Tiny Revolutions №116: Two Workshops for the Fiery Souls Among Us

Let's get up to some sh*t in 2025

Here we are, a shiny new year, and already it’s feeling intense. My friends and family in wildfire-ravaged LA are on my mind as I write this. What a brutal start to 2025!

For the rest of us, it seems the usual existential questions apply. How will we live sanely in an increasingly chaotic world?

It’s the question that has always been at the heart of this newsletter. December was a blur, but between writing “F*ck Happiness” and The Fire Inside Manifesto, it seems lately I’ve been ping-ponging between frustration and anger and a deep love and hopefulness for the world. It’s not exactly been a comfortable place to be, but when I step back and think about it, I know that’s a good thing. Necessary even. Change comes from discomfort.

In the manifesto I wrote about how our messy, irrational, deeply human qualities are becoming more precious, not less, in the age of AI. Writing and sharing that piece felt really powerful, but what good is a manifesto if you don’t put it into practice?

So, in that spirit, I’m kicking off the year with two free workshops to help spark action—my action leading to your action. Let’s get up to some shit together this year!

1. For women:
   Tiny Brave Moves: Making 2025 Changes That Actually Stick.

   Fuck resolutions — there’s a reason most of us give up on them. Instead, we're going to explore how to use play, pleasure, and tiny experiments as our compass for creating lasting change.

   Wednesday, January 15 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

2. For everyone:
   Defiantly Human: Writing That Stands Out in an AI World.

   Let’s combat AI slop by uncovering what you really want to say and creating some experiments that give you the confidence to say it.
   Tuesday, January 21 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

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As I wrote in the manifesto, “The future belongs to those who dare to tend their inner fire.” Consider this your invitation to come tend yours with me.

Thanks for being here, as ever.

😘

Sara

p.s. Say something spicy in the comments. God knows we all need the entertainment.

p.p.s. Share this with someone who someone who wants to shake things up this year.

p.p.p.s. Here are some quotes that have inspired me lately.

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”

– Jean-Luc Godard

“To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything, except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.”

—David Whyte

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

This is more difficult, because there is no zeitgeist to read, no template to follow, no mask to wear. Set aside what your friends expect, what your parents demand, what your acquaintances require. Set aside the messages this culture sends, through its advertising, its entertainment, its disdain and its disapproval, about how you should behave.

Set aside the old traditional notion of female as nurturer and male as leader; set aside, too, the new traditional notions of female as superwoman and male as oppressor. Begin with that most terrifying of all things, a clean slate. Then look, every day, at the choices you are making, and when you ask yourself why you are making them, find this answer: for me, for me. Because they are who and what I am, and mean to be.”

— Anna Quindlen