
Unlock your creative power through Fire Starter Sessions, anchored by burning questions, practical exercises, and clear strategies for fear, money, saying no, and being a brand on your terms.
trial by fire
Define your own success and explore how freedom liberates your potential; complete a 10–15 minute worksheet to uncover and declare your super power.
Discover the hidden danger of relying on competency rather than your true strength and genius; own your shortcomings and get playful with your intense genius to master your natural assets.
Question the myth that being well-rounded is valuable and embrace a leading-edge focus on what you’re genuinely good at, choosing battles and leading with your strengths.
Identify your genius by tracking what others seek from you and noticing where you shine, using gratitude as a feedback loop to reveal your talents. Participate in the q&a exercise and engage with the firestarter community to practice the worksheet and define your unique strengths.
Approve of your weaknesses to stay accessible and human, boosting teamwork and mutual support. Strength is vitality—pursue your genius by doing what comes easily and become amazing at those strengths.
Discover how to work your passion by staying in your zone of genius, pursue mastery with curiosity, and realize that becoming you is your life purpose.
Take part in the passion play exercise, riffing on what excites you, identify the six questions, and do the ones that jump out in five to ten minutes.
Bust the myth of endurance and reclaim the wisdom of easy by distinguishing quality easy from cheap easy, then apply high quality ease to daily life.
Explore the difference between quality easy and cheap easy, emphasizing inner strength, delegation, and boundaries. Start with the easy stuff and use easy priorities exercise to create ease and momentum.
Discover how enthusiasm reveals your true strength, sparks fresh ideas, and boosts brain connections as you pursue a clear goal toward your dreams.
Discover how to identify quality easy in business by tuning into physical and psychic sensations to choose ideas that make money, feel light, and succeed, while avoiding heavy, risky paths.
Challenge the myth that everything good has to be hard and explore easy, high-quality outcomes. Discover how flow, gratitude, and core desired feelings shape your path.
Learn to use core desire feelings as a design map, guiding goals with soul by starting with how you want to feel and shaping your to-dos to match.
Identify your core desired feelings through desire mapping and place them at the center of your time management, then take small actions to generate those feelings.
Identify your core desired feelings using the body-aware worksheet, noticing breath and tension to reveal freedom and openness, then refine your feelings to reanchor clarity and redefine success.
Explore how better questions drive better answers in this guided session, where you answer burning questions yourself, discuss with others, and spark changes through thoughtful inquiry.
Craft a genuine elevator pitch that conveys who you are and what you do, explore when you feel powerful and inspired, and uncover your unique genius.
Engage in the exercise to answer the burning questions 1-3 we've just covered. Take a few minutes to reflect on your own responses.
Identify how your aspirations reveal latent qualities, explore what inflames your inner and outer life and old wounds, and examine which thoughts persist to guide a stop-doing list for freedom.
Engage in the burning questions exercise 4-7 by writing your heart out and uncovering what surfaces.
Declare the annual income you want to earn and translate it into measurable targets. Explore how being seen, recognized, and practicing visioning drives focused action toward that goal.
Engage with the burning questions 8-10 exercise as you identify the period of the last three questions and affirm that you can do it.
Be the person who seeks real connection by asking thoughtful questions; reflect on insights from inquiry, and let what you learned change how you relate to others.
Uncouple dreams from goals to balance practicality with heart and soul, distinguishing big dreams from purposeful aims and choosing enough over excess.
Counter dream fatigue by pausing and decluttering aspirations. Use the psychedelics of dreaming to map bold futures with your dream team and return to action.
Learn to visualize outcomes as done, cultivate belief and certainty, and derive actionable steps from your visions while sharing dreams to invite support.
Grab pen and paper and write down the thoughts that arise during this exercise. Set aside about 10 minutes to complete the worksheet and distill your thoughts into your vision.
Analyze your dreams from multiple angles, examine the language and stories about your aspirations, and move to action, confronting fear, commitments, and firewalking to activate your superpowers.
Let go of dream funerals that no longer serve your freedom, like glamorous tv or a failing magazine, and embrace gratitude to invite fresh ideas and continued creativity.
Embrace fear as a useful intelligence, stay true to yourself, and meet fear directly rather than deny it. Cultivate self-awareness, courage, and resilience on the road less traveled.
Learn to navigate emotions like passengers on a bus, prioritizing enthusiasm, courage, and awareness over fear, listening to fear without letting it drive your actions.
Learn to talk with fear, meeting it on the porch but not inviting it to live in your psyche; analyze emotions and show fear the door.
Confront the fear of criticism with practical strategies: breathe, pause, listen, respond honestly, assess the source, set clear improvements, and practice gratitude.
Learn to deconstruct fear by identifying the real source through the diamond approach, repeatedly asking 'why' to reveal primal fears and defuse anxiety.
Explore how fear shapes Danielle LaPorte's practice, revealing that silence in negotiations caused failures, and that speaking up counters fear of rejection to pursue dreams.
Honor your soul and trust your gut to reclaim the power to say yes to your desires, and learn to say no to the rest.
