Meet Kara Danas, Founder, Owner, and CEO of Spark Your Sunshine™ and Brandon, Co-Lead Artist & SYS Developer. Spark Your Sunshine™ (SYS) is an original arts-based workshop series experience, including an originally designed and hand-crafted merchandise and apparel line. In addition to creating and owning SYS, Kara Danas is a community artist, teacher, coach, and facilitator from Lowell, MA. We caught up with Kara Danas to capture what you need to know about Spark Your Sunshine™:

1) How did Spark Your Sunshine™ first start in Lowell?

Kara is a born and raised Lowellian herself, and her art via Spark Your Sunshine™ reflects the spark of LIFE that shes sees in all of the beautiful folx who live in Lowell. Spark Your Sunshine™ is deeply rooted in Lowell culture and it will continue on to be as it expands to reach those in the Greater Lowell, Greater MA areas and beyond!

2) Through the career of this business, what are you the most proud of?

We are most proud of building the Spark Your Sunshine™ movement and network of amazing folx who champion Self-Love and Self-Empowerment as much as we do!

3) What resources or tips do you have for similar business owners?

Tips: 1. Be unapologetically YOUrself, always. 2. Do what YOU Love. 3. Follow YOUr Intuition. 4. Love YOU and put YOU first… the rest will fall into place.