We’re great at having all the ideas, we love a new rabbit hole, and we love getting stuck in, but the finishing part?
Let’s be honest:
Finishing things can be so fucking hard.
It can be so much easier to give up than do the last 5% and it can also be so hard to recognise just how far we’ve come and instead focus on the fact that finishing feels bloody impossible.
But instead of recognising that finishing is just really hard, we blame ourselves. We believe that we’re just not finishers, we’re too flaky and we’re lazy.
and i call serious bullshit.
Your love of new ideas and rabbit holes and your many ongoing projects is something to be celebrated, not yet another thing to beat yourself up about.
We just need to get intentional, strategic and rebellious about how we approach projects and finish things.
We need to embrace the fact that we’re people with lots of loves and curious minds, work WITH our nature rather than against it, and find a way to fight against the perfectionism that’s waiting around the corner.
IF I HAVE ONE WISH FOR YOU, IT IS TO DREAM MORE. - Dolly Parton
introducing the festival of finishing!
4 MONTHS OF making real and compassionate progress, embracing imperfection and intentionally finishing the things that matter.
The Festival of Finishing Season Pass is a curated experience for creative and multi-passionate women who want to get out of their own way and create a life that aligns with their values.
Together we’ll be closing open loops, and changing our relationship with finishing, while having a shit tonne of fun and excellent company!
The festival of finishing includes:
(You can find out more about exactly what each of these are by jumping to this part of the page!)
plus!
💃 Lifetime access to The Rebel Social
🙌 Whatever else I create during the 4 months! (excluding 1:1 coaching, One Woman Band Club, The Rebel Creators and physical products!)
what is a season pass?
For the next 4 months, I’m doing a deep dive into everything to do with finishing. By getting the season pass you get access to everything I make in that time! 🎉
You get access to the whole programme of events, and you get an intensive, immersive experience that allows for inspiration, figuring things out and results in meaningful and lasting change, while life happens.
It’s a space where we can really go down rabbit holes, where we can test and try things, and really put things into practice, and tweak as we go.
ALL THE DETAILS
what’s on during the festival of finishing?
rebel reframe workshop
*exclusive to Festival Season Pass Holders only!
We’ll be kicking off the Festival of Finishing by really diving into why finishing is so damn hard and what we can do about it.
The Rebel Reframe is a fun 2-hour workshop all about embracing your inner-finisher and bringing the JOY back into the process and taking away some of that pressure.
We’ll be exploring fun ways to counter resistance and starting to reframe what finishing means and battle our own perfectionism. You’ll come away with a whole bunch of tools you can use time and time again, with a really fabulous group of women who get it and feeling a whole lot less alone!
HAPPENING IN SEPTEMBER!
quick wins 30 day challenge!
One of the best ways to battle our inner dreamshitter is with cold hard evidence that we CAN do stuff. Combine this with the fact that around here we tend to like a challenge and thrive on accountability and we’re off to a brilliant start!
So a week into the festival, we’re going to do a 30-day quick win sprint where we close some open loops, get around to doing the things that have been nagging us for too long.
Not only will this give you a real boost, it’ll also put you in a great place to focus on the projects you intentionally choose to work on in the Let Them Fly workshop!
Here’s how it works.
PLANNING CALL
We work together to create a bingo card of quick wins for the month to really focus on for 30 days and form an action plan that takes into account any obstacles and resistance.
PRIVATE COMMUNITY
Meet your accountability buddies! We’ll have a Quick Wins Whatsapp group where we’ll each post each day during the 30 days to share our quick wins, support each other and cheer each other on!
KICK-OFF CALL
On Day 1, we’ll gather to officially kick off the challenge, remind ourselves of our goals and get started!
Q&As
At the mid-way checkpoint, we’ll have a live Q&A call to help you if you’re feeling stuck, celebrate your wins and give you an extra boost of motivation!
CELEBRATION CALL
On Day 30, we’ll gather again as a community to celebrate our wins with cake, and think about our plans moving forward!!
