Rachel Ropeik

Attunement is my word of 2026.
It's "harmonizing with another's state" &
"put in desirable condition" & even
"set a machine in order for work".

After 4 entrepreneurial years I want more peace.

I wrote more about how I'm starting my 2026 here 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AnRan

#PickedAttunement

My goo phase is slowly resolidifying itself. I'm working to leave behind the "throwing spaghetti at the wall" phase of my business where I feel like I've lived for the past few years. I'm composting some offers to germinate others.

Read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AjbH0

Periodic reminder: don't monetize your hobbies!
I love my little book cover sketches. They bring me so much joy without any kind of monetizable outcome.

These came from this year's annual 3-week reading retreat. Read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/Ajx0b

#Entrepreneurship #SoloBusinessOwner

My SEED Trio work with Rebecca Shulman and David Bowles is a way I give back to the museum education field.

In Jan we're hosting a multi-day Gallery Education Leadership Institute for museum ed managers to help their leadership skills flourish.

👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AjbH0

I've got updates to share, and none of them fit neatly together into a single post. So I gave myself some creative constraints to write succinctly about how 2025, My Ballast Year is going as we head into Q4. https://lttr.ai/AjbH0

#Entrepreneurship #SoloBusinessOwner

I just finished leading prototyping sessions with guides and staff at the Boston Public Library. We used visitor personas & scenarios plus creative constraints to brainstorm alternative guided experiences they might offer library patrons.

Read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AhALa

#Entrepreneurship

Working on my coaching HQ Notion board (kindly set up by Jessica Abel with pirate theme imagery) has been a bit like therapy. Lots of Big Questions:
How do I want work to be part of my life?
What is fun for me that others struggle with?

Read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AhALV

#Entrepreneurship

Weather permitting, I like to work as much as I can on the back porch. I'm leaning into summer-induced softness for leadership lessons.

The Discerning Leader’s Guide to Soft Summer Striving
▸ https://lttr.ai/AhBGX

#Entrepreneurship #PortfolioCareer #DiscerningLeadership

As I transition through this phase of caterpillar soup, I'm leaning into abundance and paying people I trust for help.
You can read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/Af7Yk

And you can be part of the cycle of abundance, yourself by offering your resources to someone you can help.

#BusinessDevelopment

I'm nervous about admitting publicly that I need to shift things in my business. And about figuring out what problem(s) I'm in the best position to help other people solve.

Read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/Afyra
or
Reply here with your answer 👇🏻

#BusinessDevelopment #entrepreneurship

My portfolio career of projects is not well balanced right now. Institutional clients in the USA don't seem to have the appetite for change/experimentation in cultural organizations. Imagine that!

Read how I'm shifting 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AfYAt

#BusinessDevelopment

While I continue to nurture the communal connection & networking that feeds me, I’m also looking at what ideas I can compost for new energy resources.

It's time to rework my business.

Read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AfavG

#BusinessDevelopment #entrepreneurship #transformation

In the last few weeks, it's been hard to distill ideas into things I wanted to say, and I fell off the wagon of my regular public writing practice.

Actually it's my caterpillar goop time.

Into the Chrysalis: https://lttr.ai/AfavO

#BusinessDevelopment #entrepreneurship #transformation

5 last reasons to join CARE. It's
1: An antidote to isolation
2: Professional growth wherever you are
3: Year round support
4: A brain trust where people just get you
5: After today you'll have to wait a whole year!

🔥TODAY'S THE LAST DAY🔥
Come on in!
https://rachelropeik.com/care

I can tell you all about why I think you should join CARE (the Consortium of Arts Related Entrepreneurs), but, as the great Levar Burton used to say, you don't have to take my word for it.
Read members' thoughts and join by April 25! (then doors close for another year)
https://rachelropeik.com/care

Who am I, hosting CARE (the Consortium of Arts Related Entrepreneurs)?
My business cards say I'm an educator, adventurer, facilitator, experience builder, and pirate.
I've hosted groups from American teens in France to blind folks touring art museums to vulnerable professional development sessions a

In the name of dreaming broadly as an experimenter, I've rethought CARE, my membership group, and am shifting it into an annual cadence instead, to bud and grow along with the new spring life outside.

Read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AdNsK

#VirtualCommunity #CareWork

Where do you turn to when things around you seem grim? (Truly, I'm earnestly curious. Comment and let me know.)

I read a lot, so that's one direction I've been turning. Here's one quote I'm appreciating.

Read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AdNsK

#VirtualCommunity #CareWork

I've been returning to @Deepa Iyer's Social Change Ecosystem Map.

None of us can be changemakers toward justice by trying to do everything. Instead, Iyer lays out 10 roles and invites us to figure out what we contribute to the whole.

Read more 👉🏻 https://lttr.ai/AdOAc

#VirtualCommunity

SEED:Los Angeles (May 6 2025) Registration for SEED:Los Angeles, a six-month, workshop-based experience will engage you in exploring philosophies of museum pedagogy, effective practices for management, mentoring, and communication...

🐣EARLY BIRD DEADLINE LAST CALL🐣

If you're thinking about joining a cohort of other folks who manage gallery educators for SEED:Los Angeles on May 6, today's your last day to use code earlyBIRDseedLA for $100 off.

Fight loneliness!
Work smarter!
Join us!
seed-los-angeles.paperform.co

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In light of the current federal flurry of anti-DEAI policies, the SEED trio are convening our next SEED:Provocation. This one's on Feb 27 (1-2pm EST), and we'll explore how we keep on doing equity-focused work without the label (or financial backing) of a DEAI initiative.

Join us! lnkd.in/efnhd9Ey

Three text areas on a slide. The top one says: “SEED workshops offer peer-to-peer connection, field-tested resources, and provocative conversations.” The other two are shaped like quote bubbles and include the text “‘Rebecca, Rachel and David... were responsive, thoughtful and creative, and each session felt so thoughtfully planned to maximize participant interaction. provoke conversation and get our wheels turning in new directions. I learned a lot that I will take with me on my career journey.’ - Alison Rossi. Anne and Harvey Zarrow Foundation Director of Learning and Community Engagement. Gilcrease Museum” and “‘Attending these sessions... has been extremely helpful in allowing me to pause the day-to-day routine and actually reflect on what kind of manager I am .... I believed more in myself as a leader and educator after every meeting!’ - Karla Aguilar Velasquez, Associate Educator, Guide Program, St. Louis Art Museum

At SEED workshops, we go deep on how to manage well, and we're not shy to get into what makes it hard. We'd love to have these conversations with you in LA on May 6! Come on in ➡️ seed-los-angeles.paperform.co

Being Ship and Anchor for My Ballast Year | Rachel S Ropeik 2025 is My Ballast Year. Ballast is about when I need to be bolstered up, and when I need to be the bolster for others. When social and governmental systems can't be trusted to look out for us, we mus...

When social and governmental systems can't be trusted to look out for us, we must look after each other. We must be each other's ballast.

It's on us to be the stabilizers for others to fly, and to take our turn flying when others offer us stability.

Read more 👉🏻 lttr.ai/AavGs

A red quote bubble with white text reading "How can I be my own ship and be others' anchor?"

My 2025 commitments to be ballast for others:
🔋 offer more low-cost public workshops
🔋 minimize reinventing and try to re-purpose content I've already created
🔋 lean into collaboration

Read more 👉🏻 lttr.ai/Aatiy

Inquiring minds want to know: what kind of lead magnet is most likely to get you to sign up for an email list?

a useful resource download?
an interactive template?
something fun and game-like?
what else?

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