Creative License: Find Your Voice. Free Your Genius.
Creative License: Find Your Voice. Free Your Genius.
What would it feel like
to finally unlock the door to your secret ambition?
What’s that “if only” ambition that’s just out of reach, still on the “someday-maybe” wish list — or a bit too scary to explore?
What would it feel like
to finally unlock the door to your secret ambition?
What’s that “if only” ambition that’s just out of reach, still on the “someday-maybe” wish list — or a bit too scary to explore?
Most of us have a big goal or crazy dream – or kind of wish we did.
You know, the kind of thing that gives you butterflies to think about? Something you KNOW would bring deep meaning and big rewards, but…
…you can’t quite bring into focus?
…you dare to hope for, but don’t dare to start?
…you keep kicking down the road because the time never seems right?
I’m talking about the kind of new endeavor that would exceed all your expectations, but you maybe worry – for now- exceeds your ability?
Imagine discovering an even bigger, better version of yourself.
Imagine how it would feel if you could step through that door, and:
expand beyond your current job or role and accomplish something great.
explore your creativity and bring something new and valuable into the world.
dare to stretch your limits and test your ability to have a bigger impact.
accomplish one of those “back-burner dreams” and leave your mark.
The good news is you already have all you need to unlock that door.
Maybe you’ve been dreaming about…
…Writing a novel or a screenplay…
…Starting a podcast or YouTube channel…
…Launching an entirely new business…
…Creating a digital archive of your family history, writing a book about your life…
…Exploring a side hustle…
…Getting a promotion, going fully remote, or switching careers altogether…
And yet, you push these dreams away over and over.
You tell yourself it’s stupid or silly—or something a smarter, a younger, or more capable person would do.
As a result, you feel…
Stuck.
Like you’ve been standing still for so long, and keep kicking the can down the road as the years go quickly by.
Frustrated.
You have so many wishes and wants, but no idea where to start. So you just keep doing what you always have.
Behind.
You worry that time is running out and you have nothing to show for it, that everyone’s ahead of you.
Ashamed.
You dread the question “What are you up to?” because you thought you’d be further along by now.
The reason you haven’t gotten closer to these wishes and dreams is simpler than you think:
You’ve believed what others have told you – and what you’ve told yourself:
The world has told you:
Be reasonable, responsible, realistic.
Choose what is most practical, logical.
Be grateful for what you’ve got.
Stay in your lane – leave it to the experts.
And you’ve told yourself:
I’m not smart, experienced, or confident enough.
I’m too old to start now – it is too late.
I wasn’t blessed with enough natural talent.
I lack the discipline and motivation.
It’s so easy to do nothing and leave
the door bolted shut.
It is so much easier to avoid the risk. Put it off and (try to) be happy with what you’ve got.
You can tell yourself it wouldn’t have worked out anyway.
You’ll live. You could just keep doing what you’re already doing, what you’re used to, for the next 5, 10, 20 years. Life will go on.
The truth is:
Every one of us longs for a life of meaning and purpose.
We all have that human urge to express, create, or share something of value with others – to impact their lives, to leave a mark. To matter.
And, we all have a proverbial locked door between us and that dream, that ambition.
Why? Because if it were easy, it would lose some of its value. Being challenged, overcoming challenges, and proving ourselves is part of the meaning.
But, it is scary. We don’t know what’s behind that door? Will it be worth it? Will we be able to rise to the challenge? We tell ourselves we can’t unlock the door until we have more answers.
Good news: You don’t have to know what’s behind the door to unlock it.
Now, stop reading.
I know you didn’t expect this, but I’m going to ask you do something right now.
Take out a pen. For real. Grab a napkin. An envelope. Open your Notes app. Set a timer for 2 minutes. And write out—yes, literally—your answers to these questions. Don’t think! Just write. Fast.
You may not know exactly what is behind the door, but you can know:
If nothing changes, how will your life look a year from now? Don’t think, just write. Capture whatever images come to mind.
If you do open the door, and try something big, how will you feel in a year? What would be the very best, can’t-believe-it’s-happening version of your life?
What if you could do something that really matters to you?
Do something new, something big, and share it? Get reinvigorated and engaged in your life again? Expanded your vision of what’s possible? Have the impact you’ve always wanted to have. Unlock your creative genius?
How would you feel if you could…
Find Your Voice
Clarify your values, and vision, connect with your unique voice, and learn to make it powerful.
Tap New Energy
Connect with a deeper part of yourself and release tons of energy you didn’t even know you had.
Make Real Progress
Create the momentum that comes from being fully present and moving forward with time on your side.
