Be Your Own Daddy

Catherine offers Be Your Own Daddy programs as workshops, retreats, and more. Scroll down to see the options that are currently available!

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You set the rules for your creative practice.

Be Your Own Daddy is about:

  • identifying the “shoulds” in your head and where they are coming from

  • challenging harmful assumptions about what your creative practice needs to look like (and that often stop you from getting started!)

  • connecting with the values, experiences, and skills that drive you to create (so that you can build a practice you want to commit to)

  • making your own definitions of success (rather than chasing someone else’s dream)

  • taking action steps toward your creative goals that feel good and are sustainable, and

  • rewarding yourself for your hard work along the way.

Check out all of the current Be Your Own Daddy options below:

FREE Design Your Daddy workshop

This self-guided, recorded workshop will introduce you to the major concepts of the Be Your Own Daddy framework, including journal prompts for each concept. Includes video and audio versions, plus transcript and worksheet. Get your copy here!

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Be Your Own Daddy live, online retreat

A live, two workshop, online retreat, so that you can claim your creative authority and start prioritizing your creative practice in a way that feels awesome…all in one day. Find all the details and sign up for the October 23, 2026 retreat here.

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Be Your Own Daddy

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Be Your Own Daddy

  • "I signed up for Be Your Own Daddy because I was feeling stuck. Throughout the workshop, Catherine guided us through interesting prompts that helped me resee my approach through a new lens and I left feeling confident, curious, and ready to recommit to my creative project! So glad I signed up."

    Kate Henry, MFA, PhD, productivity coach

  • "I took one of Catherine’s workshops and loved it! Catherine facilitates such a nurturing workshop and has such beautiful energy, I felt really held."

    Meg Kissack, coach & host of The Daily Pep! Podcast

  • "I've taken several of Catherina LaSota's workshops and I learn something new from her every time. She sees art and creativity as essential to human survival which reminds me to take my own art more seriously."

    Tawny Lara, journalist & authorpreneur

Be Your Own Daddy

Be Your Own Daddy

Be Your Own Daddy