Join the Productive Flourishing Academy to start building YOUR best self today
If you’re like most of us, you have big dreams for how you want your business, career, and life to be. And yet, you may be struggling with how to make those dreams a reality.
Do any of these sound familiar? Maybe you struggle to...
• figure out and take the best steps in my career/business and personal life.
• confidently know what priorities to focus on in any given day or week or month.
• balance my time, energy, and attention on the things that will help drive my career or business forward, plus reserving time for myself and my family.
• overcome impostor syndrome: what do I have to say/give/make that really matters, to myself and to others?
• set proper boundaries, and so I find myself in situations that don’t serve me or help drive my important projects forward.
• set realistic expectations for what I can accomplish each day or week or month.
Most of us have experienced personal and professional challenges at one time or another in our lives.
Most of us have experienced some or all of these challenges at one time or another in our lives.
And through those challenges, we’ve come to know — or at least suspect — that success in business and in life comes from the alignment of three things: knowledge, action, and being. These are the cornerstones of success in our work and life (whatever that looks like for each of us), and the foundation for building that strong tower of best work.
Knowledge
We know our stuff. We’ve taken the courses, we’ve read the books, we’ve watched the lectures.
Action
We’ve taken action on what we’ve learned, putting that hard-won knowledge into practice.
(Sometimes effectively, sometimes not so much.)
But even with those pieces in place, what we long for — the success we envision, the deep and fulfilling work, the rich and flourishing life — still eludes us. When things aren’t quite working, the first place we need to look is inside ourselves.
Being
Without the awareness and willingness to unlock our being, to forge our best and most powerful selves,
our foundation can’t hold the weight of our towering dreams.
So how do we combine these three pillars into that strong foundation? The answer is:
The Productive Flourishing Academy
We created the Productive Flourishing Academy for you
“The Academy is the virtual version of the ‘creative village’ I was dreaming about a decade ago.” – Charlie Gilkey
We created the Productive Flourishing Academy as a community of practice for people who want to consciously learn, create, grow, be, and share together.
The Academy provides you the actionable tools and skills, dedicated support and accountability groups, and the encouragement to overcome the specific barriers that are holding you back from creating the work and life that aligns with that best version of yourself that’s hidden within you.
Led by Productive Flourishing founders Charlie Gilkey and Angela Wheeler, the Academy is your place to learn and practice the foundational skills, habits, and mindsets to help you be your best self. Everything in the Academy has been created to support you at your productive, flourishing best, so you can create your best work and share it with the world.
(You’ll join our free PF community on Mighty Networks,
and then complete your Academy transaction.)
The Academy includes the best of teaching, accountability, and self-work
“The Academy is the Heart and the Smart of Productive Flourishing, together!” – Angela Wheeler
Gather monthly with us and each other for:
Monthly Masterclasses led by Charlie, Angela, or special guest instructors, focused on actionable plans related to business, personal development, creative pursuits, relationships, and more.
Monthly Live Office Hours where you can bring your questions or challenges — personal and professional — and get the extra insight and support to move past the obstacles standing in your way. (With additional co-working if you need that instead!)
Regular Co-working Sessions where you can join your fellow Creative Giants, either in a long session of focused effort, deep work, and flow on the project that matters most to you, or to crank through your task list Pomodoro-style.
In addition, the Academy will include a rotation of quarterly special gatherings, such as:
Quarterly Show and Tell is an opportunity for members to show what they are working on, and get actionable feedback for improvement from the Academy guides and members.
Periodic Community Gatherings to more deeply connect you to the other members of the community. You’ll share your journey, your struggles, your celebrations, and support others along their path. Here’s where you’ll make friends, build partnerships and coalitions, and find the accountability and support you need.
Bonuses and Surprises!These are other cool experiences we’ll create for you as we see a need, or that you request, or that we’ll co-create together!
Let's build the Academy together
The sessions above are just some of the options the Academy can offer you. Give us your input on your biggest challenges and needs right now. Then let’s co-create the game-changing offerings that will make the Academy exactly what you need — to build your best self, your best business or career, and your best life.
Wondering if the Academy is right for you?
- You’re ready to balance the three Cs: Consume, Create, Connect. Yes, there will be traditional coursework and learning, but it’ll be balanced with creative action-taking, and connecting with your fellow Creative Giants.
- You’re ready to have a hand and a voice in creating the curriculum that will best serve you, and owning the responsibility for your own growth.
- You’re willing to try new experiences that will push you out of your comfort zone and into the frontier of your own best-self journey.
- You’re ready to commit to something fully, take it seriously, and keep getting up when the going gets tough.
- You’re looking to be spoon-fed “the system” for how to fix your self and career and business.
- You’re looking for the next course you can purchase and then put away, and wonder why, without application and action, it didn’t work.
- You're not willing to dig deep, get your hands dirty, and help others do the same.
- You’re not willing to recognize that the things that are likely stopping you from achieving what you most want to achieve are within you.
FAQ
Still have questions? Here are some answers:
The short answer is YES. We built the Academy for anyone who wants to improve themselves so they can do more of their best work and put it out into the world. If you do your best work as a freelancer, entrepreneur, or business owner, we’ve got you. If you do your best work in your current career, as a professional or leader, we’ve got you. If you do your best work in creative realms, we’ve got you. And if you’re at a transition point in your life, and are figuring out what your next best work is going to be, we’ve got you, too. Come join us and your fellow Creative Giants inside the Academy!
Your membership includes access to the private Academy membership area on Mighty Networks, where all of the Academy Library content will live. Your membership also includes access to all designated Academy live events (Academy masterclasses, office hours, community gatherings, and others), as well as access via the Academy Library to the recordings, presentations, worksheets, and other materials from each included event.
There is no set time commitment for the Academy; it’s up to you to decide what sessions you wish to attend, what resources you wish to explore, how much work you want to put in, and how much you want to engage in the community on Mighty Networks. Like most things, the more time, energy, and attention you put in, the more you’ll get out of the Academy.
You can attend any session you wish, or not (and recordings will be posted, so if you can’t attend because of a conflict, you can watch on your own). Most of the sessions will be 60 – 90 minutes in length, and most months there will be three or four of them (an average of one per week).
Not to worry! All Academy sessions will be recorded, and made available in the Academy Library after the event (usually within 24 hours).
The Academy is a subsection of our larger Productive Flourishing community on the Mighty Network service. Mighty Networks is where many of our courses and other resources live, and it’s a community hub for discussion and interaction about all things Productive Flourishing. Your membership in the Academy automatically gives you membership in the larger community, though some of the courses and other offerings are not included in Academy membership and must be purchased separately.
Charlie and Angela will be leading many of the Academy sessions, so you’ll have opportunities to interact with them on the calls and in the community on Mighty Networks. That said, your Academy membership does not include any 1:1 coaching time with the founders. If you’re interested in that level of support, click here for more information.
If you pay monthly, you can cancel at anytime.
If you pay yearly, you will have received a discount to pay for the year up front. You may cancel and receive a refund at the non-discounted rate.
Grow your best self and best work into your best life.
(You’ll join our free PF community on Mighty Networks,
and then complete your Academy transaction.)
