Category: creativity
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“The Cost of Comfort”
Comfort feels good in the moment, but it quietly robs you of your time, your opportunities, and your growth. I’ve learned the hard way that the real price of comfort is much higher than the pain of letting go. This piece is about recognizing where comfort is holding you back and choosing growth, even when…
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W9, INVOICE, CONTRACTS… What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?
W9s, invoices, and contracts might sound intimidating, but they’re the backbone of treating your art like a business. Too many creatives lose money, time, and opportunities simply because no one ever explained the basics.
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I Schedule My Posts… and Here’s Why
If you’re not scheduling your posts, then what are you really doing? I don’t treat social media like a random scroll fest. I treat it like a system. Scheduling my content keeps me consistent without burning out, frees up my time to actually live, and makes it look like I’m everywhere without me being glued to…
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I’m Not Training My Replacement
I’m setting the bar high enough for them to set their own. Somewhere along the way, people confuse admiration with manipulation, kindness with weakness, and success with villainy. But I’ve learned, I don’t owe long explanations anymore. Either you get it, or you don’t.
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Social media is dead (and we’re still scrolling)
Social media isn’t dying… it’s already dead. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, all of them. They’ve run their course, and yet most people won’t believe it until a celebrity says it out loud or gets chewed up by the algorithm. Meanwhile, we keep scrolling, hypnotized by artificial dopamine hits, trading our presence for performance. The truth…
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Why I Chose Denim on Denim for My Fall Cover of Fig Magazine
I didn’t wear denim on denim for the Fig Magazine cover just for style, I wore it for legacy. Indigo dyed denim was once a marker of slavery, but today, it’s a symbol of resilience. Seeing my brown skin front and center, printed twenty thousand times, is proof we belong in spaces we were once…
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Another day… yay.
It’s National Suicide Prevention Month. If you’ve stood at the edge and come back for reasons you can’t name, take a look: the people you’ve met, the coping tools you’ve built, the little wins that kept you here. My silly mantra helps: ‘Another day… yay.’ It’s not a cure, just a lifeline to the present.
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What Do I Want My Art to Say?
What do I want my art to say? At its core, I want it to speak truth. I want it to remind us to be human, to look deeper within ourselves, and to believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
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I call it ChalkZone. You call it the Internet.
I call it ChalkZone. You call it the Internet. For me, the two have always been separate worlds…one real, one imagined. ChalkZone is where anything you draw can come to life. The Internet works the same way: you can be whoever you want to be, as long as you can convince others to believe it.
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Question: Are You Chasing Legacy, Checks, or To Be Liked by All?
Are you chasing legacy, checks, or just trying to be liked by all? I’ve asked myself that question more times than I can count. Social media will have you thinking the number of likes equals your worth, while money feels like the safety net we’re all scrambling for.