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Burn Sessions · Stop the spiral · By videoYou know what you want to do. You've told your friends, and they listened. Nothing moved.
Thirty minutes gets you your next 10 steps, with the links. An hour untangles the whole mess. One-on-one strategy sessions by video, at home or at work. I don't do it for you. You do the rest, and you won't be guessing.
Compare the three · Quick answers
Bring me your burn book. I'll bring the trash can, and hand you the matches.
The trash can
Your matchesJust one decision? Fine. Most things need 30.
$7715 minutes
You leave withThe decision, and one sentence on why
Book 15 minOne decision, made. By you.
One call eating your whole brain? Bring it. I ask until you hear your own answer, and if you're still stuck, I tell you what I'd do.
Do I take the job or not?You leave withThe decision, and one sentence on why
Which of these two names?You leave withThe pick, so you can stop thinking about it
Start here. Your next 10 steps, with the links.
$11130 minutes
You leave withYour next 10 steps, with the links
Book 30 minStop dumping. Start acting.
Tell me what you've been telling your friends. I'll probably say what they've been saying. Then we write your next 10 steps with the links, and you start the first one before we hang up.
I keep saying I'll update my portfolio.You leave with10 steps, the template link, and step one done on the call
I want to start the side thing. I never start.You leave withYour first week planned, the signup links, and a date
When the spiral has spirals.
$22260 minutes
You leave withA plan you can follow on a bad day
Book 60 minEverything on the table, sorted.
Work, home, money, and the thing you haven't said out loud yet. We lay it all out, sort what matters from the noise, and you leave with a plan you can follow on a bad day.
I'm thinking about quitting to do my own thing.You leave withA 90-day plan, your first five calls, and the links
Everything is due and nothing is moving.You leave withOne list in order, what to drop, and who gets the rest
Every session ends with your MatchBook, a short written plan: what we decided, your next step, and who to call.
Not sure which? Start with 30. Got a lot going on? Take the hour. Or see mine first.
Not sure? Start hereSessions run on Zoom, Central time.
Book a session and I send you your own Pass a match link after. When a friend books a paid session with it, your next 15 minutes are on me.
My own session, names off, everything else real. Same question at all three lengths, so you can see what the extra time buys.
The cover · One decision, made. You leave with what you came in with, what you decided, and your first move.
Came in with: "My lease ends in April. Do I stay put, or take the business on the road for a year?"
Go. Let the numbers say when.
A road year from a low-cost home base, a monthly floor the road has to clear, and one date that decides it.
You struck it. I just held the box.
Cover + 1 to 2 pages · Start here. The decision plus all three moves, with dates, so the next week runs itself.
Came in with: "My lease ends in April. Do I stay put, or take the business on the road for a year?"
Go. Let the numbers say when.
A road year from a low-cost home base, a monthly floor the road has to clear, and one date that decides it.
You struck it. I just held the box.
The full kit · Everything: the moves, who to call, what to do when you stall, and the kit pages behind the number.
Came in with: "My lease ends in April. Do I stay put, or take the business on the road for a year?"
Go. Let the numbers say when.
A road year from a low-cost home base, a monthly floor the road has to clear, and one date that decides it.
Who to callA tax pro. Bring the questions: what a year on the road does to your home state, your mail and your write-offs.
If you get stuckSlow is the strategy. No signal, no session.
Kit pagesThe base · The route · The money · The January test · The pop-up shop
You struck it. I just held the box.
Pants optional. The next step isn't.Pick a time
Neither did I. See my own brief, my session and the MatchBook I walked away holding, then fill in yours and I'll tell you the length.
If a Burn isn't enough room, say hello. I'll tell you straight whether it's a project or a few more sessions.
Sunday, in your briefs. Field Briefs from the Furnace land every Sunday at 11:11, something to read with your coffee and chase the Sunday scaries awaythe one thing that shows up at the witching hour and chases the Sunday scaries away: what's new in the Furnace, and what's new in the Typeset, the people I know doing great things. Email only, never texts.
