Results for: follow your arrow
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Follow Your Arrow: Dog Trainer Mary Tully on Clear, Loving Communication
“I knew I wanted to train animals by the age of 3. I didn’t know that I wanted to start this business until 3 years ago.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Artist and Priestess Rebekah Erev on Making Spirituality Accessible to All
“I think a lot of us [queers] have turned to art as a place to find meaning and access other realms. Art explains the unexplainable and gives us a space to explore the mysteries we are so fascinated by.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Plumber Hattie Hasan and Her Army of Female Tradespeople
“About half our plumbers are lesbian or bisexual, but that is by accident, not design. We think that women living outside the dominant box are probably more likely to also work outside of it.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Hot Tips From Queer Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business in 2016
Will this be the year you finally quit that job and launch your own project? Or the year you plan to up your game in your existing business and outshine all of your competition? Wherever you’re at, let these awesome queer entrepreneurs inspire you to follow your own arrow in 2016.
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Follow Your Arrow: Artist, Activist and Academic Miyuki Baker Wants to Do It All
In this inspiring and hilarious interview, Miyuki introduces us to her life as a continuously-evolving process of creation and discovery, and what it’s like to live solely off your art. (She also shares pictures of the tiny house she built, which are amazing!)
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Follow Your Arrow: Musician and Furniture Maker Sean Desiree on Small Steps Towards Big Dreams
Musician Sean Desiree — who alone makes up all parts of the indie band bell’s roar — explains how they juggle being a musician by day with running a furniture-making business by night, how they learned to deal with rejection, and what’s it’s like being a queer person of colour in an industry and genre dominated by straight white men.
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Follow Your Arrow: Blacksmith Willow Zietman on Returning to her Craft
“The one thing that is ‘typical’ about a day at the forge is that there is a lot of mess and noise, and that I sweat buckets and come home very dirty.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Spiritual Coach Tieara Myers on Answering the Call
“What your clients come to you for will be a huge signal for what your focus could be. They are attracted to a certain quality within you. If you pay attention, your clients will call it out from within you. My clients were speaking to me all along. It took a while, but I listened in and came to my true focus. It takes time. Let yourself grow. It is a sacred journey.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Web Developer Cee on This Freelance Life
Autostraddle’s webmaster Cee Webster has been a freelance web developer for 15 years. Here, she shares her thoughts on freelance working, ‘winging it’, the challenges of juggling many projects, and the perks of working when you choose.
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Follow Your Arrow: Building a Gender-Neutral Footwear Brand from the Ground Up
“The best thing about my work is when I have people from all over the world write me about how excited they are to find my shoes or learn about my company and how it inspires them. Having so many others who shared my pain and experience of not finding shoes that represent my style really motivates me to keep pushing to turn this dream into a reality.”
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Follow Your Arrow: What If You Don’t Have One True Calling?
In Follow Your Arrow, we’re talking a lot about building a business out of doing what you love. But what if you don’t have just one thing? What if you have so many interests you wouldn’t know where to start creating a business? Meet Emilie Wapnick, who has built an entire community around helping people just like you!
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Follow Your Arrow: Where Finding Your Passion Meets Building a Business
Welcome to this new column featuring interviews with queer and trans women running all kinds of businesses! We’ll talk about the challenges, what drives us, tools and tips, workspaces, marketing, and realism. First up: Beth interviews herself about her business, Little Red Tarot.