✦ WELCOME. I’M JODY.
I’m Jody Sachse (sounds like “Soxie”). I build things, solve problems, tell stories, and I’m in recovery. For years there’s been a fire inside me. These days, I’m learning to let it burn—and to be myself while I do.
I build things. I tell stories.
I’m figuring life out as I go.
01 / THE HUMAN BEHIND THE WORLDS
I’ve spent a lot of my life building, fixing, figuring things out, and finding the connections between things.
Visit the Founder’s WorkshopLong before websites and AI, there were puddles, sticks, a brother, and an imagination that could turn just about anything into a world. We didn’t have much money, but we had each other—and plenty of reasons to be curious.
Since then, I’ve worked with machinery and technology, built systems and experiences, cared for animals, told stories, and helped bring a little cornfield chaos to life. Some of those paths make more sense together than they did at the time.
Recovery asked me to look beyond the roles I knew how to carry. I’m still learning that I don’t have to fix, produce, or prove my way into being enough. These days there’s more honesty, more service, more laughter—and a lot more room to simply be.
Still a work in progress. Still showing up. ✦
A PLACE TO BEGIN AGAIN
What does it take to stop measuring your worth by what you do? Let’s start with the road from shame to self-respect.
Explore Cultivating Authenticity02 / THE THINGS WE’RE MAKING
A corn maze, a recovery book, an academy, and some big ideas about AI. They might look unrelated at first. To me, they’re all connected.
CURIOSITY · STORIES · ORDINARY LIFE
A living world of stories, questions, and small practices for noticing what’s already within you—and bringing it back into everyday life.
Step into the AcademyMUSIC · CHARACTERS · A LITTLE MAYHEM
What happens when a corn maze gets a soundtrack, a few outrageous characters, and an imagination with no off switch?
Visit The 13th RowHUMAN + AI COLLABORATION
I’m building AION to keep context, connect the dots between projects, and make working with AI feel more like a partnership.
SELF-DISCOVERY · PRACTICE
A developing companion to the Academy: a deeper navigation layer for exploring questions, practices, and what matters in real life.
Explore the ideaThere’s always another idea orbiting somewhere. This galaxy will keep growing.
03 / STORIES FOR THE ROAD
A recovery memoir, an Academy adventure, and a book about wealth I wrote around 2008. Each came from a different chapter of my life.
THE RECOVERY MEMOIR
The Modern-Day Thrive Guide to Sobriety
What if getting sober isn’t the end of the story? This is my honest, occasionally irreverent account of learning to live again—with unexpected teachers, spectacular mistakes, practical lessons, and a sense of humor that survived the whole thing.
It’s about recovery in the middle of real life—the good days, the hard days, and all the weird stuff in between.
Find the book Explore daily reflectionsA STORY FROM THE ACADEMY
A lantern. An impossible place. A story about curiosity, companionship, and finding the courage to see yourself more clearly.
Read Book One at the Academy
AN EARLIER CHAPTER · AROUND 2008
Long before the Academy, I wrote this early exploration of wealth, possibility, and what it means to live a fuller life. The cover got a new look a few years later. It’s a piece of the journey that brought me here.
04 / A LITTLE SOMETHING TO CARRY
Recovery lessons, honest questions, and the occasional laugh—drawn from real life.
These cards grew out of Happy, Joyous, and Free? and the lessons I run into in everyday life. Some are serious. Some are funny. All of them start with being honest about where I am.
Work hard. Play hard. Spend Monday recovering from both.
That version got expensive.
I still work hard and play hard. It looks different today. Sometimes I even have fun while I’m working.
Apparently, enjoyment doesn’t have to wait until I clock out.
I’m learning to appreciate a life I don’t constantly need to recover from.
Sometimes I miss a good moment because I’m waiting for a more exciting one.
What could I enjoy right now if I stopped expecting something bigger?
THANKS FOR FINDING YOUR WAY HERE
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