HAPPENING IN SEPTEMBER!
closing loops get shit done day!
A big part of finishing is getting prepared and closing open loops! You, me and a group of like-minded women will spend a day together doing exactly that and creating some much-needed brain space! and getting shit sorted!
You, me and a group of like-minded women will spend a day together co-working and getting shit done! At the beginning of the day, you set out our goals and share a bit about your goals then we’ll get to it in dedicated time chunks throughout the day!
This is perfect for getting yourself ready to start finishing and reclaim some headspace!
HAPPENING IN SEPTEMBER!
let them fly workshop!
One of the reasons it can be so damn hard to finish things is because there are just SO many things we want to do.
Let Them Fly is a 2-hour workshop where we get really intentional about what projects we’re going to work on during the Festival of Finishing, and lovingly let some fly (for now).
We’ll be letting go of the ‘should’s, have a bit of a letting go ceremony to projects we’ve fallen out of love with, and use our values and current circumstances as a lens to help us decide what we’re going to finish during the Festival!
You’ll come away with a really helpful flexible structure you can use time and time again for deciding which projects to focus on, and a way of knowing at a glance where to put your heart, focus and passion.
HAPPENING IN SEPTEMBER!
finish: give yourself the gift of done book club!*
*exclusive to season pass holders only!
We’ve all got so many books on our to-read pile that we never quite get around to, which could be really fucking helpful. For extra accountability and to add extra depth to the Festival of Finishing, we’ll be diving into the book Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done by Jon Acuff.
If perfectionism has become a closer acquaintance than you’d like it to be, and you’re too damn hard on yourself, you’re going to love this book!
We’ll have 3 x 90-minute calls to dive into the book, glean the main takeaways and apply them to our lives!
3 CALLS THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL, STARTING IN OCTOBER.
creative harvest workshop!
The Creative Harvest is my annual autumn workshop, and is a compassionate and strategic 2-hour workshop and invite to lean into the season, take a pause, gather your crops (ideas), review your tools (notebooks) and make a plan for the rest of the year.
Using the metaphor of a harvest, we’ll explore how you can use the season to guide your creativity, choose your projects, and how you’re going to use your energy for the rest of the year.
If you’ve got lots of ideas spread over many different notebooks, scraps of paper and google docs, and you find it hard to acknowledge what you HAVE done, you’re gonna love this!
HAPPENING IN OCTOBER!
30-day finish sprint!
We all love a challenge, and we all need accountability! Using the same format as the Quick Wins challenge, we’ll be working together as a community to really intentionally show up and work on finishing the projects we’re focusing on.
Here’s how it works.
PLANNING CALL
We work together to choose one VIP project and one fun project (you get to alternate between the two so you don’t feel trapped) to really focus on for 30 days and form an action plan that takes into account any obstacles and resistance.
PRIVATE COMMUNITY
By now you’ll know your accountability buddies very well, and we’ll be using the same Whatsapp group to share and track our progress and cheer each other on!
KICK-OFF CALL
On Day 1, we’ll gather to officially kick off the challenge, remind ourselves of our goals and get started!
Q&As
At the mid-way checkpoint, we’ll have a live Q&A call to help you if you’re feeling stuck, celebrate your wins and give you an extra boost of motivation!
CELEBRATION CALL
On Day 30, we’ll gather again as a community to celebrate our wins, with cake, and think about our projects moving forward!
HAPPENING THROUGHOUT NOVEMBER!
2 x ‘let’s get finishing’ get shit done days!
When we’re working on finishing things, some tasks can be gnarlier than others and some things bring up the resistance more than anything else! So towards the end of the year, we’ll have 2 days of co-working where you’ll bring exactly those things and do them with good company!
At the beginning of the day, you set out our goals and then we’ll get to it in dedicated time chunks throughout the day!
This is perfect for helping you do the things you really can’t be fucked to do or feel a bit scary.
HAPPENING IN NOVEMBER AND EARLY DECEMBER!
fuck off 2022 workshop!
