Kevin O'Connell
My 2021 Goal: Mental Health - My Story of ...

Because the last several months have been some of the most difficult for me. I truly would describe it as surviving instead of thriving.

My main goal for 2021 isn’t to train for some brand new Ironman race or achieve some lofty professional or financial goal. While I have set some fitness and financial goals for myself, they are the top of the priority list.

To get it out there in the open my main goal and top priority next to being a husband and father: my mental health.

Right before the holidays I was officially diagnosed with depression with a side of anxiety and mounting, overwhelming life stressors.

Just how bad was it?

My 2021 Goal: Mental Health - My Story of Depression and Anxiety 
Kevin O'Connell, small business, Entrepreneurship, life advice
Kevin O'Connell
Goodbye 2020: My Year of Changes, Transitions, ...

As we take time to reflect on this past year, with all its ups and downs, we want to thank you for continuing to support us and for showing up for your community. Because of you, we were able to fund our first ever scholarship program, and we awarded four Black Creative Students scholarships to students from all over the country. This year, we were also able to publish 26 new blog posts, had 10,400 page views, added and featured 4 new contributing editors, hired and on-boarded a super creative new social media, Greer Blount, and offered our first writing internship to Maggie Barbour who created and published 10 posts in less than 12 weeks.

It's been an eventful year for out team, and to close it all off, TNM founder Kevin O'Connell is sharing his thoughts on 2020, dealing with change and transitions as a new dad and entrepreneur, and finding new approaches for 2021. Keep reading for Kevin’s end-of-the-year message!

Goodbye 2020: My Year of Changes, Transitions, and Identity
Entrepreneurship, Jaylene Perez, Kevin O'Connell, Maggie Barbour, small business, career advice
Maggie Barbour
Best Tools and Resources for New Freelancers

Working freelance may sound glamorous at first, but those who've been doing it for a while know it takes hard work. Getting your business off the ground isn't easy and sometimes it means juggling various projects all at once, but it also has it's benefits - I mean you are your own boss after all!


This week, writing intern Maggie Barbour asks The Niche Movement's Editor-in-Chief Jaylene Perez and founder Kevin O'Connell, both of whom have experience in freelancing, what it really takes to make it work.

Read on for Jaylene and Kevin's best practices when it comes to finding clients, marketing your services, settings rates, and more!

Best Tools and Resources for New Freelancers
career advice, Maggie Barbour, Kevin O'Connell
Maggie Barbour
Top Skills Every Creative Needs

For all those in pursuit of professional development, this week we're taking a look at which skills you'll want to brush up on depending on your specific industry. Whether you're a freelancer, marketer, entrepreneur, or work in another creative role, you'll want to read up on what will make you and your work really shine.

Tap below for the full post!

Top Skills Every Creative Needs
Maggie Barbour, Greer Blount
Maggie Barbour
How to Job Search During a Pandemic

Job searching is a tough task on its own, and job searching during a pandemic... well we know it's not easy. You'll have to be flexible, know how to network and market yourself, and really hone in on what it is your looking for as you search for the right fit.

To find out what can help you land your dream job, keep reading!

How to Job Search During a Pandemic

5 Steps to Discovering your Niche

5 Steps to Discovering your Niche

Truth is, it’s hard work to find your niche.

Why don’t most people know what their niche is? Because they haven’t taken the time to explore their interests. I believe that discovering your passion, niche, or purpose is a direct result of exploring your interests (or what you think you might be interested in) and then following those interests and seeing what crazy places it takes you to.

However, I understand that finding your personal niche is much easier said then done. So, in an attempt to de-mystify how to find your niche, I have created a step by step process on how you can approach the long, arduous journey of discovering your niche.

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Tell Us Your Story: Juhi Bhatt

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Tell Us Your Story: Juhi Bhatt

Juhi Bhatt is like a lot of us. She has a strong work ethic, strives to make a change, and aspires to love the work she does every day. She is a young woman in the professional world trying to find her calling. Now, Juhi would say that she has found a career that is both fulling and utilizing her strengths. However, as for many of us who have found our niche, that was not always the case. 

How to Know if You've Found Your Dream Job

How to Know if You've Found Your Dream Job

The internet is flooded with people throwing around the phrase “Dream Job”, but few rarely take the time to define it. Let me clear it up for you. If you look at it from the flip side, you could define it as a job that you don’t hate. But that isn’t a very good definition because there are probably any number of jobs which you wouldn’t hate but you wouldn’t love either. I actually think that’s worse. Being comfortable is the enemy. In a job that you just “don’t hate” it’s bad enough to make you complain, but not bad enough to do anything about. This exact scenario leads you to look back at the last 40 years of your life and say “Oh, shit. What have I done?”

Work Rhythm

Work Rhythm

Working in a place for an extended period of time creates a unique bond, your co-workers become like family. The relationships with those you interact with on a regular basis develop a rhythm that enables you to be so in tune with a person, you can even tell by the way they said good morning if they are off beat. Whether positive or negative everyone learns everyone else's song.

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Fireside Chat: South Carolina to Social Entrepreneurship - Noelle London 3.9.17

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Fireside Chat: South Carolina to Social Entrepreneurship - Noelle London 3.9.17

On Thursday March 9, 2017, we hosted our first event part of NicheCon: Fireside Chat Tour. In her role, Noelle supports up and coming companies who are trying to solve the world’s biggest issues by connecting entrepreneurs with the right people and resources. But we were lucky enough to host her for a more intimate discussion about how she came to be in this position.