A sample of the 50 people who helped bring this project to life and thought provoking blog posts. We’ll be uploading new people every week, check back in.
MONEY // That Awkward Chapter
“We just don’t have enough people being good examples of what a responsible relationship with money should look like.”
CLINTON LOFTHOUSE
“The only way to live through art is to be able to sell it. If I could give an artist any advice it would be to learn marketing”
PASSION // FIND THAT FIRE WITHIN
“Passion is like a fuel, it makes you excited to work harder towards it, it kind of makes work not feel like work.”
LUKE “THE DINGO” TREMBATH
“Kids are going to university studying things they’ll never need, getting in debt, and it doesn’t need to be that way. If I can help one kid find their path, then that’s my job done.”
Camo and Krooked
“Don’t let anyone tell you that this or that isn’t possible because if you think it’s going to work, then it will actually work. It’s just a matter of time”
Its not about the money
Why sometimes the most worthwhile projects are the ones you dont get paid for
Jackie Beale
“The blueprint that is expected of you isn’t necessarily the one that is going to work for you.”
Nick Baines
“When you land a big gig you ask yourself, can i really do this? Even though you know you can. You also realise along the way that most people are blagging there way through it all”
CALEY VANULAR
”Almost every person I know who has their dream career has been working on it for a long time. It doesn’t happen overnight. It takes years to make your passion your career”
MIKEY TAYLOR
”I realised from skateboarding that the traditional path just isn’t for everyone. This world looks totally different once you understand that and pay attention to the unconventional way of doing things, you realise, why wasn’t i told this?”
VICTORIA SEKRIER
“Passion is like a fuel, it makes you excited to work harder towards it. It kind of makes work not feel like work.”
ORLANDO VON EINSIEDEL
““I get knocked back all the time. It’s just part of it and you just have to keep picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and put- ting yourself out there, and that’s the constant hustle you need.””
Dray Gardner
“When you love yourself, you set your boundaries. You tell your friends and you start to align yourself with people who are like minded going in the same direction.”
Matt Barr
“Good things are created when you’re not worrying about whether it’s any good and you’re not worrying about who’s going to like it. You’re just doing it to try and say something truthful in the most original way that you can. That is just a bit of a ‘rule of life’ thing for any creative endeavor.”
Chris Den Uijl
“Money and success comes when you’re really doing what you love and what your heart desires, it’s what gets you up every day. It’s what makes work not work.”
Tamika Abaka-Wood
“You have no idea what I'm talking about as I’ll create a job that probably didn't exist 20 years ago.”
REID K. RYAN
“People who possess a positive energy and attitude are by default contagiously optimistic. This quality can have a significant positive impact on entire organizations, teams, etc. People will be drawn to you, believe in you and want to work with you.”
START NOW // There’s no time like the present
A look at how sometimes the best thing we can do is just to get started.
FEATURING STORIES OF
ANDY COOKE: Swiss based creative director
BAILEY RICHARDSON: Employee #8 at Instagram featured on “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix.
BRYAN FOX: Professional Snowboarder for Quiksilver & House renovator
CAMO & KROOKED: Electronic Music Producer & Artists on “Red Bull Symphonic”
CALEY VANULAR: Content Creator for Canadian Tourism, Nike, Herschel
CHRIS DEN UIJL: Event Creator and Promoter for Baja Beach Festival & others
CHRISTIAN SELLERS: Creator of Pushfins
CLINTON LOFTHOUSE: Photographer & Creative
COE LOTTIS: Owner of the Program creative agency
DALAD KAMBHU: Michelin Starred chef, Kin Dee, Berlin
DAMON MORRIS: Sr PLM at The North Face
DRAY GARDNER: Creator of Silent Savasana
ELISA SCHALER: Category Manager at Adidas Terrex
FOSTER HUNTINGTON: Writer and creator of the Van Life & The Cinder Cone
JACKIE BEAL: Photographer
JAMES WHITTLE: Part of the Tempest Two Exploring the world
JEN YIH: Nutritional Therapist and writer
JUNE BHONGJAN: Associate Creative Director for film and TV posters for Netflix and more
KELTIE O’CONNOR: Fulltime Youtuber
KIRSTY GODSO: Nike Master Trainer & Energy dealer
MATT BARR: Podcast Host “Looking Sideways” & Type 2 for Patagonia
MEGHANN O’BRIEN: Northwest Coast Textile Artist
MIKEY TAYLOR: Skateboarder for DC & Go Pro, turned investor. Owner of St. Archer, Commune Capital
MILES CHAMLEY WATSON: Olympic Fencer
MAXI MEISBERGER: Teacher and Surfer
NADYA OKAMOTO: Founder of the worlds largest teen run NGO, Period.Org
NATHAN GALLAGHER: Photographer clients include Lewis Hamilton, Cristiano Ronaldo
NATHAN HILL: Sr Director of Stance Europe
NICK BAINES: Writer for the Guardian & The Times of London, also editor of this book.
NICK BRIDGE: Founder of Girls are awesome
OLAV STUBBERUD: Content creator, Photographer for Justin Bieber, Kygo, Chainsmokers
ORLANDO VON EINSIEDEL: Oscar winning Director of “The White Helmets” “Learning to skate in a warzone”
PETRA KNAPP: Packaging Sustainability Engineer
REID RYAN: Creator of Hard working Gentlemen, part owner of Ashland Hard Seltzer & Boyd and Blair Potato Vodka
RYAN ROTHWELL: Derivatives Trader
SAGE KOTSENBURG: Plant Based Olympic Gold Medalist
SIMON FORSTER Owner of Robot Food & Creator of Stories & Ink
STUART JAMES: Writer for the Athletic
TAMIKA ABAKA-WOOD: Problem Solver at B&A and writer of the Plantain Papers
TESA ARAGONES: CMO at Discord, previously VSCO, Nike, VW.
LUKE TREMBATH (THE DINGO): TV and radio Host, Creator of Find Your Grind
THEO BROMA: Plant Based activist
TOM KLOCKER: Austrian based photographer working with Audi & The North Face
TONY COLMAN AKA LONDON ELECTRICITY: Award winning record label owner & Artist with Hospital Records and award winning podcast host
VICTORIA SEKRIER: Stylist within the fashion world