Get in the Flow
Learn to create an environment of ease so you can truly enjoy the acts of discovering and making.
Trust in Yourself
Experience confidence through trusting yourself to learn – even though you don’t know everything.
Free Your Genius
Let go of beliefs that have kept you stuck and learn the creativity strategies that work best for you.
INTRODUCING
A program that helps you crack the code to your creativity, unlock the door to your potential, and turn your secret ambition into a reality.
In Creative License, I will teach you how to:
Break through blocks to access your creative genius
Expand your perspective beyond what you thought was possible
Find your own voice and build confidence in sharing it in a bigger way
Lay the groundwork for your creative project
Connect the dots between your expertise, ideas, and offering
Identify and articulate your personal brand
Use goals and values to develop your vision and discover your path
Don’t spend another year dreaming.
Join me for Creative License—and unlock the door to your secret ambition today.
Why Creative License?
To take “creative license” means to ignore the conventions or rules that normally govern a given art form.
Your best, most fulfilling, and fruitful work won’t happen by copying what someone else does or following someone else’s exact formula.
By taking creative license, you set aside what everyone else is doing, and make the decisions that best highlight your skills, talent, and personal brand.
The goal is to take agency in your work and ideas so that you can finally allow that secret ambition to take shape.
Hi! I’m Terri.
Question for you: How many times have you wished you started—to write that book, to launch that new business, break ground on a creative project…and then stopped.
And how often have you then quickly dismissed the idea altogether, believing that you don’t have what it takes, don’t know where to start, and are too old to figure it out anyway?
Maybe you feel the draw of this secret ambition, but then chicken out because you’re not even sure what “it” is? Let alone how to do it?
Or: You gave it a shot, and got stuck, believing it would never work.
You tell yourself you’re better off ignoring all that, and just keeping busy doing what you do.
Only, you’re not better off.
No one’s life is better as a result of stifling a creative idea or urge.
For the past decade I’ve helped people, and organizations, find and articulate their unique, meaningful message – helping them to connect with the people who need and want what they have.
The people I work with all have at least one thing in common: They want to do more, to reach more people, to make their brands, their work, and their lives matter.
They would often assume there was only one right way to do that—a podcast. A blog. An online course. A book. A cool logo or website. Or, that any ONE of these things would “do” that.
They might have even tried at one point and said it “didn’t work.”
None of these things “work” on their own. The problem was that they didn’t ask the critical questions that lay the foundation for their best, most powerful work.
It was as if they were throwing seeds all over the place and wondering why they didn’t have fruit yet—without ever considering the soil itself, and what those assets were planted in.
Creative License is precisely that: A plan for cultivating rich, fertile soil where your most ambitious projects can not only take root, but also bear fruit.
I’ve essentially taken the work and processes I’ve developed with private clients and workshops over the past 10 years, and distilled it all into ONE program that will work for you regardless of your background – no matter what kind of project you ultimately want to create.
The Creative License process draws on a range of disciplines, from creative writing to brand consulting, publishing to public speaking, and informed by the Gateless Method, which I’ve been certified in and practicing for a decade, and which creates a supportive, judgment-free container for our work.
The investment in this program pays for itself over and over again because it continues to feed and inform all your ideas, efforts, and projects.
If you skip this step, you’ll be forever copy-pasting what you see out there, hopping on trends, and trying to force-fit your genius into “proven,” pre-fab formulas instead of discovering and innovating what is uniquely yours.
I cannot wait to do this with you.
What’s on the back of your napkin?
Every book, product, project, or business began with someone writing something down — on a Post-it, in a journal, or on the back of an electric bill.
It didn’t start with the final, finished thing, but the whisper of an idea, the initial sketch, the first bloom of inspiration.
You don’t have to know precisely the what and how of what you’ll make in order to start the creative process.
Join me now to open the door to your brighter future.
Don’t let another year go by. Learn how to create the foundation for accomplishing the bigger, more creative, more impactful work – that matters to you!
What does the Creative License program look like?
In this 3-part, self-paced program, you’ll be given a framework, guidelines, and process that I’ve honed over many consulting hours and workshops to access your creative genius and ideas.
