Getting to do what you love? Providing for your loved ones? What does success mean to you? Below you’ll find perspectives from some of the city’s best and brightest.

Joy Orleans | Soul Singer

I define success as doing something that brings you joy! To be successful is to follow your passions and be your own person. For me, success came when I started being able to do the things I enjoy often! It also means being with the people that bring you joy as well! Spending time with people that lift you up and make you happy is success. Read more>>

Mattea Linae | photographer

Because a lot of creative endeavors are so objective, I think it’s important to look inward and ask yourself if you like your work. If you do, you’re doing something right. Social media has really skewed art in the sense that it’s made viewing other people’s work more accessible and positively speaking, it can be really inspiring, but on the flip side, it’s also made comparison easy. People start to assign values to their work based on social media engagement. Art should never be about what performs best online or what it looks like, but rather how it makes us feel. Read more>>

Amanda Hazzah | Owner, Clutch Motorcycle Training Inc. and Co-founder, The Women’s Moto Project, Inc.

I define success as a level of happiness. It’s that old saying: Do what you love for work, and it will never feel like work. I love teaching others a passion for learning and the freedom that riding a motorcycle provides. Read more>>