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3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
An immersive course in telling the world who you really are — and attracting the people and opportunities you really want.
4.7 (7)
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
An immersive course in telling the world who you really are — and attracting the people and opportunities you really want.
Course overview
When it comes to our professional bios, I believe we all missed the original assignment — to tell our story in ways that invite curiosity, connection, and conversation.
Instead, we've all been looking over someone else's shoulder. Copying what they've done. Replacing their name and accomplishments with our own. Hoping to come across polished and professional, all while playing a high-stakes game of Mad Libs with our careers.
We're so much more than a random collection of nouns and verbs and adjectives. We're multifaceted humans with big dreams. And if we want to realize those dreams, we have to stop playing formulaic games.
This is not a course in making tweaks and edits to “OK“ bios. I won't be sharing fill-in-the-blank templates. And I have no interest in being anyone's Fairy Grammarly. 🧚♀️ This is a master class in learning to see and describe your own awesomeness — like you never have before.
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CREATIVES
Stop letting bio-writing conventions constrain you that can't possibly contain you.
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ENTREPRENEURS
Tell your founder story in a way that aligns and amplifies your vision for the future.
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INTUITIVES, HEALERS
Transmit the energetic quality of the work you do through the words you choose.
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EDUCATORS
Apply that academic rigor to the expression of your achievements and aspirations.
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SPEAKERS
Land gigs, convey authority, and help your audience connect with the real you.
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AUTHORS
Credential and elevate your works with a bio your readers will remember.
Exercises to remember how badass and unique you are. 🤩
Plus a caring instructor and cohort that will kindly remind you if you forget.
Tools for making powerful creative choices. 🧰
Learn to think like a professional writer — so you can confidently, authentically, and powerfully express yourself when it matters most.
Tons of diverse, divergent, and intersectional examples. 📚
Across race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, ability, creative style, and professional role.
Personalized guidance as you think, write, and refine. 📝
Live support and feedback in cohort meetings. Select opportunities for hands-on edits.
A repeatable process you can use again and again — for any bio. 🔁
Our method teaches you to build whatever bio you need. One sentence for Instagram, a tell-all for your website, an About section on LinkedIn, a blurb on a book, a podcast intro, etc. Choose your own bio adventure.
Confidence and excitement for the world to meet the real you. 🤗💛✨
This is #maincharacterenergy at its finest. Nothing beats the feeling of being powerfully, authentically, unmistakably You.
Live sessions
Learn directly from Anita Stubenrauch in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Build-a-Bio
6 live sessions • 5 lessons • 18 projects
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“I thought you were going to nip-and-tuck LinkedIn profiles for people. But your 3-level-noun exercise is closer to a super-strategy defining the Simon Sinek ‘Why?’ for a human being.” –Mark Palmer
(And that's just one exercise, people. 😉)
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Anita worked her way from Apple Retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs and authoring Apple’s Credo along the way. Today she's running Cause:Effect Creative, a branding agency that expresses visionary ideas with poetic power. She’s also building The Land of Make and Believe, a 14-acre event and retreat space bringing magical realism to a nonfiction world. And she's hosting the Hyperactive Imagination podcast, a high-voltage channel for creativity.
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4+ hours per week
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Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:00 p.m. PT
Weekly projects
2+ hours per week
Time to complete exercises varies. We suggest you read through them first, then allocate the time you need to complete them thoughtfully.
Want to get a taste for the program? Join a free Build-a-Bio Jump💥Start workshop. Check out our upcoming events.
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops, recorded videos, and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
Progress alongside other participants through group discussions and breakouts
Learn with a cohort of accomplished peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you