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Stories, insights, ideas, and more on our journey from in-house tech marketers to international entrepreneurs

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Our newsletter, Around the Bonfire, is where you can connect with us every week. Free insights and musings on our experience as in-house marketers turned agency owners who think a lot about creativity, our relationship to work, and how all of that impacts our identitiesβ€”right to your inbox.

Plus, we offer a bundle of benefits for paid subscribers, like:

  • Resource library with templates, exercises, courses, and event replays

  • Invites to online events

  • Extra subscriber-only content

  • Opportunity to pre-book our in-person retreats

Our community’s favorite stories

The Cure for Imposter Syndrome by Shannon Deep

Lessons from the Jennifer Coolidge School of Believing in Yourself

Read on Substack

100 (Yes, 100!) Sources of Creative Inspiration by Kevan Lee

A loooong list of ideas for overcoming creative block

Read on Substack

Get (statistically) luckier by Kevan Lee

How to increase your "luck surface"

Read on Substack

Media library

Interested in having Kevan and Shannon on your podcast, or write for your publication? Get in touch!

Podcasts & Videos

Featured Appearance

The Joel Bein Show

All appearances

The Best Brand Primer I’ve Ever Heard

Content, Briefly with Jimmy Daly

How to Build What You Believe

Snafu with Robin Zander

The Brand Storytelling Framework

Marketing Powerups with Ramli John

The Intersection of Brand and Pricing

Pricing I/O Presents

Unboring Your Branding

Wynter Workshops

Understanding Brand Beyond Visuals

PRODUCTEA with Leah

How to Navigate Founder Fatigue

The Brand Behavior

Resource shop

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Brand & marketing

LLM /GEO Visibility Playbook for Brand Building

$10

Get your brand cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and beyond in this no-fluff guide to future-proofing your content for the generative search era

PDF playbook + Notion exercise template + Google Sheets tracking template

Mini Course: Brand ROI 101: What to Measure & How

$10

The essentials of what you can measure about and around your brand marketing efforts and all the details on how to actually do it

1 mini course ONLY
Or buy in our
Complete Brand Measurement Kit bundle

Brand Reach Tracker

$5

A comprehensive tracker template will help you track your brand reach goal across all your various top-of-funnel touchpoints: blog, social, PR, etc.

1 Google Sheet template ONLY
Or buy in our
Complete Brand Measurement Kit bundle

Brand Metrics Menu

$2

All the different terms and definitions for the way you can measure your brand’s impact

1 Notion template ONLY
Or buy in our
Complete Brand Measurement Kit bundle

Mini Course: Brand Impact You CAN’T Measure

$10

Why the immeasurable matters so much and how to describe these intangibles in such a way that you get people (like your boss!) bought into them

1 mini course ONLY
Or buy in our
Complete Brand Measurement Kit bundle

Brand Health Score Tracker

$5

A measurement formula for assessing the overall health of your brand to develop and easily referenceable single datapoint to build goals around

1 Google Sheet template ONLY
Or buy in our
Complete Brand Measurement Kit bundle

4Cs Career Clarity Exercise

$5

A 30-45 minute self-reflection tool for purpose-driven professionals to helps you reconnect with what matters β€” and make career decisions that feel aligned

Notion exercise template

Intentional career design

Personal Positioning Exercise

$5

A guided exercise for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and independent creatives to help you articulate your unique value with confidence and purpose

Notion exercise template

Complete Brand Measurement Kit for Startups

$30

Everything you need to understand what you can and cannot measure, exactly how to measure and quantify your impact, and the tools and trackers to do so

Bundle of 2 mini courses + 2 Google Sheets tracking templates + 1 Notion metrics glossary