SELF-DISCOVERY FOR
AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE
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The personal breakthroughs I experienced have been nothing short of transformational.
Tiago Forte
Founder of Forte Academy
Welcome to the Art of Accomplishment
Hi, I’m Joe Hudson and I coach some of the top leaders in Silicon Valley. My unique method of transformation is born from 25+ years of exploring neurological, psychological, and spiritual approaches — tested against real-world challenges. I've served thousands of leaders, entrepreneurs, and creatives to design lives and businesses they love.
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From leading Fortune 500 companies to the perils of parenthood, listen to Joe and Brett talk leadership, emotional fluidity, and self-inquiry.
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Explore our different series and watch Joe work directly with clients in Rapid Coaching calls.
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Explore Our Courses
Our courses are intense, experiential journeys that have been refined for years. They will bring you to your growth edge and transform how you show up in work, relationships, and beyond. View our upcoming cohorts below.
CONNECTION COURSE
Our most popular experience. A three-week deep dive where you will apply your learnings directly — increase productivity, deepen relationships, and resolve conflicts with ease.
Next cohort starts December 2024
Once you’ve agreed to show up and do the work, it’s impossible not to be forever changed by it.
Marie Poulin
Founder of Notion Mastery
GREAT DECISIONS COURSE
Embark on a five-week journey exploring how to make great decisions. Overturn old myths and walk out empowered to lead your life with clarity and conviction.
Offered once a year. Next cohort starts January 2025
Life-transforming experience of seeing and being seen.
Agnieszka Snarska
Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates
MASTER CLASS
Master Class is our flagship program and most sought-after experience. The eight-week immersion is designed to transform how you show up in every facet of your life.
Offered once a year. Next cohort starts June 2025
An emotional dojo for working on the most difficult, buried, and hard to overcome blockers to reaching our full potential.
Joseph Kelly
Cofounder & CEO of Unchained Capital
The Story of AOA
For seven years, Joe spent nearly 12 hours a day sitting in an empty room, living on less than $10,000 a year and asking the question: “What am I?” Then he and his wife Tara started a family, and he realized he needed to start making money. Thus sparked a decades-long quest to discover how to achieve financial success and accomplish his dreams without compromising his inner journey.
The outcome was a radical discovery. Deep self-discovery isn't just on a meditation cushion or in a cabin in the woods. It’s in all things, at all times — from raising kids to leading a startup, from creating fine art to running a sales team. In other words: Ambition and inner work aren’t just compatible, they fuel each other to new heights.
Today, Joe is one of the most sought-after coaches in the world, supporting top leaders and executives in companies like Apple, OpenAI, and Google. He founded the Art of Accomplishment and distilled the work he was doing with clients into practical tools, exercises, and courses made available to anyone committed to their journey.
The journey isn't always easy. While we emphasize enjoyment, this work will take you out of your comfort zone and into your growth edge. But if you show up wholeheartedly, it will be incredibly rewarding — because that's where change happens.
Our Philosophy
The work we do at AOA is practical and applied directly to your real life. We design our course arcs to help you discover and embrace the intensity that is already a part of your everyday experience.
Most importantly, we emphasize enjoyment. After working with thousands of students, we’ve found that it's not just more pleasant, it’s more effective.
I've read dozens of self-help books, but never encountered anything quite so impactful for me.
Andrew Conner
Co-founder of Levels Health
Our core beliefs:
Revelation needs routine
Transformation and epiphany doesn’t mean much unless you can apply it.
Transformation and epiphany doesn’t mean much unless you can apply it.
Wisdom lies within
You’re the expert on you. Our work and coaching always points you back to your inherent wisdom.
You’re the expert on you. Our work and coaching always points you back to your inherent wisdom.
The speed of stretch
Change comes faster when you step out of your comfort zone.
Change comes faster when you step out of your comfort zone.
Enjoyment is efficiency
The work is more effective when you enjoy it — even when it’s uncomfortable.
The work is more effective when you enjoy it — even when it’s uncomfortable.
How it Works: A Full Body Sport
Most approaches to self-development account for just one or two of our three neural centers (head, heart, or gut). This can be effective, but only for so long. We remain limited by the capacity of our lowest system.
Our approach integrates wisdom from over 50+ modalities and takes a full-body view of our head, heart, and gut to catalyze effective and sustainable transformation.
I love Joe and what he has built. It is a joy to unpack the emotions that underpin my patterns and discover new ways of living, connecting, and running my business.
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Lisa Dyson
PhD, CEO & Founder of Air Protein
Head
A head transformation takes place in your thoughts. It's all about the different levels of consciousness that you can
conceive of.
conceive of.
Heart
A heart transformation is all about emotional fluidity - how deeply you can welcome your emotions without contracting or resisting.
Gut
A gut transformation impacts your capacity for enjoyment - your ability to work with fear and connect with the pleasure in every moment.
