Bonfire

OEDouS. JORE. OPE BUSE. OPET bebdous Poud. 👆 commemorating our top 5 biggest oopsies of 2024, featuring: 🎃 costume malfunctions 🔆 accidentally vulgar design 🏦 banking in The Twilight Zone 🏆 shortcuts to being famous 🤖 AI abominations please enjoy laughing at our silliness and stupidity, and we'll see you in the new year! 👇 link in the comments!👇

be honest: is that your intuition talking, or are you just ✨freaked out✨? it might feel like your "instincts" are telling you no, but there is actually a difference between fear and intuition—and understanding it can help you gage what to do next. link for more on this in the comments!

physical gifts are OUT. but gifts we wrote about here are IN. check out our nontraditional gift guide for your creatively-minded friends, colleagues, and the business-builders in your life! link in the comments 👇

if you're a minority-owned org (or know one!) and/or one working in women's health, reproductive health, human rights, or DEIB in the U.S...we wanna help you with your brand. for free. in response to a social/political climate that's gotten scarier and more unstable for a lotta people recently, we're making a small contribution by offering free half-day brand workshops to organizations doing this important work and/or leaders giving representation to minority entrepreneurship. you can get all the details (and get the link to apply) in this newsletter post: http://bit.ly/4gbQaW7 and if that's not you but you'd like to amplify this initiative, please share or engage!

toxic relationships are hard. toxic relationships we depend on to *survive*—like the ones we might have with our jobs!—are an impossible knot. in this week's newsletter, Shannon Deep talks about how being a healthier person mentally and emotionally made her a worse worker...for the better. link in comments! 👇

your own thoughts sometimes feel so inseparable from "you" that noticing them would be like noticing the oxygen all around you as you breathe. but what do you do when those thoughts are mean or toxic or just plain unproductive? how do you stop something you might be unaware of? Kevan Lee got some great tips for just that in this week's newsletter at the link in the comments.

sometimes you gotta get up to speed—fast—without having a "menty B," as the kids say. and besides, the more knowledge you have, the more creative fodder is in your...fodder holder. fodder bag. fodder hopper? anyway... at the link in the comments, get 3 tips for learning quickly—and no, none of them are "learn to speed read."

don't call it a c̶o̶m̶e̶b̶a̶c̶k̶ burn book everyone gets jealous, including Kevan Lee as evidenced by his top 25 list of people he envies (see link in comments) but what does one do with all that envy and jealousy? fortunately there are some ways to channel it into good, once you can see through the haze of wanting what others have. it's often a thick haze! check out the full post for how Kevan plays the comparison game—or opts out of the game completely or re-brands the game to be something a bit more affirming, motivational, and inspirational. #creativepractice #worklife #lifework #creativity #inspiration

content warning: may contain business advice we've tried our hardest to build Bonfire our own way, which has meant eschewing a lot of traditional business advice and leaning into the stuff we know and love best: dreaming, freedom, and flexibility. but don't call it a recipe! as you'll see in this week's newsletter from Shannon Deep (link in comments) we are big believers in you finding your own way in business, just as we have found our own way in ours. this week's post contains all sorts of goodies and tidbits about some of the unique ways we've thought about building Bonfire during year one and beyond. #businessbuilding #creativity #branding #businessadvice #storytelling

formulas are the best / formulas are the worst Kevan Lee had a hard time deciding which was truer, so he wrote about both in this week's Bonfire newsletter (link in comments). sometimes it's really nice to have a playbook and template and formula to follow because you don't have to start from zero and you can go step-by-step with instructions that are, one would assume, successful and sound. but the rebel in us sure does love to take a playbook and run in the other direction. this is what makes for some of the most standout brands and businesses, too! when everyone zigs, we zag. where do you stand when it comes to formula? all-in, all-out, or somewhere in between? #creativity #playbooks #creativeprocess #businessinspiration