Hi! We’re Jan and Erin Johnson – a mother and daughter creative team. We help enterprising women turn their great ideas and businesses into trailblazing ventures.
Your Business Outpost specializing in Custom Websites, Graphic Design + Print, and Content Development.

ARE YOU READY TO BLAZE A NEW TRAIL WITH YOUR BUSINESS?

… AND YOUR LIFE!

It takes a clear vision, grit and plenty of sustained action to venture into new territory. We live in a time where women have more opportunities than ever to become Trailblazersenterprising women who leave their mark in the world with distinct offerings that reflect their unique talents, knowledge and experience through businesses that provide real and lasting value.
Through our process and with our guidance and expertise we help you gain the clarity, confidence and ‘know-how’ to take the actions needed to expand or bring your business to life.
ONLINE COURSE
I need help defining a great idea that I can develop into my own business
BOUTIQUE STYLE SERVICES
I need a custom website, brand and content to bring my business to life
CREATIVE TOOL
I need an innovation tool to evolve my ideas, my business, my life

CULTIVATE YOUR TRAILBLAZING SKILLS 

To be a Trailblazer is to pioneer a path to your dreams. It will require you to keep your eyes on the horizon and your feet on the ground. Trailblazing women have a deeply rooted drive to accomplish something – to make, discover, or do something that is outside their current experience – to do what hasn’t been done before. Because of this, a trailblazer lives a life of continual self-discovery and she shares common traits and values with other trailblazing women. We’ve got the tools and strategies to help you own yourself as a trailblazer – an enterprising and purposeful woman with a vision and the skills to navigate your way.
Here are three powerful ways you can cultivate your trailblazing skills
FREE E-BOOK
The Field Guide for Trailblazing Women contains the six core attributes and actions every Trailblazing woman needs to blaze new trails. It’s your time… be gutsy – be GREAT!
FREE CLASS
Your Trailblazer Traits are your internal guidance system – the compass that will point you in the right direction for you. This fun, interactive mini class is totally free!
BLOG
Whether it’s about inward or outward exploration, it’s about finding your way. Field Notes for Trailblazers explores the personal side of business for enterprising women.

JAN & ERIN 

We are living our dream life just outside of Calgary, Alberta where we are grateful to look out on an expansive prairie view everyday! Together we share a hobby farm that houses us, Erin’s partner Jean, and Luca – Erin and Jean’s sweet little boy. Our active household is filled with a large fur family of 3 cats and 2 dogs… and our yard is home to over 25 laying hens, several ducks and the wild creatures, big and small.
Because we work from our home base, we have created a beautiful studio workspace that is spacious and inviting. It’s here that we host a unique array of gatherings for women, create our own personal projects, and do our daily collaborative client work. Often you’ll find us quietly chatting as we walk the fields with Luca and our dogs Ellie and Haddie, discussing our latest ideas, client needs, or simply slowing things down to feel grounded. For us – this is what it means to Live Prairie.
Read more about Jan & Erin here.

GET BACK TO YOUR TRUE NATURE 

Get inspired by a way of living and a way of thinking that connects you to your values and your creativity in an uplifting, wholesome way.
All our lives we’ve been influenced by the legacy of early prairie women… creative, resilient, hard-working women – Trailblazers whose lives were simple and wholesome as they pioneered a path to their dreams. Their courage and way of life was a necessity. For us today, it is a choice.
To live prairie is to explore and create, and to do it with heart-centered passion.
It’s about planting the seeds of your dreams and ideas and nurturing and growing them into existence. It’s letting yourself be inspired by a simpler way of living that was reminiscent of days gone by. Of women gathering for ordinary and special occasions. Of wholesome pursuits. Of standing in a prairie field – seeing the land stretch forever in front of you. And putting in the work to achieve your dreams.
These are the values and the foundation that embody what Prairie Girl Outpost stands for. This is how we let prairie culture shape our lives and our business, and we invite you to share in it and claim something prairie for yourself wherever you may live.

THE CREATIVE STUDIO

When we aren’t working with our clients building their stand out brands you will find us creating! There are always projects on the go here at the Outpost. It’s how we keep our creative juices flowing and stay fulfilled and present. From handmade bunting, to distressed leather wares, to photoshoots with our easter coloured eggs – this is our dream of creative expression! It grounds us and connects us with our prairie life and landscape. We know just how important it is to make and create with our own two hands, to gather, and to be inspired. Join us – you’re sure to feel the same!
PRAIRIE GIRL GATHERINGS
Be it a creative, hands on project, or collaborative get-together – our prairie girl gatherings feel just like sitting around the kitchen table with your girlfriends.
ONLINE CLASSES
Ever wanted to learn how to distress leather? Or make a vintage canvas tag? Jan & Erin can show you! Choose from a variety of hands-on projects and create in the comfort of your own home.
LIVE PRAIRIE BLOG
We explore our day to day at the Outpost, sharing our adventures, favourite projects, creativity, inspiration and personal musings about what it means to ‘live prairie’.
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