Doors are open! First call is July 5th. Join the community now.
What’s the Box?
A container for your creative & entrepreneurial energy.
- Live cowork sessions
- Coaching + support
- Accountability
- Community
- That’ it.
What isn’t the Box?
It’s not a program, course, or mastermind.
- It’s not worksheets
- It’s not videos
- It’s not presentations
It’s not teaching you anything new, it’s giving you the structure to create with what you already know.
Without a Box
With a Box
In other words, a great way to stay accountable, do the work, and actually finish what you started. Because amazing things happen on the other side of finished.
Without a “box” our creative energy will run wild and never come back.
How many of these can you check off?
- I love starting projects…not great at finishing them
- Selling is really scary and I don’t like promoting myself or my work
- I check email, IG, or the fridge instead of what I sat down to do #procrastination
- Both of my plates are full (wait, you have more than one plate?)
- Pro at making to do lists, doing the to do's...not so much
- I don’t have a lot of “biz buds” to hold me accountable
- “Ohhh…..shiny object!”
If there’s more than two…no shame. This is what the Box was created for.
less talking. Less planning. more doing. more finished projects. more space.
How does it work?
Top Priority
Before you do anything, we need to figure out what project you need to work on. What most requires your focused energy.
Is it client work, starting that podcast you’ve been putting off, building an offer, writing that book, planning that trip, or finally paying taxes!
Ahhh the space you’ll create once you finish…
Create your Box
Once your clear, we’ll create your specific box.
This is the what, when, how part.
What does finished actually look like. When is it due. How will you get it done.
Then…you get to work! Come to the live cowork sessions, ask a question to get unstuck, and update your progress sheet.
Finish
This is what it’s all about. You actually finished!
You can ship it, get feedback, or move onto the next project.
Either way, we celebrate the sh*t outta you!
amazing things happen on the other side of finished.
Why Should You Care
Parkinson’s Law states that work takes as long as you give it to take.
For example, which do you think you’ll finish first?
- Write a new song.
- Write a short song about birds in 2 days.
Yes, the more specific one.
The other one could take months. You’ll likely get off to a quick start, but then find any and all reasons to put it off.
If you wait too long, it’ll slowly slip into the abyss never to be worked on again.
And so the cycle continues.
“Entrepreneurs Are Struggling With Mental Health — But Where’s the Support?” – Article by the Hustle
The Hustle surveyed more than 300 entrepreneurs on the state of their mental health, and a whopping 63% reported dealing with burnout, with 59% saying they’ve dealt with anxiety.
“Entrepreneurship affects people with and without prior mental health conditions, and personality has something to do with your vulnerability,” he explains. “If you are an introverted person, but as an entrepreneur you can’t succeed without building relationships, that personality trait creates a vulnerability for you.”
Here’s how the Box works and why it’s effective:
Goal Sharing + Progress Monitoring
Research has long convinced us that sharing goals increases our likelihood of success.
Beyond that, monitoring goal progress in a social setting translates into major action.
Both are baked into the Box to ensure you get things done.
Body Doubling
Body-doubling is simply having another person in the room with you, working quietly alongside you. They can work on something similar, or something completely different.
Scientists haven’t exactly figured out why, but they all agree this type of group focus works. (Yes, even online.)
When people come together with a common goal to focus and work, productivity soars.
Coaching
The crazy thing about blind spots, is we don’t see them…until someone points them out. And even then we can’t always see them.
Having a coach point out a mindset, creative, or business blind spot could save you and extraordinary amount of time and energy going in the wrong direction.
You’ll have 2 coaches + community support.
Listen to The Subtle Art of Coaching.
Let’s be real for a second…
We are lazy. Like truly lazy.
And maybe you are too. But not in the shameful way – just that our brains aren’t built to consume so much info and then work all day on stuff we don’t enjoy.
You can only do that for so long.
There’s a big difference between anxious grinding and inspired hard work.
One leaves you drained, overwhelmed, and unhappy. The other leaves you fulfilled, spacious, and excited.
But we can’t just decide to turn on “inspired hard work” whenever you want. There’s no switch.
We have to create it. And that requires focused energy. A container.
A box with rules. Rules like this one from Neil Gaiman:
“You can sit here and write or you can sit here and do nothing, but you can’t sit here and do anything else.” – Neil Gaiman, rule for writing
But here’s what we realized…
- It’s really hard to create a box for ourselves.
We tend to struggle with putting ourselves in this focused container, even if we know it’s what we need.
