you can join before you register. Held in Chicago’s Wicker Park (near Division & Wood). Address sent upon registration. —————————————– Craftshop Two hour in-person craft-centric Read more…
For Individuals
If you’re brand new to the Mac & Cheese world, I Can’ts, Minglers, and the Life of Yes℠ Workshop are great “dip your toe in the water” offerings. You can check out descriptions below and see if there are any upcoming offerings on the calendar. If there aren’t, sign up for the 1’ish x a month newsletter and/or connect with M&C on social to learn of calendar updates.
Additionally, check out the page dedicated to newbies.
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Lifestyle Audit & Redesign: Simple, Impactful Ways to Make Adulting Easier
If you’ve ever felt “There has to be a better way” or like a hamster in a hamster wheel, this workshop is for you.
Cleaning Services
Meshing our love of order, serene environments, and using our superpowers to bring joy to others with our desire to flourish our business through physical work, Mac & Cheese Productions℠ offers residential cleaning services.
Adulting Kit
What if there was a magical place that had oodles of grownup things you should know and do, in list, table, & spreadsheet form, all housed in one house? The boring, complex, daunting life stuff that makes you understandably ostrich your head into the sand…
Enter the Life of Yes℠ Adulting Kit.
Speaker in a Box
A digital blueprint, workbook, and VIP, behind-the-scenes guide to the actions & inner-musings of an experienced presenter that’ll chummily yet firmly guide you in being a paid speaker. Bonus: a community of stranger-friends taking the same journey and face to face “she’s done this” support via regular virtual group gatherings.
Minglers
Expand your network and knowledge of interesting ways to explore the world in a low-key, no-pressure, comfy way. Everyone comes solo.
1 on 1 Consulting
Mac & Cheese Productions℠ equips you with the tools to design your life to fit YOU via one-on-one consulting.
Life of Yes℠ Storytelling Class
Storytelling class geared towards people who feel they don’t have any stories or who want support in unearthing their stories. Also geared towards folks who think public speaking, storytelling, sharing about themselves in front of others sounds like the worst thing ever.
Black Lives Matter Storytelling Scholarship
A full scholarship to anyone who identifies as Black and is interested in finding, using, and sharing their voice via storytelling.
Life of Yes: How To Attain a Fulfilling Life That Fits Who Matters – YOU
Learn and apply the Life of Yes℠ philosophy and way of being. Saya shares personal stories from her life — one of fulfillment and traveling non-traditional paths — and offers ideas on how you can create the life you want. If you’re looking to answer “What do I want to do?” or “How do I get more out of life?”, this class will get those wheels turning.
Blueprint Board Workshop: Your Visual Roadmap
It’s not a Vision Board. It’s not a Dream Board. It’s not a Goal Board. It’s a Blueprint Board.
I Can’t…
A series where adults state they’re unable to do something, they learn about it with a bunch of other adults who also “can’t,” and they prove themselves wrong and not only do the thing but enjoy it and say, “That wasn’t so bad. In fact, kinda fun. Good for me! What’s next?!”
Family Reunion Facilitation
Mac & Cheese provides structured, low-key, easy, impactful opportunities for joy, personal growth, reflection, and connection as you gather loved ones from near and far.
eBook: “Life of Yes℠ Cleaning Guide: Convincing You Cleaning Can be Easy and Fun (or at least less horrible)”
If you’ve always dreamed of a book that’s 97% how to make life — specifically cleaning — more joyful, 2% memoir, 2% personal therapy, 2% couples therapy, 1% homework, 1% made-up words, 1% TMI, and .01% encouragement to see SIX the musical…
If you’ve always dreamed of a book by an author who isn’t math’y…
This is that book.
Fear Experiment℠
Fear Experiment℠ (FE) is a unique, fun way to create community, push oneself, learn something new, and laugh. A lot. Strangers come together to learn an art-form, rehearse for two and half months, and then are rockstars for a night, in front of hundreds. For people not looking to be the next Baryshnikov or Tina Fey but looking to challenge themselves, meet others, and have a consistent source of laughter and support.
Life of Yes℠ Group Travel
Group travel with a bunch of other Life of Yes℠ folks. Come solo, come with someone, come with others.
Join the Cheese-It Community
Mac & Cheese Productions℠ offers a variety of ways to superhero yourself, both in-person and online.
Online Communities
M&C curates a variety of “by invitation” online groups, all rooted in helping to foster connections and in providing a space to support like-minded yet diverse individuals. Insert yourself into the M&C community and let your YES! light shine bright, you’ll get an invite to join.
Storytelling Showcase
An inspiring gathering of people challenging themselves and sharing themselves via storytelling. An adult recital if you will.
Do Good
It feels good to do good. Not to mention, volunteering is a wonderful way to work on soft skills, use your superpowers to help others, and build your community. From online to in person, one off to continual, youth to the homeless, Mac & Cheese provides a variety of ways to give back.