This 2 hour workshop is a really helpful and compassionate container for reflecting on the year and acknowledging the joy as well as getting curious about what we can learn from the things that didn’t work out this year.
We’re going to also find the evidence that you CAN do it and the fabulous things you HAVE done along the way and go into 2023 with less shame, more joy and feeling a whole lot less bogged down by shit that you really don’t need to carry with you.
HAPPENING IN DECEMBER!
word of the year workshop
The Word of the Year is a no BS way of ringing in the New Year and setting compassionate intentions rather than pressured goals.
Together with a group of fabulous women, we’re going to get really intentional, decide on a guiding word for 2023 and look at how we can use that word in different areas of our life throughout the year. We’ll be looking at practical ways you can use the word in your day to day life and build a compassionate framework for the year ahead.
You’ll leave feeling grounded, with a sustainable and intentional way to approach 2023 and practical ways to really come back to what’s important to YOU when the sea gets choppy and you can’t see the shore.
HAPPENING IN JANUARY 2023!
plus lifetime access to the rebel social!
The Rebel Social is a monthly hangout on Zoom and a Facebook group for all the fabulous women I’ve worked with and a place to really find your people, share your wins and get feedback from a group of like-minded and like-valued women who really just get it!
HAPPENING THROUGHOUT!
Monthly calls throughout the festival and beyond!
plus! whatever other fun stuff i create during our 4 months together!
(this excludes 1:1 coaching, my one woman band program, the rebel creators membership and physical products).
What’s the investment?
if booked onto individually, these would come to £435
the festival price:
4 payments of £55
or one payment of £220
the breakdown of what your festival pass includes:
🗓 Rebel Reframe Workshop (£25)* season pass exclusive
🏆 30 Day Quick Wins Challenge (£95)
🔂 Closing Loops Get Shit Done Day (£25)
🕊 Let Them Fly Workshop (£25)
📚 Finish Book Club (£45)* season pass exclusive
🍁 Creative Harvest Workshop (£25)
🏁 30-Day Finish Sprint (£95)
✏️ 2 x Get Shit Done Days, Finishing Edition (£50)
✌️ Fuck Off 2022 Workshop (£25)
🎉 Word of the Year Workshop (£25)
⚡️ A Festival of Finishing Hub to easily access everything, as well as a resources section with books, podcasts and app recommendations all to do with habits!
💃 Lifetime access to The Rebel Social
🎉Anything else I create between September 13th 2022 and January 13th 2023 (excluding 1:1 coaching, One Woman Band Club/ Rebel Creators and physical products.)
🔥 4 fabulous months of finishing things with intention and re-framing how you see finishing forever!
you’ll come away with:
A SOLID FOUNDATION
A shitload of sustainable strategies and frameworks that you can come back to time and time again!
Community + connection
Throughout the season pass (and through The Rebel Social), you’ll meet a fabulous bunch of likeminded women on a similar path, walking alongside you!
confidence + truer stories
You’ll come away with more truthful stories about yourself and will be quite surprised at what you CAN do!
so…why does this exist?
and who are you?!
📸 Rachel Burt
I’m obsessed with bright colours, stationery, Dolly Parton and live in Liverpool with my ridiculous cockapoo Merlin.
just the idea of finishing things can really mess with us.
I'm Meg and I'm a coach, serial podcaster and all round rebel rouser for multi-passionate and fabulously unconventional women. And a couple of years ago, I would have told you, hand on my heart that I wasn’t a finisher.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve abandoned a project only to go back later and be simultaneously so surprised by how far I’d got, but also how frustrated that I stopped so close to the end.
And also how baffled I was to return to the project and to find it was actually pretty damn good and all those glaring imperfections that paralysed me at the time had just disappeared.
I’ve had to create my own systems and ways of finishing that work with my structure-resistant nature, and now finishing things is one of my favourite things to work with clients on! I’ve seen first-hand so many times just how genuinely life-changing it can be to realise you ARE someone who does finish things.
