Creative Courage: The Death of Average
Creative Courage: The Death of Average
A live seminar for people navigating AI, reinvention, and the overwhelm of modern life.
Reclaim your agency and creative power in the age of overload.
Something shifted recently.
Maybe you lost a job. Maybe you're clinging to one. Maybe you just woke up one day and realized the rules changed and nobody told you — and the anxiety of not knowing what comes next has become a permanent background noise you can't turn off.
This seminar is for you.
We are living in a moment of radical over-optimization and information overload. AI is accelerating everything. The attention economy is designed to keep you reactive, fragmented, and afraid. And in the middle of all of it, you're somehow supposed to figure out your next move.
But as AI makes competence abundant, originality becomes increasingly rare — and increasingly valuable.
Here's what I've learned from decades working across companies ranging from CBS and eBay to Hulu and AI-native startups — and from my own reinventions as an artist, writer, consultant, executive, and human being trying to navigate uncertainty like everyone else:
You cannot think your way out of fear. You have to move through it. And there's a sequence to that.
In this live 90-minute session we'll explore:
— How to calm your nervous system when the world feels like too much
— How to find what you're actually meant to do — not what you've been told to want
— How to take meaningful action toward a consciously designed life
— How to work with AI without surrendering your originality
— What it means to remain courageously, unapologetically human right now
This is not a motivational keynote. There is no corporate slide deck full of buzzwords.
It's a live conversation grounded in real experience — including mistakes, reinventions, burnout, uncertainty, and learning to move forward anyway.
30 minutes of optional open hangout afterward for anyone who wants to keep talking.
Live Q&A included.
June 4, 2026 | 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET | Zoom | 90 minutes | $47
About Your Host
John S. Couch is the author of The Art of Creative Rebellion: How to Champion Creativity, Change Culture and Save Your Soul. Currently Chief Experience Officer at Authors First, the premier content platform for book-to-screen adaptations, and Founder of Galvanize Studios, he has spent 25 years leading creative and product organizations at companies including Hulu, FOX, Magento, eBay, CBS, Wired Magazine, and MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), and has consulted for Amazon Prime Video, among others — and has worked as a consultant, entrepreneur, and creative maker navigating the same uncertainty he'll be talking about on June 4th.
He lives in the mountains outside Los Angeles, where he hikes, makes art, writes fiction and nonfiction, and studies Japanese.