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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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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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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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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Looking to take your business to the next level? Searching for a tool that will help you stay on track with your business goals? Look no further than an action plan, a simple tool that outlines the steps you will take to meet an objective or goal.
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As we come to the end of the quarter and another year, it’s common to feel a sense of overwhelm creep into your mind. Overwhelm might show up as a ‘Sunday scaries’ feeling, avoidance of creative projects, or even feeling ‘off’ in your creative alignment. Today we’ll outline 3 ways you can get started in reaching your goals and actualizing the creative life you crave without feeling overwhelmed.
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If you’re a creative in business, you likely are familiar with burnout, characterized by feelings of energetic exhaustion, disconnection from your work, or cynicism about your work. As a creative, burnout is a common companion to the starving artist stereotype, but it doesn’t have to be your experience! Below you’ll find examples of tools and tactics from creatives on how to avoid burnout.
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We are experiencing something quite unique. During this time, there’s not many answers in helping us navigate our way through how to run our business. We decided to help our fellow business owners, creatives, and entrepreneurs, by hosting a zoom gathering.
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For our inaugural event last week, Crosby Noricks of PR Couture led 16 participants through the creation of their own Brandifesto, a storytelling device and standalone content piece designed to help clarify a brand’s purpose, message, and value in order to connect with the target audience and optimize content strategy.
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