A life of creative freedom starts here.

The Creative Leap is a mentorship and community that helps you escape the 9-to-5 by turning your passion into a diverse, sustainable creative business you love, through product, services, and content.

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First release — October 1st 2025

Price for the first 100 students 

(increasing every 100)

$999.00

Join the waitlist and get the lowest price at launch

You have the skills, now learn how the best creatives make a living from them.

Choose your own adventure, because there’s so many ways to win as a creative. 

Create a product-based lifestyle that is hands-off and gives plenty of freedom. 

Start and scale services and get hands-on with your creativity and work with brands. 

Then, learn how to explode them both with modern marketing.

Create products that provide you  freedom

Learn how to find product gaps and create high-quality, high-value products people love. Then, learn the techniques I personally use to ensure every launch is high-leverage and successful.

Make an impact with your services

Get started quickly with the skills you have already. Then, learn how to scale and offer your services in a way that’s irresistible to SMB’s, brands, and agencies.

Master modern marketing 

Understand what modern marketing is all about in today’s world. Discover how to crush your content game and boost your business using Ads and Email.

Most creatives don’t know how to make a living, and it’s not their fault.

Learning business and learning craft are two very different skillsets that require two very different mindsets.

 

However, learning both and mixing them together is one of the most powerful things you can do to transform your life as a creative person.

 

As creatives, we’ve been fed a lie.

 

See, “The Starving Artist” is a loser—the insanely talented, lonely creative who can’t make a single dime is no way to live.

 

Sure, they might be great at what they do, but if you quickly burn the candle at both ends with little resources, what good is that for the longevity of your career?

 

As a creative person, ideally, we don’t want to be stuck in a boring job. We want to use our creativity in service of our careers. We want a long creative career.

 

The great thing is that having an extremely profitable, stable, sustainable, and impactful creative career is such an obtainable goal in the modern era, and I have the millions of dollars in revenue generated in all of the best monetisation methods to prove it. 

Let me show you how.

Creatives come in all shapes and sizes, positions and preferences. 

 

There is no right or wrong way to approach making money as a creative aside from not making it, but there are preferences.

 

As an introvert, I love creating products, because I love treasuring my own personal time and freedom I get from the leverage and scalability of selling them. 

 

But over the many years I’ve also very much enjoyed networking and engaging with clients, customers, agencies, brands, and SMB’s to perform services and do work with people face-to-face.

 

I’ve been lucky enough to be sent to the far ends of the earth and travel the world for jobs, where the only deliverable is to showcase my experience. 

I’ve worked with just about every Fortune 500 brand I could possibly want to work with.

 

In all the main ways to make money that are desirable to creatives—products, services, influence, I’ve done it. Now, I want to teach you how I did it and the lessons I learned along the way.
Meet your teacher

Hey, I'm Pat Kay.

I've been in the creative industry for over 20 years—capturing my travels on camera, teaching photography, and formerly designing products, experiences, and websites. I'm a lifelong adventurer, obsessed with documenting the world and sharing what I've learned along the way. With a background across many creative fields, I've developed a unique perspective on creativity and capturing the world, and I'd love to share it with you.

Award-winning Travel Photographer

Sony Digital Imaging Ambassador

@pat_kay — 356,000+ followers

@patkay — 350,000+ subscribers

I've had the pleasure of calling these amazing brands my clients

+ hundreds more!

What's in the mentorship?

The Creative Leap is split into to parts: A 4-phase, self-paced, structured course, and an online Discord community.

4-phase course

The curriculum is designed to give you everything you need if you’re looking to make the leap into building your creative business and living out your passions full time.

 

Phase 1 is about establishing our desires and uncovering the idea of “lifestyle design”—a concept that transformed my entire life and something I want to pass on to you. We’ll also cover all the math to achieve “terminal velocity”—an important concept to ensure once you’re out on your own, your able to stay out on your own.

 

Phase 2 is about building something of value. At this point you get to choose your own adventure. Do you go down a product path? Or do you go down a services path? Each path has their own pros and cons, but you could just as easily combine the two (which is what I recommend).

 

Phase 3 is about making yourself discoverable. Once you have something of value to sell to people, you can leverage the 3 pillars of modern marketing to get the word out: content, ads, and email. In this phase, we’ll also talk about content as a third monetisation option besides products and services, and I’ll show you what’s possible through Instagram and YouTube.

 

Phase 4 is about having the confidence to make the leap on your own. If you’re ready, that’s great. But if you’re not, we’ll learn some extra skills to provide you the confidence and give you the time you need to make the leap.

All of the lessons are self-paced and a living, breathing thing. They’ll be updated constantly and new lessons will be added depending on what the online Discord community wants.

Online community

The other half of the mentorship is where you get to interact with me on a daily basis in chat form.

Discord is the platform of choice here, chosen for its flexibility.

 

Rather than having a forum-style or platform-focused online community, having a chat-based community means that I can be there for you in real time, when it matters.

 

I’ll be in there every single day, answering any questions you have about the course material and helping guide you through building your creative business.

 

Ask questions of me or any of the existing community and share your experiences in real time.

We’ll also have regular critique and feedback sessions through the platform so that you can troubleshoot any issues as they happen.

Bonus: Upskill your photography for free.

Included for free with The Creative Leap, get free, lifetime access to both of my photography courses when you sign up

Photography Fundamentals

Photography Fundamentals

Become a confident photographer in just 30 days.

Develop comprehensive photography fundamentals effectively.

Worth $399 — Free with The Creative Leap
Lightroom Editing Masterclass

Lightroom Editing Masterclass

Develop full control over your creative vision.

Learn the editing secrets the pros use to create breathtaking images.

Worth $399 — Free with The Creative Leap

Build a thriving creative business that fits with your lifestyle

  • Set new life goals with Lifestyle Design in mind

  • Master modern marketing

  • Understand your customer with Personas

  • Create physical or digital products that sell like hotcakes

  • Leverage existing skills and make an impact with services

  • How to create offers and landing pages

  • Discover how to make content that performs

  • Understand how to use ads and email

  • Craft a personal brand that feels unique to you

  • Create lifelong relationships with like-minded creatives

Turn your passion into a life you love

Skip the yearly phone upgrade. Learn how to become financially free instead.

Realistically, you only need to get your first service sale or a handful of product sales to make this investment back. Over time, this investment will pay itself back 10x, 100x, 1000x or even more. 

Better still, the course and community will constantly be growing, giving you even more value over the long term.

 

P.S: Remember, in most countries you can also write this purchase off as an expense for tax purposes. 

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Lifetime access to The Creative Leap course + all new future lessons and updates (worth $999+)

Access to exclusive, engaged Discord community of like-minded creatives (worth $2,999)

Discord community help from me for anything related to creative business (worth $4,999 for a 1:1 session)

Bonus: Access to Photography Fundamentals and Lightroom Editing Masterclass courses (worth $798)

Included value — $9,795 USD

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First release — October 1st 2025

Price for the first 100 students (increasing every 100)

$999.00

© 2025 Pat Kay