for artists, makers & illustrators…

I basically built an MBA for creatives scaling to 6-figures.

Social media, email, sales, pricing and more, taught live every month. Experts look at your actual work and tell you exactly what to fix.

Join for $197 a month

120+ members · cancel any time

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if you’ve ever…

Read all the famous gurus’ business books and felt like NONE of it applied to your business
Gotten endless compliments on a new piece, put it up for sale, and heard nothing but crickets
Second-guessed sharing your business goals with other creatives because you were afraid of being called a “sell out”

… you’re in the right place.

why this exists…

You know how to make the work. Nobody ever taught you the rest.

Pricing. Email lists. Launches. Reading your own numbers. You know, the stuff that turns your art into a business?

Art school skips all of it.

So I went looking for somewhere to learn it. Something like an MBA, but built for someone who sells paintings or zines or illustration work.

It didn’t exist.

What exists is courses you watch alone at 1am, coaches charging $5K for strategies that stopped working years ago, and communities full of people who aren’t taking their work seriously.

So I built it myself.

Kelsey Rodriguez laughing in a rust blazer among redwood trees

120+

MEMBERS INSIDE

COUNTRIES

300K+

AUDIENCE

AS SEEN ON

“One of the best investments I’ve ever made in myself and my business. It’s shifted my entire trajectory.”

EMILY HOLT · FOUNDER & GHOSTWRITER

“At almost every group coaching call I learned something that completely shifted the way I looked at business!”

MALINA DOWLING · FANTASY ARTIST

“The group coaching calls are a guiding light. It’s very easy to say ‘I don’t know what to do!’ Well, Kelsey can tell you what to do.”

ALLEY PAINTER · ARTIST

so let me introduce you to...

The Creative Accelerator

A business school for creatives: live lectures and hot seats every month, a library of every workshop and course I’ve ever made, and a team of three (me included) who tell you what to fix. $197 a month, renews automatically until you cancel.

you're still stuck because...

Most advice for creatives is about getting seen. Almost none of it is about getting paid.

what you keep getting told

Post every day. Be consistent.
Just be authentic.
Use the right hashtags.
Make reels. Now make carousels.
Run a sale.
Go viral and the rest sorts itself out.

None of this is wrong, exactly. It’s just all about attention. You might not even need more followers. You might just need to sell more to the ones you already have.

what actually gets you paid

Choosing the dream business model for you, and leaning into that
Understanding your ideal customer so well that you can read their minds
A content strategy that pulls them in, and makes buying a no-brainer
An amazing offer someone feels stupid saying no to
Launches with warm-ups, deadlines, and a reason to buy
Marketing strategies that go beyond just "post consistently"

Plus the accountability to actually do all of it.

Learn the part that pays

what’s inside…

Here’s everything you get for $197 a month.

Kelsey lying in the grass, writing in a notebook — live on Tuesdays

Two lectures a month, taught live.

Each walks you through one core business concept, like writing a hook, building a sales page, or the strategy behind a $30K/mo sales funnel.

Kelsey smiling on the phone, lying on a rug — your turn in the seat

Two hot seats a month, so you can see exactly how to fix your biggest problem.

Bring the email, the sales page, or the offer you’ve been going back and forth on for three weeks. We'll look at it together and fix it live. And seeing everyone else's fixes often leads to the best breakthroughs.

A feedback team reading your drafts.

Kaeli (sales funnel expert, $11M+ in client sales), Andrea (formerly in PR and marketing at Netflix and Pixar), and me. Post your work in the community and one of us gives you our thoughts THIS WEEK. Not “someday.”

A library of workshops, plus every course I make.

We have dozens of workshops, courses, templates, and guides for every problem you'll be facing in your business. So you always have a solution at your fingertips.

Kelsey reading a notebook in a greenhouse — heads down, cameras optional

Co-working every other week.

Time to finally do the thing you’ve been putting off all month, because sometimes you need a little gentle bullying to get shit done.

Notes and a laptop on a desk, from above — 120+ of us, 20 countries

A room full of creatives who get it.

We have 120+ members across 20+ countries, and every single one of them have the same goals and struggles as you do. You’ll never be shamed for being ambitious or charging what you’re worth here, I promise.

Join the Creative Accelerator

Renews automatically until you cancel. Full refund inside your first 30 days.

a typical month…

Here’s what’s on the calendar.

