Product Leader.
Entrepreneur.
Founder of Curious Enough to Try.
Stephanie Cully is a product management leader, entrepreneur, and creator of Curious Enough to Try. She has spent more than 15 years working in technology, product delivery, and Agile, helping teams turn complicated problems into products and solutions people can actually use. She is the founder of Cully and Co. and The Try Lab, where she helps people stop overthinking their ideas, test what is possible, and turn the things they have been thinking about doing into something real.
What are you curious enough to try?
I think we spend way too much time trying to figure out if an idea is the right idea before we ever give ourselves a chance to find out.
I’ve done this with businesses, career moves, building apps, starting a podcast, and probably a hundred smaller things. I wanted to know if I’d be good at it, if it would work, if people would care, and if it was worth my time before I started.
But almost everything good I’ve done started before I had those answers.
So that’s become my philosophy. You don’t need to know where an idea is going to take you. You don’t need a five-year plan or some huge burst of confidence. You just need to be curious enough to try.
Try the thing. Pay attention to what happens. Learn something. Then decide what you want to try next.
You can figure out a whole lot more by doing something for 30 days than you can by thinking about it for a year.
Why Did You Start The Try Lab?
I got tired of watching smart people prepare to do things they were completely capable of doing.
And honestly, I was one of them.
I’ve spent years working in product and technology, where we rarely know exactly what will work before we build it. We come up with an idea, make the smallest version we can, put it in front of real people, learn from what happens, and change it.
But in our own lives? We do the exact opposite.
We research. We take another course. We listen to another podcast. We make a prettier plan. We tell ourselves we’ll start when we know more, have more time, feel more confident, or finally figure out the perfect way to do it.
At some point I realized we weren’t preparing anymore. We were hiding.
I saw it in myself when I wanted to start a podcast. I thought about it for years. Then I finally did it and realized the thing I had built up in my head was completely different once I actually tried it.
That experience changed the way I looked at a lot of things.
You don’t think your way into clarity. You do your way into clarity.
That’s why I created The Try Lab.
It’s not another course where I give you 47 videos to watch and hope you magically do something with them. It’s a place to bring the thing you keep saying you want to do, whether that’s starting a business, launching a podcast, building an app, changing careers, or trying something completely different, and actually test it.
You pick something. You try it. You see what happens. You learn. You adjust. Then you try again.
Because I don’t think most people need another person telling them what they should do. They need a place that helps them finally find out what happens when they actually do it.
How Can I Work With You?
If there’s something you keep saying you want to do, but somehow you’re still talking about it instead of doing it, start with The Try Lab.
The Try Lab is a 6-week program where you choose one real project you want to move forward. Maybe you want to launch a podcast, test a business idea, build an app, make a career move, or finally start something you’ve been thinking about for way too long.
You’re not coming to sit through six weeks of lessons. You’re coming to actually work on your thing.
Each week, you’ll decide what you’re going to try, take action, and come back with what happened. You’ll have a clear plan so you know what to work on next, a small group of people expecting you to actually do it, and direct feedback and support when you get stuck or need to figure out your next move.
The goal isn’t to leave with more information. The goal is to leave six weeks later with something that exists because you finally tried.
Want more individual support? I also work with a limited number of people through 1:1 coaching. We can dig into your idea, business, career, or project and figure out what’s keeping you stuck and what you should actually do next.
If you’re a business or organization, I also work with teams on product management, Agile, strategy, and turning complicated ideas into work that actually gets delivered. You can schedule a call with me through my Calendly to talk about what you’re working on and whether I can help.
And if you’re interested in having me speak, join a podcast, or collaborate on something, reach out. I’m always curious enough to hear the idea.