Meet Calais Michelle
My Artistic Journey
Publisher | Certified Creative Art Therapist | Multidisciplinary Curator
Calais Michelle is the Founder of Out ofthe Mud Publishing Co., a creative platform dedicated to narrative, color, emotion, and human-centered storytelling. As a publisher and creative director, she develops books and experiential works that bridge fine art, therapeutic practice, and thoughtful living.
A Certified Creative Art Therapist, Calais integrates emotional intelligence and artistic expression into everything she creates. Her work is rooted in the belief that art is not separate from daily life it shapes how we process, gather, heal, and grow. Through publishing and guided creative experiences, she curates tools that invite reflection, connection, and personal transformation.
As a multidisciplinary curator, Calais approaches both interiors and exterior environments as living canvases. Whether shaping a creative concept, designing immersive experiences, or developing narrative-driven projects, she blends aesthetics with structure balancing artistic vision with strategic execution.
Her background includes social impact work and entrepreneurial development, which informs her thoughtful leadership and systems-based thinking. Today, her primary focus is expanding Out ofthe Mud Publishing Co. and offering speaking engagements that directly support individuals, families, and communities. Through books, curated spaces, and digital media, Calais creates platforms that connect people to story, to space, and to themselves.
Follow her creative reflections and conversations on her upcoming podcast YouTube:@WhenLifeIsLifin
Proverbs 24:3–4 (Builder + curator energy).
"By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.”
The Curated Engagements - Talk, Connect, Create Impact
More Than Conversations. It's a Whole Vibe!
Calais is available for keynotes, workshops, panels, fireside conversations, podcasts, and media appearances. Each experience is thoughtfully tailored to the audience, event theme, and desired outcome. So give your audience something to talk about
Complimentary Speaking Engagements Available
Give Your Audience the Gift of Inspiration
Invite Calais Michelle as a keynote speaker or panel guest. Through honest storytelling, practical encouragement, faith, & humor we embrace new beginnings, & move forward with hope. Opportunities are are subject to availability and alignment
Speaking Engagements | "When Life is Lifein'"
I Can See its Gonna Be a Rope, Duct Tape, Shovel Kinda Day
Navigating unexpected setbacks without losing your faith, identity, humor or hope. "Sometimes it feels like no one is there for you…
and then you realize you walked out
and forgot to bring yourself." CM
How to Get Off the Struggle Bus?
Somewhere between Mindfulness Mindlessness and Mindset- Recognizing when your emotionally stuck and how to take practical steps towards change - even when you dont feel ready.
"This isn’t about laziness or weakness. It’s not about not trying hard enough. It’s about the human experience when things stop making sense and start feeling like survival." CM
In The Beginning
The First Five: Genesis, Exodus,Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Let's take a fresh, relevant journey through the first five books of the Bible and connect ancient wisdom to the relationships, choices, struggles, faith, with the everyday life we’re living now.
8 hours 2 artist 75 humans
Wisdom, Consciousness, Character, The whole you & Human Sunshine. "Perhaps this is also why some of the smallest human gestures remain with us for so long. A smile is physically fleeting. It appears and disappears within seconds. Yet the experience that produced it can remain for years. Someone gave us something without realizing they had given anything at all." CM
Welcome to the Emotion Flight
Welcome to the Emotion Flight
"Once you awaken, something surprising happens. You realize you don’t just feel one thing. You feel many things. Sometimes all at once.
Joy sitting next to worry.
Hope leaning against grief.
Confusion whispering while confidence tries to speak.
For most of our lives we’re taught to either ignore emotions or fix them. But before you can understand a feeling…you have to recognize it. So in this cycle we slow down. We sit at the table of the human experience and sample what lives inside us.
A chance to notice the flavor before deciding what it means." CM
Based on Calais Michelle’s book Emotions in Color, this creative art- literary cadence is arranged to explore feelings, discover emotions with regulation, and self-expression through visual art, practices, mindful guided color theory, short stories, essays, spoken word and real life.
the Podcast
Welcome to the Emotion Flight
Our Podcast features honest, engaging conversations with inspiring people from diverse backgrounds. we what to know more from our entrepreneurs, creatives professionals community leaders innovators and just everyday unremarkable humans who have remarkable stories, valuable insights or meaningful experiences to share. Get on the interview now list its open season
Upcoming Releases 09.01.26 - 10.24.26
The Podcast - youtube@WhenLifeisLifin
The Free App -
Out ofthe Mud
"The 28 Day Reset"
This is not twenty-eight days of looking inspired. It is twenty-eight days of practicing awareness.
