The List. More joy in real life.
What is The List?
The List helps modern families find trusted recommendations faster — and helps creative businesses get discovered, supported, and grow.
Part curated marketplace, part creative support system, The List brings together thoughtful local discovery, practical guidance, and the creative perspective of The Play Shop.
For families, it means less searching, more trusted direction, and a better place to begin — with celebration inspiration, creative ideas, trusted businesses, and thoughtful details that help special moments come together.
For creative businesses, it means more than a listing. The List offers visibility, guidance, and programming designed to help small businesses refine their presence, connect with the right audience, and grow with more clarity.
At the center of the membership is The Play Shop Edit — an AI-powered creative assistant shaped by years of experience in hosting, branding, entrepreneurship, creative direction, and thoughtful living.
Whether you are planning a celebration, finding the right creative business, or shaping an idea into something real, The List gives you a better place to begin.
A marketplace for modern family life.
A growth engine for small business.
A trusted guide for the ideas, people, and moments worth finding.
What You Will Find Inside
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The heart of The List.
An AI-powered creative assistant informed by years of experience in hosting, branding, entrepreneurship, creative direction, and thoughtful living.
Whether you're planning a birthday party, baby shower, or dinner party, refining a brand, launching a business, or simply looking for a trusted perspective, The Play Shop Edit helps you navigate the decisions, details, and possibilities along the way.
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A monthly digital magazine exploring how thoughtful women build businesses, host gatherings, nurture relationships, create meaningful work, and bring good ideas to life.
Part inspiration, part practical wisdom, and part invitation to think a little differently about the way we live, work, gather, and grow.
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A thoughtfully edited weekly note shaped by the ideas, recommendations, questions, and discoveries shared within The List community.
Throughout the week, members are invited to contribute questions they're working through, resources they've found helpful, opportunities worth sharing, lessons learned along the way, and wins worth celebrating.
We gather these contributions into a single weekly note designed to surface useful ideas, fresh perspective, and recommendations you might not have found on your own.
Thoughtfully edited, intentionally paced, and designed to add value—not more noise—to an already full life.
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A monthly live conversation with a founder, creative, entrepreneur, or thought leader whose work and perspective we admire.
Hosted virtually during the lunch hour, each Salon is designed to fit into real life—offering thoughtful conversation, practical wisdom, and fresh perspective without requiring an evening commitment.
Every Salon is recorded and added to the member library, so if work, family, travel, or life gets in the way, you can listen whenever it works for you.
Think of it as an hour spent learning from someone interesting, without needing to leave your desk.
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Beginning in Q4 2026, members will be invited to join us for thoughtfully hosted in-person gatherings.
Designed to foster meaningful connection, inspiring conversation, and a sense of community, these gatherings offer an opportunity to spend time with thoughtful women navigating many of the same questions, ambitions, and experiences.
Locations and formats will evolve alongside the community, with the goal of creating opportunities for connection wherever members may be.
Join The List
The List helps families find trusted recommendations faster — and helps creative businesses get discovered, supported, and grow. A marketplace for modern family life. A growth engine for small business. Membership includes curated recommendations, practical planning tools, editorial content, business-building programming, community gatherings, and The Play Shop Edit, our custom AI-powered creative assistant.
Join The List for $195/year and access planning tools, editorial content, community programming, curated marketplace access, and The Play Shop Edit, our custom AI-powered creative assistant. Plan with more confidence. Discover trusted people and places. Support for creative businesses through programming designed to help them grow. A marketplace for modern family life. A growth engine for small business.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Play Shop Edit is our own GPT—an AI-powered creative assistant built around The Play Shop's perspective on hosting, branding, entrepreneurship, creative direction, and thoughtful living.
We have poured years of our experience, ideas, lessons learned, and creative thinking into informing our GPT to help you navigate the projects, celebrations, businesses, and everyday decisions that shape modern life.
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Yes. Membership includes unlimited access to The Play Shop Edit as part of your subscription.
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Yes. Every Salon is recorded and added to the member library, so if work, family, travel, or life gets in the way, you can watch or listen whenever it works for you.
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Not at all. The List was designed to fit into real life.
Whether you engage weekly, monthly, or simply return when you need guidance, inspiration, or support, the membership is designed to meet you where you are.
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Yes. Membership can be canceled at any time.