: the manifesto of encouragement.

The response to this post was a big, gorgeous surprise for me. It's been my wildest fire to date. It's been Tweeted and linked to over 4000 times. I'm going to make it into a print book...maybe sell the movie rights (just kidding on the movie deal.) It starts like so:

Right now:
There are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness.
Someone you haven't met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.
Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next two years that will change how you look at life.

READ THE FULL MANIFESTO, and add your own mantra. This lightship is in orbit. Full speed ahead.

: building trust and other tactical bullshit that you probably don’t need. Next time you stumble upon a theory from someone older, wiser, and (allegedly) more enlightened, ask yourself: do I really need this? READ THE FULL POST, and burn off the fog.

: confidence vs. blind faith: rock ‘em both. Confidence is an arrow ommming to the target. Blind faith rolls with chance and destiny. Fancy yourself the rock 'em, sock 'em type? YOU GOTTA HAVE BOTH.

sightings + soul merch

: save the date. Check, check, 1-2-3. On Sept 9, I'll be speaking at SHIFTED: a synthesized showcase of challenge, failure and success. 6 pm at District 319 in Vancouver. Hop on board on Facebook + Twitter.

: burn, baby, burn. The Fire Starter Sessions is a digital book-meets-video seminar to help you rock your business...your way, right away. Watch this video and I'll tell you all about it.

"Danielle LaPorte's passion for her mission leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action."
- Gretchen Rubin, author, The Happiness Project

"The Fire Starter Sessions is the new, bad-ass Artist’s Way.”
– Linda Sivertsen, co-author, Harmonic Wealth, and Generation Green

$150 for the full-tilt love.
And! $5 from every copy goes to the charity you choose:
The Acumen Fund or Women for Women International

Click here to view the full
Table of Contents!

So, like, I thought of doing this crazy "Pay what you can" event for The Fire Starter Sessions on my birthday. I didn't think much of it. I thought it would be great if 70 or so people jumped on the rad' offer. MY VA, Dawn, thought "No problem! We can so handle the response!" And while I was getting salt-scrubbed (because it was my birthday,) over SEVEN HUNDRED people made offers between $20 and $200 dollars. SURPRISE!

I accepted 99% of offers. And in the few cases where I did not, I sent out (or will be sending out) a complimentary chapter.

I'll be writing about the lessons learned and tears of wonderment and incredible stories soon. But for now: WE ARE PROCESSING ORDERS OUT THE WAZOO!

If you haven't heard from us yet, or have been invoiced but haven't received the link, please and pretty please lend us your patience. Processing 700+ orders is a very big job. A happy, delightful job, just takes a bitta time and patience.

Hang tight. Is will so be worth the wait.

Big Love,
Danielle
(and the amazing VA, Dawn, and the amazing elves recruited to help respond to the deluge.)

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INTERVIEWS

WomanzWorld cornered me in my favourite cafe to talk business. WATCH HERE

Toni Reece from The People Academy asked me about resistance and hope. READ HERE

(To protect the identities of the following well-intentioned bozos and mogul wannabes, names are being withheld.)

Constantly innovate.

I live to innovate. It’s one of my favourite practices. Howevah…innovation for the sake of innovation is masturbation. Innovation fascination can distract you from what’s already really working. It’s disruptive by nature. The pursuit of new n’ flashy can block you from going from good to great.

Once you have lots of online traffic, then you can figure how to monetize it.

That only works if you’re playing a very big league game, and you have stupid amounts of time and money to burn through. And even then it’s incredibly risky. For the rest of us babies, we need to stick to making stuff that people want to pay for—immediately.

Take the money.

Most of the time (not all the time) the source of the money is as important as the money itself. When you’re the start-up beggar, it’s tough to be choosy. But remember the rules of nature: otherwise cute and friendly animals tend to get vicious when their territory or uh, nuts are threatened. Hang with friendly creatures.

Leave your emotions out of it.

I had an investor tell me to calm down when (unbeknown to him but very known by me,) the hired fox was robbing the hen house we’d all invested in. And I, being the Head Hen n' all, had my feathers very appropriately ruffled.

“Look, the best thing for you to do is leave your emotions out of this, Danielle,” Dudeboy told me, rubbing the key to his Mercedes and twisting his espresso cup round in the saucer.

Sad but true, this tends to be a male/female thing. A Dudeboy gets angry and it’s cool, it’s warranted. A Chickwoman gets pissed and she’s just “freaking out.” Men go by their "instincts." Women follow their "emotions." Same thing, asshole.

In a quagmire of politics, my “emotions” were the most effective radar system I had—my “emotions” were telling me exactly what was going on, before it could be proved. You can let your emotions rule without over-ruling your good sense and integrity.

Just do one big thing at a time.

When it comes to actual time management I’m a big fan of focus. You need to tune out Twitter and email to make some creative, productive headway.

But in terms of overall development strategy and creativity, the singular focus route has never worked for me. I just can’t do one project at a time. I need to feed different parts of my brain and spirit. And with more than one iron in the creative fire, the fire just gets higher.

It doesn’t matter who gets the credit.

Screw that! It matters. A lot.

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This is the final excerpt I'll be releasing from the prelude of THE FIRE STARTER SESSIONS digital book. The full book launches May 12! Pre-order now and get the "True Strengths & The Metrics of Ease" session immediately!

