Win a Free Ticket to Everything Conference 2019!

I know I’m pretty young, but already I’m struggling with who and what I want to be. It’s definitely taken a toll on me. It’s exhausting not knowing what I want to do for the rest of my life. When I heard about this conference I got excited knowing that I could be somewhere and get accepted at any point in my life and meet other fellow Multipotentialites. Knowing that their could be even more knowledge and tools to help me get through this phase and for once set my mind on to one thing and my family could stop worrying about what I’m gonna do with my life.
I know the conference isn’t magically going to fix me, but i know it’s going to guide me to where I need to be as long as I put myself to do it.
To whoever wins, Have fun!
-Yari

I’m a student of Architecture in London graduating this summer and excited to start a career with a lifestyle designed as a multipotentialite! In the first place, several years ago Emilie’s talk helped me with my decision on what to study. My interests ranged from civil engineering to filmmaking and psychology. I chose architecture as this degree offers me a wide range of skills and creative thinking, and opens doors for different career paths, and I’m really glad I did, as it opened up many different sides of my personality! Now I have also seen a different side of the profession, being very demanding of time and energy. And although in itself it can accommodate a ‘group hug’ approach being so related to different disciplines, the general lifestyle of the industry still limits the free time available for my other interests such as music, sports, performance, teaching/social work. I’m at a stage right now which requires me to make important decisions and life choices again, and I want to live a happy multipotentialite life, making the best of me for the society and pursuing all of my interests. Having read Emilie’s ‘How to be Everything’ recently, I would like to first try the Einstein approach, as I feel it would suit me. And I would love to meet likeminded people and listen to their stories and learn from each other, exchanging our experiences. I’m a proactive and outgoing person, and the Everything Conference for me is a very exciting opportunity to progress and give back to the community! Thank you.

Reading ‘How to be Everything,’ calmed me down and helped me feel something close to normal for the first time in my life. My mom once said, “I don’t think you’ve ever finished anything in your life,” and she didn’t mean it as a compliment. It has been several years since reading ‘How to be Everything,’ and attending the Everything Conference will be the jolt I need to do something with my potential, to move forward. I moved to a brand new city six months ago, after landing a very safe job in academia. I play rugby, something I’m completely new to at 30+ years old, and have been searching for a way to engage my hands and heart – through volunteering or art. I always want to be growing and learning, and this conference provides that opportunity.

Steven Wharley calls me a “Self-Help Artist.” I love supporting people in visualizing what hey cannot see. I also love creating beauty for others in so many ways. But I am an outgoing people lover EnFP who MUST have people. — It has been years and years that I have lamented and had some movement but still my wings have not pushed through the crysallis to be strong and fligh with clarity. —- And yet I love all of these options and ways of possbility living. — I have left corporate America in January and now as I do self care the fear is coming in of what is next. Business and false evidence appearing real are threatening.
What I do know is I want and need people to thrive to support. As an ENFP it is required and as I am living on savings at the moment in my planning this gift would make a difference in my life in so many ways. I am in Seattle and hope you will consider my story. Something wonderful is about to happen!

The Everything Conference is exactly what I need right now because I just graduated and I’ve been having a ton of trouble figuring out what my next steps should be. When I first heard about this community in a career counseling webinar at my college I was super intrigued. I decided to look it up and browse around the website and I thought it was so awesome that I’m not the only person who struggles with being good at a lot and craving knowledge and experiences from a lot of different jobs. It has made “picking” one thing hard for me and seeing your TED talk and reading some of these articles really helped me realize that I’m listening too much to what I think I’m “supposed” to be doing and not to what I want to do. Im brand new to the community and am still trying to figure things out, but I think this conference would be a great way to help me get more into the community and discover more about myself! I want to attend so badly!! I would love to spend money to come to a conference like this, but I don’t have it right now so this would be a great way for me to be able to go. Either way, I will see you at one of those conferences in the future, even if it isn’t this one 🙂

Hey Emile,

Thanks for offering this amazing opportunity, I think your work on multipotentialites is groundbreaking; your posts have changed my life and given me permission to celebrate my career diversity and I now have the confidence to bring it all to the table. I live and work in the UK, I run a small not-for-profit co-working and enterprise hub with a focus on supporting people through career transition or returning to work after time out through ill health or caring duties. So many of the entrepreneurs I support are multipotentialites and have developed businesses that combine their diverse skills. I love being able to tell them about PuttyLike and see their eyes light up when explain that there is a now a term to describe their ability to have multiple careers and interests. I will be in Oregon during the conference staying with friends in Eugene; unfortunately I missed your early bird offer and with all the other costs for the trip I wasn’t able to stretch to the full cost of your conference. I would love to attend the Everything Conference to learn more, meet you and fellow multipods and on return spread the word in the UK.

