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Your protocol to drop into a peak state of creativity and presence.
It's key for a deep dive morning writing sessions and stepping onto the biggest stage of your career.
The scaffolding of our lives. We literally live within and through stories.
When you get your plot structure right you can move mountains. But boiling it down to its essentials takes skill and practice.
The way you go from blank page to a tightly structured narrative that changes the world.
Having a repeatable, proven process to come back to ensures only your best ideas make it through.
The world isn't getting any simpler, and the tools to keep up are becoming outdated faster than ever.
You used to win playing Battleships with your dad.
Today you're playing Call of Duty with the world. (and you just got smoked by a kid in his bedroom halfway around the world ;)
The old models aren’t any good for predicting and controlling what’s coming––they're too slow and clumsy to respond.
Well, words, written and spoken have always been at the center of my life.
I learned from some of the best, studying under a National Book Award winning poet, a two-time Pulitzer finalist, and a MacArthur Genius.
Then I got to hone those skills by sharing them with others.
Spending over a decade teaching undergrads and A.P. students best practices in clear academic writing. Forensic-level revisions to make things sing.
A labor of love that once I’d experienced as a student, felt obliged to share as a teacher!
Then, investing another decade coaching CEOs on strategic narrative for their companies and keynotes.
Responsible for tens of millions in revenue and capital raised. Writing two global bestselling books, one of which was nominated by Harper Collins for a Pulitzer in non-fiction.
And along the way winning standing ovations and “best talk of the conference” around the world.
And it doesn't require memorizing every word and gesture and then trying desperately to not sound like a robot when you finally get onstage.
So in this course, I’m going to share for the first time how it all fits together into one simple, flexible system that lets you permanently level up as a communicator.
Because at the end of all the proverbial days, it doesn’t matter what your chosen medium or professional identity is:
Success all comes down to our ability to tell stories that move people to action.
That’s it!
Whether you’re a leader rallying the troops through a downturn, or you’re pitching your editor on a new book, or you’re trying to save the world from a stage, we’re always telling stories, and we’re always trying to galvanize people into action.
Flow for Writers and Speakers is a 6-week training designed to level up your writing and speaking skills – whether it’s pitching your project, publishing your first book, or sharing your message with the world on stage.
Most people think speaking is a completely different skillset to writing, pitching, or even negotiating, but in reality they all source from the same place.
Whatever you are communicating to others, you are sourcing from a core idea.
And to be most effective, you want to refine that idea so it can change shapes whether you're on stage, on camera, or hitting send on the first draft of your book.
You'll join weekly 60-90 minute Zoom calls with Jamie for the storytelling training.
In addition to the core content, we'll share book lists, readings, plug and play templates, and checklists.
By the end of the course, you'll have a functional deck that you can use to deliver a 15-20min TED talk, 45min Keynotes, 5-20 min Business Pitches, and Book Proposals for a tightly structured 60-75,000 word book.
Jamie will provide direct feedback on your ideas and communication, helping you refine your voice, strengthen your narrative, and overcome creative blocks.
It's real-time support to ensure you make consistent progress on becoming a great speaker and writer.
Writing is typically a solo activity – but learning to write is social!
You can opt in to a small writing group to workshop your material with other industry experts and peers.
Accountability is creativity's best kept secret.
Learn to turn complex ideas into engaging, professional stories that showcase your expertise and make you stand out in your industry.
Refine your delivery and storytelling techniques so you show up as confident and credibile, whether on stage or in writing.
Work through your ideas with Jamie's guidance, honing them to be as impactful and useful as possible, to delight and inspire others.
Discover frameworks so you know exactly what to say and how to say it. You'll know exactly how to craft memorable, influential narratives.
You'll craft a compelling and concise elevator pitch, optimizing for resonance with your audience. Whether raising money, giving a talk, or building your brand, your pitch is the first step to inspiring others into action.
You'll then add structure to your narrative through story wireframes, so you can easily reference, remember and build upon your core ideas. This compresses your points in a way that you'll never forget – boosting your confidence on stage and clarity of your message
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Founder, Flow Genome Project
Author, Stealing Fire & Recapture the Rapture
Jamie is an expert in peak performance and leadership, specializing in neuroanthropology, the intersection of culture, biology and psychology.
He has advised the U.S. Naval War College, U.S. Special Operations Command, Britain’s Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, the athletes of Red Bull and Nike, and the executives of Google, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Cisco, Facebook and Disney. His work and thought leadership has been covered in The New York Times, Financial Times, WIRED, Entrepreneur, HBR, Forbes, INC, & TEDx.
Jamie's talks and podcasts on Youtube have accumulated millions of views.
Jamie on Lewis Howes' School of Greatness Podcast
Jamie on Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Jamie on the Jordan Peterson podcast
You’re curious but not committed to actually writing or speaking.
A prerequisite is that you have, or are able to select a real world deliverable that you need to ship/share/publish within the next twelve months.
You’re yearning to write the Great American Novel.
We won’t be covering fiction, dialogue, and character development.
You’re an “artiste” who insists that any structure and process cramp your innate creative flow.
We 100% feel you, but we subscribe to the sonnet/haiku model where constraints increase creativity, rather than stifle it.
You’re not up for/open to laser-focused feedback and revision.
As Terry Tempest Williams wrote, “your first draft is something you hate, and keep revising until you don’t.”
Or as Faulkner (supposedly) said, “murder your darlings!”
Is this online?
Who else will be in the class?
How much time will it take?
I’m writing a book, does this apply to me?
I’m not writing a book, does this apply to me?