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COACHING & CONSULTING | BOOTCAMPS | COURSES | TRAINING PROGRAMS

COACHING

A la carte  |  $100/HOUR
MINDSET COACHING
RECOMMENDED FOR SENIORS

Tackle stubborn mindset challenges and integrate holistic storytelling approaches into your creative process and daily life. Use your insights to improve self trust, confidence, deep listening skills, and prevent burnout or imposter syndrome before they take hold.
CREATIVE STRATEGY
RECOMMENDED FOR TRAINEES

Develop personal brand stories to improve your assertiveness, communication, boundary setting, and clarify your alignment with the studio or project.

Use a combination of storytelling structure and enneagram to improve your ability to analyze challenging situations and assess a solution that has a balance of emotional and logical consideration. For example, developing custom strategies for work projects such as using storytelling to identify bias, navigating conflict between team members, or improving communication between artists and non-artists.
STORY & DESIGN CONSULTING
RECOMMENDED FOR DIRECTORS

Using Dan Harmon’s story circle and Enneagram I analyze your project to clarify your story’s theme and structure. Based on the project needs, I provide specific solutions and iterate options to improve thematic arcs, story concepts, fictional worlds, characters, art direction, and costume design.

Weave your personal brand story and project narrative together with confidence to elevate pitching presentations and project marketing concepts.
INCLUSIVE WORKFLOWS
RECOMMENDED FOR MID-TIERS

Explore your creative process in a non-judgmental space to assess the impact of your context, personality, and lifestyle on your process. Identify recurring sources of burnout or creative block and fill knowledge gaps to set more realistic goals and timelines.

Investigate your learning style and lifestyle needs to co-create customized exercises, and develop step by step approaches to help you make progress towards your goals.

BOOTCAMPS

3 day full day intensives  |  $5,000
HUMAN-FIRST STORYTELLING
RECOMMENDED FOR MID-TIERS

Learn an efficient process for drawing story inspiration from life to drive more nuanced storytelling. Gain new perspective on the role of creator and tools and share your thoughts in a facilitated group discussion around the practical and ethical use of AI to support authentic human stories.
BIAS AWARENESS
RECOMMENDED FOR JUNIORS

Dive into a series of personal story exercises to identify how your personal motivations and context drive your choices. Explore seeing your story from another point of view and share insights in a group discussion to troubleshoot how to lower bias in communication and craft.
DESIGN DIRECTION
RECOMMENDED FOR JUNIORS

Create personal and professional story-driven design concepts that resonate using intuitive approaches and research techniques. Learn how to weave psychology into your research approaches to connect with your audiences and elevate your visual subtext.
WORK FROM HOME PRACTICE
RECOMMENDED FOR SENIORS

Reset your working environment, routines, and workflows using story-driven strategies. Helping you gain back precious bandwidth and stabilize your productivity at home. Build on the same approaches by leveraging them to tackle creative block, help you gain fresh perspective and develop more sustainable approaches so you can stay in flow state longer.

TRAINING PROGRAMS

6 months, meet weekly  |  $13,000
ART & NARRATIVE COLLAB
RECOMMENDED FOR JUNIORS

Improve communication and develop more efficient collaborative workflows between Narrative and Art/Design departments by helping your teams build deeper comprehension of both processes.

Through a combination of shadowing workshops, team workflow pitches and breakout groups, both teams will collaboratively work on a light original story pitch. Workshops are complemented by insights from producers and artist/writer hybrid individuals, and artist and writer partnerships.
CREATIVE WORKFLOWS
RECOMMENDED FOR DIRECTORS

Learn more about the common challenges and insightful adaptations of underrepresented creatives. Workshop specific departmental workflows as a group to create more inclusive solutions and pitch them to guest artists from each underrepresented group for feedback. Refine your strategies and workshop barriers to implementation.

With special group panel talks to build deeper comprehension of their needs and strengths. Inclusivity focuses include: neurodivergence, mental health struggles, diverse cultural backgrounds, non-native English speakers, physical disability, and remote workers.
CREW JOURNEYS & CULTURE
RECOMMENDED FOR SENIORS

Use storytelling approaches to develop thoughtful crew journeys. From recruiting to onboarding and beyond. Weave in core values and powerful communication approaches to develop an environment of trust and safety in your studio culture.

TRAINEE PROGRAM

16 weeks, meets daily  |  $64,000
ARTIST TRAINEE PROGRAM
FOR ENTREE LEVEL TRAINEES
Bridging Communication between Corporate and Creative using craft skill building, original IP development exercises, brand identity creation, and mindset trainings. Leveraging a blend of storytelling techniques and psychology approaches to build communication skills, pitching skills, feedback skills, design skills, safe and empowering culture, and sustainable workflows

THE FULL MENU

58 weeks  |  $224,000
FULL SUITE OF PROGRAMS
RECOMMENDED FOR ALL EXPERIENCE LEVELS
Combine all the talent development offerings over a 58 week timeline. Includes analysis of current studio values, goals, initiatives, and trends across departments to customize trainings or bespoke solutions.Offboarding support provides transition documents to guide future leadership, improving their ability to maintain progress; includes schedules, client/crew profiles, progress tracking docs, studio research and trends analysis summaries, and one week of focused leadership training sessions.
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"CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK THAT RESPECTED MY PROCESS"

I loved our meetings every week, learning about time periods and how to research them, the importance of thumbnailing and how to not edit your ideas too soon in the process, getting extremely constructive feedback that respected my process of developing my own story. I learned many creative strategies for brainstorming, exploring ideas, and a hardly ever present self-compassionate approach during the creative process.
PAULA GUIMARAES, Art Director

"CELEBRATORY, OPEN AND ACCEPTING ENVIRONMENT"

