Creativity COACH | writer | speaker
About Liz Kimball
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What if it’s time to return to our most creative selves?
I'm a writer, speaker, and guide, and for over a decade, I've been a trusted coach and advisor to visionary women and feminist creators across Hollywood, Broadway, music, media, and entrepreneurship. My clients are shaping new worlds with their work, and more human ways of working within their industries. My life has been about making the path rather than following one, and if you’ve landed here, I imagine yours is too.
Do we know how to do this? Yes. We've always known. We just have to remember. Can we create the conditions where we feel free enough to answer this call? That is why I do this work: to give you structure, guidance, and collaboration through every season of the creative process, so you can build a life and body of work that feels brave, alive, and true.
I have always been deeply curious about how to live a fully expressed life
I was raised in a house of creativity. I’m the daughter of an opera stage director and a Renaissance musician, and I learned early how to respect the creative process, but also that pursuing your art meant sacrificing yourself for it. I was an audacious little kid but became shy when I went to school, and when I walked into a ballet studio at seven, I felt like I had come home. I thought my path was set, and then, at the very last minute, I gave up a full scholarship to dance to follow an inner nudge that I needed to study theatre and English at Northwestern instead. It was one of many left turns that changed my life.
By my twenties, I was getting paid to be an artist, and I was suffering. I had a management team and opportunities and no relationship with my creative source. I believed every time I got hired was a fluke, and fear drove my entire process. I didn't trust myself; I had no creative practice I could rely on, and debilitating perfectionism took the joy out of what I once loved.
Then I got my MFA, and I learned the greatest thing anyone has ever taught me: how to be creatively free. I developed a set of tools that are the foundation of what I teach today, I began trusting my instincts, and I developed a creative process that was pleasurable and effective. Creating started to feel good again. I started greenlighting my own projects, and my whole life opened up.
What if we’re not the problem?
After over a decade-long career in entertainment, performing and directing all over the country, I knew I was meant to be doing something else, but I didn’t know what. I had more bathroom-floor moments than I can count, then one day I said yes to an invitation to teach voice and public speaking to a room of businesspeople. That led to teaching entrepreneurship to artists, then a certification in transformational coaching, then a private practice full of writers, founders, and multi-hyphenate creators.
Right after the 2016 US election, I watched the women around me feel creatively contracted and silenced. I wrote an email inviting women to a small meeting room in midtown Manhattan with one premise: your creative voice is needed. That email became the newslettter I still write today.
As we grew into an international collective of women creators, I got deeply curious about why my brilliant, high-performing clients were using every tool traditional coaching offers and still getting stuck in their creative process. What became clear is that women don't lack discipline or linear strategy, as we've been told. What we need is creative trust and space, and everything we're sold instead—the eight-hour writing days, the 10-step-plans, the perfect morning routines—is more control. Then we're taught to blame ourselves. There is nothing more threatening to a culture built on control than a woman in her full creative power. So we made that our mission.
It grew into a decade of guiding writers, founders, artists, and leaders to reclaim their relationship with creativity, so that they can bring a more human world into being with their work. It’s what I continue to learn over and over in my own life: I don’t need to solve the problem of myself. I need to return to a source I’ve always known.
trusted by:
Choosing a creative life is how we stay human.
More ideas that shape my work:
The parts of you that were called too much are your creative gift. The creative block does not belong to you; it belongs to a culture afraid of your power.
The quality of our work depends on our relationship with the unknown. That relationship needs safety to be curious, room to make experiments instead of ultimatums, and supportive structures that keep us on the hook for what we're here to bring forth.
Creativity is a part of mental health we need to talk more about. It moves in a cycle: expansion, contraction, and endings are all part of the process, and when that cycle gets blocked, we suffer. We can't optimize it, it requires a human heart, and it should regenerate our well-being, not cost it.
Your intersections are the stories you were born to tell. Nobody else can see what you see. Your multifaceted nature is a source of creative power, not something to solve so you can fit in a box.
Who you become matters as much as what you make. How a thing gets made shapes the thing that gets made, and it shapes you. Your goals and dreams are containers for your becoming, and each one asks you to remember more of who you were before you were told who to be.
When women and girls create freely, the future becomes more human. Your voice isn't something to find, like the girl boss era taught us; it is something to reclaim from a culture that thrives on its diminishment, and it is one of the most under-supported resources we have to build a better world.
A few more things:
I am an elder millennial and have spent most of my adulthood in New York and Chicago. I currently live on unceded Lenape land in northern New Jersey. (One day I will tell you how this was my childhood dream.)
My ducks are nonlinear.
For over 10 years, I have maintained a dailyish 15-minute writing practice that has changed my life.
I am the mother of two small humans who prefer dancing to sleeping, and I'm married to a brilliant choreographer named Michael. I'm a parenting optimist. He is not.
After my second child, postpartum depression uncovered complex PTSD I'd carried since childhood, and I spent two years creatively blocked, which is humbling when unblocking is your job. I healed through intensive EMDR and testing every tool I teach on myself.
In the spare time I don’t have, I'm probably canvassing to get more women and progressives into public office.
I recently started taking dance classes again, just for fun. My heart is soaring.
I don’t like cooking.
I can’t pass a library without walking in. Reading is one of the great loves of my life. I also love political TV shows. And lists.
Want to know more? I love speaking on podcasts. Here's a playlist:
SUNDAY Spark
Get the letters readers say they actually look forward to.
Each Sunday, I send you 9 things to help you feel more creatively alive. Read by Hollywood writers, mothers, CEOs, professors, artists, and my dad. Join us.
Recent essays and conversations
Stories, tools, prompts, and experiments on creative courage, motherhood, time, and answering our creative calling.
WORK WITH
Liz
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WORK WITH Liz ·
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If you want 1:1 creative advisory and development
Private advisory and coaching for ambitious women building a life and body of work they can't wait to wake up to. A season or a year, built around your work, your rhythms, and what you're here to make next. I have spent the last decade coaching and advising hundreds of women to actualize and amplify their most meaningful creative projects. I am undaunted by your biggest vision and your most challenging blocks. I work with a small number of clients at a time, and many stay for years as their visions and ecosystems grow. I have 1 spot left in 2026.
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If you want to join my creativity incubator
A 13-week creative training and incubator designed to restore your relationship with your creativity and free your voice in your work, leadership, and life. Built around 9 creative capacities, this method teaches you the most valuable skill no one teaches us: how to be creatively free. Applications open in December of 2026.
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If you want to book me to speak
Keynotes, workshops, and interviews on women's creative expression and what it takes to stay creatively alive in an AI world. I speak at women's conferences, leadership summits, and on podcasts, and I work with teams and brands who care about building a more human future.
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IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR
What I know about you…
…is that you are daring to choose a creative life. Even when things feel impossible, you choose trust over control, beauty over cruelty, what's possible over the broken status quo. You do it in the way you lead your team, write your novel, run your business, defend democracy, and parent your kids, in a thousand ways that may go unnoticed and are never insignificant. You shouldn't have to do it alone. That's why I do this work.
