A different kind of biography
Your pivots are your
methodology.
A Life Strip is a beautiful collection of the moments that made you — and the lessons each one taught you.
Your story, reframed
Not a resume. Not a highlight reel. A collection of the real moments — the wins, the pivots, the failures that taught you everything.
Lessons, not regrets
Every entry asks: what did you learn? Because there's no such thing as a mistake — only information pointing you somewhere important.
Built to share
Link it from LinkedIn. Add it to your website. Let the world see the path that made you exactly who you are right now.
The Gallery
Loading...Here's what's possible. Every Life Strip in the gallery belongs to a real person with a real path. Yours is waiting.
Get ready while you wait
Start your Life Strip now.
You don't have to wait for beta to begin. Make a copy of the Google Doc template, fill in your ERA, MOMENT, and LESSON for each frame. When beta opens — you'll be ready to build in minutes.
File → Make a copy → It's yours.
"The stories you tell over and over are not a burden. They are your folklore. They are how people learn to love you."
— Jeannie Sullivan · jeanniesullivan.com
Build your Life Strip
Think about the moments that made you. Fill in at least 5 frames. Be specific. Be true.
e.g. "I have a powerful voice." or "Freedom is a design choice."
Welcome back.
Your Life Strip lives here. Edit it anytime as your story evolves.
Your Life Strip
Go deeper.
Three ways to build your Life Strip — choose the one that fits how you think.
Analog
The Life Strip Journal
For the pen-and-paper person. Guided journaling prompts that take you through each frame, one story at a time. Write three stories. Find the one that matters most. Look for the phrases that hop off the page — those are your lessons.
AI Assisted
The Thought Partner
For the person who thinks out loud. A conversational AI that walks through your prompts with you — asking follow-up questions, reflecting your words back. Perfect for when you process by talking, or when you're stuck on frame 7 and need a hand.
Live Workshop
Build It Together
Jeannie Sullivan guides a small group through the Life Strip process live. Frame by frame. Story by story. The community that forms around shared vulnerability is half the experience.
First workshop: June 2026
Three paths
Every story finds its own way in.
Some people think best alone with a pen. Others need conversation. Some want a guide and a community. Life Strip meets you where you are.
Analog
The Life Strip Journal
A printable PDF guide that takes you through each frame with gentle journaling prompts. Write three stories. Find the one that matters most. Read back your own words and look for the phrases that hop off the page. Those are your lessons.
AI Assisted
The Thought Partner
A conversational AI that walks through your prompts with you — asking follow-up questions, reflecting your words back, helping you find the lesson hiding in the story. Perfect for when you process out loud, or when you're stuck on frame 7.
Live Workshop
Build It Together
A small, intimate virtual workshop where Jeannie Sullivan guides a group through the Life Strip process live. Frame by frame. Story by story. The community that forms around shared vulnerability is half the experience.
First workshop: June 2026
"The stories you tell over and over are not a burden. They are your folklore. They are how people learn to love you."
— Jeannie Sullivan
How Life Strip came to be
This morning, I launched a website.
But the idea is thirteen years old.
In 2013, I wrote something I called a Learning Bio — a running reflection of the moments that made me, and the lessons each one left behind. I built it into a program I was designing for coaches and entrepreneurs. I loved it. My clients loved it. And then life moved on, the way life does, and the Learning Bio lived quietly in a folder on my hard drive.
I never forgot it.
Every few years it would surface — in a conversation, in a coaching session, in that particular feeling of this should exist in the world. But the timing was never right, or the tools weren't there, or I was in the middle of something else entirely.
Then one morning it happened. Life Strip went from a thirteen-year-old idea to a live product at its own domain in a matter of hours. The gallery opened. The first Life Strip went in.
The founding story
Mine.
The entries at lifestrip.bio/jeannie-sullivan were written in 2013. Unchanged. I left them exactly as they were — because that's the whole point.
A Life Strip isn't a polished personal brand statement. It's the actual path. The real moments. The lessons you learned before you knew they were lessons.
There's something else.
When my partner read my Life Strip for the first time, he chuckled. Not because it was funny. Because he already knew every single story.
Over three years together, I'd told him all of them. My folklore, told and retold. And I realized: he knows me. Really knows me. Not because I summarized myself — because I'd already been willing to tell him the real stories.
That's what a Life Strip does. It's not just self-awareness and reflection. It's vulnerability. It's connection. It's being willing to see yourself clearly so that others can too.
And the ones who haven't heard your stories yet? This is where they start.
"The stories you tell over and over are not a burden. They are your folklore. They are how people learn to love you."
— Jeannie Sullivan
Jeannie Sullivan
Learning experience designer · Professional coach · 3/5 Generator
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