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.
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Reflections about Belonging and Creating from You Belong Here August 2023, Artist in Resident, Sarah Cusey.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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In this article, we discuss equitable pricing strategies that small business owners can apply to their businesses to support their community.
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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.
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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.
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Limiting beliefs are more common than we think as creative business owners. Sometimes, we don’t even recognize the limiting belief around our work, creativity, or business because we’ve held onto them for so long.
Learn 4 of the most common limiting beliefs holding back BIPOC Creative Business Owners and how to move past them with affirmations.
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Improve your money mindset with 6 money mindset tips for creative artists who want to have a better relationship with their money. The first step to financial literacy is recognizing and being aware of our money mindset and how it influences how we deal with all things money matters.
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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.
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There’s a big conversation brewing in our communities, a topic to describe the feeling of inadequacy regardless of rest or productivity: internalized capitalism. Internalized capitalism links self-worth with productivity, creating an inescapable and damaging hyper-focus on individual optimization, deliverables over wellbeing, and overemphasis on career advancement as a measure of success. Wondering how to prioritize your self-worth within the context of capitalism? This one’s for you.
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Whether you’re starting a new creative endeavor or have been running a creative business for a decade, there are a few financial skills every business owner must understand to succeed long-term. We know that finances can be scary, especially when accessible tools are lacking for personal financial literacy, let alone business financial literacy. To help combat that, we’ve reached out to our community to gain insights on how to simplify and overcome any anxiety about your business finances to close the financial literacy gap. You don’t have to be a financial expert to experience financial success. In fact, all you need are the right tools and some guidance in the right direction to get on the right track.
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