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✨We’re Back ✨ Here to Shine Magic on Your Mornings!

Our chapter is roaring back to life, fueled by fresh energy, bold ideas, and an incredible team at the helm. I’m your host, Dawn Smith, and I’m joined by Tina Li and Jen Fontanilla, two powerhouse women whose hearts beat for community, creativity, and connection.

And where better to reignite this flame than here in Los Angeles: the city that is a vibrant, multicultural powerhouse. We are a city of dreamers and doers, home to more than 150,000 working artists and over 5,000 arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits. With over 200 languages spoken, we are one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse cities in the world. From Hollywood sound stages to Boyle Heights murals to Venice design studios, L.A. thrums with creative energy in every neighborhood.

This is where ideas collide, where art meets activism, where cultures intertwine, and where CreativeMornings belongs. We’re here to cultivate inspiration, spark conversations that matter, and connect visionary thinkers from every walk of life.

So grab your coffee, bring your curiosity, and join us. The morning magic is back in Los Angeles!.

Meet Our Host: Dawn Smith

Founder. Coach. Creative Rebel Misfit. Dawn is an executive impact coach, career transition coach, and a relationship coach for couples in crisis. With well over a decade of expertise in mental health, and the neuroscience of habits and decision-making, she has helped hundreds of professionals navigate major career pivots, with a focus on clients with ADHD and other neurodiversities, and over 1000 couples nationwide to transform their relationships. Dawn is featured in Brainz Magazine and on the Gottmann.com blog, and has spoken on navigating intense transition points at conferences, panels, and events across the country with clients including VISTAGE, Creative Mornings, ORACLE, the Georgia Hospital Association, NACE, WIPA,  the Society for Simulation in Health Care, UCLA, UNICEF, the Global Love Institute, and on the 2024 TEDx stage.  She is also a multimedia artist, and the founder of the Los Angeles hip-hop youth center, J.U.i.C.E. She wakes up every day grateful to do what she loves.

Meet the Team

• Tina Li – An event producer and program manager with over 20 years of experience creating small to large-scale events, brand activations, and cultural celebrations. Tina has worked for Disney, ABC Television, Honeywell Technologies, and she brings structure, creativity, and deep industry connections to every event.

• Jen Fontanilla A Certified Money Coach®, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author of The Creative Code: A Creative Professional’s Way to Happiness, Wealth and Joy. With 25+ years in graphic design for brands like Disney, Sony Pictures, and Universal Studios and two decades in financial services, Jen helps creative professionals confidently charge what they deserve, break free from underpricing, and build the kind of wealth that supports their art and their life.

How You Can Participate

We want this community to flourish and that means bringing people like you into the mix. 

Ready to Support? Join us!

1. Volunteer: If you love contributing your skills or resources to creative community events, we’d love to connect with you. Right now, we’re especially looking for:
2. Photographers
3. Videographers
4. Coffee or beverage sponsors
5. Catering partners
6. Sponsor our eventsDo you know an LA-based company, organization, product, or service that aligns with CreativeMornings’ values? Sponsoring a CreativeMornings Los Angeles event is a fantastic way to connect local brands with meaningful visibility in both our expansive local and global creative communities.

You can connect with us directly here on the Creative Mornings site, or by email, at losangeles@creativemornings.com.

See You Soon

We’re energized, optimistic, and committed to bringing you mornings filled with inspiration, heart, and authentic connection. Stay tuned for our upcoming events—we are beyond excited to welcome you in person!

“Never take the shortcut. ” — Sonari Glinton. 

Enjoy more at http://creativemornings.com/talks/sonari-glinton/1

“It was those words of ‘I believe in you’ that changed my life.” - Andi Teran

Don’t forget to check out the photos from all of our talks – and maybe spot yourself in some of them – at our flickr page! 

Just look at these lovely shots of Ludlow Kingsley from November by Ryan Morgan. 

Were you part of our photogenic CreativeMornings/LA community in September? Find your photo here. 

We’re still inspired from that epic morning. Thank you everyone for being a part of everything we’ve done for the last five years.

Huge thanks to all our amazing speakers this and @5EveryDayLA for putting together a great line-up. You guys are all awesome.

Special thanks to @mediatemple, @Shutterstock, @jamuseum, @stumptowncoffee, @drinkcaliwater, @sqirlla, and @smilefrozenLA. Such a great morning.

Thanks to everyone who came to our cocktail party celebrating five years in LA. Lovely to see you all. Thanks @mediatemple for sponsoring. We love you!

Dr. Gerald E. Loeb, the CEO of SynTouch, enthralled us with his talk about robotics. See all the photos at CMLA’s Flickr. Thank you to everyone who came out! 

Photos by Ryan Morgan.