We asked rising stars from the community to open up to us about their end goal. We asked them where they want to be, professionally, by the end of their careers and have shared some of those responses below.

Elena Fedorchenko Tsukanova | Lifestyle and Fashion Blogger

My ultimate professional goal as a blogger is to become a recognized authority in my niche, building a strong and engaged community around my content. I aim to achieve financial stability through various monetization strategies while continuously expanding my expertise. Collaboration opportunities, personal growth, and leaving a positive impact on my readers are also important milestones I aspire to reach. Read more>>

DAMON JAMIL | EDUCATOR

The end game is to collaboratively build infrastructure & institutions that engage, encourage, educate, and empower the children (navigating the high mortality & high incarceration traps laid out all throughout their impoverished neighborhoods) to take pathways out of poverty that allow them to enfranchise themselves. The key word is “educate” from “educur” meaning to bring out that which is already within a human being. Read more>>

David Brown | Film Director and Editor

My end goal for my career is in to be a well established and well respected filmmaker with a very large quantity of quality movies under my belt. It would be great to be cemented among the current greats right now like Stephen Spielberg, Tyler perry, Martin Scorsese, spike Lee, and John singleton along with many others. I want to look back and think I had a nice memorable career full of good moments and fun with the people I worked with. Read more>>

Monica McCaskill | Interior Designer

I have so many dreams and goals for my career. Like any serious Designer, I’d love to have my work published in several prestigious design magazines , such a Traditional Home and Architectural Digest. Collaborate with a manufacturer to create my own line of design goods… most likely something in textiles. Of course design a room in a Show Home or two ( if you have never been to one, you must). Read more>>

Gilde Flores | Music Composer/Producer/Supervisor/Executive

My end goal would definitely be to have provided opportunities and a platform(s) for others along the journey in which they can learn, evolve, and prosper in their our paths. Most times, when starting out, everything seems fuzzy and so many lanes to follow, which by taking the wrong ones, a lot of time is lost and often lead to more forks in the road. This was something I struggled with, especially not having the right mindset, so if there was a way for me to create a blueprint of my own path which would others could tweak, then that would have been my end goal completed. Read more>>