I teach two lectures a month and run one of the two hot seats (Kaeli runs the other). On the off weeks, members co-work together, and guest lectures get added as they come up (Hannah from The Tiny Post just taught us how she grew a mail club to 5,000 paying members). Times alternate between 12pm and 4pm PT so you can make it live wherever you are.

TIME ZONES:

MONTUEWEDTHUFRI

week one

CLASS WEEK

week two

WORK WEEK

week three

CLASS WEEK

week four

WORK WEEK

WEEK 3 · TUESDAY · 4PM PACIFIC TIME

Lecture + workshop, led by Kelsey

One business topic, one hour: pricing, a launch plan, your email sequence, reading your numbers. I teach, you work on your version live, and we troubleshoot together. Every lecture goes into the library afterward.

Session recordings posted same day. Cameras optional.

the library…

An answer to every business question you’ve ever asked.

Every Tuesday lecture goes into the library. And after a year of doing this there are dozens, so whatever business problem you hit, there’s probably already a training for it. Here are just a few you can expect inside!

“At almost every group coaching call, I learned something that completely shifted the way I looked at business!”

MALINA · FANTASY ILLUSTRATOR

CONTENT

Creating Your Content World

Full course

CONTENT

The True Desire workshop

Workshop replay

CONTENT

Hooks that stop the scroll

Workshop replay

CONTENT

Writing CTAs that convert

Workshop replay

Your first sales email

Workshop + template

Growing your list without being annoying

Workshop replay

SALES

Planning a product launch

Workshop + roadmap

SALES

Pricing your creative work

Workshop replay

SALES

Talking about your work with confidence

Workshop replay

BUSINESS

The 200-page business workbook

Workbook + mini course

BUSINESS

What’s working right now

Monthly breakdowns

BUSINESS

Money basics for creatives

Workshop replay

BRAND

A brand that sounds like you

Workshop replay

your feedback team…

Three people in your corner, all year long.

You know what's better than one expert? Three. As the community has grown, I've tapped in two amazing business and marketing experts to help give feedback on your business. Their resumes speak for themselves.

Kelsey Rodriguez — Kelsey
LEAD INSTRUCTOR · BUSINESS & CONTENT STRATEGIST
Went from 547 subscribers to nearly 300K and built a six-figure business along the way, posting on one platform for five years straight. Featured in Business Insider, VidCon, and ImagineFX.

let's stop and imagine…

What your life could look like a year from now.

You know what you’re posting this week and why. Not because you suddenly became disciplined, but because you know exactly why people love your work.

A launch is on the calendar in March, and you’re not dreading it. You ran one in October and you made more in a month than you had in six last year.

Every time you send an email to your list (which isn't even that big!) you get a dozen sales roll in.

But the biggest difference? You're less stressed. You feel safe, secure, happy.

You're just as creative as you were last year. You still make art. You just stopped apologizing for selling it.

first of the month

list: 1,840 (+212)
open rate: 51%
sales: 14 ✓

proof, not promises…

Here's what our members have achieved

MALINA DOWLING · FANTASY ARTIST

She went from 4K views to 433K almost overnight.

Malina joined the Creative Accelerator sharing mostly timelapses of her paintings. I told her to start talking about the fantasy world she was creating, instead of only showing the process. The next reel hit 433K. And she gained 100+ to her email list in 24H.

Alex Boon: I just did my first webinar and sold 10 spaces on my new course before I had even finished speaking — his first webinar, 10 spaces sold

ALEX BOON · THE NATURE JOURNALING CIRCLE

His most-watched video ever. Then $2,000 in two hours.

Two wins. First, a video we planned together became the most popular thing he’s ever posted. Then he ran his first webinar and sold 10 spaces on his new course, $2,000+ in two hours, before he’d finished speaking.

Instagram insights for Emily’s viral post — 2.4M views, one post

Emily’s prints, relaunched at $40 to $50

EMILY HARE · FOLKLORE, FANTASY & FAIRYTALES

2.5M views in a week, 1,170 new follows, and the prints sold at $50.

Emily paints little monsters. One post (Your Birth Month, Your Monster) did 2.4M views, 121K likes and 15.8K saves. Her newsletter grew 6.8% in 30 days off the back of it, three monster sculpts sold in her next drop, and she relaunched prints at $40 to $50 instead of the prices she used to charge.

“NICE. Pretty solid growth on my newsletter in the last 30 days. That viral post (now at 3m views!!) has definitely helped! WOOOOO!”

and the smaller ones…

Most wins don’t fit in a headline.

