Is there ever a “right” time to start a creative career? Our goal has always been help people pursuing their passion. Helping those people often means helping them think through important decisions such as when to start, when to take the leap. Below, you’ll find our conversations with successful creatives reflecting back on when they had to decide whether to start or wait.

Cheryl Rubin

I have no regrets but I do wish in retrospect I had figured out a better way to have a more than full time job, raise a daughter and pursue my art on a more regular basis than I did. Read more>>

Bad Talents

My creative career started with an unconventional, winding path that had me feeling like a late bloomer for many years. After graduating from college, I stopped making artwork entirely for nearly 4 years. Read more>>

Rumi Oyama

This question prompts deep reflection for me. Raised in a conservative Japanese village, I initially set aside my childhood dream of acting to meet societal and familial expectations. Read more>>

Storm Guevara

If I could go back in time, I would have tried to start writing music sooner. Music has always been apart of my life but I never thought about creating my own until much later. Read more>>

Coven

I wish I would have started my creative career much sooner. I started pursuing film when I was 21, but I wrote my first screenplay when I was 18. Read more>>

Gabriel Palma

This is a fascinating question as I have been recently exploring this topic and coming to terms with my reasons for making the decisions I made. Read more>>

Travis Bradford

I started my “career” way later than I feel like I should’ve. I always did art since elementary school and it was a big passion of mine. I eventually fell in love with music very late and didn’t start taking it serious until senior year of high school and a year or two after. Read more>>

Felice Garcia

Learning to sing in church and school musicals, I’ve always had a voice that could captivate an audience with rich, emotive tones and impeccable range. However, my career faced a unique challenge: Read more>>

Seiren

I distinctively remember as a young girl my mother asking me if singing was something I seriously wanted to pursue. At the time I was seeing the effects the music industry had on specific female singers and how it had destroyed their lives. Read more>>

Cody C

I think I started just at the right time and that everything I’ve done leading up to writing my first novel culminated into the skills and experiences I draw upon now. Read more>>

Kitty Pawell

If I could go back in time I would have started earlier, but then again I am grateful I did start later. The reason I say that is because there are an abundance of resources that were not available like they are now. Read more>>

Debby Merkel

Being creative has always been a part of who I am, whether it was learning to embroider, sewing my own clothes, floral arranging, home decor, drawing cartoons, pottery. Read more>>

Carica Rosee

I wish i had started my career sooner well taken it more serious. I am so proud of myself and all I’ve accomplished thus far but i believe if i had started sooner I’d have more time since its the one thing I cant get back. Read more>>