Join The MAP Year Project
An easy to follow framework for moving forward on your creative project, side-hustle, or solo business—without the pressure of falling behind.
Start by picking your pace: daily BUDS emails, or weekly essays and podcast episodes.
Remove the digital, mental, and emotional barriers to creative work.
Join a like-minded creative community with regularly published essays, podcasts, and resources to structure your journey.
No, you don't need to consume everything. Yes, you'll still get results.
Have a big idea you're excited about that's gathering dust? Or, feel caught between creativity and practicality? The MAP Year Project helps you get out of that rut.
We're made to believe we have to hustle harder at a pace we can't sustain just to balance what we love with what feels stable. Whether that's a passion project you keep saying you'll get to, a creative idea you feel guilty for thinking about when you're working, or a side-hustle you've been meaning to start but can't find time for. Maybe it's just a desire for more creative freedom in your daily life.
The MAP Year Project is for people who’ve felt torn between creative expression and practical stability—between doing what they love, what they’re good at, and what they can do to help people. Turns out, there’s a messy middle with room for all three.
The MAP Year Project shows you how to get there.
What The MAP Year project is (and what it isn’t).
Think of The MAP Year Project like a modern version of Julia Cameron's The Artist’s Way—but with the added benefit of creating something tangible by the end of it.
It’s part creative journey, part project plan, and part software setup. You can do the parts you like and skip the ones you don't. Along the way, you’ll get prompts, reflections, and community support. Plus, get help troubleshooting digital hurdles that pop up.
- It’s not a course.
- It’s not another thing to keep up with.
Pick your level of participation.
Choose a MAP Year membership that works for you. Want daily prompts and reflections to help you? You got it. And if that's not your thing, you can still build momentum on a project you’ve sidelined or hoped to start in other ways.
The MAP Year Project gives you a framework for aligning creativity and stability, without sacrificing either.
No matter how you want to participate, it's all designed to give you support with putting your website, newsletter, email list etc... into practice.
Free membership
Daily BUDS Emails
Short prompts for reflection, connection, and momentum.
Weekly
Essays & Podcasts on removing the digital, mental, and emotional obstacles that block creative work.
Plus, invites to our monthly Creative Circle calls.
Paid membership
Full access:
- BUDS series (optional)
- Weekly essays (free).
- Weekly podcast (free).
- Weekly bonus essays (paid).
- Monthly creative circle calls (free).
- Monthly tech troubleshooting calls (paid).
Why I built this.
Six years ago, a traumatic brain injury from a snowboard accident forced me to completely reevaluate what “stability” meant—financially, mentally, emotionally. And it led to a difficult and heartbreaking conclusion: I needed to walk away from something I loved.
The MAP Year Project is a year-long challenge that follows a Milestone Accountability Planning system I built in the years since my Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). It’s what helped me reach the not-so-messy middle of chasing what I love, doing what I’m good at, and searching for a way to help others.
The MAP Year Project is about exploring a childhood dream—or maybe just a secret side-project that’s been collecting dust—and working toward it incrementally with a group of people doing the same. The idea here is to make things manageable, make your progress visible, and make your support system part of the process.
It’s about switching things up in your life, but in ways that actually fit into your day-to-day instead of trying another hustle-culture version that burns you out after two weeks.
Getting started.
Choose a MAP Year membership that works for you.
- BUDS series (optional).
- Weekly essays (free).
- Weekly podcast (free).
- Weekly bonus essays (paid).
- Monthly creative circle calls (free).
- Monthly tech troubleshooting calls (paid).