
Unstuck: The Blueprint to Innovation and Creative Breakthroughs
Feeling stuck in the whirlwind of life and work? This course is your step-by-step guide to breaking free, unlocking clarity, and driving sustainable innovation. Tap into your creative power to transform how you live and lead.
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Module 1: Clarity Through Practice
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Lesson 1.1: Breaking Through the Fog
Discover a simple, 7-minute practice to clear your mental clutter and start your day with focus. Adapted from "Morning Pages," this exercise is tailored for busy leaders who need clarity to innovate.
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Lesson 1.2: What is your relationship with creativity?
Identify the people, places, and habits that help you achieve mental clarity. This exercise will help you create a personalized strategy to stay focused, even in chaotic environments.
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Lesson 1.3: Strategic Time Blocking for Focus
Learn how to take control of your time with strategic time blocking. This method helps you prioritize your most important tasks and carve out space for big-picture thinking.
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Summary of Module 1: Character Sketch
Based on why you have learned, how do you gain clarity through practice?
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Module 2: Rituals & Optimizing for Creativity
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Lesson 2.1: Designing Mini-Rituals for Busy Schedules
Small, consistent actions create meaningful change. Lesson 2.1 provides you with guidance and tools to begin building rituals for optimizing creativity.
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Lesson 2.2: Optimizing Your Environment for Creativity
Ideas are everywhere. Our physical environment impacts how we receive and use these ideas. Take an inventory of your environment and see what steps you can take to make it more conducive to creativity.
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Lesson 2.3: Creative Trigger Stacking
Learn how to "stack" habits and triggers to make creativity effortless. This method helps you build momentum and consistency in your creative practice.
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Summary of Module 2: Rituals of Creation
Creativity isn't a random gift or mysterious talent, but a cognitive resource that can be systematically activated through personalized rituals that work with—rather than against—your natural patterns, environment, and schedule.
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Module 3: Exploration & Divergence
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Lesson 3.1: Smart Collection System Setup
Lesson 3 takes us through the process of collecting ideas- how we explore and diverge to find new ideas and then store them in a way we that can be easily accessed.
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Lesson 3.2: Creative Flexibility: Exploration
Some times to get clarity you need step away and maybe look to other places for inspiration….
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Lesson 3.3: Collaboration & Cross-Pollination
Learn more about the 7 REASONS collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas are vital to creativity and innovation and what this looks like in your daily life. Remember it is all about building a system so you can do this.
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Summary of Module 3: The Innovation Vault
How will you pull the lessons from this week together to capture innovation?
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Module 4: Converging: Creative Decisioning
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Module 5: Lifelong Practice
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Lesson 5.1: Prioritizing Input + Output
You cannot output creative ideas if you are not bringing in new and varied information. This lesson helps you learn how.
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Lesson 5.2: Building a Creative Network
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Learn how to intentionally build a creative network that fuels inspiration, collaboration, and long-term innovation. Discover how the right connections can expand your thinking, challenge your ideas, and open doors to new creative possibilities. -
Lesson 5.3: Creativity & The Growth Mindset
The biggest barrier to creativity isn’t lack of skill—it’s fear. Fear of being wrong, fear of looking foolish, fear of failure. But failure is just feedback. Every innovative idea comes from a willingness to test, adapt, and try again
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Summary of Module 5: Lifelong Practice
Creativity isn’t a one-time spark; it’s a process that requires intentional input, strong networks, and a resilient mindset.
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What you’ll learn
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Examine your physical environment and daily patterns for time and space to tap into your creative energy.
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Learn your creative triggers and how to build a creative network so you can collaborate and innovate
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Learn how to clean out and organize your mental clutter to make space for creativity.
Course FAQs
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This course is designed for ambitious professionals—executives, founders, creatives, and changemakers—who feel stuck in reactive mode and want to unlock consistent creative breakthroughs. Whether you're leading a team, building a business, or making your next career move, Unstuck will give you the tools to lead with clarity and think differently.
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Not at all. In fact, most of our participants don’t identify as artists or “creatives.” This course is about creative thinking, not painting. If you solve problems, make decisions, or want to lead with originality, this course is for you.
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The core course is self-paced and designed to fit into busy schedules. Most modules take 10–15 minutes each, with exercises you can apply in real time. You can complete the entire course in 2–3 weeks, or go deeper over 30 days for sustained practice.
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You’ll get:
15+ high-impact video lessons
Step-by-step creativity exercises
Downloadable worksheets and tools
Access to our group coaching sessions
Bonus invites to a 3-Day Creativity Jumpstart challenge
Special offers for retreats and in-person experiences
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Our group coaching calls are live, facilitated sessions where you can get feedback, ask questions, and learn from others on a similar path. Led by veteran innovation coaches, these sessions are where big ideas take root through real-time collaboration, accountability, and creative energy. You’ll leave each session with fresh insights, practical strategies, and new connections.
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No worries. This course is built with flexibility in mind. You’ll have ongoing access to the materials and recordings of live sessions (if applicable), so you can catch up or revisit at your own pace.
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We don’t believe in vague “just think outside the box” advice. This is a repeatable system based on research, executive coaching, and years of real-world innovation work. It’s grounded in neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and lived leadership experience—and it’s been battle-tested with startups, Fortune 100 companies, and creative pros alike.
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Yes! If you're looking to enroll a team, run a cohort internally, or pair the course with a live workshop or retreat, we’d love to talk. Send us a message and we’ll customize a package that fits your goals.
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Creativity is a lifelong muscle. After the course, you’ll be invited to:
Join our ongoing coaching community
Sign up for retreats and in-person intensives
Participate in bonus sprints and creative challenges
Your journey doesn’t end when the modules do—it evolves.
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Click that big button that says “Enroll Now” and choose your plan. We’ll send everything you need to get started right away.
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Shoot us an email at melissa@taprootcreativity.com or cate@taprootcreativity.com. We’d love to connect.