As almost any entrepreneur or creative will tell you, unexpected problems are to be expected. Below, you’ll hear some incredible stories that highlight and illustrate the kinds of issues and problems entrepreneurs and creatives are dealing with everyday. It’s not easy, but the silver lining is that dealing with unexpected problems is one of the best ways to develop antifragility.

Michael Ford

COVID 19 was one obstacle we had to face that was very difficult, however I believe we navigated the pandemic extremely well. We were able to keep most of our clients, and in fact grew during the pandemic and not once did we have a COVID 19 outbreak in our facility. We adapted by having online, and in person workouts. Read more>>

Jonathan Armstead

Life is full of setbacks and a creative journey is no different. As a musician coming out of college in 2010/2011, I really had no idea what I wanted to do with my music. I knew I wanted people to hear it and I knew I wanted to perform. As a kid, if you’re musically inclined like I was, you’re constantly given opportunities to perform in school plays, talent shows, concerts, etc. But they don’t really have talent shows for adults…so I had to figure something else out. Read more>>

Extatic Sound

Some of the unexpected problems we face as Djs is unprofessional promoters in our industry. There are a lot of promoters who do not like to pay full price for our service and some promoters do not want to pay at all if their event didn’t make any money but nonetheless they will not do the same thing to anyone else on their staff. Read more>>

Kiyaa Hider

One of the most unexpected problems I found in my business was having to bounce back from challenging life situation that was out of my control. Having gone through busting my butt for so long in my business and then to have all of that effort and sweat equity feel like it was frozen. Man, that was a lot. Read more>>

Sara Neves

At some point in our lives as business owners, we tend to compare our paths to someone else’s. With social media and other entrepreneurs sharing their wins it can feel like we’re always behind. It’s so important that there are entrepreneurs who share the ups and downs and that are really honest, especially about the struggles they had to go through to get to those wins. Read more>>

Mark Farrell

When I moved back to Colorado, one issue I faced was where to paint. I set my main base of operations at my parents house. I still work in the furnace room in their basement (even though I don’t live there), but at one point I tried renting part of a space from someone at the building near Logan and Colfax. They eventually had a problem with the toxicity of the paint I was using, so I moved on. I can’t really imagine renting a space on Santa Fe or in Downtown, everything has gotten so expensive. Read more>>

Noemi Martinez

Besides being a business owner whom also took care of others as a business model, I was also a single mom and dating a gentleman at the time who seemed “healthy” from the outside but was riddled with stress inside and was not taking care of his High blood pressure issues. One day, as I finally had my own building, creating partnerships with other healers in the community, renting space to others to expand their businesses and about to have other practitoners work in my space and provide more modalities of care for my clients, my boyfriend had a hemmhoragic stroke and I became his main care giver. Read more>>