Reframe quitting as stopping and clarifying what sucks, stop rationalizing feelings, and choose self-love to free time for what matters.
Explore why I quit doing one on one coaching, transitioning from costly firestarter sessions to a book and digital program, driven by repetition, fatigue, and a search for bigger dreams.
Explore reclaiming personal power by using your core desires and feelings as barometers to guide yes and no decisions, clarifying what truly feels right.
Explore the stop doing exercise in the fire starter sessions video workshop with Danielle LaPorte, a favorite five to ten minute practice with life-changing results.
Say no to most invitations, free stuff, and unnecessary trips to create space for what matters most—relationships, especially with my kids, and creativity that brings joy.
Discover how time management can resemble time diets, why systems fail, and how to use time as a service for self-expression rather than self-policing.
Transform busy from out of control to full with life by using positive time talk, setting boundaries, and showing up present for family.
Master time by choosing power time over time tyranny, using time management to create space, freedom, and meaningful, value-driven work through presence and pure intention.
Envision your ideal 12 hours of this exercise, then add a doable home day and a fantastical day to loosen bigger possibility thinking, and spend about ten minutes imagining.
Block uninterrupted time for creative work and batch routine tasks into one or two days. Shift environments to fuel focus—office, cafe, or hotels—because one phone call can derail your day.
Define your purpose for money by distinguishing material needs from experiential meaning. Align purchases, investments, and donations with your life goals through intentional lifestyle design.
Create your own money purpose list in minutes and align each dollar you get or give with your wild dreams and moral expectations, keeping it visible and guiding you.
Explore how money desire relates to western consumerism and the tension between abundance and materialism. Recognize that abundance and prosperity are possible, and decide your own cap for giving.
Recognize your self-worth and worthiness to deserve fulfillment and unlock true value. Practice selective giving to beta-test your offering, test impact, and refine your value in work and life.
Assess your motivations for free offerings, set clear context and expectations, and cultivate reciprocity with your ideal customer. Convert generosity into feedback, exposure, and momentum through professional, value-driven interactions.
Embrace the money shoes concept to price your work so the fee fits your budget and value, and remember: costs what it costs, so ask for what you want.
Explore how to nurture reciprocity through a 10 to 15 minute exercise that blends selfless giving, healthy opportunism, and mutual respect with the people you work with.
Freely associate with money to uncover your money stories and how you value time as energy. A 10–15 minute exercise guides impulse purchases through well-being and future goals.
Explore how money triggers emotion and habits, learn to sit on funds, grow organically, and follow the money to align spending with core desired feelings.
Explore the gendered differences in money talk, where masculine energy emphasizes earnings and metrics, while feminine energy centers on attention that grows what is measured.
You’re a Creative. Or a been-around the block entrepreneur. Or you’re ready to bust out. And you’re on fire with the desire to succeed. You want abundance, you want creative freedom, you want a great lifestyle. But... maybe you compromise, or shrink your opinions, or you follow some rules that seem unbreakable. And over time, or over night, your idea of success gets away from your soul.
This VIDEO COURSE is an exercise in DEFINING SUCCESS ON YOUR OWN TERMS.
You’ll examine your fears and your desires. You’ll get closer to what “achievement” really means to you — right now. And you’ll get effective tools to help you take more decisive action. Soulful approaches + practical implementation = life and work transformed.
Dig it:
Answer The 11 Burning Questions -- from the dream zone to money practicalities, that are essential to creative direction.
Declare your superpowers -- hone in on your true strengths instead of trying to be well-rounded (because being well-round is highly overrated.)
Become a sovereign of time management -- learn the difference between “Power Time” and “Tyrant Time”.
Create a Stop Doing List. (What you stop doing is just as critical to your success as what you start doing.)
Learn how to set goals with soul, based on identifying your Core Desired Feelings.
Make generosity part of your business plan… because generous people always have more to give.
With her characteristic warmth and straight-up style, Danielle is asking you spirit-anchored questions about how you plan to expand your creative power. This is a wholistic approach to ambition that connects your prosperity to your soul, and your passion to being of real service in the world.
Contents & Overview
This course is where divine wisdom meets practical tools. You get 13 video “sessions” of lectures, contemplations, and a full scope Q&A series that Danielle hasn’t offered anywhere else. Every section is full of creativity prompts and printable PDF worksheets on specific topics. -- all designed to help get real, get clear and own your definition of true success.
The first sessions are groundwork for the Fire starter philosophy: operating from your zone of true strengths, using ease as a metric and committing to authenticity and service.
Then you move into casting a vision for work and life that’s grounded and expansive (yes, it has to be both!) You’ll examine fears, reconsider the value of failure and practice the art of connected conversation. You’ll learn the crucial skill of setting boundaries and knowing when to say “Hell, yes!” and “No, thank you.”
The homestretch is about choosing “power time” over “tyrant time” management, and getting clear in money expectations. And with a final that is all about heart, you’ll get inspired to build your true tribe and make generosity part of your prosperity strategy.