60%

FUNDED IN 48 HOURS · AFTER STALLING AT 33%

A Kickstarter that stalled at 33% came back and hit 60% in 48 hours. “this relaunch made more actual money on Day One than all my previous campaigns, except one…!”

JOAMETTE GIL · KICKSTARTER CREATOR

$8,775

IN TWO REN FAIRE WEEKENDS

“In this economy, to see doubling of revenue is crazy to me. It means that what I’m doing is working. It’s not just luck.” More than all of last season.

JOSEPH ZHOU · DARK FANTASY ARTIST

GROWTH GOAL · DONE BY FEBRUARY

“Being a part of the Creative Accelerator has given me so much clarity on how to move forward with my branding and Instagram. I hit my Q1 growth goal within a few weeks!”

JACQUELINE STUERZL · FINE ARTIST

3–10%

CLICK-THROUGH TO PATREON, EVERY POST

“It’s been about 4 months since Kelsey’s CTA workshop, and I’ve been getting a 3–10% click-through rate to my Patreon EVERY TIME.”

ITSWARLOCKJEMMA · ARTIST

a look inside…

Take a look around before you join.

A nine-minute walkthrough: the calendar, the library, the feedback threads, and where your first class happens. No application needed.

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120+ members in 20 countries

“Kelsey just gets it. She’s sharp when it comes to business sense and understands the intricate needs of creatives who want to make a living through their work.”

MELQUEA SMITH · ILLUSTRATOR

join any time…

Pick how you’d like to pay. You get everything either way.

Renews automatically until you cancel. If it isn’t right for you, ask within your first 30 days and I’ll refund you in full, no weirdness.

MONTHLY

$197

per month

The flexible way in, if you just want to try it out.

Join monthly

BEST VALUE · SAVE $667

ANNUAL

$1,697

per year · works out to $141 a month

four months free, basically

About $4.65 a day for a year of lectures, hot seats, feedback, and every course.

Join for the year

QUARTERLY

$547

every three months

Save a little if you commit to three months upfront.

Join quarterly

2 lectures + 2 hot seats a month
Feedback from Kaeli, Andrea, and me
Every workshop and course, now and future
Co-working, community, replays

Your membership renews automatically until cancelled, which you can request at any time.

You get instant access and can cancel at any time. We don't make it hard for you, promise.

let’s do the math…

What $197 a month actually buys you.

Here’s what each piece would cost on its own if you bought them all separately, and then what the alternatives look like.

your receipt

THE CREATIVE ACCELERATOR · ONE YEAR

24 live lectures, taught by me

Two tactical workshops to level up your business.

$2,400

24 hot seats on your actual business

Live feedback on the thing you’re stuck on, twice a month.

$3,600

A feedback team reading your drafts

The collective expertise of me, Kaeli, and Andrea for a few hours.

$2,000

Creating Your Content World

The full course. Sold on its own as a $647 cohort.

$647

The workshop library + 200-page workbook

Dozens of trainings, templates, and guides.

$997

Co-working, community, and replays

120+ creatives who will tell you the truth about your sales page.

$600

IF YOU BOUGHT IT ALL SEPARATELY

$10,244

a year

WHAT YOU PAY

$1,697a year (about $4.65 a day) · or $197 a month

you keep

$8,547

vs. buying it all separately

or, the alternatives…

Here’s what the other ways to learn this cost.

DOING NOTHING costs...

Another year

Of underpricing, posting and hoping, and launches that sell to four people. It’s the most expensive option here. It just doesn’t send an invoice.

A 1:1 BUSINESS COACH costs...

$6,000+

For six months at $250 to $500 an hour, with one person’s opinion and no one learning alongside you. I know, because I charge that.

AN ACTUAL MBA costs...

$60,000+

Two years, student loans, and not a single class on how to sell a painting or a watercolor course. MBAs are built for people going into finance, not the art studio.

Join the Creative Accelerator

No student loans. Just the work.

heard this one before…

“That’s great Kelsey, but my business is different.”

Almost every creative I work with says this at first. I get it. But in five years of coaching creative businesses, I’ve helped sell everything from enamel pins to snail mail clubs to oil paintings to fantasy novels.

Every niche is different. But the reason someone decides to buy is always the same.

People buy creative work because of how it makes them feel: the story, the emotion, the real person behind it. That drives your sales way more than your niche does.

authors●ceramic artists●oil painters●illustrators●fantasy artists●jewelry designers●printmakers●fiber artists●comic artists●candle makers●bakers & cake artists●photographers●woodworkers●stationery designers●authors●ceramic artists●oil painters●illustrators●fantasy artists●jewelry designers●printmakers●fiber artists●comic artists●candle makers●bakers & cake artists●photographers●woodworkers●stationery designers●

so… yes, this will work for your business.

your guide…

I’m Kelsey. I’ve made over $600,000 from my creativity since 2022.

