by Justina | Apr 19, 2018 | Crowdfunding, Money Journal
I love my artist and creator-entrepreneur-activist friends and acquaintances that are going hard to make their projects come to life. Y’all inspire me. If not for y’all I’d still think dancing and filmmaking were hobbies and I’d be creating...
by Justina | Apr 19, 2018 | Crowdfunding, Money Journal
Disclaimer. I’m bout to tell you and my future self to do a whole bunch of things I didn’t do. This is literally a note to my future self that my life will be easier if I do this stuff before crowdfunding. There is a chance that I will not do any of this...
by Justina | Apr 19, 2018 | Crowdfunding, Money Journal
I admit it. I was definitely afraid to crowdfund. I only thought: what if I do all of this work and then it doesn’t get funded? What if everyone watches me fail? What if all my friends don’t support me at the thing that matters most to me? Well, those were...
by Justina | Apr 19, 2018 | Crowdfunding, Money Journal
I will probably repeat this 17,000 times during this crowdfunding series, but I just want to illustrate for you an important point. No, literally, let me show you an illustration of where our crowdfunding backers came from. If you don’t know me, we had a...
by Justina | Apr 19, 2018 | Crowdfunding, Money Journal
In 2016, I applied to a few grants and residencies to fund Black Man in America. Naturally, I got none of them. You know that whole annoying thing of having to have a record of great work so you can get the opportunity to create great work 🙄? I realized that if I...
by Justina | Apr 19, 2018 | Crowdfunding, Money Journal
People are waiting for you to take a risk and create your visions. But pesky things called thoughts might be blocking you. Here are some of the thoughts that were obstacles I had to overcome in order to successfully reach our goal. “I don’t know how to do this.” What...
