MEMBERSHIP & WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
Keep Your Creative Career In Motion
Fast Forward gives emerging creatives the structure, practical tools, and people that become harder to find when school ends.
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Start while you’re still in school. Keep going through graduation, first jobs, pivots, and the long middle.
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“If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Prover
Not Another Course.
A steady place to keep taking the next useful action.
Choose the level of structure and support that fits with where you are now.
Three Ways to Participate
Start free. Add structure when and if you need it.
Fast Forward is designed as a ladder - not a gate.
Join the community, build a rhythm, and choose deeper support when it becomes useful.
Start Here
01 / GET CONNECTED
Free Collective & Tools
$0
A welcoming starting point for creatives and supporters.​
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✓ Guidance and reminders by email
✓ Resources on our Notion board
✓ Join the conversation on Discord
✓ Fast Forward Webinars & Zooms
✓ Access to lists & directories
✓ Commons & community access
The community and many free resources are here. Its all you need.
The rest is optional.
Upgrade Only If You Need To
02 / Build Your Career Rhythm
Fast Forward Complete
$15 / month
The complete digital system for keeping a creative career moving.
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✓ Everything in the Free Collective
✓ Complete Digital Library,. All Pubs.
✓ Guided rhythms, quests, & exercises
✓ Cue text prompts & micro-learning
✓ DIY peer-group playbook & tools
✓ Commons & community access
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​Expanded support for those who want some more.
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We're Here If You Need More Too
03 / Go Further Together
Coached Peer Groups
On Request.
Facilitated small peer group for creatives who want more support, accountability, and perspective.​
✓ Everything in the Free Collective
✓ Small, stage-aligned cohorts
✓ Professionally facilitated weekly calls
✓ Goals, progress, and perspective
✓ Structured weekly rhythm
✓ Proctored & Supervised Journeys
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​Modeled after executive peer groups, the most hands-on level of support ​
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ACCESS MATTERS
Cost shouldn't end a creative career
before it gets moving.
Full or partial membership scholarships may be available.
Creatives can request support, and supporters can help create access for someone else.
INSIDE MEMBERSHIP
The practical support between school and a sustainable creative life.
The complete digital library
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Core publications, all Field Guides, worksheets, and practical tools—organized around the moments when creatives most often get stuck.
Cue, right when you need it
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Short text-based prompts, microlearning, and useful next steps that help turn good intentions into a repeatable career rhythm.​
DIY peer-group system
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Everything members need to form and run their own circle: structure, agendas, working agreements, prompts, and facilitation guidance.
Commons, community, & quests
A growing resource environment, career-development exercises, shared perspective, and a place to keep learning alongside other creatives.
MEET CUE
A useful nudge
not another noisy feed.
Cue is the interactive texting companion being developed for enrolled members. Cue delivers small pieces of learning and practical prompts in a format that fits real life. Cue adapts its pace and scope to each member’s day-to-day workload and career stage.
Small by design. One useful idea or action at a time.
Built for momentum. Prompts connect back to Fast Forward tools and career rhythms.
You stay in control. Clear consent, frequency choices, privacy, and easy opt out.
PEER GROUPS, TWO WAYS
Build your own peer circle or let us help.
Creative careers are easier to sustain when progress, questions, and opportunities have somewhere to live. It takes a village.
PEER GROUPS, TWO WAYS
DIY Peer Groups
Everything you need to gather up your crew and travel together. Think of your creative career as a quest.
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Launch guide and working agreements
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Online meeting spaces and prompts
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Goal and progress rhythms
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Tools for healthy peer feedback
PREMIUM COACHED EXPERIENCE
Facilitated Peer Groups
A professionally facilitated cohort for creatives who want sustained accountability and perspective.
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Consistent facilitated sessions
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Small cohorts of aligned creatives
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Accountability and perspective
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Application and separate pricing
STAGE, NOT AGE
Support that changes as the journey changes.
Fast Forward can begin before graduation and remain useful as creative work becomes a professional life and beyond.
Find your people, keep moving!
Still in school
Begin mapping the professional world, building relationships, and developing useful habits while school still provides structure.
Approaching graduation
Strengthen positioning, portfolio evidence, target research, outreach, and a repeatable career-development rhythm.
After school ends
Keep making, learning, connecting, and finding opportunities as jobs, money, relationships, and ordinary life compete for attention.
Working, pivoting, or returning
Use the same system through first roles, freelance work, changing direction, pauses, and the long middle of a creative career.
QUESTIONS
Membership FAQ
Who is Fast Forward Membership for?
Creative students, people approaching graduation, recent graduates, emerging creatives, working creatives, and people returning to a creative path after time away.
Are all publications included?
Members receive access to the Fast Forward-produced digital library while their membership is active. Permanent individual downloads and physical editions remain available separately through Publications.
Is coached peer-group participation included in the $47 per month Membership?
The DIY peer-group framework is included. Facilitated cohorts are a separate premium service with their own application, availability, and pricing.
Is Cue a human coach?
No. Cue is an interactive text-based learning and prompting companion. It helps members take practical next steps, but it does not replace human coaching, professional advice, or mental-health support.
What if I cannot afford Membership?
Fast Forward intends to offer full and partial scholarships based on available funding. The scholarship page will explain eligibility and the application process.
