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MEET YOUR NEW CREATIVITY COACH

Hi, I’m Felicia Pride, Head Curator here at The Create Daily.

MEET YOUR NEW CREATIVITY COACH

Hi, I’m Felicia Pride, Head Curator here at The Create Daily.


I'm a storyteller with a calling (trust me, I tried to run from it) to help other storytellers—especially those who have been historically excluded—thrive creatively and professionally.

This all began over
10 years ago

I started a free newsletter to share amazing opportunities for creatives–from funding to residencies and more. 

My baby, The Opportunity Roundup, became a best-kept secret while growing to serve thousands of subscribers.

But the thing is—I never intended for it to be a secret! It thrills me to see women, Black, POC, queer, and other historically excluded storytellers succeed, and I’m all about helping as many of us do so as possible.

A decade later, I’ve gathered so much more insight on what my fellow storytellers crave to feed their creative journeys. So I’ve expanded our capacity to serve, by tapping a Black and woman-led team of creative badasses with storytelling experience across genres, platforms and industries. 

And now, we're driven to help you achieve your wildest creative dreams.


This all began over 10 years ago

I started a free newsletter to share amazing opportunities for creatives–from funding to residencies and more. 

My baby, The Opportunity Roundup, became a best-kept secret while growing to serve thousands of subscribers.

But the thing is—I never intended for it to be a secret! It thrills me to see women, Black, POC, queer, and other historically excluded storytellers succeed, and I’m all about helping as many of us do so as possible.

A decade later, I’ve gathered so much more insight on what my fellow storytellers crave to feed their creative journeys. So I’ve expanded our capacity to serve, by tapping a Black and woman-led team of creative badasses with storytelling experience across genres, platforms and industries. 

And now, we're driven to help you achieve your wildest creative dreams.


The Create Daily is
part ‘how to.’ 

starWrite the pilot.

starShoot the short film.

starGet the agent.

starPitch the project.

starMaster the Business.


The Create Daily is
part ‘how to.’ 

starWrite the pilot.

starShoot the short film.

starGet the agent.

starPitch the project.

starMaster the Business.


But we also focus
on the other part:
‘the why?’

starWhy am I not doing the one thing that is burning inside?

OR

starWhy am I not creating at the level I know I’m capable of?


But we also focus
on the other part:
‘the why?’

starWhy am I not doing the one thing that is burning inside?

OR

starWhy am I not creating at the level I know I’m capable of?

Why are we so confident we can get you on track creatively?

Because we’re speaking on what we know.

Why are we so confident we can get you on track creatively?

Because we’re speaking on what we know.


OUR STORY

OUR STORY

We’ve been there. 
Disconnected from our most creative self. Picking up side gigs on the side of our side gigs… but somehow still broke. Then too tired from the hustle to create.

And we gotta set the record straight: Hustling is not creating. Hustling is hustling. 

We said we were frustrated with art, too. Creatively blocked and “out of love” with it. Tried to turn our backs on art and leave our dreams behind.

But the fact is: We only get this one go round. 

If you feel that creating is your life’s work, you owe it to yourself to dwell in the best creative space of your life.

We believe the Golden Age of Storytelling is the one we’re in—because we are in it. We get to tell our stories now, and do it well. 

START NOW
The Create Daily is here to help you design your creative career and imagine new models for your success + sustainability. 
The official bio of our

Head Curator:

Felicia Pride is a TV writer / producer and an award-winning filmmaker.

She wrote on Ava DuVernay's QUEEN SUGAR, GREY’S ANATOMY and is currently a writer / supervising producer on BEL-AIR. Prior to the WGA strike, she was developing shows with Amazon, Netflix, and FX.

In film, she’s the writer and executive producer of REALLY LOVE, produced by MACRO, which debuted on Netflix and became a Top Ten Movie on the platform. And she’s sold features to Universal, Sony, and AGC Studios. Felicia made her directorial debut with tender, an award-winning short film which aired on STARZ, and she is currently on the festival circuit with LOOK BACK AT IT, a proof of concept for her directorial feature debut by the same name, which won the audience award at BlackStar Film Festival and was nominated for an Humanitas Prize.

