Building Your Business By Finding Your Voice
Brand identity is more than a logo and a website template. It is a powerful tool that is a reflection of you as a human being and business owner, the values you hold, and the work you produce. This workshop will help you find or refine your business’ brand - an essential prerequisite for building a loyal client base and sharing your unique self through your business.
This expanded workshop is part of our PUGS at Work series and is designed for Solopreneurs, Entrepreneurs and Creatives of all stripes.
Better Business Decisions from Within
Can you make better business decisions by trusting your internal compass? Most books about making good business decisions involve rationality, logic, and hard data. But most important decisions call for more than just reason or logic. They need the discernment of people fully paying attention to what’s inside.
Travel-hack with miles and other smart trip-planning techniques
Get a lot more for less (business class!), keep costs down where you can (boo exchange fees!), and make the most of your precious hours on the ground. Learn to think like a travel-hacker to make every trip you plan more affordable, more enjoyable, and less stressful.
Reaching Exit Velocity
The rich are investors, not spenders. This course continues where Financial Freedom 1 left off, focusing on creating the passive income needed to escape having to work to meet your monthly expenses. The main topics are introductory investing, growing annual income, and the psychology of money. Topics include the basics of different investment accounts, how to choose investments that fit your ethics, and how to make make your time more valuable. This online course allows you to jumpstart your investing if you’re a novice. If you have some experience, it will deepen your understanding of what to invest in, given your timeline and risk tolerance.
This course is for Financial Freedom 1 alumni.
Adding Your Voice to the Audio World
Navigate the technical challenges of starting your own podcast, from audio recording and editing to publishing and promotion.
How to Teach So People Learn
American companies spend enormous amounts of money on professional development ($187 billion in 2007) and for the last 25 years, studies have shown that less than 10% of it is ever used. Why is that? Because most corporate education programs still use on the content-driven, top-down, hierarchical modes of training, which have been proven not to work in modern workplaces. In this one-day workshop, you'll learn how people really learn, design great curriculum, and figure out how adult pedagogy would apply in your workplace. The knowledge and practices would be invaluable to staff managers, parents, or anyone who has to communicate knowledge to others in their lives.
Transitioning from Individual Contributor to Manager
Being a manager requires a fresh mindset and different abilities than being an individual contributor. This course offers vital skills to managers who have been promoted in the last few years and don't have an MBA.
Learning to Put First Things First
Life happens — and our truest priorities can quickly feel lost or out of place. But good news: that experience doesn’t need to be your norm. This workshop will equip you with the tools needed to become the boss of your work, time, and life... instead of them being the boss of you.
Escaping Consumer Capitalism to Live the Life You Want
Be the ancestor to your future happiness. Learn the seven levels of financial maturity, from financial dependence, or living paycheck to paycheck, to saving conventionally, and, lastly, having financial freedom. We'll explore the influence of your family background and the hidden assumptions of consumption and debt in our capitalist system. The course is about reclaiming ownership of your time, attention, and energy and freeing yourself to do want you want to do without worrying about money for the rest of your life.
Executing a Plan to Your Dreams
Do you have life dreams itching to become reality? This course is about fostering change in yourself and in others. You will learn goal-setting, motivation, decision-making, and discerning action. By joining a small cohort of fellow dreamers, you'll acquire the skills, commitment, and accountability needed to execute your next big step.
The Dangers and Possibility of a Post-Work World
Capitalism loves automation. Since the beginning of industrialization 250 years ago, businesses have been replacing human labor with machines. For the last 60 years, globalization has shifted American labor to other countries. And now, the advent of artificial intelligence will eliminate even more jobs.
Become the CFO of Your Life
Live the life that you want by taking control of your financial life. In this online course, we'll examine the unconscious influence of your family background and consumer culture on your relationship with money. This course will help you reclaim ownership of how you live your life through understanding money, reclaiming ownership of your finances, and making concrete plans to reach financial independence. Take this course! Graduates say it is life-altering.
Taking Ownership of Your Financial Future
Live the life that you want by taking control of your finances. Most people live their lives unconscious about money. We'll explore the influence that hidden assumptions of consumption and debt have in our capitalist system. This course will help you reclaim ownership of how you spend your time and your life energy.
Transitioning from individual contributor to manager
Being a manager requires a fresh mindset and different abilities than being an individual contributor. This course offers vital skills to managers who have been promoted in the last few years and don't have an MBA.
Claiming Control of Money in your Life
Most people live their lives unconscious about money. Live the life that you want by taking control of your financial life. We'll explore the influence the hidden assumptions of consumption and debt in our capitalist system. This course and the year-long genius huddles we'll form will help you reclaim ownership of how you spend your time + your life energy.
Explore bringing an idea for a built object into existence, combining theoretical / academic knowledge with practical design skills, placing academic discussion and discourse in a place that’s devoted to practical, hands-on learning. Discuss good design, bad design, design vs. art, and design process, as well as industrial design, craftsmanship, and working with a variety of materials.
Are you a business or individual trying to reach new customers or broaden your audience? Today, the cheapest and most effective way to do so is through social media advertising. Come learn how to increase your revenue, grow your audience, and amplify your messaging through social media. It's easier than you think.
This course is about change: how you can foster change in yourself and how you can foster change in others. You will learn goal-setting, motivation decision-making, and achievement. It is designed to bring personal and professional growth to a small cohort of Portlanders through joint commitment and accountability.
Why do seemingly ration people make irrational financial decisions? The emerging field of behavioral economics studies the predictably irrational financial behavior. We examine how people fall into common patterns of thinking in how we spend, save, borrow, invest, and waste money. We'll also talk about how our family histories play into how we value and understand money. This fun an interactive course will open your eyes to how you can make better financial decisions.