About

Katrina Pfannkuch – Creative Katrina 

Owner, Creative Director, Creative Consultant, Producer, Writer, Mindset Coach

I believe creativity is how you show up and create anything in your life. If you aren’t clear on what you want to create, how to open up your heart to create it, or feel you lack creative ability altogether, you aren’t alone. We’ve all been there — including me.

My passion is helping people tap into their inner voice, creativity and personal vision to find their deepest, most honest version of themselves – and share it with the world. Together we pinpoint and release fears and blocks, then brainstorm ideas, strategies, and steps forward to directly support their art, creativity, true self expression, and structure a creative platform and/or business to reach and exceed what they envision for themselves as they continue to grow, heal and transform.

In addition, I love to collaborate with filmmakers as a creative consultant and producer/project manager to refine and support film project goals, edit and shape scripts, manage a variety of pre-production and production strategies and requirements, offer support with fundraising and provide marketing and marketing content strategy for a film project.

My goal is to help clients move from self doubt to creative confidence, from confusion to clarity, from fear to flourishing, and from limitation to abundance – and thrive. Last but not least, to create with inspiration, ease and joyno matter what type of project they are inspired to create.

I have a unique background and combination of skills to support clients from a variety of angles. I’m a creative consultant, project manager, producer, writer, editor, podcaster and mindset coach with an M.A in Journalism. Each skill enables me to get a clear sense of where clients feel stuck, then offer grounded, practical, clear strategies to move forward on a passion, idea, specific project, or in their business. I also write and edit content to support those efforts, if needed.

I collaborate with and support creatives, filmmakers, writers, artists, creative entrepreneurs and coaches to clear creative blocks, gain clarity, generate focus and create what they envision. Then, together, we create a clear artistic vision and business strategy to bring it all life. I support and guide individuals and teams on projects to craft clear action steps and momentum towards personal and professional goals – and want insight on how to generate effective strategies that also cultivate a mindset that yields real world results.

In addition to my blog posts on creativity and mindfulness, I also host and produce a podcast called Flirting with Enlightenment. I cover “everyday life” topics, and offer practical suggestions on how to tap into your own inner wisdom to create and foster a growth mindset. Listen on the website, on Apple Podcasts , CastboxGoogle Play, Google PodcastsSpotify & Stitcher .

For more details on my specific work history, please see my profile on LinkedIn. 

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Photo Credit for Star Pencil: Doug88888 on Flickr, Kay Gaensler

My biggest strength: I “hear beneath the words”, which is a fancy way of saying I see the limitations you create and how you talk yourself out of your awesomeness.

What do I get out of this? I’m fascinated with what inspires people to create and how they choose to share it with the world. Above all, I love helping people cut through the old layers to expand into new, amazing depths of creative expression and confidence.

My core essence: Grounded clarity infused with creative sparks. I’m also sassy, fun and love to laugh. A lot. Just want to give you a heads up in case you find lightheartedness offensive and are altogether too serious. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Confused on how to say my last name? It’s pronounced Fan-cook and means pancake in German.  Now you know why I’ve created a more web-friendly persona, Creative Katrina, to make things easier for all of us. And yes, some friends do call me pancake.

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If you are looking for my street cred as a creative and strategy consultant:

  • 20 years as a creative and strategy consultant, writer, editor, project manager, marketing content creator, mindset coach.
  • 20 years as the creative director and owner Creative Katrina, LLC.
  • 5 + years a podcaster and podcast producer for Flirting With Enlightenment 
  • Founding member of the Horsetooth International Film Festival and served as director of communications, then community outreach director from 2019 – 2022.
  • Associate producer for the short film, Welcome to Hollywood.

Want to read some of my work or learn more about some of my collaborations? Check out my recently featured page. If you are ready to connect with and expand your creative self and live more in the creative flow, let’s play!