Kate Smalley
@katesmalley
Small Business Advisor & Educator.
Pursuing work that’s meaningful in a way that’s sustainable.
Exploring growth that centers play, possibility, care, and fullness.
Kate Smalley
katesmalley.com
Kaskie: We are not trying to be everything to everybody. We’re trying to be something to someone.
Dan Kois • The Oral History of Pitchfork, From the Careers It Made to the Bands It Killed
Gratitude is so much more than a polite thank you. It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship, simultaneously physical and spiritual, as our bodies are fed and spirits nourished by the sense of belonging, which is the most vital of foods. Gratitude creates a sense of abundance, the knowing that you have what you need. In that climate
... See moreRobin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Investing in “The Consumer Stack” — both the consumer brands & the inputs required to make them (materials, etc)
"Art happens between you and something—a subject, an idea, a technique—and both you and that something need to be free to move."
— David Bayles & Ted Orland, Art and Fear
Daniel Schmachtenberger’s talk at Emergence
youtube.comSynergy, emergence, evolution. “Winning at a dying system is not an interesting win.”
"My being an artist is not a question of being able to make artwork. It is a question of my willingness to make something imperfect, or ugly, and how much resilience I have to face that reality repeatedly."
— Anna Fusco
“Don’t pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves (p196)