A live seminar · teens & young adults

You are
a finished story.a first draft.

Practical tools for habits, mindset, and self leadership, built for teens and young adults ready to take the next step.

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the idea

Most teens are living out a story someone else started writing for them — a parent's expectations, a social feed's comparisons, an old label that stuck around too long.

First Draft exists to hand the pen back. Not with hype, not with a stage hypnotist pitch — with real tools you can use the next morning. You'll leave with a plan you actually wrote yourself, not one someone talked you into.

the curriculum

Five chapters, one day.

Ch. 1

The narrator

Whose voice is actually running your inner monologue — and where did it come from?

Ch. 2

The plot

Setting a direction that's actually yours, not one you inherited by default.

Ch. 3

The conflict

Working with fear, failure, and obstacles instead of pretending around them.

Ch. 4

The rewrite

Building habits that actually stick, using tools you'll still have next month.

Ch. 5

The next chapter

Leaving with a real, written plan for the first 30 days after you walk out.

who it's for

Built for people figuring it out, not people who have it figured out.

Older teens (16+)

Feeling boxed in by an old label — "the quiet one," "the athlete," "the good kid" — that doesn't fit anymore.

Young adults

Stuck between too many options, with no real compass for which direction is actually theirs.

Anyone done with hype

Skeptical of stage hypnotist energy, allergic to empty pep talks, looking for something real instead.

Marcus Keenan

Founder, First Draft

about me

I've spent over a decade in the classroom, teaching students ages eight through eighteen, in public schools and private ones. Different rooms, different ages, same question underneath it all: are we actually preparing students for the life in front of them?

First Draft comes from watching students master a formula or a poem, then walk out the door without the tools to handle a setback, work through fear, or choose their own direction. It also comes from my own life. I know what it's like to face situations outside your control, and how much that shapes what you believe is possible for you.

Both taught me the same thing: the skills that help you survive a hard season, and the ones that help you build a good one, deserve to be taught as well. That's what First Draft is.

Marcus Keenan

This is chapter one.
You write the rest.

First Draft is currently scheduling its first sessions. If you're a school, youth group, or organization interested in bringing it to your community, reach out and let's talk timing.

FormatHalf day or full day

Group size15–200

Ages16 and up

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for schools & organizations

Bring First Draft to your students.

First Draft runs as a private, half day or full day seminar for schools, youth groups, and community organizations — tailored to your group's size and schedule.

* Half day and full day formats available

* Built for groups of 15–200

* Typical response time: 2 business days

You are a finished story.a first draft.