For Businesses
Joe and the AOA team have received rave reviews for their in-person team workshops. All our major courses are easily adapted for companies, and we have several trainings offered exclusively for teams. You may inquire below for us to do work directly in your company.
Reviews for AOA Courses
Increases your capacity for unconditional love.
Tim
A journey of love to the center of me.
Casey Galanti
Expansive and beautiful. Accessible and deep. So powerful.
Brooks Barron
Masterclass is like a reset for life that opens your heart.
Kirsten Corbett
Lifechanging.
Keith McGuinness
A most deeply transformative experience, a must do for anyone looking to live a life of joy and openness.
Shweta Sharma
A wildly practical and pragmatic approach to cracking open the heart and encouraging life to unfold from within its depths.
Drew Smith
Fantastic course on feeling more free and joyful
Charlie Houpert
Master Class is the best course you can take to get in touch with yourself. You will start seeing yourself in a whole new way.
Julia Sutter
Masterclass helped me put down my emotional baggage, look at it, hug it and love it, fold it and put it away so I could look at it whenever I wanted, and enabled me to walk around free unburdened of it. An incredible gift I am so grateful for.
Johanna Fulghum
The Master Class is a bait and switch in the best possible way. You go in expecting to get better at your job and most important relationships and you leave a completely different person--or rather, you leave as the authentic self you didn't know you were hiding.
Kal G.
Intensely practical, transformational journey.
Owen Henshaw
A program that focuses on challenging common limiting beliefs, along with the opportunity to experience whats on the other side of them.
Pablo Estrada
Insight upon insight. Love through your truth.
Misha Y.
What a ride! An amazing experience.
Esther
The education your parents and school should have given you, and which only a lucky few in a million get to have. The best gift you could give yourself, those around you, and the world.
Radu R.
So well thought out, fulfilling, and challenging. Incredibly powerful.
Meredith McPherson
Deeply effective, highly focused course on challenging limiting beliefs.
Stephen Z.
Small scary steps that bring liberation.
Anton Herasymenko
A game changer for how I experience everyday life.
Igor Wasilewski
An emotional dojo to explore restrictive behaviours and patterns, uncover what’s hidden under them and run experiments in a supportive community.
Sneha Vaidyanathan
A tutorial for emotional fluidity that turns into a connected community as it happens.
Brian Feliciano
Deep lasting transformation towards being my true self.
Esther V.
Intense. Exhausting. Loving. Life changing. Not for the faint of heart... For all hearts.
EJ Allen
An immersive adventure in self inquiry and facing things.
Scott Britton
One of the most life changing classes I have ever taken. It taught me more about love than I thought possible.
Samek Mulepati
Powerful. The only course I'll ever need.
Alice Henry
A deeply grounded, trustworthy course in a space that often feels mushy and endless and loopy and self-narcissistic.
Yatharth Agarwal
Life embracing journey that has impacted my relationship with myself and all those around me.
Sarah Ryan
Emotional summer camp for type-A successful hyper-smart nerds. White-water canoeing toward unconditional love with them.
Harry Taussig
A training in self-love and awakening, structured in various weeks with different angles, packaged for modern day people.
Max Sutter
Discover the depths of your emotions. Learn to break your heart open again and again to find out who you actually are.
Quinn Fitzgerald
Heartbreaking in the best possible way.
Jamie Pellegrin
Learning how to surf deeper emotional waters.
Olga Kritova
Master Class is what you've always been looking for, without knowing it. If you let it in, this work will change your life.
Aaron Olson
Intense self-discovery bootcamp that opens up your heart and mind.
Slava
Transformative personal development community and course.
Pratik Stephen
Impactful in ways I don't fully understand yet.
Sherrill Johnson
Builds emotional muscles I didn't know I had/existed.
Kunal B.
Self exploration and human connection handbook.
Anonymous
It opens up an entirely different way of looking at connection with other people.
John Doherty
A way to learn how to be in your body, especially for those who are very intellectual.
Frank Galanti
I love Joe and what he has built. It is a joy to unpack the emotions that underpin patterns to discover new ways of living, connecting, and running my business.
Lisa Dyson
Learn how your emotions run your life.
Artem Burachenok
It's a course about how to get out of your own way when connecting with people. It gives you a bunch of levers in the form of emotional states, and teaches you how to get in and out of them.
Huw Thomas
The Connection Course has been a transformative experience for me. The depth of connection I can now achieve with those around me is incredible.
Adrian M.
A way to go deep into what VIEW is all about, and a way to practice safely.
Michael Sippey
Being thrown into the deep end of being vulnerable and authentic.
Mike Ouimet
Super helpful, insightful, worth investing in if you're interested in connecting with yourself and others.
Lee
Connections Course is brilliant. It gave me tools to welcome uncomfortable feelings, and to lean into being vulnerable with others. To connect rather than resist. A powerful life-changing experience toward the freedom of being fully at ease in my own skin!
