genius is about making connections ... between ideas + strategies, desires + beliefs, between that flame in your heart and your full potential.

"Danielle’s Fire Starter session is invaluable for you at any stage of your career - from early idea to well established rut. She is thorough, quick and intuitive. Her soft spoken style is deceptive. This woman won’t mince words to let you know what you need to hear. And you will be better for the listening. Her questions alone are priceless, but add the brainstorming, cheerleading, taped session and list of resources and you can’t go wrong."
- Ten People to Rock Your Career in 2010
CoachSpotlight.com, Pearl Mattenson

1-on-1 fire starter sessions

Acumen, innovation, and intuition focused on you and your work in the world. $500, with 5% donated to charity. Exclusively on the phone. I review your site or concept in advance. The conversation usually runs about an hour. Inspiration and how-to guaranteed.

I work exclusively with active and progressive entrepreneurs, or those on the verge of breaking out with their own enterprise. Our jam sessions are one-off think-tanking conversations for surfacing opportunities and zooming in on strategies. I am not a business or career transition coach. I’m an opinionated, highly intuitive, pragmatic maven of inspiration and information. Fire Starter sessions are sacred brainstorms packed with practicality.

I’m going to help you see what’s possible ... and laser in on the wisest course of action. Wisdom = meaningfulness and efficiency; doing what brings you joy and considering what the market will respond to. Jam sessions could generate a new product or service, your next book plot, insight into repeating lessons, a decision about what you need to stop doing, a better tagline, or a gazillion dollar idea. We may deepen your connection to your truest vocation, overhaul your website, or rev up your mojo to take action.

your fire starter session includes:

1. The Burning Questions ... a meaningful inquiry into your work life. I will email it to you when you book your session. This brief Q&A is an immensely valuable process on it’s own, and it will inform our actual think-tanking.
2. Advance research and assessment. I will review any relevant websites on your work or industry in advance of our session.
3. A sixty-minute consulting session for you and your business. You are welcome to invite other people in on the call. (That said, think carefully about this ... Fire Starter sessions can be quite personal and evocative.)
4. An MP3 file of the recorded session emailed to you.
5. 5% of your fee donated to: Women for Women International.
   
   

booking your session

1. Email me a few lines about your current work and where you might want to take it, or just send me a link to your site. If I feel that I can add value, then we schedule a phone session. I usually book three to five weeks in advance.
2. Sessions are $500* to be paid upon booking ... We'll email you a PayPal invoice. (*+tax for Canadian residents.)
3. I’ll email you The Burning Questions inquiry about your vocation and ambitions. I like to have the Q&A back at least two days before our session.
4. Then...We jam! We dream and scheme. We set your entrepreneurial spirit ablaze.
5. The MP3 recording of the phone session will be emailed to you.
6. Then...you go forth and shine like the bright star that you are.
   
   

praise from clients

"The meat and sheer richness of content I got from our session, not to mention the inspiration and all around feel-goodness is priceless. Plus the session is going to make me waaaay more than what I spent on it. Thank you ever so kindly."
- Kate Northrup, Team Northrup, New York

"The investment in my Fire Starter session was THE best thing I've done for my business. I came to our call with a concept, lots of questions, and no idea how I was going to make money. In an hour, I was focused, fired-up and pointed towards freedom."
- Lori Davis Yeager, The Gastronomic Duo, Minneapolis

"A Fire Starter session is one of the coolest things I have ever done for myself. I felt re-energized with a boldness and daring that I have not felt in quite some time. Your motivation mantras bring out the best and push the edge just a little bit further than my current comfort zone. A bit of tough love I needed to get back in the game. I am grateful for someone who is an adventurous advocate and wholeheartedly for my soulful success."
- Alisa Barry, CEO, Bella Cucina, Atlanta

"I love how honest you are, there’s no crap...anywhere. You did your homework...I couldn’t believe how much thought you had put into our session. You helped me think about where I’m at, what makes sense, what will bring the highest return on my limited time and resources, and ultimately how I can have the biggest joy in what I do. It all resonated. I’m trying to apply the “To Do” list two months later, there was such a list. What a great value. Your insight is dense. It’s strategy that requires action."
- Kelly King Anderson, Founder, StartUpPrincess

"That was hands-down the most useful, enjoyable and amazing business ANYTHING I've ever done!"
- Ophira Edut, AstroStyle.com, New York

"F. Scott Fitzgerald held that the mark of a good mind was the ability to hold two thoughts at the same time without them colliding. Danielle LaPorte has that ability to an awesome degree: the ability to be both a tough professional and a sensitive human being, to talk a mile-a-minute and then really listen, to value her own time highly and the use it generously on behalf of her clients, and finally, to emphasize both grassroots publicity opportunities and national media priorities."
- Dan Simon, Publisher, Seven Stories Press, New York

"Oh SNAP! If I only knew that my time with you would create the biz of my dreams - a happiness movement across the globe ... I would have paid you WAY more! In fact, something tells me I will forever be in your debt for those sparks you ignited!"
- Stephanie Corker Irwin, NoMoSolo, Vancouver

"It was one of the highlights of my year."
- Rachel Cole, 18 Reasons, San Francisco

"Best money we ever spent!"
- Suzi & Sarah, Joyjunket.com, Duluth MN

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