I’m Dean and co-founder of a College that is changing the face of the healthcare industry, and we’re doing it by avoiding siloed thinking and cross-disciplinary insights. I submit my appeal as a Potterdom multipod haiku:

sorting hat, pick me
for gryffinclawslytherpuff –
alohomora!

& then, for variety, as (Monty-esque) python code:
# Puttypeep ticket entry application program in Python
print “If you let me win this ticket\nI promise not to lick it\n…much (I mean I’d be delirious with excitement after all)”

I can also submit a 2 minute animation or an APA-compliant short academic paper or a photo of confectionary-based entry on why you should offer me the free ticket, if you like.

All of my life, I’ve been a reluctant multipotentialite. I learned three instruments, had 14 part-time jobs, and studied a really hard language (Chinese) before I graduated college. When I got to college, I switched course three times, hoping that I’d find the “one true calling,” in architecture, or international business, or figure drawing. Eventually, I stayed true to my path of “global studies,” which allowed me the freedom to be in the space of international studies, jazz history – and anthropology. I’m now not doing anything I thought I’d be doing (though I do frequently draw on the lessons I had in jazz history class:)). I switched careers almost every year in my twenties. I finally found my “tribe” in instructional design – because it is a field that requires the designer to learn about new topics constantly in order to create something, and, to be successful, a designer must be curious about new topics. The field itself is constantly changing. Inspired by the UX design movement, many of us now call ourselves “learning experience designers.” Instructional design is also being influenced, more and more, by design thinking practices. For those with the freedom to spend time in this space, our ideas can be provided through the lens of our learners, making an even more impactful experience. At the same time, I find it frustrating, because the stability I’ve always craved just isn’t available for the contract/consulting work (i.e., the new stuff). I have just made a transition from a full-time, steady job in the same topic area to the murky, less-of-a-sure-thing consulting spanning ALL the topic areas, and I’m so excited I took the leap. At the same time, I crave community and being around others who are curious, open-minded, and welcoming – but the learning experience design space means a lot of time spent alone, creating online experiences and being in front of a screen (in general). So, I naturally want to start a podcast about in-person community! I’d love to feature this conference and my own journey in discovering niche, in-person community spaces on my podcast, and winning this contest would be the fire under me to really get it started. In the months leading up to the conference, I’d feature presenters and attendees. I’d use my curious instructional designer lens to feature the aspects of the conference we’d all learn from, and hopefully, there would be momentum and learning before the conference, so that we could all have deeper experiences during the conference.

Having been sometimes helped – and sometimes hindered – by my management of my multipotentialite skills, I need more than ever to learn to make my skillset to serve humanity, the ones I love, and myself.

At this time, I am going through a transition I would never wish on anyone: my wife has stage 4 cancer, and I am her main caregiver. I need to craft a career or (combination of careers) around her treatment schedule (and the care I have to give her, such as cooking, cleaning, etc.).

Upon my wife’s cancer diagnosis, I immediately saw I needed to show up as the absolute best version of myself. More than ever, I need to find ways to contribute value to the human race (hopefully, in exchange for the funding so we can keep paying for her cancer treatments).

Current finances now make it impossible for me to attend the Everything Conference. However, if something were to change, and I COULD attend, it would give me a major boost forward: I would find clarity around my mission, ultimately being able to help my wife and – once again, to make the contribution to humanity that I so deeply desire to make.

Thank you.

When I first discovered that I was a multipotentialite I felt like for the first time in my life I had permission to be who I am. I wish I would have known about this when I was much younger. It would have saved me a lot of grief. I have gotten myself into so much trouble whenever my mouth tries to keep up with my brain. I never seem to tire of learning and researching. I am so thrilled to have found my tribe. I want to discover what the Everything Conference is all about and hopefully form some lifelong friendships with people who really get me. Thank you Emilie for creating this auspicious event.

I think I will always be working to find a space where I use my “journalism – law – education – graphic design – public administration – art” degrees and skill, but as I begin to manage multipotentialites just like me, I think this is the exact place where I could not only connect, but also share knowledge with like-minded people at the conference and my colleagues at home.

My word for the year is “serendipity.” The conference coming to life near where I live seemed very well timed. 🙂

Being in community with others help me feel like it’s great to be the way i am!!

I never knew the name for what I was until I saw your Tedtalk when I went back to college. I was a multi-potentialite all along, and at this stage in my career I think I am just getting started. I would love to win a ticket to your conference.

