We asked some of the brightest and most thoughtful entrepreneurs, artists and creatives in the community to tell us about something they believe that most people in their space disagree with and we’ve shared highlights below.

Kat Boogaard

I guess my “hot take” is that growth isn’t your only metric of success. I think in any type of career—but particularly in freelancing and business ownership—there’s this pervasive idea that you’re “failing” if you’re not on the up and up. Particularly in the context of freelancing, I hear so much about building a brand, creating passive income streams, or spinning up your own agency as the only logical “next steps” for career development. Personally, I’ve done *all* of those things to some degree. And what I quickly learned was, that while they might’ve been effective ways to increase my revenue or my reach, they actually hindered my own personal feelings of success. In most cases, I felt stressed and spread thin more than anything else. Read more>>

Tasha Chang

I’m a Director of Education and don’t think good grades mean much. I own an education and college counseling center. As a business owner, my goal is to help students with tutoring, their educational pathway, and college admissions. They hire me to academically help improve their scores and achieve higher learning. Anything less in my industry is a fail. However, I was and am a teacher first. An educator who invests in every student who’s goal is to help them be productive and effective learners, innovative thinkers, and responsible and contributing members of society. The student encompassing the whole student is what is important. Read more>>

Caroline Ceniza-Levine

I’m a career coach who specializes in career change. Too many people, including coaches, treat career change in a stepwise fashion — Step 1, figure out what you want to change to; Step 2 execute that change. In my experience as a multiple time career changer (classical piano to banking, consulting, executive search, acting, corporate HR, and finally entrepreneurship) and in coaching others through a pivot, Steps 1 and 2 happen simultaneously. In fact, you need to be in Step 2 — doing something that gets you closer to your change — to really confirm that what you think your Step 1 target is is actually correct. Read more>>