Watch me greenlight myself. 6 months. Out loud.

Saturday morning, and a real one.

I had a moment this week. The kind that comes up in a therapy session and will not leave you for the rest of the day. I've been having a moment actually. One that doesn't let you rest because you know what you should be doing. As I type this I have a half-empty storyboard staring at me. My vertical series. The one I'll be crowdfunding for later this year, actually.

Anyway. Back to therapy.

During that session I refunded every person who signed up for the Accelerator. The thing I needed to do. The course I made, the live webinars I planned out, the materials I wrote. All of it. Six months of work on the Greenlight Yourself Accelerator is going to sit on a shelf. Because for the next six months I am greenlighting myself. Out loud. In front of you.

I have been writing jokes again. Dreaming of getting back into standup. Last month I produced two mixers, New Jersey and New York, back to back. It was a lot. And the thing that got me was how much time I spend on everything else and how little I have for the characters and the worlds that live inside me. If you are a creative, and you likely are if you are reading this, you know how that feels. It eats at you. The characters are clawing to get out. To make it to the page, and then to the screen.

I have spent the last year writing this newsletter, building the mixers, and working on my own projects in the background. Mostly quietly. Not always on a schedule. That has been part of the problem. The week I sat down to map out the rest of the year, I noticed something I could not unnotice. The work I was building for other people kept moving forward. The work I had been wanting to build for myself kept sliding.

I am done sliding it.

So I refunded everyone who signed up for the Accelerator. Will I run it again? Maybe later this year. Maybe next year. Maybe in a different form entirely. Right now I am choosing the work that has been waiting on me, and I am letting you watch. I spent years in Hollywood and the thing I was come back to is…doing the work.

What you are actually going to get from me for the next six months:

The true, honest, unfiltered version of what it takes to greenlight yourself. Not a framework. Okay, I am a strategist so maybe a framework. But not a curriculum. The real thing. The exhale and the panic and the parts where I do not know what I am doing. The wins and the wasted weeks. All of it, every Saturday, in real time.

You are also going to get interviews and spotlights from people I respect. Some are greenlighting their own work right now. Some are the operators helping creatives do it from the inside. You will hear from them in their own words.

My socials are going through a transformation that mirrors this. My personal channels are going to follow my journey of greenlighting myself, in real time. The Greenlight Yourself Instagram and Threads will lean into the teaching, and into reposting how I greenlight myself as it happens. So if you are not locked into our Instagram or Threads yet, this is the moment. A lot of what I am about to do is going to live there first.

Quick reminder of what Greenlight Yourself is built around. It is a creator-led media, education, and community platform helping creators and creatives turn audience into leverage and opportunity. What we believe:

Audience is leverage. Visibility creates opportunity. Creators should own their ideas. Community changes everything.

That is the through-line. It has not changed. What changed is who you are about to watch live it — OUT LOUD.

The mixers continue. Next one is Tuesday, June 2 in Los Angeles. A lot of you have been asking when I am coming to LA. Now you know. Free, in person, real conversation. RSVP here.

I am excited about this chapter. This is exactly what I envisioned tbh, but I left it. Crazy how you always come back to that idea no matter what. I'm surrendering to the vision.

If this lands, hit reply. I read everything.

— Jerrica