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Experience

Some things only happen when people show up.

A book can start a thought. A photograph can hold a moment. A song can reach somebody alone in a room.

But there are things that only happen when people are actually together.

Speaking engagements. Podcasts. Interviews. Live music. Workshops. Panels. Universities. Creative conversations. Photography experiences. Strange ideas that don't have a clean category yet.

Right now Open to
interesting
invitations.
Bring me the idea

The right room matters more than the size of the room.

I'm open to conversations around speaking, interviews, podcasts, press, live music, workshops, panels, creative education, photography and unusual collaborations.

I'm especially interested in things built around creativity, reinvention, storytelling, photography, music, entrepreneurship, starting over, identity, resilience and what we make from the lives we're actually given.

If you have a room, an audience, a microphone, a stage, a classroom, a camera or simply an idea that sounds interesting, tell me what you're trying to make happen.

Tell me what you're creating, who it's for, where it happens, and why you think I belong in the room. We can figure out the exact format from there.
What this can become

Different rooms. Same curiosity.

I don't need every opportunity to fit inside a neat professional category.

The useful question is: what would make this interesting for the people who are actually there?

Speak

Speaking Engagements

Keynotes, talks, universities, conferences, creative organizations and rooms built around ideas worth exploring. Creativity, reinvention, storytelling, photography, making things and learning how to begin again.

Talk

Podcasts + Conversations

Long-form conversations are where things get interesting. Creativity, business, music, photography, relationships, travel, failure, identity and the parts of life that don't fit into a thirty-second clip.

Interview

Press + Media

Interviews, features, radio, television, print, online media and conversations around The In-Between, the return to music after twenty-one years, photography, creativity and reinvention.

Listen

Live Music

Intimate performances, acoustic sets, songwriter-style rooms, creative events and places where the songs can exist in front of real people instead of only through speakers and screens.

Make

Workshops

Photography, creativity, storytelling, creative thinking, entrepreneurship and hands-on sessions built around actually making something instead of sitting through another lecture.

Discuss

Panels + Roundtables

Put interesting people in a room, ask better questions and let the conversation go somewhere nobody could completely predict beforehand.

See

Photography Experiences

Photo walks, portrait experiences, visual storytelling, creative observation and situations where a camera becomes a reason to pay closer attention to people, place and time.

Experiment

Something We Haven't Named Yet

A film. A conversation. A pop-up. A strange collaboration. Music plus photography. Stories plus food. Creativity plus community. If the idea has energy, I'm interested in hearing it.

Press + Podcasts

There are plenty of stories to talk about.

More than three decades as a photographer. New York. Travel. Teaching. Entrepreneurship. Colombia. Starting over in Michigan. Returning to music after twenty-one years. Teaching myself how to record and produce an album. Writing about creativity, identity and reinvention.

I don't need the conversation to stay safely inside one category.

The interesting part is usually where the categories start colliding.

Creativity Reinvention Photography Music The In-Between Storytelling Entrepreneurship Starting Over Teaching Travel Identity Making Things
Live Music

These songs were made to leave the studio eventually.

The In-Between releases October 17, 2026, but the record isn't supposed to end as a collection of files sitting on streaming platforms.

I'm interested in opportunities to perform the music live — especially intimate rooms, acoustic performances, songwriter-style events, art spaces, creative gatherings and situations where the stories behind the songs matter as much as the songs themselves.

Sometimes a song sounds different when the person who wrote it is standing ten feet away telling you why it exists.

Why bother?

Because a screen can't do everything.

The internet is useful. It's how a lot of this work finds people in the first place.

But there are conversations you only have because you sat at the same table. Questions people only ask because they were actually in the room. Songs that feel different live. Photographs that only happen because everybody walked somewhere together.

I want to create reasons for people to participate in their own lives, not just watch somebody else's.

Come along

Find out when the next thing becomes real.

Drop your first name and email. I'll send you what I'm making, what I'm exploring, and the next reason to show up when there is something worth sharing.

No need to follow every corner of the work. Just follow whatever pulls at you.

Come along.

First name. Email. That's enough.

Keep going

Pick another door.

Experience is one piece of the creative world.

Follow whatever pulls at you next.

Have a room? Give me a reason to enter it.

Speaking. Music. Podcasts. Interviews. Workshops. Photography. Panels. Conversations. Something neither of us has named yet.

Tell me what you're trying to make happen.

Charlie Naebeck · Current Version: September 2026 · Made in Michigan · Subject to change without notice.