Welcome to Write Hearted

The community & accountability you need to make 2025 the best writing year of your life.

You have gifts, vision, inspiration, and expertise you're tired of withholding.

You’ve written in the past and you long to reclaim the joy you felt when you were consistently creating.

You’ve just finished a writing course and have realized that community and accountability are essential to your writing life.

If any of those descriptions sound like you . . . you've just found your people.

This Is Write Hearted

We're a tight-knit, selective community of individuals who are drawn to express ourselves through the written word.
We want to connect with our audiences, students, customers, networks, or industries by sharing meaningful stories and ideas. We have a strong affinity to a cause, perspective, purpose, or vision—and yet we sometimes hesitate to publish our words—precisely because the depth of our caring exposes our heart.
Write Hearted brings passionate thinkers, leaders, artists, creators, business owners, and educators together so they can support each other to publish with greater consistency and courage.
If we had to summarize what we're here for in a single sentence, it would be this.


We're here to express ourselves with consistency and courage in the world.


The 4 Transformation Tracks

The community is designed to facilitate 4 transformations in support of your writing practice. Each month, you'll choose one or more tracks to focus on.

Essays

Instead of publishing randomly or occasionally—you'll stabilize a regular publishing habit and gain the inner authority that will allow you to follow through with your publishing goals and commitments so you can inspire, educate, and connect with more people. A unique monthly opt-in system in the Essays space 📅 will help you find a writing cadence that brings both accountability and flexibility to your writing practice.

Transform: WRITER'S BLOCK ➡️ CONSISTENCY

Challenges

Instead of waiting for inspiration to magically show up—you'll playfully engage in your life using micro-challenges that will invite you out of your comfort zone and produce endless content for your writing. Use the Challenges library 🤸 or get creative with personal challenges of your own to take brave action and unlock your most dynamic thinking and self-expression. The first task of inspired writing is to engage a story worthy life.

Transform: HESITATION ➡️ COURAGE

Comments

Instead of thinking and writing in isolation, hoping someone will notice—you'll generously offer your insights, ideas, and unique perspectives to fellow authors on their published work as a way of growing your own voice, readership, and online community. Commenting on the work of others is an underrated practice that will help you to attract your own tribe and collaborate with like-minded thinkers. You'll share your published comments in the Comments space 💬 and use them as a springboard for full length essays and stories you can develop for your own publication.

Transform: ISOLATION ➡️ COMMUNITY

Stories

Instead of discounting your lived experience—you'll learn how to review and recall the notable life events of your past and create an inventory of your history in the Stories space🪞. No matter your age, we all have a rich legacy of detailed life experience. Having gathered the engaging stories and vivid examples of your past, you'll be able to bring wisdom, clarity, and credibility to your words.

Transform: INSIGNIFICANCE ➡️ LEGACY


The beauty of these 4 practices and orientations is that it doesn't matter where you start on the flywheel.
You can enter through the door of . . .
  • courageous exploration
  • consistent publishing
  • community connection
  • or life reflection 
. . . and you'll be naturally led into relationship with the other components, in a perpetual cycle of authentic expression from the heart.

How it works

The Basics

We're a different type of learning environment and community. Rather than functioning on a limited cohort basis—where big leaps are promised in a short period of time—Write Hearted will focus on the continuity of community and achievable publishing goals over the course of a full year. 

This will be an opportunity to experience gradual, steady gains in our lives as creators and stay by each other's side as we grow. That doesn't mean you won't make leaps in your writing and in your life. It just means they'll be sustainable.

The Fee

$2,000 dollars pays for your annual membership. We cover everything you'll need to have your best writing year ever. (Except the coffee.)

If you've previously signed up for participation in Honestly Human, Write of Passage, or All My Stories you're eligible for a 25 percent discount off the enrollment fee. Use this plan to enroll if you qualify. 

Your Commitment

You'll commit to passionately supporting, cheerleading, encouraging, and promoting your cohort members to express themselves fully and courageously—and you'll celebrate their published work within the community and on their public platforms. 

In addition, you'll have access to 12 cohorts, one every month, to inspire the best writing year of your life. 

We all have busy lives, existing families, and professional responsibilities. At the beginning of each month you'll opt in or out of the monthly tracks. You can opt in to any number of the four tracks—challenges, commenting, essays, and stories—as you wish. Dive into them all, create your own subset, or opt out as you wish while remaining a member in good standing for the year.

The Community

You'll be joining a limited number of participants who have been personally selected as ideal candidates for this thriving community. 

Your fellow members are accomplished contributors in their own lives who are pursuing a new level of public expression and influence. They are team players who wish to lift others up, and in turn be supported and encouraged to hold nothing back as writers in 2025. 

Resources and Tools

You'll gain lifetime access to the All My Stories app. You'll use this tool to engage the story track, creating a chronological and searchable database of your 100 best life stories that you can use over and over again as a coach, leader, writer, speaker, founder, or business professional.

You'll also receive your own copy of 7 Rules You Were Born to Break, Rick Lewis's 5-Star professional development book, and access to 350 "break a rule" exercises you can use on the challenge track to playfully transcend your comfort zone.

Editing

Members will provide each other with developmental feedback on each other's writing. The majority of our community members have been trained in the art of providing useful feedback to their writing peers. You'll have the opportunity to opt in to an editing co-op where you'll provide feedback to a manageable number of your peers while receiving the same in return.

The Publication

Member essays will be eligible to be featured in our Write Hearted Substack publication, a curated collection of the best writing we create through the synergy of our teamwork. Together, we'll produce writing for a world in need of domain expertise, fresh perspective, creative intelligence, and genuine heart.

We won't let you go halfway with your writing. We're here to support each other to play full out, to grab readers by the heart, make the most important expressions of our lives, and continuously step up to our communication potential.


Your Host

Hi. My name is Rick Lewis. I'm the founder of Write Hearted and I'll be your host inside the community. 

I've been a communicator and some form of storyteller my whole life. I've worked as an actor, circus performer, comedian, and professional speaker—having presented live to over 1 million individuals in hundreds of public and private corporate events. I've also been a personal growth trainer and I'm the author of 5 books and thousands of online posts and articles. I'm the creator of a storytelling app called All My Stories and I publish weekly at Honestly Human

I've left over 5,000 comments on the work of other authors in the last two years on Substack, which is where I discovered my joy for supporting writers. Write Hearted is the evolution of my passion for conversations that matter, and my natural affinity for supporting creators, leaders, change-makers, and artists.

Are you ready to express yourself with consistency and courage in the world?

Join us, and discover who you are as writer so you can make your highest contribution to the world alongside many other amazing humans right here in the community.

If you want your words to reveal undiscovered treasures in your mind, heart, and spirit, and make others gasp, dance, shed tears, spit up their latte from sudden laughter, or pull out their credit card in a fit of gratitude to celebrate your artistic existence . . .

. . . we're your people. 

You're just a click away from the program and community that can help you create a brilliant future with your words and fully express your gifts.

Imagine a year from now being able to say, "I held nothing back as a writer in 2025."

Write Hearted is now accepting a limited number of applications for next year's community.

Make this the best writing year of your life.

Apply below if this feels like home.