Entrepreneurs and business owners drive progress and innovation in their industries by adapting to new challenges and creating fresh opportunities. If you are an entrepreneur, you’re bold enough to take risks and create new businesses. If you are a business owner, you’re inherently a leader. Whether you have
In the United States, and in many places around the world, animals are at the center of the dining table. So, when you stop eating animals as a vegan or vegetarian, your perception of once familiar foods can shift. Our society normalizes the consumption and exploitation of nonhuman animals, and
Being a teacher is a demanding yet incredibly rewarding profession. You're tasked with educating young people and preparing them for the future, which involves substantial responsibility. From lesson planning and classroom management, to grading papers and managing classroom dynamics, you have to juggle numerous tasks daily. But what
Between long shifts, unpredictable customers, and the feeling that your hard work goes unnoticed, retail work can sometimes be draining. And if you're someone who cares about animals, knowing how they're treated in factory farms can make it even tougher. Maybe you're vegan or
Let's say there's a new habit or initiative you've really been wanting to start, but you just can't seem to bring yourself around to it. James Clear, the author of the book Atomic Habits, has some of my favorite advice for how
Life is often busy, and things frequently get in the way of us helping animals. We have to move apartments, find a new job, take care of a sick loved one, take care of ourselves, etc. etc. This is all totally normal, and no matter how much we care about
I'm listening to the audiobook version of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, and it's been a great reminder to focus on "less, but better." This approach can help us in our personal lives as well as our work for animals. Today, my challenge
I was recently talking with someone about the role that hope and motivation play in our desire to get active for animals. If we believe that the situation is hopeless, and that nothing we do really makes a difference, then why should we try to help? I think a lot
One idea for this week: small, scalable actions. 📈 Let's say you're trying to have the greatest impact possible for animals.Some projects might be big, high-impact, very difficult projects—like starting a new alt protein company or getting legislation passed at the national level. These things
In general, I think it's probably much, much more impactful to do 1 very important thing per day than to do 10 slightly important things. 📊 🚀 When it comes to helping animals, there are endless things we could do to try to help. When we have so much that
This week, a thought: it could only take 5–10 minutes per week for you to consistently pull people into the animal advocacy space. ⏰ Let's talk about how. Twice a week, our team here at Connect For Animals searches every corner of the web for events relevant to
I'm pretty sure there is no single, specific strategy that is going to end factory farming—rather, it's going to be a diverse cocktail of approaches that slowly gets us there. (Including some approaches that we disagree with, probably.) We will experience stagnation, setbacks, occasional major