• Starting a business as Indigenous people often means spending time in something that feeds your spirit.

• Revisiting roles and responsibilities regularly are key to keeping the mission - the core flame – alive and burning. Constantly checking in with one another’s capacity and asking: What are we feeling? What’s going on within our staff? What do we need to discuss? Where is our energy best placed?

• You don’t want operations to suck all your creative energy and get you down. Your team needs to carve out and make time to think, create, innovate, discuss – especially as creative people. (Hina shared with us how kapa or tapa making is a huge release for her.)

• Find balance - everybody in your team must be committed to the balance and reminding each other of this.