Being a business owner isn’t easy. There are amazing highs, but the lows are often quite intense as well. Somedays it feels like the problems never stop – regardless of how much success you achieve. The problems just grow, evolve, morph. So we asked business owners if they sometimes wonder what it would be like…

We asked some fantastic entrepreneurs and creatives to tell us about their first job in their field. Check out their stories below Giselle Spratley Looking back, my journey into becoming a medical esthetician feels like a mix of hard work, divine timing, and knowing how to seize opportunities. Right after I graduated esthetics school and passed…

Over the years as we connected with incredible from folks from almost every imaginable industry we realized that every nook and cranny of our economy is full of small business owners, artists and creatives who live and breathe what they do - and their stories are nothing short of heroic. It's the immigrant parents who…

Internships and apprenticeships are a time-honored rite of passage in many industries. We’ve asked some brilliant folks to share some of the most important lessons they learned during these early experiences in their career. Shay Mcavoy Where I work now I would always pass by on my way home from school. One day I decided to…

Many business owners we’ve spoken with didn’t start with a huge team on day one. They had to learn how to be a good boss, but the problem is the books on leadership are often highly theoretical and so we wanted to hear practical examples of what it means to be a good boss. So,…

We’ve highlighted responses from some of the brightest and most talented artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs in the community below. Tiffany Burbidge My Father Lavorn or better known as “Sparky” Sparks has always been my hero. Since I was a little girl watching him restore antique cars in our garage I thought he could do anything. He…

One of the most powerful things about being a business owner is the ability to create a work environment according to your own principles. So many of us have worked within a company or organization and been disappointed by the way things were run, the way team members were treated. So, we wanted to ask…

What even is a “regular” job? Semantics aside, the heart of our question is about those moments when the stress of entrepreneurship is mounting – do you ever sit back and wonder what if you had just been working for someone else, what life would have been like without all the stress? Talisha Bolden Yes very…

Tony Robbins says the #1 human need is certainty, but do you know what the second need is? It’s uncertainty. This tug of war between the competing needs of safety and risk are at the heart of so many dilemmas we face in life and for most folks the goal isn’t to eliminate risk –…

Often, those who tread off the beaten path are misunderstood or mischaracterized and so we asked folks from the community to reflect and tell us about the times they've been misunderstood or mischaracterized. Rodney LOVEJONES As a creative director with multifaceted roles for each artist, my responsibilities often encompass mentorship, agency representation, facilitating collector acquisitions, and…