How do you think about risk? What role has taking risks played in your life/career? Check out responses from hidden gems from our community below.

Jaswant Dev Shrestha | Award-winning Actor & Emmy Winning Documentarian

Taking risks is the most crucial factor for an artist. Taking risks took me from Nepal to Bollywood and ultimately brought me to Hollywood. If I
had not believed in myself and come to Hollywood, my childhood dream of
winning an Emmy would have been just a dream. Read more>>

Kristen Corral | Co-Founder Tacotarian

Risk is pretty subjective. One person’s risk could be someone else’s mundane. But I personally have been taking risks as long as I can remember, some have paid off some haven’t. I grew up as a performer and professional dancer so I soon as I graduated high school I passed on college and moved to LA to be a performer. Read more>>

Simon Sheets | Filmmaker/Artist

Risk taking is essential to becoming a great artist. You have to give a piece everything you have and risk the chance that it might just suck at the end of the day. Without failure though, we won’t learn how to make our art better. It’s through failures that you learn what NOT to do next time. Read more>>

Rene Lopez | Artist

Taking risks is a part of life. In my opinion, you can’t be too reckless but you can’t be too cautious either. If you never take a chance on something you’ll never know what could have been. As for me, I guess I tend to take more chances than not and because of that I’ve learned a lot but also lost a lot. Read more>>

Sofi Gutierrez | Digital Illustrator & Designer

Well, I actually believe that my life has happened because I took a risk, haha. Because I never considered myself to be absolutely ready to do certain things, and bringing Made by Sofi to life was one of them. When I opened @madebysofi_ and started posting my illustrations I was not good at all… Read more>>