I wanna do everything and this is the conference of it

Emilie, your TedTalk made me cry and feel like I wasn’t alone. Since the introduction, I’ve been diving into the idea of Multipotentialism and “Scanners” and all the other terms for people I feel I deeply identify with. The celebration of this taking over the shame in my life has been a profound experience.
Being able to meet with like-minded peeps would be a dream.

Much love for the work you do!

This is so exciting! I would love to be able to attend the conference and get to know more multipotentialites, particularly to discuss some current projects and my current career path dilemma that I’m trying to work through. Getting some perspectives from other puttyfam would be really helpful for me, and I hope I could provide value and friendship to others as well!

This conference would be just right for me now because I feel overwhelmed. It all seems like too many balls to juggle at once and I’ve not enough energy or clarity to move forward with intentional direction successfully. My fingers are in too many pies and I’m starving. No one I know seems to understand. At the conference I’m bound to connect with people who do.

Why is Everything Conference exactly what you need in your life right now?

Hello Emilie, Thank you for allowing me this wonderful and amazing opportunity!

I am a visual artist and graduated from a great art school in New York. As an undergraduate student, I was encouraged to create a plan B; which made logical and rational sense. However, I didn’t understand plan B, because of my intuition, the vision I was following was a deeper calling. Coming out of art school is a challenge because you’re asked to be patient, and tenacious with resiliency.
Even though I feel that I haven’t yet received my full critical financial success as an artist, I am more than my identity as an artist. I am a visionary multipotentialite, as I live a life of new creative potentials. This conference will allow me to see other people and myself with a broader perspective.
As I pursue my dreams, passions, I no longer have to feel alone. I have shared your TED Talk with my peers and counselors as they now no longer see me as a scattered creative who doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life. This conference will afford me a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet and connect with other multipods the true nature of our multi-purpose dimensionality.
Thank you for sharing your unique gifts with the world!
Regards,
Christopher Lee Martin

I can use support in going many directions at one time, as all my directions are strengths.

Greetings,

My life has been TRANSFORMED by the concept of being a mutlipotentialite and I share the knowledge with others who are always GOBSMACKED. I wish more parents understood the concept! I’d love to get my proverbial ***t together and offer workshops for parents on understanding their multi potentialite kids etc.
This would be perfect for me to help me synthesize my talents so that I can offer them up to the world.

Hello,
While looking for inspiration and clues to how I might get my life on track I came across your TED talk via TED Recommends. It made total sense, and after taking the Quiz the square peg (me) had finally found its round hole (Puttytribe) to fit into. As far back as junior high when “The Question” was put to me in a serious way, it’s always been difficult to say what one thing I wanted be or do. I knew what I wanted to be, now called a Multipotentialite, but I had no idea how to do that. I have always admired those who were able to commit to a thing see it through and seemingly never be bored even after they had reached the desired success, but it just isn’t me.
Since graduating college the main goal of every career aspiration has not been about a job fulfilling me, but does the lifestyle fulfill all my other interests. This is a great challenge to sit in an interview and know that I really just want to have a flexible enough schedule and not be broke to go do all the other things that interest me. Everything from ecology, conservation, coaching youth sports, woodworking, continued education, and reading for learning and for fun. Being someone who thinks of the multiple connections of human interaction and how there is never a single action and reaction, all things are connected and feed off of one another has allowed me to work with diverse groups of different sizes. Whether it be coaching high schoolers, working with a small group of career minded Type A’s, or large group that spans a broad spectrum of education and motivations, connecting people to a common goal is where I feel most comfortable. Life has brought me here with the question of what to do next? The last two years have included a new child, a cross country move and multiple plans not coming to fruition. I am here now with a rejuvenated sense of determination that my previous distractions are not a flaw but a benefit that need to be cultivated. If given the chance to attend the Everything Conference I hope to give as much as I receive in whatever way is possible.
Thank you for all you do!
Dan

Because I have, at last, found my mental home, a place that explains me and my personality both to myself and others.

I was thunderstruck when I first viewed Emilie’s TED talk and learned there was a word that described my improbable career. It was also validation that I’m not the only one. Who knew?

How I used to cringe at the 2nd half of the old adage, “Jack/Jill of all trades; master of none”. The first part always felt right, but the second part was just plain dismissive. If you fellow multipotentialites are anything like me, I’ll bet you’re quite proficient, if not expert, at what you do.

I’ll be 65 years young in July and as stoked as ever by new challenges and ways to make a difference in this messy world.

Participating in a conference with a tribe I can relate to might be just the thing to lead me to the next chapter of my journey.

