Challenges

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Filter by the life area you want to move, the state of the cohort, how hard the month should be, and whether you run it alone, with a circle, or with the whole movement.

• Personal LeadershipIndividual

  The First Thirty

  The founding challenge. Ten goals, thirty days, one woman keeping her own word in public.

  • 4 easy
  • 4 moderate
  • 2 challenging

  24 Jul 2026 — 22 Aug 2026

  30 days · 10 goals · 5 joinedIn progress →
• Financial ElevationIndividual

  Financial Elevation

  A themed thirty spent looking directly at the numbers, without shame.

  • 4 easy
  • 4 moderate
  • 2 challenging

  01 Sept 2026 — 30 Sept 2026

  30 days · 10 goals · 0 joinedOpen for enrollment →
• Creative ExpressionGroup

  Creative Expression

  For women returning to a practice they set down — writing, music, movement, study.

  • 4 easy
  • 4 moderate
  • 2 challenging

  01 Oct 2026 — 30 Oct 2026

  30 days · 10 goals · 0 joinedOpen for enrollment →
• Custom CompassIndividual

  Custom Compass Challenge

  Compose your own thirty from any life areas. No theme, no category you did not choose.

  • 4 easy
  • 4 moderate
  • 2 challenging

  01 Aug 2026 — 30 Aug 2026

  30 days · 10 goals · 0 joinedOpen for enrollment →

Type 01

Themed challenges

Challenge & Compass publishes the theme. You write your own ten goals inside it. At least one challenging goal must speak directly to the official theme.

Worked example · Theme: Creative Expression · The participant chooses the specific goal

• S · Creativity

  Creative Expression

  Thirty days of making, finishing, and showing.

• E · Financial Growth

  Financial Elevation

  Thirty days of looking directly at the numbers.

• NE · Health & Wellness

  Wellness Transformation

  Thirty days of returning to the body.

• N · Personal Growth

  Personal Leadership

  Thirty days of keeping your own word.

• SE · Career & Education

  Career Growth

  Thirty days of moving the work forward.

• NW · Community Impact

  Community Impact

  Thirty days of turning outward.

• SW · Relationships

  Relationships

  Thirty days of paying attention to the people you keep.

• W · Spiritual & Emotional Growth

  Personal Development

  Thirty days of becoming legible to yourself.

Type 02

Custom Compass challenge

No theme. Combine goals from any life categories into a single thirty-day arc — save $300, exercise three times a week, finish a course, finish an art project, reconnect with family. Nobody is forced into a single category.

• N

  Personal Growth

  Discipline, self-knowledge, the habits that decide who you become.

  Read four books

• NE

  Health & Wellness

  The body as instrument — movement, sleep, nourishment, recovery.

  Exercise 3x/week

• E

  Financial Growth

  Money handled deliberately: earned, tracked, saved, invested, forgiven.

  Save $300

• SE

  Career & Education

  Work, study, credentials, and the asks that move a career forward.

  Complete a course

• S

  Creativity

  Making things. Finished, shared, imperfect, yours.

  Finish an art project

• SW

  Relationships

  The people you keep — attention given, repairs made, boundaries held.

  Reconnect with family

• W

  Spiritual & Emotional Growth

  Stillness, meaning, therapy, prayer, grief, gratitude.

  Ten minutes of silence

• NW

  Community Impact

  Contribution beyond the self — service, mentorship, mutual aid.

  Volunteer twice

Together

Group challenges

A circle of women running the same thirty days. Shared objectives, collective progress, and encouragement — never a leaderboard. The architecture is being built now.

• Create a shared challenge

  building

  A circle adopts one theme and one calendar. Each woman still writes her own ten goals inside it.

• Set group objectives

  building

  Two or three objectives the whole circle carries together, separate from individual goals.

• Track collective progress

  planned

  One aggregate completion line for the group, drawn from members who opted into sharing.

• Celebrate milestones

  planned

  Day ten, day twenty, day thirty — marked for the group, not ranked within it.

• Share encouragement

  planned

  A single message channel per circle. Encouragement only; no metrics visible between members.

• View aggregate results

  planned

  Closing summary of what the circle accomplished, published only with unanimous consent.

• forming

  The Atelier Circle

  Thirty-two finished pieces between eight women.

  0 of 8 seats · View challenge

• forming

  The Ledger Circle

  Every member ends the month with a budget she wrote herself.

  0 of 10 seats · View challenge

At scale

Community challenges

Movement-level goals counted in aggregate: one hundred women closing a financial goal, five hundred finishing a creative project, a thousand holding a wellness goal for thirty days.

• Financial Growthopen

  One Hundred Ledgers

  100 women complete a financial goal

  One hundred women each close a thirty-day financial goal — a figure saved, a rate raised, a debt faced. Counted together, named individually only by choice.

  3 of 100

  3%

• Creativitycommissioning

  Five Hundred Works

  500 women complete a creative project

  Five hundred finished creative projects submitted to the Creative Corner archive. The most complete record of women finishing work that we know how to build.

  6 of 500

  1%

• Health & Wellnesscommissioning

  A Thousand Mornings

  1,000 women complete a wellness goal

  One thousand women each hold a single wellness goal for thirty consecutive days. Aggregate totals only — no weights, no measurements, no comparison.

  4 of 1,000

  0%

Community challenges display totals only. No name, goal, photograph, or entry ever appears in an aggregate count, and no participant can be identified from one.