StudioMaek is where I share my stories to inspire you to rediscover the creative you.  While you make art, invent, plan and dream big ideas, we’ll work together to dispel limiting beliefs and step into our authentic selves.  You make. Make you. – I’m making me too.

Mae’s Story:

I’m a dreamer, designer, inventor, mentor and a life-loving info sponge who believes that NOT following your dream will actually kill you! 

I spent the first half of my life as a workaholic, perfectionist who found safety in staying small – a suit of “armor” that saved me from bruises as a child & later, lead to a successful career too!

1997 I began college. I studied art, architecture and psychology – landed a career at a prestigious architecture firm on my 22 birthday in 2000.  I was GREAT at being really good and playing really small (and I’m not talking about my 4’11” stature.)

Like the Wizard of Oz, my work anonymously made it into school halls, gallery displays, on webpages & television and even into a glass case at the museum; all while I stayed safely behind the curtain. By 25 I was a pro at being busy! Full-time architect, full-time student & That’s the year I started mentoring artists and critiquing their work in my free time.

Do you remember the “The Field of Dreams?” That movie awakened passion in me – fueling my love of the creative process and the message of possibility inspired me. Imagine a world where we support each other to make dreams come true!  

But,  the film’s  “If you build it they will come” message,  rang true too.

When I am good enough they will come – They who love me, they who confirm my right and worthiness to exist; Yet never pausing to wait for approval or disapproval. Instead,choosing to run from the vulnerability of being seen and onto the next thing. Fearful to stop moving , fearful of being seen, fearful of being worthless.

It took a brain aneurysm to change my ways, a do or die permission slip that said “Be.” From 2016 – present I’ve spent my days creating, researching, and rediscovering all the parts of me that are truly me & now I want to share the journey with you.

At StudioMaek we’ll work together – facing fears, dispelling limiting beliefs and building courage so that you can start that business or get a patent for your 3am idea all while you rediscover who you are. The passionate you. The creative you. The authentic you. The adventurous child, full of vibrancy and in love with life. The you that was you before the world told you you weren’t.