December 16th: Feel Good Friday #8!

Happy Holidays!

We're back from a brief one-week hiatus to bring you your regular Kahana updates (and a holiday-themed cover because, why not).

The Creator Academy's Got a Brand New Bag ??

By that, we mean we've decided to give it a new name after some more thought and feedback. It shall now be called... (drumroll please):

The Creator Challenge

And yes, I said brand new bag since I really wanted to reference this scene because holidays and because Elf is the most underrated movie of all time (don't at me):

But in all seriousness, we've also made a ton of progress planning and creating the curriculum, as well as building the the site where everything will be hosted (still a WIP).

We are also officially accepting signups for the first cohort (spots are limited)! ??

Friendly reminder that the tentative launch date is January 23 ??

The plan is to have monthly cohorts to help guide folks through the process of translating their life's work, passions, and expertise into income streams.

At least in the early stages, we're going to cap each cohort at ~100 so that we can give everyone enough quality help and create a sense of camaraderie between folks in the group who are going on their quest toward monetization together.

But we'll also turn each part of the curriculum into free content that anyone can use to help them get started.

TL;DR: our goal is to help as many people as possible 1) go way, WAY faster the 6.5 month average it currently takes to monetize and 2) truly enjoy the process of translating their life's work, passions, and expertise into income ??

And we can't wait to get started. So if you or anyone you know would like to be a part of the first (or future) cohorts, feel free to sign up / share the link for the challenge! We'd also love to hear your feedback on the page:

Hubs Galore

As we prepare for the widely anticipated release of monetization, our community has been hard at work building out some awesome hubs. Here are a few we wanted to highlight:

The Internship Hub ??

The goal is simple: help students crush the internship process.

It'll have tactical advice and resources on how to get internships at Fortune 500 companies and top startups, straight from the people that got them.

Feel free to share this link with anyone who might be interested so that they can be notified when it goes live:

Consulting Practice Case Study Hub ??

In a similar vein, this hub is going to be a repository of all of the practice case study materials anyone could possibly dream of - and in fact, more than anyone could even get through in a lifetime - to help folks ace their case interviews.

Boomers and Friends: Your Next Masterpiece ????

This is a hub that we are incredibly excited about, in particular: it's a collaboration bewteen three creativity experts, led by Carl Nordgren , that's focused on showing folks who are 55+ how to spark their creative capacities and that aging is an opportunity for a creative renaissance.

We'll have more updates on these and more hubs in the weeks to come :)

YouTube Spree ??

We've continued to make YouTube content, and we're not stopping anytime soon! Here are a couple of the latest releases:

Quick rant and disclaimer before we close out: managing LinkedIn Newsletters SUCK ??

Not kidding - creating and managing a LinkedIn Newsletter sucks.

When creating the draft for this newsletter you're reading - and every newsletter you have read to date, for that matter - we had to do it multiple times...

• The content doesn't save consistently and you have to re-do work.
• You can't move around things in the text editor easily so you need to have to delete things in a certain order, or get rid of them altogether and reupload.
• We have to use two browsers, because editing is messed up in Chrome (it's impossible to go back and forth between text sizes) and actually posting is messed up on Safari (it doesn't let you include text in the actual LinkedIn post).

Bottomline: it stinks.

That said, we love having you with us and sharing these updates with you, so thank you all so much for your support!

We'd bear through these pains any day for you, just wanted to give you a heads up in case you want to start your own newsletter here ??

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PPS: Magical new product updates coming

Stay tuned for some truly epic stuff.