By Hannah Jewel Clark | How To Be Social We started this fundraiser because artists deserve more than survival. That's not a slogan. That's a decade of watching talented, committed, brilliant people run out of resources before they run out of ideas. It's watching someone pour everything into their craft and then have to choose between making art and making rent. It's knowing that the gap between a starving artist and a thriving one is often not talent — it's access. So we bui

By Hannah Jewel Clark This all started with a blog. Not a dot com — a dot blog. That's Why We Are. I was living with roommates. Someone looked at me one day and said, "You're being too hard on yourself." I took that feeling — that shame spiral, that loneliness, that quiet ache of not knowing how to just be — and I turned it into something. I started writing. I started talking. I started creating spaces where other people could bring those same feelings and not have to carry t

There's a version of leadership that looks impressive from the outside — polished content, a growing audience, a packed calendar. And then there's leadership that actually sustains you. These two things are not always the same. At How To Be Social, we've been sitting with this tension for a while. As a health and wellness community built for creative entrepreneurs, we see it constantly: brilliant, big-hearted people building incredible things — and slowly burning out trying t