"I quickly downloaded the first chapter and it's blowing my mind. Amazing. I can't wait to get the rest. This chapter alone is worth way more than $150."
- Tim Murphy

"After The Fire Starter Sessions, you'll stop thinking of yourself as a 'little entrepreneur.'"
- Abby Kerr

"If you haven't heard, or you've been on the fence about pre-ordering Danielle LaPorte's FIRE STARTER SESSIONS for entrepreneurs, run, don't walk. You will not be sorry. The first chapter is brilliant and I am sure the rest to come will be. just. as. amazing."
- Nona Jordan, business & life coach

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INTERVIEWS

Maria Ross at Red Slice and I talked about authenticity in branding.

Yvonne Bynoe from Sophisticated Woman & Mama asked me some great questions about money, honey.

LaFemmeSabotage threw 3 Big Questions at me.

THE FIRE STARTER SESSIONS:
Spark your genius. Ignite your business. Do it your way.

It’s a downloadable book, meets video seminar, meets cosmic transmission of love. (And it’s going to be gorgeous!) There’s nothing out there like this. The pre-launch starts the week of April 5, which will be a “buy now” and get a sneak peek offer; and the worldwide release is the week of May 10. (I love saying “world-wide release”. Makes me feel like Sade.)

IDEAS + REQUESTS + OPPORTUNITIES

Need some great content for your site? Interview… Me!
I participated in Seth Godin’s Linchpin book e-campaign, in which he asked 50 bloggers to interview him and run it on the day of the launch. In return, he included our site links in his launch blog post. Traffic spiked for everyone. It was a beautiful thing.

If you want to interview me and post the interview the week of The Fire Starter Sessions pre-launch (or anytime thereafter,) that would be fabulous. We can record a video, an audio, or do something via email. I’m putting this request out now so that I have lead-time to be responsive. If I get deluged, well, I'll dance with it and we'll get every single interview done in as long as it takes to do that. Big bang campaigns are effective, but steady, slow burn campaigning can have lasting dazzle . (Keep that in mind when your publicist says you need to do twenty cities in ten days.)

If you’re game to interview me, send me an email [d @ daniellelaporte dot com] with a few questions, or if you want to record a video, or a phoner (which is my preference, but I’m flexi,) we can set a date.

I will tweet, facebook, and post a link in my blog posts to our interview on your site. I may also create a separate page of just interview links that lives on my site. If your site isn’t the fitting venue, then if you can tweet, facebook and forward links like crazy, I'd be deeply grateful.

WHAT IT WILL COST AND WHY I'M NOT DOING A CONVENTIONAL MARKETING STRATEGY

The Fire Starter Sessions program will be $150. Period. No tiered pricing. No fluffy bonus offers. No preferential, velvet rope, or ‘scarcity marketing’ tactics.

Here's the thing, and this kind of chokes me up... after writing literally hundred of bios and press releases for clients, editing dozens of books, pitching major media outlets and TV networks; and even being the lead author of a wonderfully successful book, this is my first 100% solo, free-flying creative project. I can hardly believe it myself. White Hot Truth (and all things now and evermore) is the result of the creativity sovereignty that I've longed for my whole life. And therefore, I hereby decree that The Fire Starters Sessions will be elegant and straight forward in every possible way. I've hustled on too many less-than gigs, and kissed too many effin' frogs to shrink away from the high road now.

Besides, I believe that people (especially you, my tribe) are innately intelligent. I know that you know that there is no limited time offer on perennial wisdom and vibrant love.

And so it is: $150 for full-tilt extreme value. $5 from every purchase will be donated to a charity (I'm meditating on which one, I may do two charities.)

AFFILIATE LOVE
For the first phase of launch, the affiliate kickback program will be only open to my Fire Starter clients and past seminar attendees, and actual purchasers of the program. We’ll do a 30/70 split. We’ll start the affiliate program pre-launch week, April 5, with cool badges you can pull from my site, and links to the affiliate system. We’ll make this easy breezy for everyone.

MORE TO COME
I’m giving this all I’ve got in one fell swoop. I thought of doing a “series” with a phased-out delivery, but I want to pour it on. So I will. I want this to be one of the best selling digital books of its genre. I want to use state of the art technology to create a classic. I want as many people as possible to feel and shine their light, ever brighter - and to create deep freedom while doing it. You know what I’m talking about.

Lovelove,

p.s. I’m really excited. Like, crazed with excitement. Like, mad artist, scientist crazed. xoxo
p.p.s. if you want to tweet about how excited you are, please do. Hashtag is #FireSS

ONE MORE THING, IMPORTANT:
If you want to get on my official “interested” Fire Starter list for announcements and offers, PLEASE CLICK HERE TO GET ON THAT LIST RIGHT NOW.

In a few days, I will shut off the old system (Feedburner) and exclusively send out my new pretty emails (with AWeber). Don't miss out on the love. (For you RSS people, everything remains the same.)

Please & Thank You,
Danielle
xo

I'm changing the program I use that manages all of my fabulous e-subscribers. The new program will allow me to send out my posts so they're stylin' and pretty.

(FYI, for anyone who cares, I'm switching from Feedburner, ugly and controlling; to A-Weber, which is customizable and flexible.)

Since I'm tryin' to, like, build an empire of conscious multi-media and rocking wisdom, every subscriber who cares about my content is precious and deeply appreciated. So check your email and click the link.

Or better yet - go to the upper right of my home page where it says GET HOT, SUBSCRIBE - and do just that.

With Love,
Danielle
xo

PS... you may receive two WhiteHotTruth identical daily emails from me for the next few days - one from the old system, and one from the new (which will look way better.) SO sorry for the potential annoyance. Change can be a bitch and technology can be even bitchier.

PPS... if you're getting me via RSS - you're free and clear, no changes required. Fhew.