Career & Business Coaching Blog for Creatives & Entrepreneurs.
Inspiration, guidance, and practical strategies for multi-passionate professionals who refuse to choose just one thing.
Imposter Syndrome for Creative Generalists: Why You Feel Like a Fraud and What to Do About It
It took me years to call myself an entrepreneur, even while I was actively building businesses, because I didn't have an MBA and didn't think I'd earned the word. That's imposter syndrome, and if you're a creative generalist juggling more than one thing at once, it probably has a tighter grip on you than most. Here's why, and what I've learned to do with it instead of waiting for it to go away.
Feeling Lost in Life? Here's Why (And What to Do Next)
Feeling lost in life isn't a sign something's wrong with you, it's often a sign something big is shifting. Here's why it tends to feel the hardest during major transitions, and a real way through it, not around it.
How to Make a Vision Board That Actually Leads to Action (For Multi-Passionate Creatives)
Most vision boards are just pretty collages that get ignored by February. Here's the one thing that separates a vision board that actually leads to action from a board that just sits there looking nice, plus a real, 15-years-running example of one that worked.
How to Find Myself as a Generalist: A Practical Guide to Self-Discovery
Self-discovery isn't a one-time answer you find and keep, especially when you're a generalist or multipotentialite juggling ten interests at once. Here's how to actually find yourself, and a real practice for doing it.
Creative Burnout: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Actually Recover
Creative burnout doesn't always look like exhaustion. Sometimes it looks like dread where there used to be play. Here's what actually causes it for multi-passionate people, how to spot it before it wrecks the thing you love, and how I found my way back to doing my creative work for the pleasure of it again.
How to Overcome Perfectionism (When "Good Enough" Feels Like Failure)
I used to think perfectionism was a character trait, something I just was. It took me years, one very late book launch, and a startup that couldn't afford to wait for "ready" to learn it's actually a habit, and habits can be unlearned. Here's what that actually looked like.
How to Find Your Passion (When You Have Too Many)
Most passion-finding advice assumes you have one passion waiting to be discovered. What if you have twelve? Here's what the research actually says about finding versus developing a passion, and how I've combined mine (all twelve of them) for fifteen years instead of picking one.