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Tip #29: Don’t Confuse Caring For Your Clients With Carrying Them
365 Awesome Tips For Working With Heart
When I re-branded RKA ink, I wanted to showcase what I do best, not just my menu web services but the quality of care I provide each and every client, hence web design with heart. The type of online marketing services I offer my clients–website development, eBooks and product design, content writing, social media strategy–all [...]
Awesomepreneurs We Love: Faith Odhiambo
Awesomepreneurs We Love
Connecting with Faith Odhiambo, or Fei-zy as she is known to friends, was one of those happy accidents that make me want to believe in destiny. Two and a half years ago, I met a young Kenyan man named Benjamin Odera in Antigua, Guatemala during Semana Santa. At the time, Benjamin was working on the [...]
Tip #25: Set Plans In Motion, Not In Stone
365 Awesome Tips For Working With Heart
I’m b-a-a-a-a-a-ck. My time in Germany is drawing to a close and I’m preparing to be RKA in L(atin)A(merica) again so I decided to take a few weeks off to re-design my art + activism website (re-launching tomorrow!) and ready my heartwork for the move back to Mexico. I am beyond excited to be going [...]
Awesomepreneurs We Love: Katherine Faydash
Awesomepreneurs We Love
I want to be Katherine Faydash when I grow up. Katherine is somewhat of a legend around DePaul College of Law, my almost alma mater–she was the first Chiapas program participant to jump ship and pursue a life south of the border and now she’s the school’s go-to girl for all things San Cristóbal de [...]
Tip #20: Don’t Forget That People Are People
365 Awesome Tips For Working With Heart
I heart people but it’s hard not to hate them. People kill. People rape. People lie. People mock. People hurt. People are the worst thing to ever happen to people. And the best. Ah, the people paradox. People hate people because they love people. People fight people to defend people. People fear people because they [...]
Awesomepreneurs We Love: Naphtali Leyland Fields
Awesomepreneurs We Love
Naphtali Leyland Fields is a super mujer. I met Naphtali almost two years ago in Antigua, Guatemala when we, along with seven other supermujeres/artists/awesomepreneurs, trained for ArtCorps, the organization that Naphtali continues to serve today! During ArtCorps training, Naphtali and I had a few powerful one-on-ones planning workshops together, digging into questions of faith, and [...]
Tip #13: Share Your Story
365 Awesome Tips For Working With Heart
Enough about me. Let’s talk about you. What’s your story? Fiiiiiiiine. I’ll go first. In January, my dear friend Raquel and I, along with 500+ heartists/awesomepreneurs from across the world, experienced the transformative power of storytelling at the 2do Encuentro Latinoamericano de Teatro del Oprimido (the Second Latin American Reunion of the Theatre of the [...]
Tip #8: Stand Up, Speak Up, Don’t Settle
365 Awesome Tips For Working With Heart
Early Monday morning, thousands of awesomepreneurs from the Chicago Teachers Union took their heartwork to the streets with red shirts and raised fists. Of course, just as we have surrendered to the notion that hard work should hurt, many of us see standing up and speaking up for our rights–instead of swallowing, settling, and submitting [...]
RKA Proudly Presents Chalchihuitán’s First Telenovela
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Here’s a great big piece of heartwork for your Friday morning: Amores Chalchihuitecos, a social soap opera written by Las Jades y El Cielo, the youth theater collective I direct in Chalchihuitán, a community in Chiapas, Mexico. As I share on RKA in LA, my blog on art and activism in Latin America, helping my [...]