By Hannah Jewel Clark | How To Be Social We started this fundraiser because artists deserve more than survival. That's not a slogan. That's a decade of watching talented, committed, brilliant people run out of resources before they run out of ideas. It's watching someone pour everything into their craft and then have to choose between making art and making rent. It's knowing that the gap between a starving artist and a thriving one is often not talent — it's access. So we bui

By Hannah Jewel Clark This all started with a blog. Not a dot com — a dot blog. That's Why We Are. I was living with roommates. Someone looked at me one day and said, "You're being too hard on yourself." I took that feeling — that shame spiral, that loneliness, that quiet ache of not knowing how to just be — and I turned it into something. I started writing. I started talking. I started creating spaces where other people could bring those same feelings and not have to carry t

There's a version of leadership that looks impressive from the outside — polished content, a growing audience, a packed calendar. And then there's leadership that actually sustains you. These two things are not always the same. At How To Be Social, we've been sitting with this tension for a while. As a health and wellness community built for creative entrepreneurs, we see it constantly: brilliant, big-hearted people building incredible things — and slowly burning out trying t

Dating culture is evolving — and the data is starting to catch up. According to research, it isn’t just romantic love that lights up our brain’s reward circuits: the hormone Oxytocin (often called the “love hormone”) is released not only during childbirth and romantic attachment, but also in deep friendships and meaningful social touch. Psychology Today+3Harvard Health+3Healthline+3 Studies show that higher oxytocin levels correlate with feelings of trust, connection, and emo

✨ Dear Socialites ✨ This message is for you, the heartbeat of the How To Be Social community. You’ve been part of something truly original—something that belongs to all of us. When I (a.k.a. @HannahJewelClark, or more famously known as Jewels, the Creator of @TheJemsUniverse) started this journey eight years ago, it was with one goal in mind: to keep my creative friends connected, creating, and educated—supporting one another while thriving individually. Back then, it was jus

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