
STORY MEDIUM
Use your story and design skills to become a protagonist in your own life.
Pitch Deck
Learn how to channel more powerful stories and designs then showcase your new skills and unique voice in a pitch deck of an original story

Business Plan
Set yourself apart from the competition with a personal brand story, positioning strategy, and clearly defined services.
Mindset Kit
Draw on your storytelling skills and fictional characters to tackle daily challenges and reach flow state.
Tell a new story
Each week you will be challenged to combine Dan Harmon's STORY CIRCLE with ENNEAGRAM insights to create customized stories and designs that will help you tackle the negative stories that are driving your life. Helping you free your creative voice and use your insights to create an authentic original story, pitch deck, business plan, and mindset kit.
STUCK IN A LOOP
Stuck in cycles of burnout, your creative spark is fading. You feel overlooked and face imposter syndrome...with things like AI threatening your value, it sure doesn't help.
SOMETHING IS MISSING
You want your creative voice to be noticed but even when you do have a chance to share your ideas or work, you feel like you'll only have one chance...and it turns the nerves up to 1000%
TARGET THE PROBLEM
If you could only find the perfect process or tools, you'll be able to feel more secure in using your one chance well.
PURSUE THE SOLUTION
You join design courses to prefect your skills. Learning new techniques and creating a portfolio that you keep nitpicking.
SOLVED!
With portfolio in hand, you feel excited to share your ideas and head to a networking expo.
OR WAS IT?
But even with your deck in hand, you start to spiral. What if it's still not enough...a negative mindset starts to take over and you tuck it away under your arm. Why do you still feel like you're not ready?
A NEW REALITY
Sick of the same cycle, you decide this time to use new tactics. Instead of focusing on yet another new paintbrush or software, you decide to starting working on the source of your imposter syndrome.
A NEW BEGINNING
Pulling from your current tools, you use your existing skills to transform your mindset, and seek supportive approaches that meet you where you're at. Allowing you to show up, speak up, and change the world as the unique person you are TODAY.
Accessibility is a top priority
Story Medium is a self-paced course with lifetime access so it's easy to pause at any point. All live sessions are recorded so you can easily find your completed lessons in your member dashboard and pick up where you left off. With support tickets for any technical accessibility requests or technical issues along the way.
You'll also have access to a forum for lesson discussions and helping you find answers to similar questions. If you need an extra push to build momentum, set up accountability sessions with message fellow classmates using the direct message feature.
Frequently asked questions
How do the live workshops work?
Live Workshop sessions are designed for customizing the lessons or processes to fit your accessibility needs or unique projects goals.
In your course dashboard, you will find a google form link where you can submit your customization request, along with a file upload if you need to explain something with a visual. Submissions are accepted until 48 hours before each live sessions. Submissions after this will be added to the following months session.
Time is split between participants and you will receive an email ahead of the session to confirm we will be including your submission. If you aren't able to attend, the recording can still be found in your course page.
For questions related to the lessons you can use the forum. This helps us use our workshop sessions the most effectively :)
Level of skill requirement?
For story, beginners are welcome. To make the most of the design exercises for pitch deck drawings, an intermediate drawing level is recommended. But if you are non-artist or a beginner there are a variety of simple modifications you can make, e.g. use stock images, use croquis, or other tools. You can request custom suggestions in the forum or monthly live workshops where Jessie Kate will provide direction that suits your needs. Creative from outside the entertainment industry, hear about how a Photographer used the course to elevate her craft!
What's Enneagram?
It's an awesome psychology tool that groups emotional motivations into 9 different archetypes. You will be guided through each type and how to use Enneagram in your story during the course but if you're curiousity is eating you alive ;) You can check out one of my favorite sites here: Narrative Enneagram
What's the Story Circle?
A simplified story structure based on the Hero's Journey, created by Dan Harmon. Just like with the Enneagram, you will be guided through this so even if you are new to storytelling. In the meantime, this is one of my favorite videos that introduces the tool: Every Story is the Same
Why is this in Beta?
I'm making the content and solutions from my 1:1 and groups mentorships available to more creatives as a self-paced version. To make that transition smoother, I spent a year creating a series of course workbooks and templates to guide and prompt you through the lessons, demos to model execution strategies, and monthly live workshops to help participants customize the processes and assignments to their specific learning needs.
However, with a dedication to accessibility and quality, the beta run allows testing a variety of add-on approaches such as scheduled live streams to facilitate body doubling for neurodivergent creatives, chat features to facilitate connections for accountability groups and encouragement, and visual lesson transcripts.