🙏 The Pursuit Of Hope

In A F*cked Up Society

Hello everybody,

I’ve been consumed by deep anxiety for a long time now.

As highly sensitive people, the darkness of the world weighs heavily on our souls. Social media is fucked up!

In between videos of AI, WW3 and the horrific evil in the Epstein files, TikTok is serving adverts trying to sell me mops 😆

WTF?!

We need more kindness. We need a mission.

So I’m shutting my creative coaching practice down for new clients.

I LOVE creative coaching and will continue working with my long-term clients, but there are bigger missions to tackle.

I want to help my 11-year-old daughter.

She is highly sensitive, a deeply kind soul brimming with creative ideas, life and hope.

It would be beyond tragic to watch that slowly crumble before my eyes.

I’m 54, have done a LOT of work, and I’m struggling to cope with how bleak everything feels right now.

I can’t begin to imagine how highly sensitive pre-teens and teenagers must feel.

I’m launching an online Creative Entrepreneur Academy for Gen Alpha kids to learn business, life, and personal finance skills that schools don’t teach them.

We’re going to teach highly sensitive kids how to leverage their multiple skills and passions to help others.

And provide practical, creative business skills that give them options, in addition to their school education, for an uncertain AI future of work.

Having a mission to help others creates purpose. Purpose gives kids hope.

I’ll also bring in child therapists, so the kids can speak to them anonymously without stigma.

(If you’re a child therapist or neuroscientist who works with pre-teens or teens, please reply to this email. It’s a paid gig.)

Existentially, we’ve already lost a significant percentage of Gen Z to nihilism.

There are 10X more degrees than jobs. AI technology is going to expedite that further.

So I deeply believe we have to provide new options for Gen Alpha kids to have a future that gives them hope beyond the traditional path.

I know loads of highly sensitive, creative geniuses at the top of their fields with highly successful creative businesses.

I’m hiring some of them as mentors and instructors for the kids to learn new skills.

I’m going to build in public.

I’m going to write about the hopes, fears and anxieties of burning down a business

…and reinventing yourself with a new mission.

If you’re consumed by anxiety, start a mission. It gives you agency.

My anxiety is mostly gone as I’m going towards it, instead of hiding from it and making it worse.

I’m an existentialist. I have never believed we find purpose. We create purpose by helping others.

We gain hope by helping others gain hope.

My main anxiety is how to guide my 11-year-old in an uncertain AI future without losing hope, and how to manage mental health in a society fuelled by division and hate on social media.

It’s a primal anxiety at the core of my identity as a father.

If you’re a Gen Alpha parent, I’m sure you resonate.

It’s Valentine’s weekend.

I’m taking the weekend off from my phone to spend time with my family.

Have a great weekend.

Peace out.✌️