26 Creative Entrepreneurs to Watch – January 2016 Edition

What does it mean to inspire others? Every month I curate a group of people making waves using both the right and left sides of their brains. Check out these incredible creative entrepreneurs to watch in 2016.

everything that is done is done by hope

There are a few indisputable facts:

1. Your dreams have to be bigger than your fears.

2. Nothing will ever go as planned.

3. Too often you won’t live up to your idealized version of yourself.

Thankfully, there is always hope.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Press: CreativeLive Blog Feature

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One of Many is a project by Wesley Verhoeve, in which he captures creative communities across the United States in portrait and writing. For more about the creative community of New Orleans, LA and 11 others, visit oneofmany.co and follow along on Instagram at @wesleyverhoeve.

Justin Shiels is a creative director, graphic designer and marketing strategist whose greatest joy is making things happen. He helps build brands through his boutique design and marketing studio This Creative Lab. We met when I was in New Orleans to capture the local creative community and I recently followed up with a few questions about his artistic process.