About Rachel

Rachel Thompson is a facilitator, editor, business strategist, and an educator. As the founder of Daring Studios, she creates interactive, supportive, and meaningful experiences for solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and creatives.
Self-employed since 2016, Rachel loves working both IN the business and ON the business and strives to help others build sustainable, supportive, and strategic businesses through workshops, programs, retreats, and coaching.Rachel has over fifteen years of professional experience as a facilitator and business consultant including strategic facilitation, virtual meeting design and facilitation, meeting design and production, workshop facilitation, conference, summit and retreat design and facilitation, human-centered design and design thinking workshops, storytelling, experiential learning and teaching, business coaching, visual template design, worksheet design, website design, copywriting, marketing, branding and podcast production.Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and French from Kansas State University and is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). Rachel is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), International Association of Facilitators (IAF), and International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP).She has taught as a Design Thinking Facilitator at the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland and as an Adjunct Instructor for the Design Leadership MA/MBA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).Her work has been shaped by extensive learning, courses, and workshops from Brené Brown, Seth Godin, Tiffany Yates Martin, Tara McMullin, Brian Tarallo, Nic Antoinette, Jason and Caroline Zook, Amelia Hruby, Marie Forleo, Priya Parker, Brandy Agerbeck, the Grove, Co-Active Coaching, Ten Directions, and more.Rachel has been a co-organizer of the NOVA Scribes Meetup, the DC Graphic Facilitation Meetup, and the Design Thinking: DC Meetup where she has produced 100+ workshops, summits, and conferences around topics including facilitation, graphic recording, sketchnoting, human-centered design, design thinking, group dynamics, and team-building including the 2025 Ampersand Gathering, the 2021 IFVP East Coast Gathering, two Summer of Design Series, and two DC Service Jams.
She hosted and produced the Note of Daring Podcast.Rachel is an avid reader, recent runner, and enjoys boardgames, sand volleyball, and traveling the world. She is based in Cary, North Carolina with her dog, Devin.

Podcast Guesting

Getting on podcasts is a big priority of mine for the coming year!My mission is to help people move in the direction they actually want to go—whether that’s building a business, writing a book, or creating meaningful work structures that last.My goal is to appear on podcasts speaking to solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, freelancers, side-hustlers, creatives, facilitators, consultants and humans adulting in the world.Let's collaborate on an podcast episode your audience will love.

Topics I'd love to chat about on your podcast:

  • Building a Business as a Solopreneur & Freelancers

  • Crafting Structures to Support Freedom in Work & Life

  • Gatherings & Retreats

  • Relationship Building, Networking, and Cultivating Community

  • Designing Meaningful Experiences, Interactive Workshops & Powerful Retreats

  • Deliberate Adventures, Explorations & Creative Projects

  • Storytelling for Impact

  • Writing & Editing Fiction Stories

  • Money, Cash Flow, and Mindset

  • Facilitation Skills

  • Visual Thinking

  • Human-Centered Design

  • and more...

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Mini-Websites & Copywriting Services

Have you been delaying updating or even launching your website?Do you only need a few simple yet beautiful pages to build your digital home?Are you overwhelmed with what to put ON your web pages and how to write about yourself, your work, and your offerings?Let me build you a simple mini-site!I'll take your vision, content, brand, and website functionality needs and build a 2-3 page simple website including copy, simple graphics, and specific guidance on actions steps to launch it.Starting at $450