She founded and runs HONEY CHILE, a production company catering to Black women 40+ and is the co-host of their NAACP-nominated podcast Chile, Please. 

Felicia was a Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow and a graduate of NBC's Writers on the Verge program as a comedy writer.

She started her writing career nearly twenty years ago as an entertainment journalist before going on to write several books, including the essay collection, The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs.

Prior to transitioning to screenwriting, she worked as a film distribution exec and an impact producer.

Felicia holds an M.A. in writing from Emerson College and runs The Create Daily, a platform for historically excluded storytellers that she founded in 2012.

Since forging her creative comeback in 2016, Felicia hasn’t looked back.
The official bio of our

Head Curator:

Felicia Pride is a TV writer / producer and an award-winning filmmaker.

She wrote on Ava DuVernay's QUEEN SUGAR, GREY’S ANATOMY and is currently a writer / supervising producer on BEL-AIR. Prior to the WGA strike, she was developing shows with Amazon, Netflix, and FX.

In film, she’s the writer and executive producer of REALLY LOVE, produced by MACRO, which debuted on Netflix and became a Top Ten Movie on the platform. And she’s sold features to Universal, Sony, and AGC Studios. Felicia made her directorial debut with tender, an award-winning short film which aired on STARZ, and she is currently on the festival circuit with LOOK BACK AT IT, a proof of concept for her directorial feature debut by the same name, which won the audience award at BlackStar Film Festival and was nominated for an Humanitas Prize.

She founded and runs HONEY CHILE, a production company catering to Black women 40+ and is the co-host of their NAACP-nominated podcast Chile, Please. 

Felicia was a Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow and a graduate of NBC's Writers on the Verge program as a comedy writer.

She started her writing career nearly twenty years ago as an entertainment journalist before going on to write several books, including the essay collection, The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs.

Prior to transitioning to screenwriting, she worked as a film distribution exec and an impact producer.

Felicia holds an M.A. in writing from Emerson College and runs The Create Daily, a platform for historically excluded storytellers that she founded in 2012.

Since forging her creative comeback in 2016, Felicia hasn’t looked back.

Can You

RELATE?

Fun fact: I wrote and illustrated my first book at age 5! It was about a family of dogs who got around town on rollerskates. 

Can You

RELATE?

Fun fact: I wrote and illustrated my first book at age 5! It was about a family of dogs who got around town on rollerskates. 

The book was wildly successful in my kindergarten class. But keeping up a creative practice was hard when there were so many distractions. I mean, the Smurfs! Come on!

I would abandon writing after this first book and wouldn’t pick it back up seriously until some twenty years later. It would be the first of two serious creative hiatuses.

Yep, I know about creative comebacks.

Mo Co-Signs

“The challenge helped me to realign myself with what is most important and that is staying creative on a daily basis”

“This challenge really helped me out of what I realize now was more of a mental block than a writer's block. There have been so many distractions and frustrations for me recently that were causing me to push my writing aside without even realizing it. The challenge helped me to realign myself with what is most important and that is staying creative on a daily basis and not trying to make time for it or put it off because everything else was too overwhelming. Writing is where I find my peace. Now ideas are really flowing for me again. One of the best courses I have taken to support my writing career in a long time.”

Erica L.
Mo Co-Signs

“The challenge helped me to realign myself with what is most important and that is staying creative on a daily basis”

“This challenge really helped me out of what I realize now was more of a mental block than a writer's block. There have been so many distractions and frustrations for me recently that were causing me to push my writing aside without even realizing it. The challenge helped me to realign myself with what is most important and that is staying creative on a daily basis and not trying to make time for it or put it off because everything else was too overwhelming. Writing is where I find my peace. Now ideas are really flowing for me again. One of the best courses I have taken to support my writing career in a long time.”

Erica L.
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