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.
Read MoreDuring 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.
Read MoreReflections about Belonging and Creating from You Belong Here August 2023, Artist in Resident, Sarah Cusey.
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreHosting 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.
Read MoreQueensgiving 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.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreIn this article, we discuss equitable pricing strategies that small business owners can apply to their businesses to support their community.
Read MoreYou 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.
Read MoreThere’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.
Read MorePhotography 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.
Read MoreBallot Party Tips and Voter Guide resources for the November 2020 Presidential Election.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreThe news makes us deeply sad almost every day. We know there’s good in the world, but there’s also a lot that needs to be changed, both abroad and in our own community. But being sad and doing nothing isn’t going to get us anywhere. At YBH, we intend to keep trying to change the world, even when it feels futile.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreThe dramatic play, “To Fall In Love,” (winner of the Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Drama awards at San Diego’s own Fringe Festival in 2017), has nabbed at spot at Edinburgh’s fest this year, and the team is working to fundraise their way across the pond.
Read MoreWe love Pride Month: rainbows, inclusion, parades, and all. And being all up in our feel-goods about it last week, we were a little shook to see the Catholic Church officially reject the notion of gender fluidity. The institution claims that a culture-wide “disorientation” is trying to cancel out the “natural difference between man and woman.” However, the church’s “guide” to the “most debated questions around human sexuality” ignores one crucial fact: gender is a social concept, not a biological or religious one.
Read MoreMay was Mental Health Awareness Month. This year at YBH, we wanted to acknowledge this by participating in a community event that tackled the subject of mental health in a creative and meaningful way. We were proud to join forces with Ramel Wallace and Daniel Koestner of The Holyfield to present Monsters, a multi-media exhibition exploring the manifestation of monsters in our lives and the transformations that are possible when we “turn our monsters into masterpieces.”
Read MorePost Film Screening discussion of The Mask You Live In. The conversation that needs to be discussed amongst men.
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