Here’s another TED talk that speaks to me: “What baby boomers can learn working with Millennials –and vice versa”, about age diversity.

It’d be a gift to be in the same room with ya’ll.

The Everything Conference exactly what you need in your life right now because I have tried to be everything unsuccessfully.

I am a jack of all trades, I can fix almost anything (except my car), I have a degree in education but have many self taught degrees that have led me to hotel management, coaching, property management and self employment. I love working but have not been able to dial passions into one career.

My unsuccessful path to be everything has been frustrating and I need your help and guidance.. 🙂

I want to be everything… and I want to be everywhere!

I’m a multi-faceted artist AND also own an Insurance agency with my husband. First of all, I’m proud to be able to say that i’m successful on some level with a balance of those two parts of my world. I’m also so grateful for being a business owner and everything that I’ve learned through that… but if you really break down that first sentence, the two parts contain so much more than just artist & insurance.

Being a “multi-faceted artist” = graphic designer, painter, sculptor, marketer, teacher, etc

Owning a business “with my husband” = Wearing many hats and doing a job that is not one that I really want to be in… but I value the experience of relationship building, becoming a confident salesperson, etc

I’m always searching for something, and as an artist, questioning everything. BUT having just entered my 40s, while I still feel and look like i’m 28… I have much more to give and feel like i’m being held back from my greatness in a way that I’m sometimes scared to admit.

What an amazing opportunity! Thank you for the chance to come and join you all in Portland. Working through the good and bad of being a multipotentialite has been an interesting journey. It would be a delight and a help to have an opportunity to talk with others to see how they are coming to terms and using it to craft an amazing life.

It’s what I need in my life right now because I finally, FINALLY was able to step back and see a pathway to living a life firing on all the random cylinders that I have! I’d love some guidance and help, and I’d love to offer what help I can to others.

I’m a an inflection point in my career. I’ve been climbing the corporate (marketing) ladder for the last few years and finally landed a senior level position, with a senior level salary attached. And it’s a nightmare. Everything about it is out of alignment. I’m stressed, angry, and resentful all the time. So I’ve decided to take the leap and fully embrace my multipotentiality for the first time in YEARS. I’m taking a big risk, giving up security, employer provided insurance (huge for me as someone with a chronic health condition), and making myself, my dreams, and my GIFTS a priority. The timing of this conference could not be better. It would give the chance to connect with like-minded and like-hearted individuals who are walking an unconventional path. It would give me a date to work toward to have this next iteration of myself “marketable” by then. And it would give me an excuse to visit one of my absolute favorite cities and communities.

There are many worthy comments on this post, and I am so thrilled that so many multipotentialites will fill one fabulous space. I hope to be among them!

Yesterday. I graduated from college and am about to step forward into real life. I’ve known for two years that I’m a multipotentialite, and I have a million ideas that I’d someday like to implement, some as careers/jobs, some as hobbies, and some that could take any number of paths. As I’m sure every college grad knows, leaving school after years of a clear path is terrifying as much as it is exciting, especially as a multipotentialite who is interested in so many things. Puttylike has been the only source of multipotentialite mentorship I’ve found in my life so far, as I have goals of becoming an entrepreneur, but lack any sort of real life interaction with bloggers and entrepreneurs who share my interests. The Everything Conference would be a chance for me to meet and connect with other multipotentialites and entrepreneurs, and maybe help me find some concrete ways to make my dreams a reality. I feel like I’m on the precipice of something, but I can’t codify my thoughts into exactly what it is, or what I want. Maybe being able to hear the stories and meet real life people who know exactly what I’m going through is what I need to push me over the edge and alow me to live the life I want to live.

Hello!

Why is the Everything Conference EXACTLY what I need in my life right now?
Well, for one, I find I identify with this non-category category SO MUCH that for the longest time it made me feel like an outsider. But this conference? It seems like a collection of “outsiders” finding their way to the inside. Until just the beginning of this year I’ve been on a hamster wheel of failing to launch something and TBH, I’ve sort of blamed it on my multipotentialite tendencies. BUT – that’s been my crutch. I’ve FINALLY, just NOW, kicked that crutch to the curb and although I AM a multipotentialite and forever will be, I am on a mission to master my SOS (Shiny Object Syndrome) and launch what I love.

Selfish reasons: I feel like this is an Island of Misfit Toys that I could dig hardcore. And ya know what? That’s RARE for me. So meeting a buncha my tribe in person would be super rad. I’m also in a bit of a funk with some bad news in the family health department, which triggered a lovely depressive episode for me. Yayyyyy mental health!

