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 MoreKeeping 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.
Read MoreLimiting 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.
Read MoreImprove 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.
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 MoreAs 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.
Read MoreWe began discussing how altar building can be a form of healing and connecting with our spiritual selves and ancestors. This year has brought so much challenge, loss, and spiritual attack, that we both felt that perhaps our community would need this spiritual form of healing.
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 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.
Read MoreDOCUMENTARY FILM TO SCREEN ON TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2019
SPONSORED BY: YOU BELONG HERE, THE ROC SHOP, AND RAYGUN CREATIVE
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Written, produced and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2015.
Read MoreTwo weeks after opening our doors last November, we hosted our first holiday pop-up market/benefit drive at You Belong Here. It was a teeny but mighty pop-up. In our 1250 square-foot space, we had twenty two local vendors showcasing their goods, plus holiday-inspired cocktails from Please & Thank You and a cheese and charcuterie spread (to die for) presented by Smoke and Brine Co. Meka Coffee brought their coffee cart. Rebecca Eichten put together a wreath-making station. And three local bands sang their hearts out. Everyone came together for some serious holiday cheer.
And it was all done in support of a local non-profit.
