Your future doesn't have to look like everyone else's.Let's build the future that fits you.
Build & Launch is built on one idea: everything starts from what you are already good at and what already interests you. That holds whether you are launching a business, figuring out what comes next, or running programming for the people in your care.
Where most programs start, and why we don't.
Most people spend years building techniques to manage what is hard: the strategies, the workarounds, the goals built around what needs fixing. The strengths get far less room. The things that come more naturally, the interests that light something up, the parts of a person already ready to grow.
Every Build & Launch program starts somewhere else. It starts with exploration, not assumptions. Whether you are a young person working out what is next, an entrepreneur working out your business, or a home looking for help with the programming you already run, the first question is always the same: what is already there, what is already working, and what makes people want to keep going. That is therapeutic recreation principles applied in practice: strengths first, delivered through a range of learning styles, so strengths get found and actually put to work.
Every program is built around the individual, including the group sessions. And you leave with something real. Not a generic worksheet or a template, but something made for your business or your goals that you can take with you and use.
Ask a four year old what they love and they will tell you in detail, without hedging and without apologizing for it. Somewhere along the way most of us stop answering that question so freely. Build & Launch works backwards from it. It is why a Build & Launch birthday video is built entirely around what your child is fascinated by right now, and it is the same reason a business, a career, or a month of programming gets built that way here too.
That same starting point runs through all of it.The coaching streams build it with you, one on one. Program Planning builds it with your team. Your child's birthday video builds it around them. The Rec Closet puts material in the hands of the professionals already doing this work every day.
Three ways to build
Same starting point. Three different places to start from.
Build & Launch: Small Business
For people early in building something of their own, working out their brand, finding their voice on LinkedIn, and figuring out where AI genuinely fits into how they work.
Four weeks. Eight one-on-one sessions. Online or in person.
See Small Business details →Build & Launch: Youth
A mentorship and career exploration program for young people building confidence and working out what is possible for them. Built for young adults of all abilities and levels, including those who learn differently or have not fit the standard mould at school.
Ages 15 to 35. Four months. Weekly one-on-one sessions. Online or in person.
See Youth program details →Build & Launch: Program Planning
The same starting point, applied to a whole team.
Consultation for homes and healthcare settings. Build & Launch begins by finding what is already there and building forward from it. Inside a home, that means starting with what your staff are already good at and what is already working on your calendar, instead of dropping a template over top of it.
Bring a group Build & Launch program into your setting. Rethink an activity department around the strengths of the people who run it. Work through the gaps in your programming with someone who has run it. Or work out where AI actually belongs in your day to day, with someone who has spent more than fifteen years inside recreation programming and knows the difference between a tool that helps and one that just adds a step.
Scoped to your home.
Talk about your programming →Build & Launch Birthday Parties
Every Build & Launch program starts from what someone is already interested in. For your child, that is the entire product.
A personalized birthday video built completely around your child: the things they love, the things they are fascinated by right now, and games and a song made to match.
What's in it:
- A 15 to 20 minute video, made for your child and inspired by their own interests
- Interactive games built into the video
- A personalized song
- With your permission, your child can be drawn as a cartoon and lead the video themselves
Ages 2 to 8.
See how it works →The Rec Closet
Programming that works alongside what you have already built.
A membership for recreation professionals, built by someone who has spent more than fifteen years doing the work. It is not a replacement for your calendar and it is not here to tell you how to run your department. A good program is built around the people in it, and you are the one who knows them.
What it gives you is material to reach for, especially in the parts of the day that are hardest to fill. Waiting to leave for a concert. The stretch before a meal. Later in the day when there is no small group scheduled and the room still needs something. Those windows are real, and they usually get filled with whatever happens to be closest at hand.
This gives you something better to put there: content that still stimulates mentally, emotionally and physically, built on recreation programming grounded in therapeutic recreation principles so that what goes on the screen is doing something.
What's inside:
- Video-based activities, with new ones added every month
- Interactive word games and on-screen activities, with more being added all the time
- Printable program guides and activity sheets
- Organized so you can find what you need by month or by activity type
Made in Canada. Canadian holidays, Canadian content, Canadian pricing, and no exchange-rate surprises.
One flat price covers your whole home. No per-user charges and no seat counts.
Founding member rate, first 100 only
$9.99/month or $84.99/year.
Your rate stays locked as long as your membership stays active.
Regular pricing after the first 100: $24.99/month or $224.99/year. All prices in Canadian dollars.
Explore The Rec ClosetThe person behind it
Tamika Jackson is a Recreation Professional with more than fifteen years of experience building programs that help people find out what they are capable of, across senior care, community settings, and now entrepreneurship coaching.
She works where recreation-based programming meets AI: educating, coaching and guiding people through putting AI solutions to work in a way that fits how they already do things.
15+
years of experience
What people are saying
“It was a great start. The challenges I had with Claude got resolved, and I walked away knowing I need to create folders for my different projects and not give up on myself when I'm not getting everything I need right away.”
“The session was great. I walked away with a clear dial-in on LinkedIn strategy and service offering.”
“I am flabbergasted by the amount of research and work that you pulled together. It is truly impressive.”
Not sure where you fit?
That is what the conversation is for. Tell us a little about where you are right now and Tamika will personally follow up.