Hopefully non-selfish reasons: I would love to help anyone and everyone I possibly could in any way I possibly can. I just became a certified Life Coach and I am SO EXCITED about trying to help change the world for the better in any way that I can.

And yeah, that about sums it up. Other than it would just be a SUPER DUPER RAD EXPERIENCE overall, but like, that’s a given, yeah?

Cheers to creating,
Jessie Britely

When I was a little girl growing up in Oak Park, Ill (just outside of Chicago) there was a show my dad used to watch on Saturday morning called Different Drummer. I don’t remember much about the show but I do remember part of the opening credits said “For those who walk to the beat of a different drummer” I think hearing those words as a young kid were prophetic because it is what I done and how I felt my whole life. I was usually one of the only African American kids and almost always the only kid with a disability ( cerebral palsy which mildly affects my speech and gait) I grew up knowing I wanted to be an actor and I am continuing to pursue that dream (most recently appeared on S.W.A.T.) but I also love directing, producing and exploring ways to use performance and expressive arts tools and strategies to eradicate disability and mental health stigmas and limiting beliefs through my EduTainment Production Company The Rainbow Butterfly Cafe. I have always felt like an outsider even as an actor because of how I define success and my dreams and goals always extended beyond my desire to act. It was hearing Emilie’s TED Talk and reading her book How To Be Everything, that I feel I finally found my tribe. I would love to come to the conference not only because of what I can learn and to meet some really awesome people but also hopefully what I can offer too. I do a lot of teaching around issues of diversity, inclusion and resiliency and perhaps that is something I could offer as well. The Everything Conference, just seems like a perfect opportunity to network, learn, share and hang out with other cool people who also walk to ‘a beat of a different drummer.

I need to find my tribe.

It’s difficult to do when you have so many different irons in the fire. I was a cosmetologist for several years, then I became a teacher (elementary, ELL, then 7th-grade math… even within a profession, I was all over the place). Then I was in an accident that left me temporarily disabled. I then decided to do what I really wanted to do and I began blogging and coaching. I then got into real estate (which I am doing now) as an avenue to owning a retreat where I can hold my own group coaching events. I speak competitively and excel at humorous speaking. I sing and deal with stage fright. I dabble in guitar… and draw… and write… oh, and cook…

Did I say I need to find my tribe?

Why is Everything Conference exactly what I need in my life right now?

After watching this TED Talk – I realize I always living in self doubt, making excuses, and I’ve never really been sure what I am good at. I’m 33, and feel like i’m stuck. Everyone tells me the 10 million things I am good at but never think of myself that way. I’m energized by interacting with people and making people laugh and being around those who make me laugh. Every career test or aptitude test tells me I should be a minister and I thought that was absolute bananas. No way in heck did I think this was a legitimate path and totally put that out of a realm of career paths to pursue. Right now i’m in a career in technology and at times it seems like it’s stealing my soul.

I have always felt that I have no idea what path to take, what talents to explore. All I know is that I want to make impact on the lives of others and make people happy. Never been able to answer what I want to be when I grow up. I can list the different things I wanted to be: a pastry chef, artist, athlete, social worker and i’m pretty sure people think i’m loco.

I’m messy, sporadic, and have random spurts of creativity . My room is covered in art supplies and random projects, and books with random subjects. I believe this opporunity will lift me up, and feed the need positivity. I know that I have more to offer than I am giving myself credit for. This conference will help me light a fire under my butt and give me the courage to pursue my passions and make a difference. I’ve been in the dumps lately and I think this will help get my fire back.

I’ve been judged – hard – by people who “love” me for not committing to one thing. My self esteem tables hard because I absorbed the criticism deeply. I’m emerging, and being with others of similar thought process – I’m waiting impatiently!

Hi ?
I am a teacher, entrepreneur and artist. Last year I launched HAPPY thighs, because I was lacking a proper solution for my thighchafe. Next week I have my first art exhibition at my home. See instagram @tovehoglundart I also LOVE my students. Can I really do everything?

I’m currently at a transition point in my life, and I am perplexed about how to move forward with making a contribution and using my skills and talents to their highest potential. I’ve not really had to confront this issue previously, because I was a forever student and a college professor, an occupation that allowed me to do so many things and call them all part of my job. Now, I’ve left that occupation and need to carve out a new way. I realize, that I am an introvert, that I need to reach out and ask for help. And so I’ asking you for help to attend the conference.

Why is Everything Conference exactly what you need in your life right now?

