How To Manage Research When Your Brain Is Terrified That You’re Going To Make A Stupid Mistake
Research can become an obsessive errand, a way to hedge against potential criticisms. How can you know when you’ve done enough?
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Writer, Strategist,
and Coach
future of knowledge work & online education
Knowledge-based businesses promise the world—can yours deliver?
- Online product development and educational program design
- Conversion-driven communications and sales strategy
- Coaching for intense and gifted visionaries
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Latest Essays
Online Course And Membership Prices Are Increasing In 2023
We’re seeing is a critical market correction, one that finally admits what teachers have long known: technology does not replace people.
AI Is Not Knowledge Work’s Existential Threat
In order for knowledge work to survive—and with it any hint of respect for the necessity of thought in the development of a better world—we must make work that can’t be done solely by a machine.
Group Programs
for solopreneurs and small businesses
"I just completed my 3rd product launch. The course sold out with 12 days to spare. My earnings are projected to increase by 65% but I am most proud of the following:
1. I built a program that is sustainable, scalable, and heartfelt.
2. I was able to pay 23 Breathwork facilitators, energy workers, experts, craft makers and workbook creators for their time skills and materials.
3. I took some power back, and I am helping to make a community that I love a better place."
1. I built a program that is sustainable, scalable, and heartfelt.
2. I was able to pay 23 Breathwork facilitators, energy workers, experts, craft makers and workbook creators for their time skills and materials.
3. I took some power back, and I am helping to make a community that I love a better place."
Chauna Bryant
Founder, Breath Liberation Society
About Sarah
- Two-time online business founder
- Creator of two six-figure online education products
- Supported over 1,000 students and clients
- Podcast host with over 600,000 downloads
- Essayist and researcher
I’m Sarah M. Chappell, a writer, strategist, and coach.
I help visionaries, creators, and founders to build the future of knowledge work through product development, communications strategy, online education consulting, and coaching.
I have over fifteen years of sales, marketing, and communications experience, and founded a community-driven online education platform. My online memberships, cohort-based courses, and group coaching programs supported over 1,000 small businesses and solopreneurs, giving me a unique opportunity to see the behind-the-scenes of what’s working—and what’s not—in online knowledge businesses.Â
In addition to my start-up and corporate experience, I am a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and New York University. My work has been featured in Every, The Washington Post, USA Today, and Cosmopolitan, amongst others. I have presented for or collaborated with companies and events such as Founder Summit, Shift Sessions, East Fork Pottery, Sunlight Tax, and more.
Consulting & Coaching
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