“One of the things I noticed from a young age is how important money is in life, and how tough it can be when you don’t have it or don’t understand the unspoken rules around it.”

“I wanted to foster a deeper level of engagement with the folks that were coming in and learning sketch noting. But it just wasn’t possible. It wasn’t an ideal learning experience.”

“I help creative professionals create sustainable, resilient, creative lives where we’re doing work that we intend to be doing and to make sure that what happens in our week includes the most important projects in our lives, so that we can put our creative work front and center and do …

“Our industry is not very accessible, even for the people who work in it. On one side, you have the older generation who wants to socialize one way. On the other side, you have the younger people who want to socialize in a different way.”

"We were trying to find something that was more about us and less about the platform we were using."