Bring your career history and whatever ideas you are carrying. You leave knowing how to choose a business idea, which direction is worth your next year, and what you need to prove before you bet on it.
That is how long you have until the next live session.
It is free and online, you watch in your browser, and you will not need a card.
We email you the link to the training room and a reminder before it starts, and you can unsubscribe with one click.
Almost every program in this category starts at “you have an idea” and teaches you how to build it. That does not help if you are still holding 4 half-formed directions. It is even worse if you picked one because it sounded interesting and no customer has paid for it yet.
You have a list: consulting, a course, a productized service, the thing your old colleagues keep asking you about. Every one of them sounds plausible, and that is exactly the problem. You have been going around in circles for months because you have no clear way to rank them.
You know you want out, and you have years of hard-won judgment. You just cannot say what you would sell, and every list of business ideas online was written for a stranger.
Both of those come down to the same problem. You will not find the idea on a list. You work it out from what you have already been paid to do, and then you test it against the market before you put a year of your life into it. That is what the session does.
You do the work during the session, using your own history, and you leave with an answer you worked out yourself.
Your strongest directions are already inside the work you have done. We help you find them, so you are not choosing from a list of businesses built for other people.
Most people arrive attached to a favorite. By the end you know whether it holds up, and if it does not, you know exactly why. That beats another year of wondering.
You leave with the direction most likely to work for you, and a short list of what still has to be true before you put money, your notice or a resignation letter behind it.
We work through all 4 live, using your own directions, so you hear each question applied to your own situation.
Most people lose a favorite here. It is much better to lose it in this hour than 8 months into building it.
The answer is not always yes, and you can find out before you start instead of after a year of being ignored.
Some directions are excellent and simply not open to you yet. Knowing which is which changes what you do next.
This is the question people skip most often, and it is the one that ends businesses in year 2.
There are 40 minutes of method and 20 minutes of questions, and we narrow a few real lists live. There are no slides about mindset, and no half-hour origin story before anything useful starts.
We cover the 2 ways this goes wrong, why most programs teach you how to build instead of what to build, and what a direction has to survive before it deserves your savings.
We ask the questions that pull real directions out of your career. You answer them as we go, on paper or in a doc, about your own work. By the end of this part you have raw material to work with, usually more than you expected.
Each direction goes through the same test, live, one question at a time. Most people watch a favorite fail here and end up somewhere they did not expect, and that is exactly what the hour is for.
Put your own situation in the chat and have it pressure tested. This is the reason to join at the start time: Stella answers every question, in the chat or by email the next day.
It is free, so you lose nothing either way. But an hour is an hour, so here is who we built it for.
I came to the United States on a student visa and made it through the H-1B lottery. Then I was laid off, and the visa gave me 60 days to find another employer or leave the country. I did 40 interviews in 6 weeks and signed in the final week.
After that I made myself a promise: no employer would ever again hold the outcome of my life in their hands. So I self-petitioned my own EB-1A green card, with no one sponsoring me, and built 2 profitable solo businesses without raising a dollar.
What got me through was knowing exactly how many months of savings I had, refusing to move the deadline, and doing the unglamorous work while nothing was working yet.
I have run both businesses from more than 40 countries, and that is the part I care about most. Working from anywhere becomes possible once you own your income. Very few programs teach both, so I built the company that does, and I still oversee every part of it myself.
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Knowing what to build is the hard part, and after this hour you will have it. Building it takes a different kind of work, and most founders want help with that part. So near the end of the session we spend a few minutes on Plan A, the 8 week program this method comes from. You can leave before that and still keep everything the session promised.
You leave with the direction, the reasons it holds up, and the specific things that still have to be true. The hour is free, and what you take away is yours to use however you like.
You prove the demand with real buyers, shape the offer, set the price, and work out how customers find you. You also work out how long your savings last and set a date you have to hit. Your coach reads and marks your work against a clear standard.
You can take it from here on your own. It is also how many founders spend 2 years and a lot of money reaching an answer Plan A gets you to in 8 weeks.
It is free. You do not enter a card when you register or during the session. We run the workshop because some of the founders who attend later apply to Plan A, and that is the whole business model behind it.
Register anyway. We do not send recordings, but the training room stays open for 48 hours after the session, and we email you a link to save your seat at the next one. You will miss the live chat, which is where founders who already have ideas get the most out of it, so join at the start time if you can.
We built this session for you. The first half of the workshop works from a blank page, and the registration form asks whether you have ideas yet so we can follow up in a way that fits your situation.
Sometimes, and finding that out is worth an hour. More often your idea survives in a narrower, more specific form than the one you brought in. Either way, you leave knowing where it stands.
No. There is no camera and no microphone: you watch in your browser and take part through the chat. Write your real situation there, and Stella answers it in the chat or in the summary email the next day.
A list of business ideas does not know anything about you. It cannot know what you have been paid to do, who you can reach, or what you would refuse to spend the next 5 years on. Everything in this session comes out of your own history, so you leave with 1 direction you believe in.
Other attendees can see what you write in the chat, so keep anything confidential out of it. Your first name is enough. We never share or publish anything you write in the registration form.
It runs once a month in the same format. If this date does not work, register anyway and we will let you know about the next one. We update the material as the questions change, so a later session is just as good.
Get 1 short lesson and 1 task a day by email. Finish all 5 and earn 10% off Plan A or the complete toolkit set, your pick.
You will leave knowing what you would build, why that one beat the others, and what has to be true before you commit to it. Most founders have been going around in circles on that question for months.
It runs once a month. If this date does not work, register anyway and we will let you know about the next one.
It is free and online, you watch in your browser, and you will not need a card.
We email you the link to the training room and a reminder before it starts, and you can unsubscribe with one click.
Start somewhere free. The Solo Business Idea Worksheet walks you through turning the skills people have already paid you, or your employer, for into business ideas you could actually sell. It is the question every toolkit assumes you have answered.
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