From chaos to connection: Embracing audacity and ease on your creative path

How embracing authentic connections, ambition, and easeful growth (rather than an easy path) can unlock your creative potential and transform your publishing journey.

This speech is adapted from the opening keynote I gave at the Future of Publishing Mastermind in March 2025.

Good morning,

I will try to be brief, but if you’ve ever listened to any of our courses or podcasts, you know that brief is a relative term. I told Mel and Tawdra I would be brief and they said “That’s what you said last year, and you talked for an…