I grew up low-income and was told over and over that a creative career would keep me poor.

I refused to believe that. So I learned everything I could about business and marketing, and tested all of it on my own work.

I started as an oil painter. Then in 2021 the elevators in my 52nd-floor apartment broke for months (the New York Times called my building High Rise Hell, I’m not kidding), so I went all in on YouTube. 10K subscribers that November. Full time by May. Almost 300,000 of you now.

Since then I’ve coached hundreds of creatives through pricing, launches, and getting an email list to pay for itself. I’ve already made the expensive mistakes (some cost me tens of thousands), so you can skip them.

The “starving artist” story is a mindset. It’s the guilt you feel when you think about raising your prices, and I’ve spent years on YouTube talking people out of it.

The Creative Accelerator is everything I know, taught live, with a team beside me and a room full of creatives working on the same problems you are.

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— Kelsey

you’re probably wondering…

Questions I get asked a lot.

What time are the calls?

Every call is at 12pm or 4pm PT, alternating so members anywhere can make it live. Lectures are on Tuesdays and hot seats on Fridays, twice a month. Off weeks have co-working Tuesdays, plus guest lectures and book clubs as they come up. Everything is recorded and posted the same day.

How much time will this take?

At least 3 to 4 hours a week. The goal is to replace the YouTube and podcast learning you’re doing now (yes, including my videos) with one clear roadmap.

I’m already overwhelmed. Won’t this be more on my plate?

When I look at what someone’s actually doing, it’s usually way too much: three platforms, in-person events, a shop, a newsletter they feel guilty about. The Accelerator is where you figure out what to stop doing. You’ll probably leave with a shorter to-do list.

Do I need to be a YouTuber?

Nope. I’ve posted on YouTube for over five years and am now consistent on Instagram, Spotify, and email, but our members post on just about every platform out there! Some even sell in person. The reason someone buys is the same everywhere.

I don’t live in the US. Will this work for me?

Yes. We have members in 20+ countries across 4 continents, and the alternating call times exist exactly for you.

How will I access the community?

Everything lives on Circle: the calendar, the library, the courses, and the feedback threads. You’ll get your login as soon as you join.

Does it renew automatically? Can I cancel?

Yes. Your plan renews at the same price (monthly, quarterly or yearly) on the payment method you joined with until you cancel. Cancel anytime from your account, no email needed, and you keep access until the end of the period you’ve paid for.

What’s the refund policy?

Ask within your first 30 days for a full refund. Forgot to cancel before a renewal? Ask within 14 days of the charge and we’ll refund that too (your access ends when we do). Outside those windows, sales are final.

Is Kelsey actually on the calls?

Yes. I teach both lectures and run one of the two hot seats every month. Kaeli (our sales funnel expert) runs the other one. Co-working is member-led, and guest lectures are, well, guests.

Do I have to be on camera?

No. Cameras are optional, and you can ask questions in the chat. Hot seats are volunteer based.

Do I need to be at a certain stage?

Not really, as long as your work is professional and you’re serious about building a business around it. Members range from their first product to multiple six figures, and the lectures work for both.

still here?

Thirty days from now, you’ll be thirty days older either way.

I’d overthink this too. But with a full refund inside 30 days, the only real risk is another month of what you’re doing now.

$197 / month $1,697 / year $547 / quarter

Annual saves $667. Renews automatically until you cancel.

— Kelsey

“Working with Kelsey was like being propelled forward at lightning speed. She makes it easy to see what your next steps are, and she guides you along the way to make sure you’re doing the best you could be. The video she helped me with went viral, so the results speak for themselves.”

REKA HARTE · ARTIST

“Posting on social media feels like you’re shouting into the void, and moments like this feel like a solid win ❤️”

CANDICE MAK · ARTIST & COLOR EDUCATOR

“I feel like I am finally starting to understand how all of this can work”

KATHARINE CANNING · ARTIST

Every single result you saw on this page is, of course, real. But they’re not typical.

I don’t make promises that I can’t keep, and so I can’t tell you that you’ll have the same kind of results they did.

Your results will depend on your work ethic, your offer, your audience, your timing, how much time you invest in your business, whether you take our advice, and a bit of luck.