Welcome

Dip your toe in the water

Learn

• Mac & Cheese: Mac & Cheese Productions℠ basics and who’s behind it
• Life of Yes℠: It’s a trademark and a tagline. It’s a mindset, philosophy, source of guidance. It’s the foundation of Mac & Cheese.
• FAQs
• Mac & Cheese Lists: service provider referrals, recommendations (books, home office, activities+), etc.
• Cheese-Its: the people who participate in Mac & Cheese and their experiences
• Mac & Cheese Blog: (a few sample posts; there are also a bunch of very detailed travel posts if you use the travel filter/search) 
  • Celebrating post “I got fired” life 
  • Why can’t you answer this simple question? 
  • How do YOU think I make money? 
  • Our (bartered) wedding in pictures 
  • My Selfish Sabbatical
  • Is that what you really want to do? Or is that a way to defer what you really want to do? 
• Press: (a sampling of press over the years)
  • Subkit: Design Your Ideal Lives – Mac & Cheese Productions℠
  • University of Chicago: Polsky Small Business Circles connect entrepreneurs during challenging times
  • Seriously Badass Women: Meet Saya Hillman
  • US News & World Report: How to Create a Career without a Full-Time Job
  • Google Creators: How making lists became this entrepreneur’s brand
  • New York Times: The Kumbaya Connection for Grown Ups

Get Involved

• Upcoming offerings: virtual and in person
• Offerings for individuals: from workshops to group travel to house cleaning to sleepaway camp
  • Suggested “first-timer” events — Minglers, Life of Yes℠ Workshop, Blueprint Board Workshop, and any of the I Can’t series
• Offerings for groups: speaking, teaching, and facilitating
• Popular products: Adulting Kit, gift card, and cleaning eBook
• Show off you’re a Cheese-It!: Life of Yes℠ swag (shirts, decals, tote bags, etc.)
• Cheese-It Exposure: market to Cheese-Its

Take Action

• Bring Mac & Cheese to you: you don’t live in Chicago and are interested in participating in in person offerings
• Subscribe to the newsletter: 1’ish a month mesh of M&C news and musings + list of non-M&C loves and job opportunities — a lovingly and thoughtfully curated mix of random goodness.
• Subscribe to the blog: infrequent, more in-depth reflection than the newsletter
• connect via Social Media: links at bottom of page

Support

• Share: Mac & Cheese is 100% word of mouth — tell your friend, roommate, significant other, boss, HR representative
• Become an official Cheese-It Cheerleader or buy Mac & Cheese a coffee
• Attend an offering
• Purchase a video tutorial, e-book, Life of Yes℠ shirt, poster, gift card+
• Hire Mac & Cheese as a consultant, facilitator, teacher, or speaker
• Make M&C’s dreams come true
  • a book deal
  • a sponsor that’ll allow M&C to spread Life of Yes℠ worldwide (Travel? Lifestyle? Productivity? Cleaning? ???)