After you sign up, the first email is a hello, plus a card you can pass to your person. Email only, unsubscribe anytime. Privacy
Your place, your week, your people, whoever they are. You've talked it to death. Bring it here, and we turn the talk into steps.
I keep saying I'll deal with the garage.30 min · $111You leave withYour next 10 steps, the donation pickup link, and step one done
Who to call Your pickup service, your most honest friend
My week is a pile.30 min · $111You leave withA week that fits on a sticky note
Who to call The friend who texts you Wednesday
I have to host and I'm dreading it.60 min · $222You leave withA run of show you can follow without thinking
Who to call The guest who offers to help
Your name, your craft, your systems. I've seen how the machine runs from both sides of the door, so I'll tell you what your coworkers won't.
I don't know how to explain what I do.30 min · $111You leave withA one-line bio in your own words, and where it goes
Who to call Two people who will tell you the truth
I keep telling people I'll launch the side thing.30 min · $111You leave withYour next 10 steps with the links, and a launch date
Who to call Your first customer, probably already your friend
My business is a junk drawer.60 min · $222You leave withOne system working, and the next one named
Who to call A bookkeeper or the friend who loves a spreadsheet
A Burn Session gets you unstuck. Creative Burn builds the whole thing with you: brand, website, launch kit and social, made side by side and then handed over. You own it, and you know how to run it. It's how I built this business, as a one-person agency run with an agentic C-suite. The packages open later next year, and the list hears first.
Your name, voice, colors and marks in one system you'll actually use. No 80-page guide that gathers dust.
A Wix site you own, plus the launch kit and social set to open with a bang instead of a whisper.
I hand it all over and train you to run it with AI tools, so you never wait on a designer again.
Everything you're looking at, from the site to the brand to this very sentence, came out of the same Burn.
You're on the list. You'll hear about Creative Burn before anyone else does. Can't wait? Book a Burn and we'll start on the stuck part now. Pick a Burn
No. Bring the mess. If you know exactly what you need, we move fast. If you don't, that's what the session is for.
Fifteen is for one decision you need made. Thirty is for doing the thing you've been avoiding, side by side; start there if you're not sure. Sixty is for when everything's tangled together and you need a plan you can follow on a bad day.
You can, and it'll take the dump just fine. It won't be curious about you, notice what you're dodging, or hold you to the next step. That's me.
No. Email, Zoom, and a phone line Sparky answers.
No, on purpose. A concierge doesn't cook your dinner. You do the thing. I make sure you're not doing it alone, and you leave with the right next step, tool or person.
You'll get a confirmation with your Zoom link and a few optional Kindling questions. Answer in a sentence, or skip them and just show up. We'll start wherever you are.
Sessions use Zoom's AI notetaker so your MatchBook catches everything. Rather not? Just say so when we start.
Your takeaway, in your inbox after every session: what we decided, your next three moves, who to call, and one line for when you get stuck at 1 a.m.
Both. At Home is the apartment, the week, the dinner, the dreaded hosting. At Work is the business, the bio, the inbox, the junk drawer of systems. Same session, different life.
Three ways I work, one furnace. Tap a card to read the piece in the Press.
A poem about the day I almost said the thing.
Read in the PressSix days, one person, and what I sell.
Read in the PressThe soundtrack I built this on.
Read in the PressApproved notes show here.
Had a Burn? Thinking about one? Tell me what landed, what didn't, and what you wish I offered.
Got it. I read every note. If you ticked the box, it goes up once I've approved it, with your name on it.
Send them the card. It's sized for Instagram, Facebook and Threads, and it brings them right back here. Tag @furnace.creative so I can say thank you.
Sending me to a friend? Pick the card that fits them.
See my own brief, my session and the MatchBook I walked away holding. Then fill in yours.
Start hereGift a Burn Session or a whole trip. The cards never expire.
Give a giftPin a flyer for a person, a piece of work, or something you want. I approve the board every Friday.
Meet the RangersYou've got the spark.
I've got the matches.