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Here's where you'll find everything you need to take part in Summer Camp 2022
CAMP SCHEDULE
Here's what each day looks like!
Morning Swim
10:00 - 11:00am ET
Start each day with a dip onto the page.
Guided Hike
1:00 - 2:00p ET
Set out to explore new territory with an expert guide.
Bonfire
6:00 - 7:00p ET
Meet back by the fire to listen to and chat with our featured guest.
Program Overview
Here's how the week breaks down:
(Sessions will be recorded and shared with Club Members only - Try The Club for free for 30 days!)
Monday, July 18
Morning Swim
10:00 - 11:00a ET
Terri Trespicio
Intro to the Gateless Method & writing prompt
Learn a unique approach to writing that quiets the critic and amplifies your creative flow so that you can access ideas you didn't even realize you had!
Guided Hike
1:00p - 2:00p ET
Kathleen Celmins
Download your mind: See the power in your expertise. Think what you know is obvious and insignificant? Hardly. Entrepreneur whisperer and marketing pro Kathleen Celmins will help us start to see the throughline, and the power, in what you know.
Bonfire
6:00p - 7:00p ET
Kate Vanden Bos
Take a hike to explore your intuition. Intuitive guide and nature-based coach Kate Vanden Bos will show us how to sharpen our intuition by engaging in a conversation with what’s out there (and in here).
Tuesday, July 19
Morning Swim
10:00 - 11:00a ET
Becky Karush
Spin the bottle with Becky Karush—and tap your teenage angst to catapult your creativity. Everyone remembers their first crushes, the ones that made you feel painfully alive. Becky Karush, founder of Read to Me Literary Arts, will show us why that wasn’t kid stuff—and how it can inspire your most creative work.
Guided Hike
1:00p - 2:00p ET
Kevin Rogers
Spend 25% of your time goofing off (and why) with Kevin Rogers. The former stand-up comic and creator of CopyChief.com knows all about revenue and growing a team. But some of the most inspired turns of his career came when he was simply having fun. He’ll tell us why.
Bonfire
6:00p - 7:00p ET
Daisy Florin
Trust your work more (and other opinions less) with novelist Daisy Florin. When Daisy Florin started writing scenes, and those scenes started to turn into a book, the one thing she did to keep self-doubt and creative flailing at bay? She didn't ask what everyone thought. Being judicious about her own channels of feedback was critical. Find out how maintaining sovereignty in ther work helped her finish what she started.
Wednesday, July 20
Morning Swim
10:00 - 11:00a ET
Terri Trespicio
Swim a few laps on your laptop.
Write to a timed prompt using the Gateless Method.
Guided Hike
1:00p - 2:00p ET
Patty Lennon
Make space for magic — and all the other things you want. Author and speaker Patty Lennon is totally cool with all your manifesting and vision boards. But if you feel like the universe is leaving you high and dry, you might want to check your emotional inbox and see if you’re blocking the very thing you asked for.
Bonfire
6:00p - 7:00p ET
Ilise Benun
Learn the fine art of caring less—and earning more with Ilise Benun. You'd be hard pressed to find someone as grounded as Ilise Benun of Marketing Mentor. She'll reframe for us what it actually means to be and feel free in your work and your life. Don't miss this session for a guaranteed mindset shift.
Thursday, July 21
Morning Swim
10:00 - 11:00a ET
Terri Trespicio
Morning swim! Take a few laps on your laptop before you start your day.
Guided Hike
1:00p - 2:00p ET
Terri Trespicio
Unfollow Your Passion with me!
Follow your passion is facile advice. Easy to say, sounds good, tells us nothing. What it assumes is that we know what that passion is, and we often don’t. Or: This or that passion has changed, dried up, shapeshifted into something else. Let’s talk about how passion actually works, and ways to channel it rather than chase it.
Bonfire
6:00p - 7:00p ET
Suzanne Kingsbury
Crush (on) your critic with Gateless founder Suzanne Kingsbury. Suzanne knows what it's like to be completely shut down by criticism. It never helped her do better work, and so she created an approach to creative work that taps the genius in everyone. Find out how to defuse the critic's hold on you.
Friday, July 22
Morning Swim
10:00 - 11:00a ET
Terri Trespicio
Last laps! Come get a juicy writing session in before the end of camp!
Guided Hike
1:00p - 2:00p ET
Laura Belgray
Go skinny dipping with Laura Belgray. Laura's one of the most successful copywriters in the country, and anyone on her email list knows she's not afraid of TMI. But writing a book introduced a whole new challenge—and which feels very much like stripping off your clothes and diving into a cold lake. Find out what it takes to emotionally skinny dip. And then maybe we'll play naked chicken.
CAMP DIRECTOR
Terri Trespicio
an award-winning writer, speaker, brand advisor, and author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You (Atria/Simon & Schuster, December 2021). Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has surpassed 7.5 million views, and Hubspot named her one of the “Top 18 female speakers who are killing it.” A former magazine editor and radio host at Martha Stewart, she has appeared on the Today show, The Early Show, The Martha Stewart Show and The Anderson Cooper Show and featured in Oprah magazine, Marie Claire, Business Insider, Forbes.com, and Inc.com. Certified in the Gateless method for capturing creative genius, she leads workshops and retreats all over the country to help professionals of all stripes take their stories and ideas from page to stage and beyond. Terri earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, and her literary work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, New Millenium Writings, and The Baltimore Review, where she won first place in their 2016 creative nonfiction contest. Terri has also performed stand-up all over New York City and lives in Manhattan. More at territrespicio.com.