Hello! I was recently on the phone with a friend of mine, and I was sharing with her that lately I have been feeling like my main vocation has been feeling like the totality of my identity lately. That is when she mentioned the Putty Tribe! I am a practicing asylum lawyer who has been running a 100% grassroots funded project the last 4 years to represent asylum seekers pro bono here in the United States. I was living on the southern US/Mexico border doing this work for the last 2 years, and just moved to NYC earlier this year to build a base for myself as I continue to travel for work and otherwise. I definitely enjoy my work as an asylum lawyer, and also moved to NYC to take root in other interests I have! Now that the cold winter has passed, I am looking forward to more opportunities to do just that. 🙂

I was a classical piano major my first year in college, and was the piano accompanist for musicals in high school. I also love improv! The arts is a big part of my life. I took another improv class upon moving back to the East Coast. My first job out of college was teaching junior high, and I am excited to be teaching my first class as an adjunct this summer for a masters program in community organizing. I also was a community organizer for many years working on campaigns—electoral, legislative, and more. I also recently did some background actor work for a television show in the Northeast—a very interesting experience, and the food was also good, hehe. I look back at everything I have typed, and it’s true that I have loved it all.

As many people seem to be sharing, I felt the pressure to specialize in one particular thing, and after discovering your website—and book—I felt a sense of relief. I am a generalist! A Putty Peep! Instead of feeling the anxiety of “needing to pick one thing”, i am thinking about how I can do all the things I love to do. It feels really exciting and liberating.

Particularly in the book, it was helpful for me to pull out what it is about these different pursuits that have commonalities about what drives me:

*I love being part of a lateral team that works together to achieve something positive and impactful—from an election to putting on a play or musical!
*I’m an ENFJ (I’m actually right between E and I, but lean more E)—and working one-on-one with people in sincere and engaging conversation is one of my favorite things to do
*I am someone who also does well in experiencing new things and environments. Over the last 4 years, I’ve spent time in 15 major regions/cities in the United States, and have learned so much about my country. I am grateful to have the privilege to hopefully be able to experience more soon, hopefully internationally.

I have been really super focused on asylum work for the last 3-4 years, and only recently have started to lean more into my other multipotentialite areas. The thought of a conference to meet other like-minded people is incredibly exciting, and it’d be amazing to continue building community of other Putty Peeps, but learn strategies and tactics on how to be an effective multipotentialite overall. PDX is also beautiful! 🙂

Since vocationally at the moment, I am a scrappy, crowdfunded public interest lawyer, I unfortunately wouldn’t be able to attend the conference without a significant discount. If selected, I would certainly make the most of every minute at the conference! Otherwise, I plan on joining the virtual community once there is a spot available—hopefully this June.

Thanks for reading/for your consideration. It’s also been super cool to read some of the other responses here, and I continue to derive a sense of community from that all the same!

Peace,
Mel

I need a spark, to be honest. To feel inspired, to connect with real humans in real life. I am frozen in time, as age creeps up on me. The time is now, but I could sure use some spark! How can I offer yoga, art, writing, technology to help women to be real, to be all of them, in a world that blocks, restricts and denies femininity? How can we do good in the world, real good, not driven by commerce but by love for the Earth? How can we show men the way? I, like many, have so much skill, experience and talent. Paralyzed by options, I need help to start. I need a spark.

the path to succeed ! Please I live a few hrs away and could totally make it! Focus

Until I heard about the Everything Conference….I’d never had a word for sharing my love and skills in many different ways with the world. Thus, I’ve also never been able to fully share my gifts because I’ve always struggled with thinking that I had to choose one of these talents in order to really succeed. But every time I choose just one of the options, I feel conflicted because I feel like the other is just important and a part of me. So, as a Multi-potentialite I think a ticket to the Everything Conference could serve me well because I really want to connect, learn and share with like-minded peeps that are already living a thriving multi-potentialite life…as well those that are just beginning to start their journey.

I have recently become a member of the Puttytribe after at least 6 months of playing with the idea and hesitating. After finally deciding to join, whether by coincidence or by a shift in my personal intention, I made the choice to quit my job and to create my own business/work freelance. The steps are little, there is quite a bit of fear and self-doubt to work through, but I am moving forward. However, I do not want to lose momentum. The opportunity to attend the Everything Conference seems like the perfect chance to delve deeper into my multipotentiality and enrich my trajectory.

What is missing right now is a deeper sense of connection to other multi-potentialites. Living in France, I do not have a large community that I can connect with in real life. My connections in the Puttytribe have been the first step, but I believe that actually being in a space with other like-minded people and sharing with this group would be an incredibly powerful experience and could open me up to the full possibility of my career, my interests, and my life. My journey has just begun, and I am so excited to be going down this path. Thanks for taking the time to read my entry, and I hope to see you soon at the Everything Conference!

