I'm super proud that in less than one year of starting Mikey's Miracle Foundation, Inc. we were able to secure our 501(c)(3) status in less than three weeks. There are many established non-profits who not achieved this status so it is quite the honor to be a start-up organization making tremendous strides.

Ask for referrals! Some clients just don't know they are supposed to tell their friends and family about how much you have helped them. Also, ask them to write reviews on yelp, google etc. Personalized reviews, like on yelp or google, can be really helpful when you are first starting out.

You need to have passion. If you do not deeply love what you are doing, and have passion for it get out. Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart so you need to have that love and drive to sustain you when there is a bump in the road. 

With my editorial work, I help small businesses show the human element behind the product or service they provide. So much hard work and dedication goes on unnoticed behind the scenes, but those stories are so compelling and they really do deserve to be told.

As a lady boss who works mostly alone, it was really inspiring for me to sit in a room of women who have both very similar experiences and very different ones all at the same time. We shared some fun stuff and some nitty gritty and thinking back, it continually motivates me.

The Bmore Creatives is dedicated to promoting and connecting the creative community throughout the city, both on social media and beyond. Online, we exist mainly on Instagram, where we feature different artists, makers, small business owners, avid-IGers — anyone doing cool/creative stuff in Baltimore.

One of my favorite parts of being an artist and small business is the community that I belong to! I'm part of the Charm City Craft Mafia, a small craft collective, that organizes and produces several amazing events each year for local and regional artists to sell and promote their work.