It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day, but it’s important to stop and ask: what’s the end goal? Knowing where you are trying to go is step one in getting there and so we’ve asked some folks we admire to tell us their end goal and where they want to be by the end of their careers.

Mauricio Arrioja | Producer & Line Producer

My ultimate ambition is to become a Creative Producer, establishing my own distinctive brand. Simultaneously, I aspire to build a comprehensive company that provides a wide range of services encompassing development, production, and post-production. Read more>>

Charlotte Xia | Preschool teacher, actress, model, musician and artist

My end goal is to open a preschool; I’ve been an artist, an actress, a model and a country singer; But ever since I had my child and became a mother, I have quickly discovered how much I love my child; Especially when he was diagnosed with congenital heart disease, I decided I had to take care of him on my own. Read more>>

Jordan Young | Ceramic Artist and Instructor

When I began creating art the goal was never to become a world famous artist but to use the medium as a channel to focus my creativity. While having work displayed and sold in galleries is beneficial financially and for exposure to the art world, the end goal is much different. Recently I’ve had the opportunity to teach in the field of ceramics and it has reignited my passion for the material. Read more>>

Carmen maria Martin | Artist karma Marlo

We could say that I am at the beginning of my professional career as an artist. I think that the objectives are changing, I doubt that my objective will be the same after several years of profession, right now my objective is to be able to live from art, traveling, painting large walls, but as things happen, the objectives are transmuting. Professionally I would like to be known, to be able to create an impact with my murals towards the users, to be able to transform spaces to give messages. Read more>>

Cameron A Mitchell | Director, Writer, and Producer at Tequila Mockingbird Productions

There’s a lot of big things I want to do. I want to make the movies I want to make and tell the stories I want to tell, but on a bigger scale I want to help in the industry shift towards decency and inclusion. Too many people pay lip service to those things but don’t really follow through on them. Read more>>