DARE YOURSELF
with Nataly Kogan
An interactive art-fueled experience to dare yourself into what’s next
There are new dimensions of you asking to be expressed
New directions for your work and your life, ideas and dreams you haven't let yourself follow yet, new and bold ways you want to express yourself.
But often, we hold back. We talk ourselves out of them because somewhere along the way we get practical and reasonable, and we’ve let our fear stories take over.
This is the place to loosen the inner limits, uncover what’s calling to you, step into a fuller, bolder version of yourself, and dare yourself to create what feels most true.
The art is the magic
Picture a room, color and paper in front and all around you.
You create instead of analyze. You play instead of plan. And as you do, you begin to experience yourself in a whole different way.
That's the whole secret of working with your hands. The part of you that edits and second-guesses goes quiet, and you reach dimensions of yourself that thinking, talking and journaling can't touch.
You feel freer and bolder. More in tune with yourself. New ideas emerge that you weren’t expecting.
You don't need to know how to paint. This is not an art class.
You need a willingness to play, explore, and give yourself permission to create without judgement.
HERE’S HOW WE TURN DOUBTS INTO DARES
➔ We play.
No plan, no trying to make something good or perfect.
➔ You uncover your dare.
The exciting and slightly terrifying thing you feel called to create or do next, the one that’s been quietly knocking or loudly calling.
➔ You release what's in the way.
You identify the resistance, fear or beliefs that hold you back, loosen them, and choose a new belief to fuel your dare.
➔ You declare your dare.
You paint your dare onto one collective canvas we build together.
Your dare becomes part of something larger than you and is infused with the energy everyone else has brought to the room.
And then, during our closing ritual…
…I free your dare from the collective canvas and it becomes your own original Dare Artwork.
"Truly transformative. To have dedicated time with Nataly, under the canopy of her art studio, is not to be missed. Her intuitive ability to encourage and uncover what we are each seeking is a tremendous gift." — Liisa
"The freedom I felt painting our Dares... I now believe I can create and deliver a viable business of my own and make it work." — Rhonda
"Life-changing. It helped me see things in a way I never thought possible. I was literally skipping at the airport on my way back."
— Paula
This is how everything in your life grows and expands
When you express the truest version of who you are, you become more yourself in every room you walk into. Your work gets bolder. Your business grows. You lead more clearly, you're more present, you feel more alive. The people around you feel it.
We are at our best when we stop holding back. When we dare ourselves.
That is when you do your most meaningful, rewarding work and create the impact only you can have.
You leave as a bolder, fuller version of yourself.
You feel more alive, vibrant, with a truer sense of what you want and a deeper belief in what's possible.
You feel freer and lighter because you’ve left behind a few of the stories that were holding you back.
And you carry home your Dare Artwork, painted by you!
It’s a promise to yourself to keep expanding that that becomes your artifact of becoming.
On the days the vision feels far away, it reminds you what you dared to envision and asks you to take the next small step.
This is the most authentic expression of my life’s work
I spent the first half of my life building and walking through walls.
I came to this country as a refugee at thirteen, with no English and no money. I went on a chase of happiness through success and built a super-impressive career, from McKinsey to venture capital to founding Happier, which reached over a million people.
Then, at the height of it, I burned out. I had done everything I thought I should… but felt disconnected from myself, my aliveness and purpose. Everything went dark.
Art brought me back to life.
I picked up a paintbrush at 40, with no training, simply because it made me feel alive. The more I created, the more alive I felt, and the more of what I wanted I could see. My work, my business, my impact, all of it expanded, because I dared to express this dimension of myself.
I kept this part of my story hidden for years. When my team pushed me to put it in my keynote, I resisted, worried what rooms of executives would think. I did it anyway. And people tell me, again and again, that hearing it helped them name what was calling them, and finally go after it.
This experience comes straight out of my own life and I am honored to share it with you.
ARE YOU WILLING TO HEAR THE CALL?
You've built the career, the reputation, the life that you’re proud of.
But something else is calling, something you’ve not expressed because the timing wasn't right, or it felt like too much, or you buried it under stories of why it’s not possible.
What this experience gives you is the space to hear it, to tell the truth about it, and to dare yourself to create it, alongside others doing the same.
Host the Dare Yourself Experience
Three ways to host
If you gather people, a community, a retreat, or a team, you can host this experience with me.
You bring your people and I bring everything else: the materials, the arc, and twenty years of guiding people to name what's calling them and begin.
This experience can be the centerpiece of your gathering or one part of a larger day.
It works beautifully on its own and pairs naturally with my keynote.
In my Boston studio.
For groups of 6 to 10.
At your location.
For groups of 10 to 25.
Live virtual.
For groups of any size.
Length shaped to your gathering, from a few hours to a full day.
Dare yourself to paint with a larger palette. Make bolder strokes. Be less afraid of getting it wrong.
The only mistake you can make is to leave your life canvas unpainted.
You are the artist of your life