Self-Paced Course

A flexible, self-guided version of the course designed for independent exploration. Work through the exercises and reflections at your own pace as you begin to notice patterns across your interests and experiences.

Who This Course is For

This experience is designed for people whose interests don’t fit neatly into a single category.

Instead of forcing everything into a single lane, this course explores how your diverse interests might actually be the foundation of a thoughtful and flexible career.

  • You have multiple interests or skills and struggle to explain how they fit together

  • You’ve been told you need to “pick one thing” but that advice has never felt quite right

  • Your career path has been nonlinear, exploratory, or difficult to describe

  • You’re curious about portfolio careers, creative work, or building multiple streams of meaningful work

  • You enjoy connecting ideas across disciplines and exploring unexpected directions

  • You’re rethinking what a sustainable, meaningful career might look like in a rapidly changing world

What You'll Explore in the Course

Each module introduces a new lens for exploring your interests, experiences, and possibilities. Through reflection exercises and small experiments, you'll begin connecting ideas that may have previously felt scattered.

  • Module 1 — The Myth of Focus
    Explore the cultural pressure to specialize and why many meaningful careers emerge through exploration and combination instead.

  • Module 2 — Mapping Your Multitudes
    Identify the interests, skills, experiences, and curiosities that make up your personal ecosystem.

  • Module 3 — Patterns and Connections
    Look for themes and intersections that reveal how seemingly unrelated interests might reinforce each other.

  • Module 4 — Small Experiments
    Design small, low-risk ways to explore potential directions rather than waiting for a single perfect plan.

  • Module 5 — Portfolio Careers
    Learn how people combine multiple roles, projects, and income streams into flexible career structures.

  • Module 6 — The Economics of Enough
    Consider what kind of financial and lifestyle balance supports the kind of work you want to pursue.

  • Module 7 — Telling the Story
    Develop language for explaining your work and interests in a way that others can understand.

  • Module 8 — Designing Your Next Chapter
    Bring your insights together and identify possible next steps for shaping your portfolio of work.

Why This Approach Works

Traditional career advice often assumes that success comes from choosing a single focus and pursuing it relentlessly.

But many meaningful careers evolve differently. They emerge through exploration, experimentation, and the discovery of connections between interests over time.

Design thinking offers a useful framework for this process. Instead of trying to predict the perfect path in advance, it encourages small experiments, reflection, and iteration. Over time, patterns begin to emerge.

This course applies those principles to the question of how your diverse interests might come together to form a thoughtful and sustainable portfolio of work.

Meet Your Instructors

Emily Holmes

Design strategist, mixed-media artist, and founder of Curious.

Emily helps individuals and organizations navigate complexity through design thinking, creativity, and human-centered methods. Her work focuses on helping people uncover insights, connect ideas across disciplines, and approach uncertainty with curiosity rather than fear.

Her own career has taken a portfolio path, spanning strategy consulting, teaching, visual art, and creative facilitation. This mix of work has shaped her belief that meaningful careers often emerge through experimentation, reflection, and the gradual discovery of connections between interests.

Through Curious, Emily explores how creative thinking, design methods, and artistic practice can help people imagine new possibilities for both work and life.

Lee Wilmoth

Human-centered learning designer, facilitator, and personal stylist.

Lee designs learning experiences that help people navigate change, make sense of their experiences, and develop language for expressing who they are and how they work. They partner with organizations and communities to create thoughtful learning environments grounded in human-centered design, adult learning, and facilitation.

Their work draws on a wide range of influences, including art history, movement practices, and embodied learning. Lee is particularly interested in how identity, values, and creativity shape the way people show up in their work and lives.

In this course, Lee brings a reflective and exploratory perspective that helps participants connect ideas, question assumptions, and experiment with new ways of thinking about career and purpose.

How the Self-Paced Course Works

This course is designed for independent exploration. You can move through the material at your own pace while engaging with structured prompts and exercises.

  • Short Video Lessons

    Each module introduces a core idea through short lessons and examples. These provide the context for the reflection and experimentation that follow.

  • Guided Reflection Exercises

    Throughout the course, you'll work through prompts designed to help you map your interests, identify patterns, and notice connections you may not have seen before.

  • Practical Experiments

    Many modules include small experiments that help you test ideas in the real world, rather than trying to solve everything in theory.

What participants are saying

“This course doesn’t treat curiosity like a distraction. It creates space to explore it with structure and support. Sometimes we just need a little validation that it’s okay to try something new.”

First Cohort Participant

“As you move through the material, you start to see how everything builds on itself and why each piece matters. Design thinking magic.”

First Cohort Participant

“Adults don’t get enough chances to learn and grow through fun. This course created that space while helping me think through possible life paths — exciting and a little scary in the best way.”

First Cohort Participant

“This course doesn’t treat curiosity like a distraction. It creates space to explore it with structure and support. Sometimes we just need a little validation that it’s okay to try something new.”

First Cohort Participant

FAQ

  • Do I need a specific career goal before joining?

    No. In fact, many participants join because they don’t have a clear next step yet.

    This course is designed to help you explore your interests, notice patterns, and experiment with possible directions. The goal isn’t to arrive with a perfect plan; it’s to develop better ways of thinking about what might come next.

  • What kinds of people typically join the course?

    Participants often include people who are:

    • exploring a career transition
    • feeling pulled in multiple directions professionally
    • curious about portfolio careers or interdisciplinary work
    • looking for a more creative way to think about their future

    Many people join at moments of transition, but the course can be valuable any time you're reflecting on what comes next.
  • Who is this course not for?

    This course may not be the best fit if you’re looking for a rigid step-by-step career formula or a quick answer about what job to pursue next.

    Instead, the course emphasizes curiosity, experimentation, and reflection as ways to discover meaningful directions over time.

  • How long does the course take to complete?

    Most people move through the course in about 16-20 hours, depending on how much time they spend with the reflection exercises. Because the course is self-paced, you can work through the material whenever it fits your schedule.

  • Do I have lifetime access?

    Yes. Once you enroll, you’ll be able to return to the lessons and exercises whenever you want. Many people revisit the material when they’re exploring a new transition or idea.

  • Can I go through the course more than once?

    Yes. Many people revisit the exercises at different points in their careers.

    Because the course focuses on reflection, experimentation, and connecting ideas between interests, you may notice new patterns or possibilities when you return to it later. Your answers will likely evolve as your experiences do.

  • Is this course focused on job searching?

    Not directly.

    While some participants may be thinking about job changes, the course focuses more broadly on understanding your interests, patterns, and possibilities. Many people find that clearer career decisions follow naturally from that process.

  • How much does the self-paced course cost?

    The live cohort version of the course is $800.

    Your enrollment includes all live sessions, course materials, and access to the cohort community during the program.

    A self-paced version of the course will also be available later at a lower price for people who prefer to work through the material on their own.

  • What is your refund policy?

    If you enroll and realize the course isn’t the right fit, you can request a full refund within the first week of the program. Because the course is cohort-based and space is limited, refunds are not available after that point.

You don’t need a five-year plan.

Many meaningful careers don’t begin with a perfectly defined path. They emerge through curiosity, experimentation, and the gradual discovery of connections between interests.