We’ve been fortunate to connect with so many brilliant artists, business owners and leaders over the years and so we reached out to some of these talented folks to discuss what it takes to be successful.

Alexa Devaney

Success professionally, in my opinion, greatly comes from your relationship with yourself. Finding success takes an amazing amount of grit – you have to continue to show up every day and stay persistent with your goal. Read more>>

Landy Valencia

I feel like you have to learn from your mistakes and failures, to get back up and keep moving forward. You’ll learn to not give up and understand that little set backs help build you to become successful. There’s a lot of people that give up on their dreams because of minor set backs. But in reality success doesn’t happen over night it takes time. Read more>>

Meeks

I think it takes a lot to become successful. You have to be low-key selfish and put your business first a lot of times. Most importantly you have to make sacrifices. Read more>>

Kelly Woodruff

This may seem obvious, but I think the first requirement to being successful is knowing what you want. If you don’t know what you’re after, then by definition you cannot succeed. As someone who is very open-minded and indecisive, I often have to remind myself of this. Read more>>

Ana Fanakra

What does it take to be successful? I would say that one of the key things to making someone successful is to believe in yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you expect others to believe in you? I have adopted a new motto lately, Read more>>

Karenn Murga

Success is a self-made situation, anyone can achieve it. You have to commit to your goals and vision. I say that because the road isn’t easy. I have days where I don’t want to work or be on social media. Read more>> 

Cynthia Ochoa & Javier Sanchez

We think there are a few key actions that need to be done to be successful in anything that you do. The three that we believe are the most important are being committed, learning from the journey, and to continue planning ahead. Read more>>

Anna Lynch

Success looks a bit differently to me compared to most people in our society. I attribute my success to the network of people I have cultivated for myself over the years, and how happy I am. I don’t necessarily attribute all of my success to how much money I have in the bank or how many gigs I have a month. Read more>>

Sara Plett

I love this question, but it is too broad for me to cover in a few paragraphs. To keep this brief, I’ll specifically be addressing my opinion on being successful in business. Read more>>

Bondie Metchore

Many people will give you a million lists of the do’s and dont’s in business but in my experience and the experience of a lot of my clients what it really takes to be successful is a massive level of confidence and trust . Read more>>

Alex Mauricio

I truly think that authenticity is the main ingredient to acheiving success! Real Estate is a social profession. What we do isn’t rocket science but it is very important! One of the main ways we can attract more clients is by earning their trust! Read more>> 

Jason Rodriguez

There are many things it takes to become successful, but I can certainly share a few key insights from my experience as an entrepreneur as it relates to our current business and other companies we’ve grown in the past. Read more>>

Erika Major

To be successful, I think you should work hard and keep your expectations low. The idea of success is subjective and relative to you. Everyone has an idea of what their end goal is, but if you only focus on that big win you’re never going to feel like a success. It’s important to continue working hard and appreciate the small wins along the way. Read more>>

Bryan Hughes

I think that to really build something successful, you have to be genuinely interested in what you’re doing. I’ve been able to make a career from a childhood interest, and if I were to attribute any one factor in that unlikely story, it would be that the subject of our work and general interest are the same. Read more>>

Madlyne Kelly

There are so many articles about “Top 5 habits of highly successful people” but if we break that down, they’re already successful. They have childcare paid for, meal help from a nutritionist or delivery service, a gym membership and enough money and time to reinvest in themselves. Read more>>