During the Festival of Finishing we’re going to reframe finishing and find flexible ways to do it, and we're also going to be re-writing the bullshit narrative that we are people who can't finish things. We're going to be embracing our new identity of being a finisher! 🙌
Together we’re going to build up a shit tonne of evidence that you CAN finish things, that you DO finish things, and you get to be intentional about what you choose to finish, and do it on your own terms!
so, when you talk about finishing things, what kind of things are we talking about?
Everything we’re going to cover in the Festival of Finishing can be applied to most things and most contexts!
Some examples:
Finishing the first draft of a book
Finishing a beast of a module in a qualification
Re-writing your CV and getting ready for a career change
Finishing your website and getting it out there
Turning un-used space in your house into a creative workspace
Putting the finishing touches to a creative project you’ve been working on for years
Forming ideas and bringing something to life
Decluttering and creating space for a new chapter
here’s what other rebel rousers have said about previous workshops and experiences!
I think the most important thing was that you made us feel seen. Zoom meetings always run the risk of being quite anonymous, where you're muted on entry and listen for the duration for the session, and it was so nice to feel like it really was an online get-together rather than a seminar.
Emily, Workshop Attendee and Rebel Creators Member
Meg has created a supportive and compassionate space where her warmth and humour shine through every activity.”
Zena, 2 x One Woman Band-er
In just two hours Meg managed to completely shift my perspective from one of self depreciation to self compassion, which I am truly grateful for. Meg created such a warm and comfortable environment, where I got to learn so much about myself as well as connecting with some amazing people.
Catherine, workshop participant
”I went into it feeling that it might be like work, women who like to climb all over other women to get ahead. It was nothing like that. So many brave and beautiful people - it really restored my faith in sisterhood.”
Emma, 4 x One Woman Band-er
so, what do you say, rebel rouser?
are you ready to get finishing?
FUCK YES!
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the season pass?
The rebel season pass is an all-access pass to the Festival of Finishing! Between September 13, 2022 and January 13, 2022, your season pass gives you access to all the things on this page - including anything else I create during that time period! The only things that are excluded from the season pass are 1:1 coaching calls One Woman Band Club/The Rebel Creators and physical products.
What happens at the end of the season pass?
At the end of the season pass we have a wrap-up call and celebrate with cake! You’ll continue to have access to the replays as well as The Rebel Social. You’ll have the option to continue your Rebel Creator’s membership if you’d like to, and first dibs on the next season pass (January 2022 - April 2023)!
will there be replays?
Absolutely, all apart from the Get Shit Done Day! You can watch these at your leisure and they’ll be password protected for security. (The Rebel Socials are not recorded as they’re more informal chats!)
what if i can’t make a call?
Not to worry! There’s so much happening within the 4 months, it’s only natural you won’t be able to make every single thing live, and some things will probably appeal to you more than others! There will be replays available within 24 hours of the event which will be sent out after and available via the Festival of Finishing Hub!
WHere’s it all happening?
Everything is online and calls will take place via Zoom. You’ll have easy access to all the links via your Festival of Finishing Hub and you’ll also get email reminders before each event.
how do i access everything?
Upon joining, you’ll be invited to join the Festival of Finishing Hub. This will have all the links for the calls, replays when they’re available and all the handy info you need. You’ll also get reminder emails before each event :)
what about timezones?
One of the fun things is that you’ll be joined by women from over the world! I do my absolute best to make sure times are suitable for as many people as possible. For the times when you’re not able to make it, replays are available within 24 hours.
what if i just want to come to one of the things?
No problem! You will be able to book the workshops, sprints and Get Shit Done Days separately from September onwards.
Please note, the Finish book club and Rebel Reframe workshop are exclusive to season pass holders and will not be able to purchase separately.
i have another question, or I’m not sure if it’s for me!
I completely get it, I always have a bunch more questions and I get that investing in something just for you can be a bit daunting. You can reach me via email: meg [at] therebelrousers.com and I’ll be honest and help you figure out if its a good fit for you!