NAME IT FIRST

Workbook

For Portuguese Men

Saudade, Família, e a Identidade que Estás a Construir

You carry Portugal wherever you go. This is where you write down what that means.

This is for:

For the Portuguese man who carries Portugal wherever he goes and wants to document what that identity means in his own words.

You'll produce:your Your Portuguese Identity Document

The Name It First Experience

Portuguese men carry one of the most culturally specific identities in Europe — built on family, work, saudade, and a country that was simultaneously empire and periphery. This workbook asks who you are inside all of it. You will build Your Portuguese Identity Document — a stress-tested, signed document of who you are beyond the expectations. The output is not a cultural overview. It is your document.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What does it mean to be a Portuguese man — what your culture expects, what you carry, and what you've worked out for yourself?
  2. What from Portuguese culture do you most want to carry forward — the saudade, the community, the history, the way of being?
  3. What do you want the next generation to understand about Portuguese identity and what it means to carry it?

Research basis

Phinney on ethnic identity / Berry on acculturation / scholarship on Portuguese fado cultural psychology and saudade as emotional inheritance / diaspora identity research.

Choose your format.

Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

$22.99

eBook + journal

The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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Hardcoverpersonalize

The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$12.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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