Sharing this post from me and Ethan Evans (retired Amazon Vice President; 70+ patents; led global teams of 800+) for our career advice busines, Level Up.
I'm excited to announce our new Level Up Career Community, a solution to the first-class problem of having too much demand for private career coaching, which does not scale.
For the past few months, I have turned away people ready to pay for career coaching because I simply lack the time to coach more people.
My solution is to open a Career Community.
The community will be subscription-based for the simple reason that I will invest paid coaching time in creating short classes, Q&A sessions, and live interviews for the community instead.
This plan tells you the big benefit you will get by joining:
Every month I will create and deliver a new live career talk to community members, followed by a live Q&A. We've chosen a few initial topics, but future topics will be informed by community preferences and votes. So it will be custom to the community member's needs.
All talks will be recorded for members in case you miss them.
The benefits paid newsletter subscribers will get:
Every issue of the newsletter (~8 per month)
*The free newsletter will continue but with a smaller number of key posts.*
A monthly one-hour live career talk and Q&A session with me, future topics will include a community vote.
A live executive coaching session so you can see how executive coaching works and learn alongside my client.
A career book club with a live debrief where I will discuss my latest reading.
Fireside chats on career issues with leading figures from our network (Mine, Jason’s, and yours).
Access to our private Slack community with online networking events where you can work together to Level Up. We have members from all types of companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Netflix, Salesforce, startups, and more).
The new community is $17/month (or $170/year).
Jeff Bezos once said that he wanted to make Amazon Prime such a good deal that it would be "irresponsible" not to join. That is our goal with Level Up.
My standalone classes on Kajabi (on-demand courses) and Maven (live online classes) sell for $99 up to $2495, so this is an incredible deal. My classes normally cost hundreds of dollars and my current coaching rate is $1500/hour, but now you will get a one-hour talk and other benefits for only $17, or $14.17 on the annual plan.
To give you a flavor, here is our live online events schedule for the first 3 months:
January: Live Executive Coaching with Ethan Evans and client (Director of PM)
January: Live career talk and Q&A on “How Being Unreasonable Drove Me to Amazon VP” (example event page)
January: Fireside chat with Ethan and Special Guest (it's a surprise!)
February: Live career talk and Q&A on “The Magic Loop from the Executive Perspective”
March: Live career talk and Q&A on “Caring for your team in a low morale environment”
April: Topic TBD by community input
There will be additional fireside chats with leaders from our networks.
To become a member, upgrade to a paid Substack newsletter membership.
What paid members are saying
“I did get my L7 promo after that 30 min talk with you :)”
“Finding good advisors is not so easy and I’ve found value in your content.”
“Ethan-every single post you have made has added value for me without fail.”
"I’ve been learning a ton from you. Feeling my promotion is closer than ever.”
“I was struggling to find beyond level opportunities as a Sr. EM. Once I started practicing the Magic Loop approach - specifically, where I decided to optimize for the business/org overlooking personal gains - executive leadership recognized me as a trusted leader and the opportunities opened up. Also, the Magic Loop approach has provided me with more job satisfaction.”
"I support your work because I can tell by what you share on LinkedIn that you have a deep understanding of the nuances of career success, and that you are passionate about sharing your experience and expertise with others. I appreciate both those attributes, greatly."