“If you stand for nothing, you fall for everything”

We asked the community to tell us about the values and principles that guide their lives and businesses.

Sam Hauser | Artist

The soul is what matters to me most. Mine, yours, the lands. I feel like we’re all hurting. I think that what we are choosing to invest in as a society right now is leading us further and further away from feeling content and living a present, purposeful life. Art has a way of getting right to the core of a matter. I use lies like form and perspective to cut straight to the soul and, hopefully, ignite some truth or beauty found there. I wish every person, every woman, could feel safe in their body, in their environments. I wish every person felt connected to each other and to the universe. Read more>>

Sara Robinson | Meditation Teacher & Hemp Lover

Finding ways to gift the body ease through natural + holistic health measures is incredibly important to us. I worked in the medical field for about 10 years at children’s hospital in a large city. Day after day I witnessed the toll that synthetic medication takes on our system, I witnessed the fatigue and mental health problems that came with running in fight flight mode every day…. Finding natural ways to heal + balance our bodies when the world feels so chaotic…well that’s everything Read more>>

Debra Jason | Alcohol Ink Artist, Copywriter & Speaker

I strongly value connection and relationships. Therefore, one of the most important priorities in my life is my family and friends. Being with them brings me such joy. I believe life is about building and nurturing relationships – without them, the world would be a lonely place. Family and friends have been there for me through good times and bad, celebratory times and sad ones. Read more>>

Maggie Stewart | Artist

The value of curiosity cannot be understated! Experimentation and curiosity keep your art and life growing and expanding! Listening to the clues is the key tool. Personal freedom is the goal. I work in multiple mediums and I continue to teach, both pursuits expose me to new ideas, solutions and influences. I emphasize inspiration and motivation, I play and investigate daily, and by putting my creative energy through that process the results and product are realized! It is definitely not the other way around. Read more>>

Bart Windrum | Innovative End-of-life Thinker/Author

Experiential truth. My area of focus, the end of life in our particular civilization with its myriad peculiar constructs, is a time of great shock, harm, and pain for—when you think about it—millions and millions of people. Most of it is unnecessary. I don’t mean aspects that are intrinsic to dying (because we’re living thinking beings), but rather the aspects that are unnecessarily harmful…I have come to call this “suite” of forces extrinsic—not essential, extraneous. Read more>>