Wanted: Danielle LaPorte’s ‘Firestarter Sessions’ (whitehot truth)

I con­sider my want­eds to be some­what of a goals lists—not a mere wish list—more of a things-to-do—and def­i­nitely a work-towards.

Danielle LaPorte is hot­ness! Not trendy haut­e­ness. Not flash-in-the-pan hot­ness, but pure-unadulterated hot­ness! Her brand of white­hot truth was a streak of light­ning across the pre­dictabil­ity of my life of seven months ago. I stum­bled across her blog when I first started Dasheen. The first post I read: hot advice for any­one with a web­site, blog, busi­ness, career or j-o-b. yep, I’m talkin’ to you was imme­di­ately color-blocked in magenta, printed, each item neatly cut and orga­nized on an inspi­ra­tion board.

The ones that cut to the quick for me:

1. ONE STOP WEB SPACE: SIMPLIFY AND LEVERAGE
2. GIVE UP IMMEDIATELY
3. THERE IS POWER IN BEING SOLO
4. WORK WITH A WRITER FOR A BIT, EVEN IF YOU’RE A GOOD WRITER YOURSELF

I have been eye­ing her Firestarter Ses­sions for a hot minute. For­get want, I absolutely knew that I needed it, but chose to lay back in the cut, because this entre­pre­neur­ial ME was NEWNESS and I sim­ply didn’t trust my instincts enough to know if this would be the best course.

I kept think­ing that Dasheen needed to look and taste and feel like this or that, pre­oc­cu­pied with an IDEA instead of admit­ting to a whole VISION. I kept com­par­ing myself to the estab­lish­ment. Remem­ber, The Caribbean Writer? Vol. 1 Valid ques­tion, but what was I really get­ting at? Why was I writ­ing? Why was I tak­ing up online space? Did I really think to be the ban­ner holder for a region? Or did I just really want to fly my own flag?

These are the kinds of ques­tions and analy­sis that read­ing Danielle’s white­hot truth pulls.

She is like my New York Times and WSJ or even my Griot. Like I would say, ‘I’m on my white­hot truth java.’ I want it daily. No offense to the New York Times or WSJ or Griot, but when I read those guys, I’m aware, and some­times I am upset (although not nec­es­sar­ily to action). When I read her, I am embold­ened and I become a more sub­stan­tial and sus­tain­able force because I acknowl­edge, I move on and DO.

I think that’s what a space online that has a pre­mo­ni­tion that it could be some­thing more, does or should do. This is how I know that the day MUST come when I put my money where my mouth is and invest in my dream. I can’t wait. I am sav­ing for Danielle LaPorte’s FireStarter Ses­sions with a smile on my face.

In read­ing her a cou­ple days ago, there was: strike a love match: you buy. we give. every­one wins. a spe­cial fire starter ses­sions pro­gram event and I was brought back to that fledg­ling firestarter inside of me. The desire wants to become a con­fla­gra­tion and I think I and WE should all take advantage.

Until then, there is a wealth of infor­ma­tion so pure and free that it can only be called truth!

Here’s Danielle set­ting the tone in one of her ear­lier post way back in Jan­u­ary 2009—

Before we go any fur­ther with this white hot endeavor, I need to make a dec­la­ra­tion: I’m tired of try­ing to get some­where other than where I am.

Book sales. Sub­scribers. Site traf­fic. Face­book. Twit­ter. Con­vert­ing “users” into rev­enue, and rev­enue into a lifestyle, and a lifestyle into some­thing that resem­bles my ver­sion of suc­cess so that I can feel ful­filled, and then feel wor­thy of feel­ing fulfilled.

I’m inter­ested in lib­er­at­ing truth, raw real­ity, and grace. I think fem­i­nine power and pro­gres­sive com­merce will rev­o­lu­tion­ize how we live. In my expe­ri­ence, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vital­ity increases, sat­is­fac­tion sets in, sweet­ness sur­faces. I believe in the cre­ative power of good feel­ings. I’m con­vinced that the desire to be real is everyone’s divine imper­a­tive. Yeah!

Yeah!

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