CAMP GUIDES
Kathleen Celmins
Kathleen is the author of MINDSTORMS: 25 Exercises to Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur, is a marketing and business coach who helps entrepreneurs find more ways to bring in new revenue streams without risking burnout. You can find her online at KathleenCelmins.com. She’s also on all the social media channels. She’s worked with all stages of entrepreneurs, and loves showing the possibilities of making (more) money online.
Connect with Kathleen
ACCESS FREE WORKBOOK:
Mindstorms
Website: https://kathleencelmins.com
LinkedIN
Instagram
Kate Vanden Bos
Kate is an intuitive guide and nature-based coach. Kate specializes in guiding you to live a life that is led by the magic of your intuition and encourages you to take a completely fresh look at the landscape of your life! She explores the ways in which the natural world of spirit is always talking to you - and it’s very chatty! To be able to hear it, you need to (re)learn to listen. And it’s easier than you might think… Leading with Intution.
Connect with Kate
ACCESS FREE AUDIO:
Get Grounded! Audio Adventure
Website: https://katevandenbos.com/
Instagram
Facebook
Becky Karush
Becky is the founder of Read to Me Literary Arts, host of the Read to Me podcast, and certified teacher of the Gateless Writing method. A former journalist and magazine editor, she’s led hundreds of groups, where writers learn to dazzle readers with fresh, brilliant work. She is a 2022 Creative Community Fellow with National Arts Strategies, and she’s is working on a novel.
Connect with Becky
ACCESS FREE AUDIO:
Set Sail! Literary Meditations
Website
Instagram
LinkedIN
Kevin Rogers
Kevin is a former stand-up comedian turned direct response copywriter turned freelancing coach. Founder of copychief.com where misfit creatives learn to thrive as entrepreneurs without compromising their art.
Connect with Kevin
ACCESS FREE GUIDE:
The 60-Second Sales Hook
Website: https://copychief.com/
LinkedIN
Facebook
Instagram: @therealcopychief
Daisy Florin
Daisy was a recipient of the 2016 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College and was a 2019–20 fellow in the BookEnds novel revision fellowship. Her debut novel, My Last Innocent Year, is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co. (Feb. 2023).
Daisy attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia University and Bank Street Graduate School of Education.
Connect with Daisy
Website: www.daisyflorin.com
Instagram: @daisyflorin
Twitter: @daisy_florin
Patty Lennon
Patty is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, certified coach, and founder of The Receiving School®. She is a former type-A corporate banker who discovered there was more to life than making money. Patty holds a masters in psychology and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Daily Worth.
She blends brain science and metaphysics to help her fellow humans manifest their dreams into reality.
Connect with Patty
ACCESS FREE GUIDE:
10 Ways to See Signs
Website: www.pattylennon.com
LinkedIN: @pattylennon
Instagram: @pattylennon
Ilise Benun
Ilise is the founder of Marketing Mentor, host of Marketing Mentor podcast, and author of several books including, The Creative Professional's Guide to Money. For the last 35 years, she has made it her business to teach basic business skills – marketing, money and mindset – to creative professionals who should have learned them in school but, alas, did not because it’s not taught in school. That’s the mission she’s on with Marketing-Mentor.com. Be sure to sign up for her Quick Tips!
Connect with Ilise
ACCESS MARKETING TIPS
Website: https://www.marketing-mentor.com/
LinkedIN
Suzanne Kingsbury
Suzanne is an award-winning, bestselling author whose books have been translated widely abroad and optioned for film. She is the founder of Gateless Writing, Inc, a literary arts organization based on creative brain science and ancient Zen, offering writers a sanctuary, a worldwide network, industry know-how and the resources they need to create writing that moves a crowd.
You can find her (and her writers) at www.gatelesswriting.com.
Connect with Suzanne
ACCESS WRITERS SYMPOSIUM
Website: https://suzannekingsbury.net
LinkedIN
Instagram
Facebook
Laura Belgray
copywriting and email expert, founder of Talking Shrimp, co-creator with Marie Forleo of The Copy Cure, and author of forthcoming book, Tough Titties (Hachette 2023). She will tell you she’s an unapologetic lazy person, but given how much she has accomplished, we all find this hard to believe.
Connect with Laura
FREE GUIDE:
33 non-sucky subject lines for emails that always get opened (Oh yeah) Plus...4 that tanked (and why)! PLUS: PROVEN templates to write your own.
Website: https://www.talkingshrimp.com/
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
'We may think of play as optional, casual activity. But play is fundamental to evolution. Without play, humans and many other animals would perish."
– Diane Ackerman, Deep Play
About Terri Trespicio
Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, and brand advisor. She helps individuals and organizations to nail their messaging and engage clients, customers, and fans. She also leads writing workshops and retreats all over the country to help people tap their creative genius. Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has more than 7 million views. She was recently named by Hubspot as one of the “Top 18 female speakers who are killing it” and cited as one of the world’s leading creatives by Creative Boom magazine. A former magazine editor and radio host at Martha Stewart, she has appeared on the Today show, Dr. Oz, The Early Show, The Martha Stewart Show and The Anderson Cooper Show. Her work has been featured Oprah magazine, Marie Claire, Prevention, Business Insider, Forbes.com, and Inc.com. She leads several events and retreats each year for people who want to surface their own creative genius. An in-demand, top-rated speaker, Terri is also a stand-up comic and has performed all over New York City and beyond. She lives in Manhattan.