Cringe. Courage. Creativity. A Teen's Playbook for Humaning
What if your weirdness is your wisdom?
What if your daydreams are blueprints?
What if the world needs your imagination more than your grades?
What if your weirdness is your wisdom?
What if your daydreams are blueprints?
What if the world needs your imagination more than your grades?
“No Moola? No Problem.”
A free book excerpt: a true story and re-route exercise from Chapter One. Read it yourself, then pass it to the teen in your life. You'll also join my Substack: stories and musings for the parents, educators, and mentors who orbit teens, plus launch news for the book.
Your book excerpt awaits →Free. Unsubscribe anytime.
Teens today are overwhelmed w information and starving for meaning. They're told to do more and raise the bar, but no one shows them how to slow down, get bored, ignite their imagination, and come home to who they are.
Instead of asking what's wrong w them, Cringe. Courage. Creativity. dares them to ask: what is possible? Through personal stories, conversations w experts, soulful prompts, and playful practices, it's a permission slip to daydream, feel deeply, question everything, and rise after they fall.
Part TEDx talk.Part campfire story.Part treasure map.
Curious how it reads? Get a glimpse here →Sign up free on my Substack and the book excerpt lands in your inbox.
Every chapter ends w three ways to make it real:
Questions and reflections that turn ideas into self-knowledge.
Creative dares and experiments to practice being brave.
Journaling and energy practices, a lil woo woo w a side of science.
Featuring conversations w:
For teens 15–21 and the parents, educators, and mentors who orbit them. And for any adult whose inner teen still needs it.
Try the playbook here →Sign up free on my Substack and the book excerpt, playbook included, lands in your inbox.
For over fifteen years, she has helped high-performing adults activate their creative life force. Now she channels that obsession into the population she believes needs it most: teens.
In her earlier work, Marie translated complex ideas into playful, unforgettable experiences, from large-scale interactive installations to live workshops, collaborating w neuroscientists and psychologists like David Eagleman, Jim Doty, and Paul Ekman. She contributed to The Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies (Springer, 2024), spoke at the Hero Round Table conference at Philip Zimbardo's invitation, and led a teen workshop at TEDx Calle Aldama.
Born in the Philippines, raised across cultures, and now worldschooling her kids, Marie doesn't speak at teens. She moves w them.