Big changes start with small, brave steps.
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You've never had more ways to bet on yourself. Or more reasons to wait.
You've got a dream you haven't said out loud in years.
A business, a book, a move across the world. It's been sitting in your notes app so long it's starting to feel like a fantasy.
Then you look around.
Everyone seems further along. And the quiet voice starts asking if you missed your window, and whether it's too late to start now.
What if the next step is smaller than you think?
Big changes start with small, brave steps. Everybody's journey is different, and yours isn't over. Each Saturday you get one essay to help you take the next one.
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5 Days of Calculated Courage
A free email course for anyone who's been waiting to feel ready. One short lesson a day, with one small brave step at the end of each. Here's what you walk away with:
- Why belief comes second. You don't have to feel like the person before you act like one.
- How to size a fear. Drag it into the light and see how big it really is.
- What staying put is costing you. The life you have will always look more expensive from the inside.
- How to start rough. Why the people who make great things show the bad version first.
- How to keep score. So your next step starts from your own lessons instead of fear.
The welcome comes right away. Lesson one lands the next morning.
So what does calculated courage look like?
The ideas I keep coming back to.
- In the long run, we regret what we didn't do. Research found that over time, people regret what they didn't do far more than what they did. Don't let that be you.
- You don't have to quit everything to start something big. Bet on yourself without betting the house.
- Breakthroughs are built. They look sudden from the outside. Up close, they're a pile of small reps nobody saw.
- Big dreams get done through small choices. The one you make this week counts more than the plan you make this year.
- There's always a choice. You may not like it. It may piss people off. But there's always a choice.
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About me
Hey, I'm Kia, and I'm figuring this out with you.
I graduated from Cornell, then spent about ten years trying to be a rockstar. At 26 I was a $90-a-day substitute teacher. At 27, Whole Foods turned me down to stock shelves.
In 2018, at my all-time low, I moved to a small city in northern Thailand with a little less than a grand.
Over the last 8+ years abroad I've built a six-figure online music production school, wrote a couple books, and learned a few lessons the hard way I won't shut the fuck up about.
I'm building this next project in public and sharing the best lessons and stories along the way.
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