By now, everyone knows im an Issa Rae super fan. I’ve watched and/or read 90 percent of her interviews, watched all shows she’s acted and produced and read her book. When I saw she was doing a masterclass, of course I wanted to watch it- I wanted to watch it badly – but not badly enough to cough up $200 for a masterclass subscription. I must have complained enough because someone great was kind enough to send me a 7 day guest pass when she did cough up the $180 for a subscription.
The best thing was that she gifted me that subscription on a week where I was home alone and had not much else to do and so for 2.5 solid days, I consumed masterclasses.
I started from with Issa’s class and it was short and fun. Then it was on to Shonda Rhimes, the queen of television - whose 6.5 hour class was PACKED full of storytelling lessons, N.K.Jemisin on world building (amazing), Aaron Sorkin on tv writing, Elaine Welteroth on building career, Amy tan on writing techniques and Chris Voss on negotiation tactics.
All the classes are broken into bite size lessons and have a downloadable pdf document to go with the lessons. The pdf attachments aren’t transcript of the classes, they are kind of separate documents the creators provide that are related to the topics they’ve chosen to cover.
It was kind of perfect that I only had one week to do these classes, I feel like I did more classes than I would have if I had a year long subscription because I would have procrastinated and taken longer to do each class. If there was a monthly option, I think it would be way more value for money but I don’t know if most people would get enough value from their subscription to make it worth it. If you like learning, have the cash and enjoy listening to successful people in their fields, then go for it.