Vol 07 : Sundays are for Mothers
With Natasha Lappos
Hello friends, I’d love to welcome you to
Volume 07
of the
Sundays are for Mothers written interview series.
Happy Sunday friends!
I’m happy to be back with this series for 2024! If you’re new here, scroll down a little to see what it’s all about.
This year has been full and juicy for us on the home front already, and so I didn’t get to start the SAFM series until now, but I’m so excited to bring you a beautiful friend of mine, who responded to this interview for you all in her final week of her second pregnancy. She is an incredibly creative woman and I first realised that when I walked into her home in Tasmania. Every corner curated beautifully, with incredible attention to detail. THEN I learned she loved to host. From events, to curating experiences, to hosting guests in her home. I feel lucky enough to have witnessed her create an exclusive themed dinner party meets women’s circle (Sacred Suppers) from idea to 3D event, hang creating themed decorations, menu, making all the food herself, playlists, smells, light, ambience. I was in AWE. She is ALSO a doula, and crafts beautiful experiences for mothers and is creative in the way she nurtures those in the birthing realms. It doesn’t stop there, even holidays call for handmade costumes for her little ones….
The reason I asked if she’d like to participate in this interview is because I can feel creative passion oozing out of her, from her work and in her mothering. It is her. Beyond it all. Someone who really embodies the mother maker, who is wildly multi passionate and someone I am personally inspired by whenever I with her and long after I leave her.
I so hope you enjoy Volume 07 of this series. You can find 1-6 on my publication.
Ps. Next week I have a special offering coming out FOR the mother makers. Those of you creating and making and raising children alongside businesses and want to do it in soulful and intuitively guided ways. Please keep an eye out, I’ll be opening to my Substack friends first before general public. This is the first opportunity in years to be able to work with me and I’m incredibly excited to be in support of the Mother Makers in my life. Lots of love, Enjoy this interview!
As a mother, and as a woman devoted to not only my creative process, but also exploring different avenues for my creativity, intuition, business ideas over the years - some privately, some publicly, some for arts sake, some as income streams… I’ve learned that the road can feel lonely.
Not always lonely as in physically alone - though of course that can happen too… (sort of? With kids buzzing in and out)… But alone in the sense of feeling like it’s a mystery how any other mother does it. I’ve felt, many times, that I so badly just wanted just a peak behind the curtains of other creatives, who were somehow moving between children, a creative project/ their business/ clients, the home, to their lover, into their community…
I’d ask myself questions like “How do they balance it? Does that exist? Is it just a highlight reel and it’s actually chaos like my BTS? Do the dishes get done, or is she on the laptop next to a pile of clothes needing to be folded…. “
All the way to “I wonder how she decides to price things, Does she get Ideas seducing her in the middle of the night too? What’s her process, how does it all work?”
When I published An Open Letter To Mother Creatives
It became clear that what I had known to be true, and assumed true for others…. was in fact very relatable and we are all dancing and weaving in our own ways through the journey of our motherhood and nourishing the heart with whatever our creativity is channeled into.
For those new here, Sundays are for Mothers is a bi-weekly interview series I’m publishing here on Substack exclusive to my paying community of mother makers.
The series is designed to demystify the mystery of the Mother Maker. To have a peak behind the curtains and feel both the magic and the monotonous moments of this journey as creatives and entrepreneurs. To be able to explore things like the realities of home life, relationship, raising creative children, making space for ourselves, the struggles, insecurities and celebrations that come with this walk. Intrinsically, this series is FOR YOU, the Mother Maker, to have you feel more connected to others, to dissolve guilt or shame, to spark inspiration, to normalise so much of this world as a creative, and make space for more ease within our own experiences.
I urge you to connect with the women interviewed, please come and enjoy the conversation in the comments, don’t be a stranger. Let’s create a little hub (or big hub) of energy and understanding that I believe, we all crave.
So much love, thank you for being here
Love Kat
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SUNDAYS ARE FOR MOTHERS VOL 07
Name: Natasha Lappos
Hey! I would love to start by you sharing a bit about yourself, your family, your story and what you do.
Hello, beautiful readers. Firstly, I’d like to say that I am so honored to share with you my experience as a Mother Maker. I’m Natasha Lappos, a Greek-Canadian who has recently landed in Tasmania with my husband Kurt, daughter Orelia (3yrs) and our soon-to-come baby boy.
Had someone told me that I would be living on the opposite side of the world (from Montreal), in a state that was practically bordering Antarctica, I probably wouldn’t believe you. That being said, I had never imagined living in Shanghai, which is actually where I resided for seven years, met my husband and conceived our daughter. It was there that I was pursuing my degree in Education, working as a second-grade teacher. It was my first career at the age of 25, after working years in the bar industry. Though, it did not take me long to realize that this was not all of me. So, I quit my secure teaching position to pursue entrepreneurial life as a yoga teacher and women’s circle facilitator, while simultaneously establishing my catering business ‘of Earth and Honey’, for which I created edible altars (bespoke grazing tables).
Here in Tasmania, I am now a full-spectrum doula serving the women of Hobart and surrounds through their seasons of birth, postpartum and beyond.
As well as, a facilitator of my heart-centered event ‘Sacred Suppers’, a themed dinner party that is akin to a women’s circle.
What are some key moments in your creative journey so far?
(both failures and triumphs)
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I feel as though my answer to this could change on any given day. I have always been a maker of sorts, who has loved to explore different methods of creation and expression. This curiosity has ultimately led me through several career changes in my life. The “jack of all trades” persona is something I have always struggled with. More specifically, viewing my ever-changing pursuits as failures or unfulfilled exploits, rather than triumphs.