Compose Your Legacy
Compose Your Legacy is a guided journey that helps individuals explore and express the values, life lessons, and aspirations that shape their wealth and life story — the “why” behind their legacy. Through reflection and four personal legacy letters, participants clarify what matters most. This experience complements trusted advisors' work by providing clients with a clear “why,” while advisors support the “how” — aligning plans and strategies with the meaning clients uncover. Together, they create a legacy that is informed and deeply personal.
Author: Greg Doepke,
Legacy Architect,
Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy®
💖 Give Voice to What Truly Matters
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Turn Success into Signficance
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Share Your Aspirations
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Share Your Stories & Lessons
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Strengthen Family Bonds
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Practice Wise Generosity
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Organize Your Personal Affairs
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Craft Your Outreach with Care
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Live Your Legacy with Intention
Explore Your Options
🌿 Path 1 - Self-Paced w/ Support
Private and Flexible Learning
Perfect for self-motivated learners who want to complete the course at their own pace with legacy coach email support.
✨ You will get:
✅ Reflection guides and exercises
✅ Legacy coaching email support
💎 Path 2 - Private Coaching
Compose with your legacy coach
✨ You will get:
✅ Reflection guides and exercises
✅ Legacy coaching email support
✅ 2.5 hrs of virtual private coaching
✅ Optional private coaching add-on
⭐ Path 3 - Group Coaching
Share and compose side by side
Best for study and prayer groups or community circles that value shared insight while ensuring personal privacy.
✨ You will get:
✅ Eleven transformative lessons
✅ Reflection guides and exercises
✅ Legacy coaching email support
✅ 5.0 hrs of virtual group coaching
✅ Optional private coaching add-on
Our Mission
Aspire to Give Academy empowers adults at life’s pivotal moments to make wise choices, rise above challenges, and thrive through change. We inspire them to lead themselves with purpose, give with intention, and embrace lifelong learning.
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Compose a Legacy of Love
This course is for those in the later stages of life or anyone looking to organize their financial and estate matters while expressing their wishes, wants, and intentions through "love Letters." It is offered in self-paced and 1:1 guided coaching formats. Although not required, completion of the foundational Pivot Points course is highly recommended. Learners will receive a Certificate of Completion after finishing the course.
The self-paced experience is ideal for those who appreciate quiet reflection, thoughtful pacing, and the privacy to explore and articulate their life story on their own terms. You’ll receive confidential guidance and gentle support throughout your journey, ensuring you feel encouraged and accompanied without pressure or deadlines. What’s Included:
- Full access for 12 months from enrollment date
- Confidential email support from a legacy coach
- A private, flexible learning environment
- Structured prompts to help capture meaning, wisdom, and life stories
- Optional private legacy coaching available for deeper, personalized insight (additional fee)
The private legacy coaching experience is designed for individuals who desire deeply personalized support as they reflect on their life story and compose their legacy. This option offers a confidential, one-on-one relationship with a dedicated legacy coach who guides, listens, and helps you uncover the deeper meaning behind your lived experiences. What’s Included:
- Full access for 12 months from enrollment date
- 2.5 hrs of private one-on-one tailored coaching
- A private space for open reflection and discussion
- Support to clarify and deepen your legacy
- Optional private legacy coaching available for deeper, personalized insight (additional fee)
The cohort (group of 5-8) format provides a guided, confidential experience shared with a small, like-minded group. It is ideal for trusted circles—such as prayer groups, study groups, or advisor-hosted client gatherings—where participants value community, reflection, and the opportunity to learn from one another’s stories in a safe and respectful setting. What’s Included:
- Full access for 12 months from enrolllment date
- A private group experience for 5–8 adults.
- 5.0 hrs of guided sessions with a legacy coach
- A supportive environment to share insights
- Optional private legacy coaching available for deeper, personalized insight (additional fee)
Cohort Learning
(Group of 5-10 Learners)
Cohort (Group) learning is the favored approach for adults, often provided by employers, foundations, and government organizations for workforce development, team-building, and professional growth. It combines three effective learning methods:
1. Discovering yourself
2. Learning with peers
3. Guidance from a success coach
This structure helps individuals gain personal insights, collaborate with others, and receive coaching in a supportive environment that fosters growth, encourages teamwork, and develops essential life skills for success.
