Hi! I’m Emilie Wapnick. I’m an award-winning author, career coach and community builder. I’m the founder and creative director at Puttylike and the Puttyverse, where I help multipotentialites (people with many passions and creative pursuits) integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives.

My TED talk, Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling, has been viewed 7 million times. My book How to Be Everything, was published by HarperCollins in 2017. It has been translated into 13 languages and won a Nautilus Book Award. I’ve been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, BBC and Lifehacker.

After launching and growing my own Renaissance Business, I began working with other multipotentialites to bring their interests together. Ironically, this technique of bringing interests together cohesively became my “specialty.” I became known as the coach to go to when you DON’T want to choose a niche.

It’s through working with dozens of multipotentialites one-on-one, that the Renaissance Business system developed and evolved into what it is now. I wanted to systematize the process that I take my students through, so that more people could benefit from it.