The Everything Conference sounds so cool! I’d love to be able to attend because it fits in perfectly with my life. I’ve lived and worked on 4 continents and done everything from genetics lab work to photography, journalism, IT, been an entrepreneur, and finally settled on web development as a passion and career option. That’s on top of the dozens of hobbies I’ve enjoyed: longboarding, slacklining, rock climbing, rappelling down office buildings, sailing, urban exploring, drone photography, and learning languages. Before discovering the term multipotentialite I felt kind of lost but you’ve given me a new lens with which to embrace my intellectual curiosity and focus my energy. Thanks so much! If I could come to the conference I’d really enjoy meeting other multipods and learning more about the diverse pathways to success.

I would love to attend!

I just started reading “How to Be Everything” and feel like it’s speaking directly to me. I’ve been in a career rut since I finished up grad school a few years ago, and would love to learn how to get excited about my potential again. That’s why I would love to attend the Everything Conference. I have a myriad of skills…I just don’t know what to do with them! It would be a dream to meet others like me, and see how exemplar multipotentialites weave their skills and experiences together to be professional powerhouses.

Thanks!

I need the Everything Conference because, judging by this comment thread and other visible signs of digital love for Emily’s work, I’m not alone. I want to connect in the real world with this tribe of other humans who have maybe-too-many-passions/talents/interests but are determined to make it all work…somehow. I believe in the uniqueness of each individual, and I believe some really cool stuff can get created by us multipotentialites…and there’s probably a multiplier effect when you get all of us together in one room. I want to be a part of that! Ultimately, it’s about personal growth and contribution–I want to realize my potential in all its multifaceted glory and make something worth sharing with the world. Community is super important in helping us realize our potential; this could be that community for me–I want to see. I’m a musician (multi-instrumentalist…obviously), recording engineer/producer, writer (currently prolific in my personal journals but with a heavy interest in screenwriting), certified yoga teacher, certified teacher in an SEL program in schools…oh, and I teach kids math, which is my current primary source of income…and, to be honest, I really want to make a movie someday. So, yeah. Anyone out there wanna connect?

HI Everyone,
As a long term multi-potentialite life is too short and complicate to “find that one thing that drives you” With so many of my colleges locked into knowing just that one thing ie: which hormone triggers a snail to reproduce,or how tidal influences affect river levels, it is refreshing to meet and talk with people who live outside the bubble of scientific dogma. Dreamer and doers are the ones who get things done. We need to let the world know its not the one thing that drives you, it is the interconnection of all things that deliver the big picture to the world. For example look at Emillie’s Photo at the bottom of the page, it is not just a view of our friend but a snap shot in time of our/her culture. Notice the shelves are multi level, the plants are strategically placed, and the table cleared for a new project, or a board game with the group. What we dont see is the computer that generated the photo, and the reflection of each of us looking back.
We tend to live our own lives of quiet desperation trying to fit into the specialized world when we should be doing what people in the 1800s did to educate and explore all options in our lives.
That is why i would like to attend the conference, to meet share ideas and expanded not only knowledge but to connect to other who know the call to do it all.

(take 2! I’m not sure if my original posted)

I started out as a multi-instrumentalist playing piano and viola at the 6-12th grade fine arts school I attended as a child – which is where, at the tender age of 13, I decided that I wanted to write music for videogames. So, it was up to me to balance playing piano, playing viola, and teaching myself to write classical music with teaching myself about computers and electronic music production. My childhood dream and studies led me to studying piano and viola at the collegiate level, but my side-project – learning entrepreneurial practice because I was sure our economy would demand that I have those skills – led me to adding personal studies on top of that. I read Ramit Sethi, James Altucher, Derek Sivers – countless articles and blogs — I got accepted to an entrepreneurial summit as a roundtable leader, interned at the video game television network in their SEO department

designed and wrote music for a crowd-controlled music based video game I premeired as a performance for the Red Bull Music Academy in Madrid, Spain — moved to one of the world’s best contemporary music schools to study electronic music and video game music formally, joined _their_ inaugural entrepreneurial course, freelanced as a game composer and sound designer, made _another_ crowd game for a performance at MIT

and lately I: started a love blog and business with my partner, started a for-hire game studio and landed our first contract, and signed a contract to work with a musician and friend that my new label is funding.

When I talk about these things, or when I ask about advice on how to present myself, what I get is .. skepticism. Even though I have experience in all of these fields, people just either don’t buy it or don’t ‘get it.’

