Mentorship for Women Ready to Choose Themselves
You’ve done what was expected of you.
You worked hard.
You earned the degrees.
You built the career.
You showed up for your family, your students, your colleagues, and your community.
Now you are thinking more intentionally about what comes next.
What do I want to build at this stage of my life?
How do I shape work that reflects who I am today?
How do I bring my ideas forward with clarity and confidence?
I work with experienced women who want to refine their direction, strengthen their visibility, and build meaningful creative and professional projects.
When we work together, we focus on structure and forward movement. I help you simplify what feels complex, identify practical next steps, and create momentum you can sustain.
You already have insight and experience. My role is to help you organize it, focus it, and translate it into action.
Start Inside the Lightmakers Collective
The Lightmakers Collective is a creative sanctuary for purpose-driven artists, educators, and thoughtful entrepreneurs who want their work to matter. It is a space where inspiration meets practical action, and where alignment between who you are and how you share your work is taken seriously. Inside the Collective, we combine reflection, structure, and momentum so your ideas do not stay ideas. They move forward.
• Creative studio sessions to show up and make progress
• Workshops on personal branding, visibility, and sustainable growth
• Courses guided by the Growth Garden framework
• Thoughtful discussion and community support
• You can begin at the free level and explore Premium or VIP options when you’re ready.
Start inside the community. Grow from there.
For Artists Ready to Grow Professionally
Mastrius Small Group Mentorship
I mentor inside Mastrius, an international platform for emerging artists who are ready to move their work forward with structure, strategy, and accountability.
We work in a focused small cohort committed to strengthening visibility, refining professional presence, and building sustainable income streams.
Inside our live monthly sessions, we work on:
• Growing your audience through aligned social media and email strategy
• Building a professional artist website and shop
• Expanding income from originals, prints, digital products, and new offerings
• Using current tools, including AI and simple Meta ads, in ethical and practical ways
• Turning quiet seasons into strategic growth periods
Mastrius membership is $90/month.
Since 2000, I have helped artists, educators, and creative professionals across four continents build clarity, confidence, and sustainable creative practices.
My mentorship combines practical strategy, global teaching experience, and real-world creative business insight.
Areas we might focus on include:
- Personal branding, online presence, and social media marketing
- Teaching and mentorship skills (online and offline)
- Expanding or creating a fulfilling and sustainable art practice
- Art business principles and marketing
- Living & working abroad. I especially adore “trailblazing” accoompanying spouses and 3rd culture kids
- Help with specific art, design, or communication projects
- Feedback on your art practice and improving studio time managment
- Reclaiming your art/life/career mojo after becoming a parent or returning to the workforce after a long pause
- Turning your art hobby into an actual job, career, or business
- And many other possible areas (*Just ask, and we will customize a program and schedule for you!)
What Can I Help You With?
Learn More about a One-on-One Mentorship: Please get in touch with me via the contact form or kristen (at) kpalana.com for rates and availability.
She really reaches out to her students and cares about them. For me personally, she really helped me learn my beginnings of graphic design. Before I came to her, I knew nothing. Same goes for Web Design.
I now, still use my notes from her web design class at my current job. She has made learning fun and kept me eager to learn more. All in all, if you ask any person who has worked with Kristen you will only hear how fabulous she is.
Kristen was a great professor. She was always willing to help students with projects and answer their questions. She is very creative and puts her ideas into action, whether it be for personal projects or creating awareness for unfortunate people in the world.
She was never demeaning, as some professors can be, yet provided constructive criticism and interesting ideas.
Kristen Palana was our trainer and mentor during and after the UNPFA Digital Media Training. She equipped us with skills that are relevant in the world today, skills that will evolve and adapt even as the world changes.
I loved her practical and hands on approach to training and how she molds her overall teaching skills to the environment. She is very relatable and her personal experiences helped us learn quickly. She is always available to assist our professional lives and always encourages us to grow professionally by sharing opportunities that fit our skill set.
We’ve been incredibly lucky to have Kristen shape our Digital Design program. She’s not only instilled an enduring love for the field in her students, she also guided them to positively challenge themselves and become self-disciplined creative risk takers. This is in part due to her extensive experience and knowledge in the field, but also because her clear passion for what she does shines through.
She’s the consummate team player; kind, humorous, supportive, patient and a warm demeanor who guides and supports others while challenging them to achieve their personal best.
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I help empower idealists through art, education, and coaching. If you're interested in working together, send me a message!