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Brand identity, content, websites, ideas, offers and practical tools for bringing your work into the world
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YOUR PLATFORMS
Think of Online Media
less like a stage you have
to perform on, and more
like the Yellow Pages.
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A reflection practice for the moments from your day you wish had gone differently. Instead of replaying the regret, you rewrite how you wish you had responded and mentally rehearse that response, so the pattern doesn’t have to follow you into tomorrow.
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A practical exercise for when the gap between what you want and what you currently believe feels too big to leap. Instead of forcing yourself into a belief you don’t actually buy, you build a more believable bridge between the fear, the “fake news” your brain is feeding you, and the possibility you’re trying to move toward.
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A daily ritual to help you build and solidify the habits that support a sustainable creative life. It’s about tending to the small things consistently, so your creativity has something steady to stand on.
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Come Back to Yourself
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Creative Sparks.
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A growing collection of places to find imagery, references, music, ideas and creative fuel. Explore photography libraries, stock resources, visual search tools and inspiration platforms so you don’t have to go hunting for them.
Start With Yourself
- Emma Grende
creative sparks
The Month at a Glance
PEXELS
free stock images
substack
… here is where you start
& more
platforms
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Your energetic forecast, major transits, eclipses and what to pay attention to this month.
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It’s a directory. A place people can find you, understand what you do and see what you care about.
Sometimes making social media so personal is exactly what blocks us from showing up. Every post starts to feel like a statement about who we are, whether people like us, whether we’re interesting enough, whether it performs. So practise making it less personal. You’re not asking the internet to validate you. You’re simply allowing yourself to be discoverable.
And that does not mean forcing yourself to show up in ways that don’t feel like you. Show up how and where it feels TRUE to you. If you love writing, write. If you love video, make video. If you want to share your work without sharing your entire life, do that. You do not have to turn yourself into content to be visible.
And please, there is NO SUCH THING AS NICHING DOWN!!! You are allowed to be a whole person. You are allowed to have multiple interests, ideas, skills and things you want to talk about. The goal isn’t to make yourself smaller so you’re easier to understand. The goal is to make it easier for the right people to find you.
Your questions are ready.
Copy your questions, then paste them into your Notes app or journal so you can sit with them properly.
The Mountain is You
- Brianna Wiest
The Creative Act
- Rick Rubin
Social Media Pillars
01/ tool for your content
Build a Landing Page
Emotional support, reflection, self-sabotage and the internal work behind what you're building.
02/ tool for your website
ACELAB QUICK EXERCISES
build a bridge
daily dough
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Books to Read.
A growing shelf of books worth spending time with. Ideas, perspectives and stories to spark something, stretch your thinking or simply give you somewhere new to wander.
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real people, no AI
SOUNDCLOUD
for mixes & inspiration
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CREATIVE MARKET
paid & free
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The Having
- Suh Yoon Lee
CANVA
free templates
The 5 Advisors Prompt.
This prompt asks the AI to pressure test your idea from five firm viewpoints (like a skeptic and an executor) before giving a final, realistic verdict.
Think of it like Shark Tank. it transforms a vague concept into a battle-tested strategy You’re bringing your idea to be absolutely stress tested. The potential is unlocking exactly what you need to focus on next, or a total pivot.
Use only when you are ready for unvarnished truth.
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The "5 Advisors" prompt (often called an AI Council) is a prompt strategy that stops an AI from acting like an agreeable "yes-man". Instead of giving one averaged, polite response, it forces the AI to debate an idea from five distinct viewpoints and synthesize a final verdict.
The 5 Advisor Roles
The Contrarian: Pressure-tests the idea and names everything that could fail.
The First Principles Thinker: Strips the problem to its core to check if you are solving the right issue.
The Expansionist: Hunts for hidden upsides and bigger opportunities.
The Outsider: Brings a completely different industry perspective or unbiased worldview.
The Executor: Ignores high-level theory and outlines what to do next
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You are now an executive board composed of 5 distinct, highly critical expert advisors. Your goal is to thoroughly analyze, pressure-test, and refine my idea. Do not be polite or agreeable; be ruthlessly honest. Introduce each advisor briefly, then have them debate my problem sequentially. Finally, act as the Chairman to deliver a definitive verdict. Here are the 5 Advisors: 1. The Contrarian: Looks for hidden flaws, worst-case scenarios, and reasons why this will fail. 2. The First Principles Thinker: Strips away assumptions, dissects the core problem, and questions if the premise is even right. 3. The Expansionist: Looks for scalable growth, hidden monetization angles, and how to make the idea 10x bigger. 4. The Outsider: Applies a completely different industry lens (e.g., tech, psychology, biology) to inject unconventional perspective. 5. The Executor: Ignores high-level theory and focuses strictly on operational complexity, timelines, and immediate friction. Structure your response like this: - Advisor Debate: A structured, conversational argument between the advisors where they challenge each other's viewpoints. - Chairman's Verdict: A synthesis of the debate, highlighting the single biggest risk and a concrete 3-step action plan. Here is my idea/dilemma: [INSERT YOUR PROBLEM, BUSINESS IDEA, OR DILEMMA HERE]
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