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Cézanne Charles, previously Director of Creative Industries for Creative Many, describes the organization's process of stepping outside its comfort zone and engaging in deep conversations with artists to understand artists' needs when interfacing with communities.

Artist Audrey Samantha Romero shares how she makes time to ground herself to make the most of her day.

Vicente Yepez turned down an opportunity to write the script for an independent film because, even though there was some overlap with his projects, he decided to prioritize his own work. Collaboration needs to be a mutual opportunity for creative growth.

Filmmaker Spade Robinson is extremely protective of the time and space it takes to concentrate on art, which requires making sacrifices. Talking or writing about her creative work is difficult after already emotionally investing in making it, but she’s come up with language over time.

Multi-disciplinary artist Traci Rae Manos has been using Julia Cameron’s book The Artists Way to identify core desires and dreams that will feed into her long-term goals and to find ways to free her voice and support work-life balance.

Sophia Ordaz encourages artists who are fighting isolation to surround themselves with things that make them feel like themselves, including beloved art. As a child of immigrants, she felt pressured to say yes to every opportunity but learned that saying no to one thing is saying yes to something else.

Markeith Woods describes visiting his written long-term goals every day, morning and night, and using a vision board. He practices generosity among artists by helping each other grow, and giving away artwork as a form of exchange.

Megha Rao, a bharatanatyam dancer, shares that learning to talk and write about herself and her work has helped her grow take her work to new places. Verbal and written marketing builds an artist’s confidence and their audience.

Poet Lynette Thrower shares her practice of considering whether her mission and the project’s mission align before agreeing to unpaid work. Lynette listens to her body to stay in sync with her best self and “weeds out” what’s hindering her.

Musician Bernice Hembree suggests evaluating opportunities that don’t pay based on whether it’s a good fit for the artist and a cause worth supporting. When hiring other artists, lift them up through payment or trade of services.

Visual artist Kinya Christian suggests that artists sincerely acknowledge each others’ talents to build the community and the audience for artwork. Artists can access materials by sharing resources and knowledge about how to use them.

Amos Cochran describes how creating a network of other artists – especially those outside of his discipline of music – made a difference in his work. He is now able to compensate those who help him and believes that generosity will help the arts ecosystem thrive.