Community Learning Groups
Peer learners, united by a common life transition, learn and support each other through shared experiences, empathetic engagement, and collective problem-solving. Community groups include veterans, young adults, recovering singles, and other common interest groups.
Lesson Exercises
Every course lesson includes a learning activity tailored to spark questions, foster reflection, and stimulate personal growth.
Success Coaches
Each cohort (group) of 8-15 learners is guided by an experienced, highly qualified Success Coach who serves as a mentor and resource. The Success Coach meets virtually with the group multiple times to enhance learning, guide learners, and answer learner questions.
Veterans Transition Empowerment Program
(V-TEP)
The V-TEP program of two bundled courses empowers veterans to chart their own unique path as they transition to civilian life. Join a supportive cohort led by an experienced coach, where veterans learn, share, and navigate the road to successful transition.
Four Pillars of Learning
The Academy’s innovative, inquiry-based curriculum centers on four key learning pillars:
1. Personal - tailored to the learner.
2. Positive - uplifting & supportive..
3. Probing - questions spark learning.
4. Practical - applicable to real-life.
Five Beliefs
1. Appreciate individuality
2. Give sincerely
3. Practice intentional generosity
4. Live with purpose
5. Choose wisely at life's junctures
Smart Goal Setting
Establishing specific, realistic, measurable goals in personal, family, career, and financial areas is crucial for navigating life transitions effectively. It creates clear guidelines for success during periods of change to craft your best life.
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Digital Downloads
Each of the four courses of the series includes digital downloads of articles, research, references, and checklists that supplement the course video, workbook exercises, and cohort peer learning.
Crossword Puzzles
In addition to lesson exercises, each course includes 4 crossword puzzles as a fun way to learn the terminology. Being fluent in conversation with peers, coaches, mentors, and professional advisors is essential for successfully navigating life transitions.
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Blog
Previous and new blog posts will enhance course and workbook content, equipping learners with extra references and resources on cutting-edge topics like the philanthropic frontier, effective financial generosity tools and strategies, and mastering life transitions throughout the lifespan.
Bundle #3
Legacy by Design
The Legacy by Design Program helps you give intentionally and generously to loved ones and special causes. Learn over a dozen financial giving strategies and how to avoid unintended consequences of financial generosity, evaluate nonprofit beneficiaries, and compose a legacy of love through letters capturing your aspirations, life-lessons, and values. Organize your personal affairs with this bundle, ideal for those with financial resources to share and in the sunset years of life. Legacy by Design is bundled courses #3 & #4.
Pivot to Purpose
Transition Program
Embark on a transformative journey with the two-course Pivot to Purpose Transition Program. Guided by a seasoned coach, adults navigating life transitions develop self-awareness, leadership, and renewed purpose and gain vital life skills to master life transitions.
7 Thinking Tools
In the Pathway to Purpose course, learners will enhance their decision-making skills with seven easy-to-use critical thinking tools. These tools will empower individuals to make more well-informed choices, allowing them to navigate life's challenges with greater confidence, comfort, and clarity.
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Success Coaching
Our Success Coaches use a Coach by the pull approach to mentor a group of 8-15 young adults, offering essential guidance, support, and resources. They hold periodic virtual group meetings and provide email support to help develop key life skills, ensuring every learner feels empowered and connected.
Meet Our Coaches
Highly trained and experienced coaches will lead the various life transition cohort groups, including military veterans transitioning to civilian life. Coaching profiles will be available on the Academy's website.
Seek, Ask, Give, & Do
We embrace an educational philosophy anchored in Reciprocal Benevolence, where learning flourishes as a natural outcome of mutual kindness and support:
- Seek with an open heart, and you shall discover knowledge.
- Ask with caring curiosity, and wisdom will be imparted to you.
- Give generously, and in return, gain deeper insights.
- Do share the kindness, empathy, and respect you desire.
We nurture wisdom through caring questions, deliberate generosity, and thoughtful kindness.