creative ethos
Helping you develop the confidence to get the job, rock it on the job, and claim success far beyond the job.
LEARN THE MISSION
Confide Creative is a coaching and consulting practice dedicated to the collective cultural and economic progress of pre-professionals and working professionals who have ever felt alone, undervalued, or otherized while navigating careers towards, in, or on the outskirts of arts, culture, and entertainment industries. Confide Creative provides a combination of career enrichment experiences through private coaching, strategic consulting, and signature workshops. Focused on tangible technical assistance and liberation mindset development for individuals and teams interested in shaping creative workforce equity through education, access, and opportunity; Confide Creative is Black-female owned, operated, and optimized.
ACE THE Theory of change
Confide Creative empowers its clients to discover, define, and develop their own “Authentic Creative Edge” whether they are pursuing traditionally or non-traditionally creative positions so they can stop focusing on what it takes to survive and start moving toward what it means for them to thrive.
MEET ConFIDE CREATIVE’S chief empowerment officer
All Images of Elena were taken in Leimert Park, Los Angeles - the Black mecca of creativity that nurtured, cultivated, shaped her (African-American, 1st generation Belizean-American, also known as Afro-Latina, and/or Afro-Caribbean) Black Girl Magic.
Confide Creative CEO, Elena Muslar, is a proud native of South Central Los Angeles, who founded Confide Creative based on the idea that every person is inherently creative if they are given the permission to explore and leverage their own unique creative skillset. With a goal to represent, push the limits, and build a sustainable career as a creative professional of color, Elena spent over a decade working in the arts and culture sector producing multidisciplinary programs and events while simultaneously contributing to the professional development of artists, culture bearers, and arts administrators of color.
After hearing countless stories from creatives of all ages as she expanded into working in higher education (by way of coaching, teaching, and presenting to thousands of undergrads and grad students pursuing careers in arts, tv, film, media, and entertainment), youth leadership development, and mid-career/executive coaching, she noticed the most common barrier to entering creative careers often stemmed from conversations many recalled from their formative years too, where so-called guidance counselors, concerned parents, and educators with tunnel vision perpetuated the stigma that creative pursuits were not viable career pathways. For those able to tune out the noise and break into creative careers, they often then expressed a lack of preparation for what achieving success in these fields actually takes while prioritizing any combination of the 10 areas of wellbeing (physical, emotional, mental, occupational, intellectual, financial, social, spiritual, environmental, cultural) they truly needed to succeed. Understanding this experience first-hand is what ultimately inspired Elena, a certified Social Emotional Arts Facilitator, to found an intentionally conscious incubator for professional discovery and the empowerment of creatives at varying stages in their careers.
At the intersection of creative encouragement, radical wellbeing, cultural legacy, and holistic literacy, the genesis for Confide Creative was born in order to create a non-judgemental educational incubator for creative professionals interested in impacting the world with their talents so they can build confidence, gain exposure, and be held accountable to the pursuit of their ever-evolving creative dreams mapped out into attainable realities.
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