Brandy Cerne

I’ve hosted events where only two people showed up. You have to keep at it. Big things start small, but when you have all these pressures and limited resources in a growing company, it’s tempting to quickly ditch anything that’s not working. You can’t hopscotch over the hard bits, as much as you might want to

I think about what love looked like for me this year.

This year love is gross. It’s the slug trails of Vega and Joni’s snot on Dan’s black t-shirt, cleaning sick out of car seatbelt buckles and scraping cold fish pie off the floor. One day Dan comes home to find me holding a potty of wee next to a urine colour chart on my phone to assess if it could... See more

I’d love to sit and chat with my grandmother, Evelyn. She passed away in my late teens, so I knew her, but only when she was older and not her truest self—Alzheimer's has robbed her of her memories. I want to meet her as a 14-year-old, or maybe as a young mom—my age, in her early 40s. I want to know her desires and what scares her. What does she... See more

“People aren't longing to be impressed; they're longing to feel like they're home. If you create a space full of love and character and creativity and soul, they'll take off their shoes and curl up with gratitude and rest, no matter how small, no matter how undone, no matter how odd.” ― Shauna Niequist

Have a contrarian point of view. Traits of a top-tier contrarian view:

• People can disagree with it, like the thesis of a persuasive essay. It’s debatable.


• Something you truly believe and can advocate for. Before future investors, customers, and team members do, you have to have personal conviction in it. And you have to believe people will be better

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Determine if they have a chip on their shoulder . Do they have something to prove? Where’s the hole they’re looking to fill? Ideally, you’d get someone with obvious talent/drive that is misunderstood by the world. Those types of people will run through walls to reconcile their internal view of themselves with external perception.

1. What you’re

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Few things give me more of an instant seratonin boost than discovering a new metaphor, and Headlands Center for the Arts recently served up a lovely one. The multidisciplinary arts center just north of the Golden Gate Bridge (where, on another tangential note, I had my 8th grade graduation party) shared that 2023 Artist in Residence Daniela Rivera... See more