We were fortunate to catch up with some brilliant artists, creatives and entrepreneurs from throughout the Houston area and they share the wisdom with us below.

Nathanael Rabbitt

Marrying my wife & best friend Anna was easily the best decision I ever made. Her drive & pace for life was a huge activator for me in my own life. When we met in 2021, I was happily living in a camper, having just started my personal training business. Fast forward to 2025, we moved into a 3 bedroom house, got married, & now as of June, we just opened our 2nd location in Temecula for Conscious Body Recovery. & we accomplished all of that TOGETHER. Read More>>

Joseph Barber

My path to starting a photography business was anything but linear. I spent years in the restaurant industry bartending and serving, honestly, I loved it and thought it might be my career. I also had a degree in finance, which felt like the “responsible” path, so I dipped my toes into the financial world. But sitting in a cubicle under fluorescent lights all day? It drained the life out of me. Read More>>

Leo Bottary

We live in a world that has become increasingly divisive. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, which has studied public trust in institutions for 25 years, from 2003 to 2006, we were wondering who to believe. By 2018, in what the firm described as the “battle for truth,” we couldn’t even agree on what to believe anymore. With business being the most trusted of the four institutions covered by Edelman (the others being government, media, and NGOs), people are looking to their workplaces and their CEOs to make sense of the world and connect on something meaningful. Read More>> 

Billy Guan

A lot of people think that in Retirement Planning or Investing, when you put money into investments you have to bear the risks with taking the ups and downs with the stock market. There are a lot of financial strategies that you can use if you have the right financial planner that can completely negate the downsides of the stock market when it crashes but lets you participate in the upside of the stock market when it soars. Read More>>

Kranthi

I didn’t choose a creative path so much as I recognized it as home from the very beginning. I grew up in and around cinema — not just the end product on screen, but the physical texture of it. My father was a film financier in the Telugu film industry, and both my parents worked in silver recovery from old-school film reels. I spent my summers in film labs, on sets, and around people who were building stories from the ground up. It wasn’t glamorized — it was mechanical, raw, and incredibly human. And yet, it never felt out of reach. Read More>>

DAVID HONDA

I worked in the field of Law Enforcement for about 8 years and I cooked a lot as a stress relief from the job. After I had left the field, I had developed my skills cooking to the point where I felt confident enough to try and work in the culinary setting. Read More>>

Shantal Garcia

Over time, Ive come to really understand the importance of maintaining a healthy work life balance not just for my personal well being but also for how I show up for my clients. When I first started out as an Esthetician, I was very focused on building experience and growing my clientele, so I worked long hours and took on as much as I could. While that helped me grow professionally, I realized that taking care of myself outside of work is just as important. Now, I think of balance as creating space for both personal wellness and professional passion. Read More>>