About Us
We’re a new platform, offering ideas and practices to try to help people improve their lives, even if just a smidgen or two, both day in and day out and over the longterm. We just released our first title: F*** It. Get A Divorce: The Relationship Guide For Optimists. Which asks a simple question: If you’re in an unhappy relationship, marriage or otherwise, do you desire to stay there the rest of your life? Even if that means 10, 20 even 30 or 40 years of it? If not, have you ever explored, just as an exercise, what it would take, and be like, all the highs and lows and everything in between, to move on to a new life? What have you got to gain?
Steven Kane
Married 1993. Separated 2015. Divorced 2016. Two wonderful sons.
When I was young my parents told me, You can do anything you set your mind to. Crazy me, I believed them. As a result I’ve had a crazy-quilt path, full of twists and turns, success and failure, very high highs, and very low lows. I’ve been a dishwasher and CEO, newspaper editor and video artist with work in museum shows, professionally written software, screenplays and haiku, been a music video producer and book store clerk. As a caterer, I was publicly dressed down by Robert De Niro; as a startup founder I was profiled by the New York Times. I have friends who are gazillionaire finance wizards, TV stars, and renowned physicians and scientists, as well as starving brilliant artists, street musicians, and failed impresarios one step ahead of the IRS. Plus, of course, many great friends who are just awesome humans, living normal, mostly-happy lives.
My resume and such, are online:
Advisory Board
Laura W. Campbell
Executive Leadership Coach
Divorce Consultant
Author
Jerry Colonna
CoFounder & CEO, Reboot.io
Certified Life Coach
Former Managing Director J.P. Morgan and Flatiron Partners
Lisa Hodes
Certified Divorce Coach
Former Family Law Attorney
Kiva Schuler
Founder and CEO,
The Heartful Business
Certified Life Coach
FIGAD is an EPBOT
FIGAD Is An EPBOT
F*** It, Get A Divorce, or FIGAD, isn’t a book, though you can consume it in that form. It’s not a video blog but you can watch it. It’s not a podcast though it’s available as one. And it has all sorts of peripheral resources like recipes and playlists. So what is it, exactly?
Heck if I know. But I like names so I’ll give it one:
It’s an EPBOT. An Experimental Prototype Book Of Tomorrow.
Of course, for this I owe a deep bow to that quintessential genius, Walt Disney, who, in 1966, coined the name “EPCOT” to describe his vision for an Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow, which he hoped to build at the then just-announced Florida Disney World. Sadly, Disney’s amazing EPCOT dream was abandoned, replaced by the fun but hardly visionary amusement park of today.
Watch Disney’s original EPCOT plan, here:
And obviously, today’s authors are already busy making their material available in many forms, books, ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, TED Talks, whatever, and have been for years. And the whole idea of a “book” as multi-pronged information and entertainment platform was brilliantly developed decades ago by pioneers like Louise Hay, at Hay House. More recently, my friend Seth Godin has reinvented what is meant by “book,” “publishing” and “media,” several times over.
So in truth I’m not inventing much here, just shepherding ideas and things together and bolting on a name, EPBOT. Still, I think it’s worth coming up with a new label, as tomorrow’s creators soon stop thinking of long form works as “books” at all, and every writer, teacher, thinker or publisher will feel the need, and exciting opportunity, to produce an EPBOT, a diversified, interactive platform for ideas.
In any case… I hope you enjoy this one.
