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Self Care for Multipotentialites: Advice from the Puttylike Community

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Hey, multipotentialites. How was your November? We are so appreciative of your participation as we look back at our first Puttylike Mental Health Month! We’ve been taking the time to explore all the ways we struggle with mental health, as well as all the ways we nourish ourselves and find ways to thrive. Mental Health […]

November is Mental Health Month at Puttylike!

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

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Hey Puttylike readers! This month, we’re going to be talking all about mental health. And we want you to be part of the conversation. I don’t have to explain to any of you that our modern world is complex, fast-paced, and stressful. Add any kind of mental illness on top of that, at any level, […]

“There is peace and purpose in finishing things”

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

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Charlie Gilkey recently finished a book on finishing things. Start Finishing is a blueprint for tackling the many half-formed projects we all have gnawing at us in the background. I met Gilkey at our multipotentialite meeting of the minds, Everything Conference in Portland, where he told me his mission is to help people thrive by finishing […]

Multipotentialites vs The Climate Crisis

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

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Hey multipotentialites, Don’t know about you all, but I think about climate change a lot. Sometimes I lie awake at night, trying to imagine the black box of the future that’s coming. Over the past decade, multipotentiality has been a really useful lens for me to look at the world, and understand how to be authentically […]

Here’s What Happens When 100 Multipotentialites Get Together for 4 Days

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

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Maybe you already heard: this past week, we had an incredible “Multipotentialite Meeting of the Minds” in Portland, Oregon. One hundred people from several continents made their way to a beautiful local community center called Taborspace, where we hosted our first-ever Everything Conference (also known as ETC). It was a brand-new, participant-driven event; it was bold and […]

The Reluctant Multipotentialite: What to Do When You Feel Like a Master of None

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

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“Life is barely long enough to get good at one thing. Be careful what you get good at.” Thanks, Matthew McConaughey. I was happily enjoying my Sunday night, watching an episode of True Detective with a glass of cabernet, when McConaughey’s character drops this line. And it hits a little too close to home. This […]

How to Start Your Own Multipotentialite Mastermind Group

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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“Hey, what do you think of this email?” I ask someone in a Slack chat. I copy and paste the reply I want to send to a potential new client. Is it too pushy or not pushy enough, I wonder, and is the rate reasonable? Within seconds, I get feedback from three other creative professionals […]

Why You Need a Multipotentialite Mentor

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

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My students love Emilie Wapnick. When I ask them to choose their own reading for the career prep course I teach, Emilie’s book How to Be Everything comes out on top every year. You may remember my last post, where I introduced some data about personalities and strengths from 74 of my students who identified […]