I’d love to spend some time around people who get it. I’d love to enrich their lives and see how they enrich my own. I’d love to help form a community of inspired, excellent people.

I want almost nothing

from the everything conference,

but an opportunity for opportunity.

And I want to be me and be happy.

I did it – I resigned from my job as a software product manager! For three years I eagerly soaked up completely new knowledge on software development, design, management, human resources. Then I felt like moving on to new territory – it was hard to resign because who does that, after just reaching a solid proficiency in a completely new field?! A nervous but optimistic multipotentialite does, because there are a million other things I want to smoosh together!

I’m packing my belongings into my Ford hatchback plus a 5×5 storage unit, and driving out west to sate some of my other loves, sustainable farming and road tripping, while I figure out how to create a multipod business out of music performance + composition + hiking and backpacking + environmental sustainability + collaboration. Volunteering on farms and not paying room and board will help me cover my expenses for a while as I start to figure things out, and we’ll see where it goes from there!

I’ve always wanted to put something into the world that would encourage people to connect more with themselves, with their fellow humans, and the natural world. I’m thrilled for this next chapter and know that the best way to get inspired and motivated at this juncture is to be around a bunch of other multipotentialites who have already created businesses out of multiple passions – or are in the process of doing it!

Hi everyone! Like many of you, I’m at a crossroads in my life. I’ve also had my fair share of rough patches and sink-or-swim situations, which has taken a toll on my self-esteem (I’m so used to believing I’m not worthy enough that I almost didn’t enter this contest – and it’s Sunday 2nd June, 9.32 p.m. here).

Everything Conference is what I need in my life right now because I need help with finding my place in this world, and in return I truly hope to be of help, too. I want to leave with newfound hope in tow and a sense of community, wondering at the myriad possibilities ahead rather than shrinking from a daunting future.

Not only would the free ticket cover the 5000 miles between the venue and me, but it would also feel like a warm, encouraging hug (-: Would you be willing to help me write an amazing new life chapter?

Fondest regards,

Surya

I need to come to the Everything Conference
because I need to synergize with other multipods ASAP!

I am ready to share my gifts, and I want to share Everything.

I live in a cycle I call CELL–acronym for Create-Explore-Learn-Love.
I need to create daily in order to stay happy,
and I dream of creating together with other puttylike people,
inventing big and small things that improve the world.

I feel that our kind are few and far in between,
and that it takes a ridiculous effort to find each other —
finding that sense of belonging, and like-minded people to work with.
Thanks to Emily, it’s now easier than ever.
However, having extra many interests and pursuits,
and uncountable pulls towards different directions,
time is extraordinarily precious.
Meeting a kindred soul though,
creates an instant connection that may last for a life time,
and as a multipod craving to connect,
I can’t think of a better place to be
than the Everything Conference.

I’ve found the prospect of attending this event utterly inspiring,
so following is a little song I wrote as a tribute to it,
and to all my fellow multipods expressing themselves on here.
I’ll post a video of my playing it in a couple hours when I have piano access.

EVERYTHING
N.A. 2019-06-02

They tell me I’m scattered
They tell me I can’t make up my mind
They tell me I can’t stay focused, that I’m wide open
To Everything that comes my way

I have so much passion, and I fashion many hats
It isn’t that I lack direction, I just gravitate
Towards the intersections

Cause I want to know
I want to go where my heart tells me to go
And I want to grow
So I’m not drifting, I’m shape shifting

Everything I am
Everything I do
Everything I oversee
Is Everything to me

Everything I know
Everything I love
Everything that I can be
Means Everything to me

They think I have no direction
They think that I flake when things get hard
They think I need to choose a course, learn to close some doors
And say: if I don’t choose, I’ll lose it all

But I have to be
Everything that comes naturally
And I have to see
Cause my one true path, is of the polymath

Yes I have potential that is multidimensional
I’m not indecisive, I’m deciding wisely
To go deep but wide, embrace my many sides–where the worlds collide

Everything I am
Everything I do
Everything I oversee
Is Everything to me

Everything I know
Everything I love
Everything that I can be
Means Everything to me

If there was only a place where Everyone was like me
A magical place of potentiality
A gathering where our souls convene
I can be Everything I want to be
I’d encourage the rest, and let them be seen
We’d figure out, what Everything means
And what we’ll make, with all we do
Then we’d have the cake, and we’d eat it too

Everything I am
Everything I do
Everything I oversee
Is Everything to me

Everything is key
Everything I’ll one day be, and
Everything with its synergy
It’s Everything I’ll ever need
It is Everything indeed
Everything to me