Reflections about Belonging and Creating from You Belong Here August 2023, Artist in Resident, Sarah Cusey.
You Belong Here is fueled by the creatives within our own communities, and today we’re highlighting one impactful member, Brianda Vargas. Brianda is an Afro-Latina Self-Love activist, Certified Yoga Instructor with a certification in Trauma-Informed Yoga for youth and adults, and the Executive Director of cOMmunity Yoga and Mindfulness, a nonprofit organization devoted to increasing accessibility of yoga & mindfulness. We caught up with Brianda to talk about self-care and self-compassion.
You Belong Here launches San Diego’s first incubator space dedicated to Creative Artists. Check out the REVOLUTION! We’re bridging the gap between CREATIVITY and SUSTAINABILITY.
(Coming Soon!)
During our first-ever Creative Convergence event, which took place at the Mingei Museum, members of our vibrant creative community gathered to engage in powerful discussions on a variety of important topics.
Reflections about Belonging and Creating from You Belong Here August 2023, Artist in Resident, Sarah Cusey.
While the artist statement and artist bio serve different purposes, they are both important tools for artists to communicate their art and themselves to the world.
Hosting art showcases that address social justice issues, and marginalized identities is an important way to use art as a tool for social change. These showcases can raise awareness, foster empathy, amplify marginalized voices, and encourage dialogue - all of which are crucial for creating a more just and equitable society.
Monetizing your You Belong Here membership is possible. Here’s how to do it with creative ideas for small business owners. We share how to take advantage of our photo studio, podcast studio, entire event space, and so much more when you #StartHere.
Photography has always been something that I love to do, then I found out that I could make it into a career, and it was the best decision I ever made. The best part is working on multiple projects and sharing them with my community. For this project, I decided to collaborate with my mother and help tell her story.
Ballot Party Tips and Voter Guide resources for the November 2020 Presidential Election.
We began discussing how altar building can be a form of healing and connecting with our spiritual selves and ancestors. This year has brought so much challenge, loss, and spiritual attack, that we both felt that perhaps our community would need this spiritual form of healing.
As many of you know, January was National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Here at YBH, we partnered with Shyne San Diego and Amari Dixon Photography to present Behold Her, a portrait exhibition featuring local survivors of human trafficking.
When I graduated from college, I hitched a ride across the country with two women I’d met the week before. I rode with them from Olympia, Washington to somewhere on the east coast, where they dropped me off at a train station and I caught a train into New York City.
I had the pleasure of recording my first podcast in the YBH studio with my friend Michaële Antoine of Curios Consulting. If you're interested, you can listen to our conversation about community building and self-love on Michaële's Substack, Truth Be Told.
During our first-ever Creative Convergence event, which took place at the Mingei Museum, members of our vibrant creative community gathered to engage in powerful discussions on a variety of important topics.
Reflections about Belonging and Creating from You Belong Here August 2023, Artist in Resident, Sarah Cusey.
In Your Corner is one of You Belong Here’s signature programs. We like to refer to it as “business therapy”. To be perfectly honest, it is a time for creatives and small businesses, alike, to make the time to center ourselves as individuals who are building, operating, and managing a business. Most often than not, business networking events and mixers invite us to come together to talk business, strategy, outcome, growth…
Hosting art showcases that address social justice issues, and marginalized identities is an important way to use art as a tool for social change. These showcases can raise awareness, foster empathy, amplify marginalized voices, and encourage dialogue - all of which are crucial for creating a more just and equitable society.
Queensgiving is deep connection and celebration of ourselves and one another. A confirmation that you are necessary in this life. Each person that I have invited throughout the years have played a supporting role in the many seasons of my life and I in theirs. Simply put, it is an intentional celebration of our support, reciprocity, and love for one another.
How do you create social impact in your business in the current social and political climate? Business is NOT as usual and millennials and Gen Z are looking for brands and businesses that are working towards a better world - not just profit. Learn how to include a social impact component in your small business.
In this article, we discuss equitable pricing strategies that small business owners can apply to their businesses to support their community.
Keeping a good mental health is crucial for small business owners. This article contains some self-care strategies to improve your overall mental health as a small business owner.
Reconnecting to your creativity is one of the best business decisions you can take. The best way to do this is by giving yourself room to play, rest, and experience joy.
Reflection questions for your business, as you ideate, launch, grow, scale, or reevaluate your business. Taking a moment to pause in business ownership is just as important as setting strategies and optimizing everything you have.
In Your Corner is one of You Belong Here’s signature programs. We like to refer to it as “business therapy”. To be perfectly honest, it is a time for creatives and small businesses, alike, to make the time to center ourselves as individuals who are building, operating, and managing a business. Most often than not, business networking events and mixers invite us to come together to talk business, strategy, outcome, growth…
Last week I shared my journey over the past two years and the BTS groundwork for this next chapter. Honestly, it was an amazing response from you! I feel so supported in this next step and that’s a great place to be. A year ago, I felt overwhelmed. I felt alone and that the weight of You Belong Here was much too heavy to carry forward to real impact and change. During COVID I witnessed the very problem YBH hopes to solve, our creative community struggling, disenfranchised, and on the verge of poverty, I felt helpless.
Learn how to use a fully equipped San Diego photo studio to continue monetizing your photography skills and growing and scaling your business to build wealth as a creative!
How do you monetize your podcast? Monetizing your podcast is something that is more accessible and possible now than ever! In this blog post, we share different monetization strategies and how to rent our San Diego podcasting studio!
How do you create social impact in your business in the current social and political climate? Business is NOT as usual and millennials and Gen Z are looking for brands and businesses that are working towards a better world - not just profit. Learn how to include a social impact component in your small business.
Monetizing your You Belong Here membership is possible. Here’s how to do it with creative ideas for small business owners. We share how to take advantage of our photo studio, podcast studio, entire event space, and so much more when you #StartHere.
In this article, we discuss equitable pricing strategies that small business owners can apply to their businesses to support their community.
Keeping a good mental health is crucial for small business owners. This article contains some self-care strategies to improve your overall mental health as a small business owner.
Reconnecting to your creativity is one of the best business decisions you can take. The best way to do this is by giving yourself room to play, rest, and experience joy.
During our first-ever Creative Convergence event, which took place at the Mingei Museum, members of our vibrant creative community gathered to engage in powerful discussions on a variety of important topics.