Turn your experience into a body of work.
Here you’ll find practical guidance for turning what you know into digital products, workbooks, courses, programs, and other useful resources. I write about finding the value in your experience, choosing what to create, making the creation process easier, and building meaningful work for your next chapter—especially after 50.
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How to Find Your Expertise: 4 Places It May Be Hiding
“I don’t think I know anything special enough to teach.” A lot of people feel this way because they think expertise has to be proven with a fancy title, degree, certification, or having given a TED Talk. But some of your most valuable knowledge comes simply from the things you’ve learned just living your life and helping others….
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How to Document Your Life: 7 Simple, Joyful Ways
Hey ladies, I want to talk about why it’s important to document your life, especially as we’re reaching our 40s and 50s. I’m not talking about creating a museum project where we start sticking memories from our youth into a scrapbook. You don’t need a leather journal, perfect handwriting, or a free weekend. All that’s…
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How to Build a Body of Work From Your Experience
Do you have a body of work? Ma’am, if you’re a professional woman, with decades of experience behind you then your answer should be “Indeed, I do!” If not (or if you don’t think you have one) you just need a way to organize the experience you already have into a cohesive body of work…
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How to Choose the Right Digital Product Format
Ok, before anyone does ANYTHING, let’s talk about how it important it is to choose the right digital product format! I’ve noticed that when people start thinking about creating a digital product, they almost immediately jump to “I’ll create a course!” Then it begins…they picture a course with recorded lessons, slides, maybe a talking-head camera…
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Brainstorm Digital Product Ideas with AI
“What digital product should I create?” The longer you sit with that question the more you’ll feel like you need to take another course, read another book, find another guru or do more research before getting started. I get it. But I want to offer you a different way through that stuck place, and it…
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7 Simple Ways to Make Your Digital Products Accessible
When I first started creating courses and digital products way back in the day, I didn’t think about digital product accessibility. I was focused on making things look good, getting the content right, and figuring out the tech. But then I started paying attention. I noticed that some of my own materials were hard to…
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How To Decide What Digital Product To Make
Hmmm, what digital product to make? I used to jump straight into creating. I’d get an idea for a digital product, feel that rush of excitement, and immediately start outlining course modules or sketching out a workbook. The problem was that I’d get a few hours deep into it and then realize I wasn’t sure…
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How to Turn Your Knowledge into a Digital Product
I talk to people who tell me they want to create a digital product but have no idea what they’d sell. And almost every time, just by listening to them talk, I can hear it. I can hear the digital product. The product is already there. I hear it in: If you’ve spent years getting good at something,…
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How to Create Course Videos: 7 Formats That Work (Even If You Hate Being on Camera)
You’re ready to create your course content, but then it hits you—the video part. Maybe you’re thinking you’ll need professional equipment, a perfect studio setup, or worse, you’ll have to stare into a camera lens for hours while trying not to look awkward. As a course creator, this is where I get stuck too. All…