You will:
Start a powerful writing practice to unleash creativity and quiet your critic
Find your voice and boost your self confidence
Reexamine your goals and values to support your dream project
Capture stories, themes, and ideas—and connect the dots in your work
Lay the groundwork for your next project, product, book, offering, side hustle
Identify the best approaches and platforms based on your preferences and style
Tap your inner artist and keep the creativity flowing
Create a story matrix to fuel your creative and marketing efforts
Walk away with a personal playbook to fuel and feed your creative project
Here’s what you get:
30 video lessons with in-session, real-time exercises, plus audio and downloadable transcripts
A month’s worth of audio writing prompts you can do over and over
Three 90-minute live, interactive calls (with recorded replays)
30-page personal workbook
The 25 Questions to Your Next Big Idea Guide
Access to an online, self-paced learning portal
Get Your Personal Playbook
At the end of this course, you will have your own Personal Playbook—which contains all of the stories, themes, insights, messaging, and tools that you’ll draw on to inform your: website, profile and bio, platform options, messaging, content — and that secret ambition you’ve been dreaming of forever.
More importantly, it will contain the personalized principles, rules, and guidelines you discovered that ensure you can succeed while staying aligned with your own values, goals, personality, and style.
In short, it’s the recipe for unlocking your personal genius.
Your playbook not only contains the code to crack your creative genius; it contains the DNA of your ideas, stories, and identity, which you can replicate for all the projects you pursue, starting with the one you choose now. This is the fertile soil for EVERY future dream and project.
This is, effectively, your Creative License.
This is the proof and permission you’ve wanted to pursue your secret ambition. And it’s not issued by some external governing party; it’s created and maintained by you.
What people are saying
"Terri, you have created a turning point for me. I have loved the honesty and feel so grateful for the fresh inspiration, which I believe will help me for a long time to come."
Tara Carrington, M.S., OTR/L
Expert Level Somatic Therapist, Mentor, Consultant, Educator
"Terri helped me realize that I do have things to say, stories to tell, messages to share—and that I just needed help getting out of my own way."
Lisa Kramer
Educator, Activist, & Author
Join me now to open the door to your brighter future.
Don’t let another year go by. Learn how to create the foundation for accomplishing the bigger, more creative, more impactful work – that matters to you!
OVERVIEW OF MODULES
Here’s just some of the things you’ll learn and do in Creative License.
- Discover a practice for busting through blocks
- Write your way to genius
- Use limits to your advantage
- Rewrite your rules and find ease in the creative process
- Find your voice
- Trust your gut and hone your instinct
- Reconnect with confidence
- Learn to speak up
- Identify your values
- Reexamine goals
- Align values with ambition
- Create the conditions for your work
- Unpack your skills
- Communicate what you do in a fresh way
- Filter your genius
- Identify your ideal platform and format
- Discover your unique POV
- Draft an “about you” page
- Tell your untold story
- Create your story matrix
- Connect the dots in your work
- Identify your transformation and impact
- Position your idea
- Connect with your audience
- Start a public conversation
- Capture your brand, mission, and message
- Create your plan
- Tap your inner artist
- Finalize your playbook
What will happen when you step through that door?
The most critical step of any creative project is not sticking the landing. It’s deciding to take that first step — across the threshold, through the door, where your secret ambition is waiting to be discovered and revealed.
That means you don’t have to know what will happen as a result of these efforts. In fact, you can’t possibly know!
The only thing you know right now is that you cannot, and will not, put that first step off a moment longer.
When you finally decide to take that step, don’t be surprised when the road seems to rise to meet you: Strange coincidences pop up. Synchronicities appear. Things begin to click.
But you can’t steer what isn’t moving. So let’s begin.
Join me now to open the door to your brighter future.
Don’t let another year go by. Learn how to create the foundation for accomplishing the bigger, more creative, more impactful work – that matters to you!
Things to stop saying to yourself — starting now
Here are just SOME of the reasons I’m willing to bet you’ve said to yourself every time you put off your own ambition and goals:
I’m not “allowed.” You figure the people who succeed were given special access or permission, which you don’t have, and so that route is barred to you.
Newsflash: There is no single governing body that decided you can’t do things. What you assume about what’s possible is incorrect. That’s the good news! Most people started right where you are.
It would be silly, selfish, or self-indulgent. Ah, that’s the critic, doing its job and pumping the brakes while making you feel bad. Typical.
Pursuing a secret ambition is not adolescent or immature or only for younger people. It’s reminiscent of youth — because that may be the last time you felt that way.
It would be irresponsible. The idea of spending any time outside of your many responsibilities to family and work would be unthinkable, even reckless.
Don’t confuse responsible with compliant. Irresponsible means “careless in considering consequences” — have you thought about what you and your life will be like if you continue to squelch your dream goals?
There’s no time. Any free moment you have is booked weeks in advance like a table at a trendy restaurant.
There will never be “more” time. There’s only the time you make for what matters. You know this because you’ve made time for all the things you do in all the roles you have.