Jessie Kate has created a celebratory, open and accepting environment that allows you to tell authentic and impactful stories without judgment or shame. She is compassionate and fully invested in helping you tell your story from your point of view. She is a guide on this journey, helping you navigate the waters within your story so it can evolve into a beautifully authentic tale of your experiences.
AMANDA MORTON, Research and Costume Specialist

"BRINGS THE BIGGER PICTURE TOGETHER"

As someone who enjoys research, Jessie really taught me the value of being intentional and specific with it to help bring a bigger picture together. I can take what I’ve learned and not only use it for costume design but also for characters or environments or props, and from that can feel like I’m creating a world grounded in something solid.
NATALIA FALCIGLIA, Character Painter

"HELD SPACE FOR ME TO TELL MY WHOLE STORY"

I had been struggling with telling my whole story online for a few years, and always inching closer but never quite hitting the mark. Jessie held space for me to tell her my whole story and not worry about the "outcome," trusting that she would steward me through the process. Thanks to her background in media storytelling, she was able to help me fashion a narrative that spoke directly to my ideal customer's pain points, but then quickly moved them toward my unique way of looking at the problem and solving it (based on my lived experience), which I hadn't been able to nail before. I'm so happy to have found Jessie!
NILIMA ACHWAL, Pitch and fundraise coaching for pre-seed/seed founders
(FEMALEFOUNDERSLAB.COM)

"YOU WALK AWAY LEARNING SO MUCH ABOUT YOURSELF"

As an entrepreneur, it’s critical for people to know, like, and trust the person behind the brand and the best way to do that is by sharing your story in many different ways, and Jessie Kate Bui is an expert at this. She not only gave me a structure to follow moving forward for storytelling, she curated bits and pieces of my journey and created a beautiful personal guide I can refer to. Her knowledge and incorporation of the Enneagram types is amazing and she masterfully takes you through her 8 beat story circle to deepen your message for your audience. You will walk away learning so much more about yourself (a bonus I didn’t expect) and the tools needed to share your story on any platform, making you stand out as an entrepreneur. 
TERESA HILDEBRAND, Clarity + Life Coach
(ORGANIZEDCHAOS.COM)

"EASY TO CONNECT WITH AND GO DEEP QUICKLY"

I was totally stuck when it came to telling my story and how it led to the creation of my business, until I, serendipitously, met Jessie Kate. She is someone with whom it’s very easy to connect and go deep quickly (not a common trait). Her approach to storytelling is equal parts depth and practicality. She has figured out an original (and I dare say genius) process to get to the gem hidden in every twist and turn in life, and to articulate them together in a story that is impactful while staying in full integrity with the truth.

I used to think that you needed to have a particularly wild and adventurous life to “have a story” that people would want to hear, but Jessie Kate showed me that it’s not about how spectacular your experiences may be, but instead about telling it with the right combination of truth and emotion.

You may think that this is an investment in your business but it may end up being an even more far-reaching investment in your relationship with the past versions of yourself that help you get here.
RAQUEL ROJO, Fashion Stylist
(INNATASTYLE.COM)

"SHORT QUOTE"

Help me not feel alone, so I don’t isolate myself. I belong here. Connecting universal connections with others, compliment people more genuinely. Empathy and bond quicker. Instead of getting nervous/anxious around people in authority, I think of their story, to find more genuine expressions of respect and what you offer. Self Awareness

Soothing, self care step. A safe place for me to express myself without feeling too exposed. By letting myself talk it out, I can decide what I actually feel about it. I can breathe a little more, It’s not as bad. When you don’t have to defend if you're not sure if it’s even true to you. It allowed space for gray areas. I couldn’t just be, just love without being so in my head. Creating boundaries.
GRACE ---, VISUAL DEVELOPMENT STUDENT

"SHORT QUOTE"

Help me not feel alone, so I don’t isolate myself. I belong here. Connecting universal connections with others, compliment people more genuinely. Empathy and bond quicker. Instead of getting nervous/anxious around people in authority, I think of their story, to find more genuine expressions of respect and what you offer. Self Awareness

Soothing, self care step. A safe place for me to express myself without feeling too exposed. By letting myself talk it out, I can decide what I actually feel about it. I can breathe a little more, It’s not as bad. When you don’t have to defend if you're not sure if it’s even true to you. It allowed space for gray areas. I couldn’t just be, just love without being so in my head. Creating boundaries.
AMAL ALHUWAYSHIL, Pleasure & Embodied Leadership Coach, (AMALALHUWAYSHIL.COM)

"LEARNED TO LISTEN"

Help me not feel alone, so I don’t isolate myself. I belong here. Connecting universal connections with others, compliment people more genuinely. Empathy and bond quicker. Instead of getting nervous/anxious around people in authority, I think of their story, to find more genuine expressions of respect and what you offer. Self Awareness

Soothing, self care step. A safe place for me to express myself without feeling too exposed. By letting myself talk it out, I can decide what I actually feel about it. I can breathe a little more, It’s not as bad. When you don’t have to defend if you're not sure if it’s even true to you. It allowed space for gray areas. I couldn’t just be, just love without being so in my head. Creating boundaries.

Opened the pandora’s box. When there was only fear, I lost touch with the good. 
I can keep make choices, change my mind.This character would be proud of me, escape into what they would do and use them to self validate. Call on a certain character to embody them. Self trust, hear your gut in the midst of daily challenges. What would Jessie do? -> What would my character do? Listening to herself. Becomes integrated into life. And learn how to use other characters that aren’t my strengths, provide wisdom without having it replace my own characters or innate worth. Becoming not-codependent. Take in movies more richly, activated my discernment in movies - to get deeper powerful messaging from it. 
SARAH WATSON, BRAND PHOTOGRAPHER