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Ikigai & Branding Workshop

Find your purpose, then turn it into a brand the world recognizes.

An interactive, coach-guided workshop. You map your Ikigai through a 4-step wizard (what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, what pays), synthesize your purpose statement, and immediately translate it into a brand: positioning, audience-of-one, and three content pillars. Pair it with the free Ikigai & Branding Coach GPT for deeper Socratic questioning.

Ikigai Venn diagram: four circles — what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, what pays — intersecting at IKIGAI, with Passion, Mission, Profession, and Vocation at the pairwise overlaps.

What you will leave with

Map your Ikigai with specific, evidence-backed inputs (not vague feelings)

Write a 2-3 line purpose statement that fits on a business card

Translate purpose into a brand positioning sentence and audience-of-one avatar

Leave with three content pillars and a 30-day expression plan

Framework

The 3Cs — Human skills that compound with AI

Your Ikigai points at what to build. The 3Cs are how you build it without getting automated around.

The 3Cs as three interlocking clay forms — a violet sphere (Collaboration), an amber cube (Communication), and an emerald prism (Creation) — fused at a warm glowing core.

Collaboration

  • PACE: Plan → Act → Check → Evolve
  • PAIR with AI: Plan, Ask, Iterate, Review
  • Iteration speed & decision clarity

Communication

  • BLUF and SCQA frameworks
  • Design docs & demo scripts
  • Clear, reproducible outputs

Creation

  • Goldilocks scope
  • Build → measure → learn
  • Ship small, show don't tell

Module 1 · The Ikigai Map

Map your four circles

Four guided steps. Each with a Socratic prompt and a Coach GPT deep-link. Your answers save to your browser automatically.

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What I love

What activities make time disappear for you?

Evidence beats guessing. Name specific moments from the last 12 months.

Examples

  • Explaining a complex idea to someone until they get it
  • Rearranging messy information into a clean system
  • Making something visual that surprises the person watching

Think with Coach GPT on "What I love"

Opens the free Coach GPT. Suggested prompt copied to your clipboard.

Module 2 · Purpose Statement

Write the sentence

Synthesis

Your Ikigai Statement

Two to three lines. Fits on a business card. If a competitor could say the same sentence, sharpen it.

Your answers save to your browser only. Export to keep them permanently.

Four-step flow: Ikigai Statement → Positioning → Audience of One → Content Pillars, rendered as glass cards with gradient arrows.

Module 3 — Ikigai to Brand

The Brand Bridge

Purpose without expression stays private. Use the Coach GPT on each element below — your Ikigai statement is pre-loaded into every prompt.

Finish your Ikigai statement above first — these bridge exercises work best when they are anchored to your statement.

Positioning Sentence

Who you are for. What you are not. One sentence. Force a trade-off.

Draft with Coach

Audience of One

A single real-feeling person. Name, situation, problem this week.

Draft with Coach

Three Content Pillars

12 months of publishing without repeating yourself.

Draft with Coach

When you have all three, subscribe below for the Resource Pack with templates, a 30-day expression plan, and a Day-7 check-in from Frank.

Module 4 · Activation

Ship the brand into reality

Pick one pillar. Commit to 4 visible artifacts in 30 days — one post, one short video, one conversation, one small product. Subscribe for the Resource Pack and a Day-7 check-in.

Get the Resource Pack

Templates for the positioning sentence, avatar, and 30-day expression plan. Plus a Day-7 check-in from Frank.

Prefer a conversation?

The free Ikigai & Branding Coach GPT can walk you through everything on this page via chat.

Open the Coach GPT