Wearstlerworld,

People think that leading a creative company is about providing inspiration. It’s not.

There are a lot of ways it is assumed that I run my studio, and maybe that comes from how I show up on Instagram – the travel, staying at inspiring hotels, the flea markets, the gallery shows – and those things are very important. But those alone aren’t going to get you anywhere. And, everyone deserves to really put their vision to the test.

I was just on Emma Grede’s podcast, Aspire, which I’ve been a fan of for a long time, and the conversation was all about this. How did I build, and how do I sustain and grow a now-60-person , multi-vertical studio?