Presenting Coffee Talk: a weekly roundtable led by the city's best doers curated by Presence Agency.

Every Wednesday at 2pm we'll be sipping Stumptown coffee in the lobby while we chat with some of our favorite people in town about what they're doing.

Our next installment features Julie Schumacher of Well Turned Words, a wordsmithing studio, and Forth, an organization committed to creating events to celebrate community and connect people. She'll be with us discussing how to build out your work to fit your lifestyle.

Julie runs a words & ideas studio - Well Turned Words. She partners with design studios as well as directly with businesses and organizations to project voice and story with meaning, context and intention. She's also co-founder of Forth Chicago, a community of creative women entrepreneurs. She and her husband have structured their work and family life to encourage an in-depth exploration of all the world has to offer. Both independent creatives, they take extended working sabbaticals with their young daughter. They've lived & worked in Reykjavik, rural France, San Francisco, southern New Zealand, Washington, D.C., Vienna and soon Cape Town.