About the speaker
Larissa Loden is the founder and creative force behind Larissa Loden, a bold jewelry and accessories brand known for helping people dare to be their fucking selves. Over the past decade, she has grown her business from a handmade side hustle into a multi-million-dollar brand with a loyal community and national recognition.
Beyond business growth, Larissa is passionate about redefining success for entrepreneurs. Through coaching, speaking, and writing, she encourages founders to build businesses that support creativity, joy, and real life, instead of burnout.
When she’s not designing, leading her team, or coaching fellow entrepreneurs, you can find her training for surf camp, traveling with her family, or sharing honest conversations about what it really means to have enough.
Local partners
Founded in 2019 in Fridley, Minnesota, Forgotten Star Brewing was forged from a building rich with history and defined by Excellence and Efficiency. Today, we incorporate these values into every aspect of our brewery, from our brewing process and taproom space, to our people, atmosphere and beer.
The St Paul Bagelry is a woman owned, family run business. We make New York style bagels from scratch with Love daily in our Roseville and Minneapolis locations.
Tiny Footprint Coffee is the world’s first carbon negative coffee company. Roasted in Minnesota, sourced ethically and spreading good karma worldwide through reforestation since 2010.
City Cast is a trailblazer in local media. A national network of daily local podcasts, newsletters, and social media, City Cast launched in 2021 in Chicago and Denver and has since expanded to 13 cities across the U.S. City Cast is launching two new cities in October 2025, the Twin Cities and Seattle.
Northstar Kombucha is the elegant fusion of food science and design—our expertise and passion. With meticulous attention to detail, we blend our tart kombucha tea with fragrant herbs and sweet fruit juices to achieve a perfect balance of flavors in every bottle. We carefully brew and nurture each small batch of our kombucha tea using 100% organic ingredients to create an effervescent probiotic drink that is also low in sugar. Bottled in amber glass to help protect the probiotics, Northstar Kombucha is designed to look as great as it tastes. – Dan and Christina Fischer
Minny & Paul was founded with a vision to elevate your gift giving and make it easier to share high-quality local products. Featuring all Minnesota makers and brands in their pre-designed and custom boxes, they aim to make the gifting process thoughtful, easy, charming and with a true taste of home.
Additional details
What is the event like? CreativeMornings is about community and inspiration. Come for both! Sign-in will begin at 8:30am, and we’ll have coffee ready for you. Coffee time is great for meeting the other CreativeMornings attendees. The talk will start at 9 followed by Q&A. We like giving high-fives.
This Month’s Theme: Curate This month’s theme is Curate, chosen by our Orange County Chapter in California, illustrated by Fred Villa, and presented by Adobe.
Parking? There are free parking lots on both sides of the building (front and back) with entrances on each side.
Questions? Please let us know if you have other questions or accessibility needs for the event. We will do our best to help out: minneapolis [at] creativemornings.com
Location
Hosted at
Forgotten Star Brewing Co.
38 Northern Stacks Drive
Fridley, Minnesota United States 55421
When
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Videographer Lead Travis Johansen