Jai Jamison
Lighting the way to the answers you always knew you had.
Brian Redmond
A new lens through which the see the world as more accepting, open, and grateful.
Eshan H
AoA will make you see all the ways you limit yourself and walk you through the way out.
Brian Wang
Gave me an arsenal of tools to embrace the intensity of life!
Shravya Nalla
8 weeks of intensive personal development for your mind, body, and heart.
Adrienne St. Aubin
It is a deep physical, emotional, and spiritual massage all the way to the core of your being!
Bryce Astill
An eye-opening class that taught me how to better understand myself and others, with the greatest impact being able to make more meaningful connections.
Greg Hughes
Intensive self exploration program that will help you see who you really are.
Prodan
A course that teaches you to un-learn self-defeating relationship & communication habits by approaching people more openly.
Nick Sweeting
If you want to grow as a human being, AoA is the place to find tools, community and a very effective and genuine path.
Veronica Cordeiro
It's an intense experience of internal exploration.
Julia Saxena
A way to improve your state of mind as you relate to others.
Tim
A great way to connect with the people you love and yourself.
Johanna Fulghum
AoA is a course that teaches you to drop the critical fear-based narrative from your life and live a life of connection, love, and adventure.
Mikhail Turilin
Terrific way to refine being human, sifting through layers of vibrant self-discovery and way more love to fuel the journey.
Mary Martin
It was a transformational experience. My relationship with my emotions has changed dramatically. I no longer look at them as enemies but rather aspects of myself that I want to get to know.
Audrey Desjarlais
An exploration of the deep end of the emotional pool.
Clint Harder
A substantial upgrade to emotional intelligence, unlocking more ease, joy & assurance.
Max Phillips
Lifechanging in the most unexpected way.
Inna Lykhovyd
Reconnection with humanity starts with yourself. To rediscover how to authentically be present with yourself and others, take the connection course.
Larry
Finding out you have emotions about everything you do---then jumping into them like a deep pool and swimming and floating and being.
Kirsten Senturia
An essential point of view for creating a safe container for self realizations and connections.
Erika Lopez
Vexing, liberating, challenging, joyful--a course that inhabits the same space as a roller coaster about to release into high speed--that mix of fear, anticipation, and ecstasy!
Victoria
Connections 101: Learn to feel and BE your authentic self in connection with others.
Sneha Vaidyanathan
This is the missing manual for creating authentic connections.
Steve Choo
An experience. An emotional intelligence and whole life awareness course.
Shawn Parrotte
Joe Hudson is a mad genius of emotional transformation. AoA rocked my freaking world.
Rob Hardy
One-year-ago-me would have hoped but not dared to believe I could feel like I do today.
Pim Ruhe
Self help that builds tools for lasting change.
Philip Postma
AoA is a portal to the emotional transformations you yearn for but have had no idea how to access
Nick Catton
AoA was an earthquake, uprooting old ideas I had about success and relationships, freeing me to be more authentically who I am. It transformed my life.
Michele Gill
If you're in a career and achieving a ton but things just don't feel right, take a look at Art of Accomplishment.
Mark Alexander
If your personal engine is running rough and you find yourself grinding the gears, this 8-week course can help you make small adjustments with big impact toward getting yourself aligned and running like a dream.
Maureen Carruthers
A fresh and different take on self development that changed my perspective, my understanding and myself forever. I'm so grateful I did it!
Mattia Gheda
An emotional dojo for working on the most difficult, buried, and hard to overcome blockers to reaching our full potential.
Joseph Kelly
The best online emotional development course out there.
Lulie Tanett
Take ownership of your life to live authentically and fully. The AoA course is a deep dive into your strengths, your fears, and what makes you uniquely "you". Transformation will happen, regardless if you want it or not!
Eva Pianezzola
The AoA Masterclass gives you useful tools and a great start for a lifelong self-discovery journey with a community of people who are all on this journey with you.
Esther Holleman
The most effective transformation work I’ve ever done.
Amaya Gutierrez
AoA provided me the tools to learn, integrate and embody a new relationship with my work, with friends and family and, most importantly, with myself.
Christy Tripp
Personal development coursework stemming from vulnerable heart opening experiments with yourself, partner, and larger community.
Erin Newhall
Art of Accomplishment is the best personal development course I've taken. It helped me to get to the core of what was holding me back. It's absolutely transformed all areas of my life.
Anton Zolotov
The Art of Accomplishment is the most meaningful group experience that I've ever been a part of. The community is priceless. It taught me how to be better at being myself, how to accept and embrace all that life is, and as a result, allows me to be more effective in my life
Sarah Melody Vinci
Meet Our Community
Another core belief we have at AOA is that transformation is faster and more enjoyable when you’re not alone. That’s why our courses are built around partner, small group, and large group work.
And because of the deep relational work we do, many of our students become lifelong friends, coworkers, or cofounders — committed to diving deep and doing hard things together.
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