It’s just not the right time. You think you first have to: make more money, pay off the car, finish this renovation, wait til vacation, wait til after vacation, get the kids off to college, clean this closet…
Life doesn’t come to a convenient pause so that you can pursue other things. Life will keep moving forward, and so can you.
I’m waiting til I’m ready. You think something else has to happen first, or you have to feel a certain way (more confident, more motivated) before you begin.
You don’t need any of those things to begin. In fact, it’s risky to practice waiting, because you may get so good at it, that’s all you’ll ever do.
I wouldn’t know where to begin. You think that you can’t start if you can’t see the finish line, and that you need all the knowledge and tactics first. You’ve got it backwards.
You don’t know have to know. The beauty of the creative process is that it’s all about discovery, which by definition means you don’t know everything at the jump. The decision to begin, to take that first step, is all that you need.
If you’re fine with not pursuing your dream…
….then why are you still reading this?
Let’s be real. This is a long-ass letter.
And if you’ve come this far, there’s really only one good reason not to move forward:
You’re totally 100% cool with how everything is right now. And you never want anything to change. Ever.
The questions screaming in your head in all caps right now…
False. You already have all the raw materials, both what’s hard-wired, earned, and learned over the course of your rich and interesting life.
The problem: Those talents, skills, and ideas are buried under a sediment of tedium, assumptions and limiting ideas — and held in place by outside pressures and expectations.
As a result, your genius can get squeezed out—and sealed shut.
You think: It’s too late. I’m too old. It’s been done. I don’t have the talent, the background, the skill, the confidence, or the time to catch up or do something worthwhile. I couldn’t keep up.
There are a million other reasons we talk ourselves out of doing things that might fulfill us. But none of them are quite as fulfilling as deciding to bring your secret ambition to life.
It’s easy to talk ourselves out of things. That’s why most people do it.
Sometimes you feel a desire to pursue an ambition without knowing what form or format it will ultimately take. That’s ok!
The fact that you’re (still) here tells me that the fear of not pursuing that dream goal is starting to outpace your fear of doing it.
The only thing you need right now is access to what you already have inside you.
If you’ve ever experienced a disappointment, hit a block, or received a cutting bit of criticism, you know how that can cause you to come to a grinding halt.
What if the “it” wasn’t the issue? What if you went into the process this time with a whole other set of tools and insights so that you could explore that, or other, projects.
Maybe the book you felt blocked on would find new life as a podcast. Maybe the podcast you can’t get going would be better as a series of live events.
Far too many people waste time and resources by committing to a “thing” before they know it’s a fit. And I’ve found that when I was hot on a trend and the trend cooled, so did I. Because it wasn’t actually connected to me in any real way.
I don’t want you to waste any effort—or any more time. So let’s do the most important work first.
Join me now to open the door to your brighter future.
Don’t let another year go by. Learn how to create the foundation for accomplishing the bigger, more creative, more impactful work – that matters to you!
Here’s why Creative License works better than anything you’ve tried before.
It doesn’t start with the “answers” – it begins with a process for accessing your creativity quickly and easily.
It teaches you how to write your way to genius using the power of personal narrative and self-authoring.
You connect the dots between values, goals, skills, and the right platforms and projects for you.
Learn how to capture and articulate your personal brand in a way that feels authentic and relatable.
You unpack your existing skill set, and start connecting the dots between what comes easy and what creates the most value for you and others.
Create your own Personal Playbook, which features all of your stories, ideas, insights, themes, brand philosophy, and messaging to move your work forward. It is the recipe for unlocking your personal genius on every future project.
"I think so hard but so freely through the guidance and prompts. I'm still surprised by what I discover has been holding me back. Amazing, insight-building work!"
Jess Beachkofsky, M.D.
Psychiatrist
"You pull no punches, you've taught me to find my courage."
Dana Anzalone
Author, Elephants Don't Eat Spaghetti
"Thank you for another reminder that we can be whoever we want."
Karen Kartika
Founder, SparkVesta
It’s time to find your voice and free your genius. Join us for Creative License today!
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About Terri
Terri Trespicio helps people who want to work with meaning and live with purpose to stop searching for their passion and start making things happen. Her courses, workshops and retreats help you unlock your creative genius to fuel your stand out ideas. Terri’s TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has been viewed more than eight million times, and she’s the author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You. An award-winning writer and keynote speaker, she’s also former magazine editor at Martha Stewart, and her writing has been featured in Marie Claire, Jezebel, Business Insider, Oprah magazine, and others. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and won first place for creative nonfiction in the Baltimore Review’s 2016 literary contest. She lives in Manhattan.