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LEVEL UP: How to Overcome Self-Doubt and Build Unshakeable Creative Confidence

This event happened on Wed, Oct 1, 2025 • Virtual
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Jeff Fajans

Creative Momentum Coach at Jeff Fajans Coaching.

Westminster, CO, USA

My name is Jeff Fajans (rhymes with “lions”).🦁

I am creative performance & leadership coach who works with creators, entrepreneurs, and leaders to help them bring their biggest ideas to life and reach their next level of creative success.

Here are 3 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Me

🧪️ Thing #1: My last name is a Polish last name. My Polish great-grandfather Kazimierz Fajans discovered the chemical element, Protactinium, and ate lunch with Albert Einstein at a table my parents now have in their dining room.

🎓Thing #2: I have a PhD in Positive Organizational Psychology from Claremont Graduate University, where I studied under Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, world-renowned author of Flow. My research focused on how to help people learn, develop, and lead more effectively to better achieve creative goals.

🎸Thing #3: I am an avid music creator and guitar player - and since the birth of my amazingly curious, creative, and energetic 6-year-old son, Hendrix, I have been creating funky fresh kids music (under the artist name, MrBoodaddy) that captures the authenticity, joy, craziness, and fun of toddlers and parents experiencing the world together. This is NOT anything like the typical cookie-cutter children’s music out there. The president of the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) described my EP, Trash Truck, as “Beastie Boys for Babies” 🤣.

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About this FieldTrip

You’ll learn how to transform self-doubt into creative confidence so you can move forward with bold, meaningful work.

Here’s what you’ll take away:

➡️ A clear understanding of the hidden psychological roots of creative resistance

➡️ Insight into why perfectionism and procrastination show up + how to move through them & get unstuck

➡️ Practical tools like the ARCC Model, the Rewire Process, and other Creative Momentum™ strategies

➡️ Empowering growth mindset shifts to help you navigate the messy, non-linear creative process.

➡️ A practical workbook, renewed confidence, and a system to keep building momentum long after the session ends

⭐️ This FieldTrip is part of our Level Up Series with Adobe!
This FieldTrip is a part of Level Up, a series of FieldTrips and resources designed to help you grow, gain confidence, and take meaningful next steps in your creative career. This series is made possible by CreativeMornings’ global partnership with Adobe . Learn more about the program and upcoming FieldTrips and check out more ways to Level Up

Agenda

  • This session involves lecture, guided exercises, and a free workbook with templates & tools.

  • Lecture on the psychological roots of self-doubt in the creative process

  • We will go over tools to help you identify your resistance triggers, reframe self-doubt, and build creative momentum

  • There will be specific examples given and mini-case studies from others’ experiences on how to move through perfectionism, procrastination, and inner criticism

  • Real-time mini-journaling prompts and reflection activities in the Zoom chat

  • Live coaching and interaction to apply tools to real audience challenges

  • Final takeaways and next steps for turning insights into action

What to expect

Workshop format!

A hands-on session where participants get to build, craft, or create something tangible.

It will be recorded!

The recording will be shared within 24 hours in the follow up email for a 30-day window, and available at the top of this page. Make sure to register for access!

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Your Host

Jeff Fajans

Creative Momentum Coach at Jeff Fajans Coaching.

Westminster, CO, USA
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About Jeff Fajans

My name is Jeff Fajans (rhymes with “lions”).🦁

I am creative performance & leadership coach who works with creators, entrepreneurs, and leaders to help them bring their biggest ideas to life and reach their next level of creative success.

Here are 3 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Me

🧪️ Thing #1: My last name is a Polish last name. My Polish great-grandfather Kazimierz Fajans discovered the chemical element, Protactinium, and ate lunch with Albert Einstein at a table my parents now have in their dining room.

🎓Thing #2: I have a PhD in Positive Organizational Psychology from Claremont Graduate University, where I studied under Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, world-renowned author of Flow. My research focused on how to help people learn, develop, and lead more effectively to better achieve creative goals.

🎸Thing #3: I am an avid music creator and guitar player - and since the birth of my amazingly curious, creative, and energetic 6-year-old son, Hendrix, I have been creating funky fresh kids music (under the artist name, MrBoodaddy) that captures the authenticity, joy, craziness, and fun of toddlers and parents experiencing the world together. This is NOT anything like the typical cookie-cutter children’s music out there. The president of the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) described my EP, Trash Truck, as “Beastie Boys for Babies” 🤣.

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