The box allows you to give yourself the gift of finished.
The Box solves 5 main problems…
- Unfinished work
- Shiny object syndrome
- Fear of selling / promoting
- Lone wolf syndrome (going it alone)
- Procrastination / perfectionism
For creatives (coaches, entrepreneurs, musicians, writers, photographers, freelancers).
Your Hosts & Co-Boxers
Miles Hanson
Brand Designer on a mission to help 500 brands go from wandering to thriving using story, strategy, and design. I love exploring the creative process, energy management, minimalist marketing, and powerful branding. I love playing the guitar, climbing, frozen mangos, coffee, and a nice cold west coast IPA. I’m from Austin, TX, lived in Denver for 4 years, and am currently seeing if I’m a “beach guy” in LA.
Bill Small
Not long ago, someone asked me, “What do you create?” I had to think for a minute… Then I replied, “I create music and conversations!” It’s true. That’s what I do. I make music. I coach amazing people. I have conversations that make a difference. I ride my bike when I can, and try to be a good dad.
Arguably, it’s not art if no one sees it. It’s certainly not a business if no one buys it.
Why “The Box?”
Bill and Miles (we) are very particular with what we give our energy to.
We don’t do very well with discipline, consistency, and grinding our way through the creative process. We’re not machines.
But we also want our businesses to thrive. We want to build wealth and create a lot of cool stuff for the world.
We both have our own businesses and we’re always healing our relationship with the words “sell” and “promote.”
“The Box” was created on accident.
We came up with “The Box” while recording one of our episodes (this one). We discussed a few topics…
- Shipping your work
- How many things we've started, but failed to finish
- The creative muscle
- Perfectionism + procrastiation
- Imposter syndrome
- Structure and masculine energy in the creative process
- Inviting others into your creative process
We realized that in order for us to move things forward, we needed a container.
Structure. Boundaries. A clear target. Accountability. Support. Feedback.
The Box, provides masculine/focused energy that’s needed to contain and direct your feminine/creative energy.
It eliminates obscurity and gives you the accountability to see it through.
“There is no such thing as a bad writer and a bad salesperson. There are simply people who practice, and people who don’t.” – @margoaaron
Why We Care
We want to help you finish what you start and create more art, less content, more work, fewer plans, and to get past limiting beliefs, imposter syndrome, and perfectionism.
We want to help you get out of your own way and into flow. To reduce burnout, anxiety, and stagnation so you can give yourself the gift of finished.
To move past the fear of selling so more people can benefit from your work.
We would absolutely love to have you be a part of our community.
The Circle around our Box (Community)
Once you sign up, you’ll get access to the community. We use a tool called Circle to host The Box…I mean come on!
It’s like a facebook group, but without the facebook (and way better).
We’ve kept it super lightweight. No overwhelming discussions, long videos, or endless list of resources. Everything that is added in has to pass the no BS test.
We’re not here to add work, we’re here to help you get to work.
Inside, the community, you will introduce yourself, share your box, share your wins, ask for and get support, and be an important part of a growing community.
Founding Boxers
Become a Founding Boxer: we have a goal to launch this with 7-10 “founding boxers,” and plan to grow it to 30 members by the end of 2022.
If you’re in the first month of the Box, you’ll be an important part of bringing this container to life.
What’s Boxing
“Boxing” is the back and forth process (coaching) of figuring out your top priority, your top distractions, and then creating a structure around it.
Thus allowing you to finish, ship, or promote your work and free up space for the next thing.
When you and the community understand your box, you’re held powerfully accountable.
The Deets
The first call is July 5th.
The doors are officially open.
You can sign up to the community free until July 4th. Get a taste, meet some people, and get your ducks in a row before we start “boxing.”
4 calls a month via zoom.
Community support in-between.
3 coworking calls, 1 boxing call.
We will onboard any new members at the beginning of every month.
Once You Sign Up
Once you sign up, you’ll go through our super simple (kinda fun might I add) onboarding process and get access to the community (in circle…isn’t it funny that the tool we’re using for the box is called circle. I love life).
It’s like a facebook group, but without the facebook (and way better).
Okay…enough blabbering. Let’s do this.
Price
Sign up and join the community for free now, then you’ll pay $65 per month as a founding boxer starting July 4th, our first call is July 5th!
Get access to everything, cancel anytime 
Here’s what I would suggest. If you’re more than 50% interested, join for free now, feel it out and ask us some questions, then make your decision before July 4th…how easy is that?!