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Personal, Business Briana Summers Personal, Business Briana Summers

2020 year in review

While 2020 has gotten a bad rap, it’s been a weird blessing in a lot of ways as well. I feel like I learned more about myself than any year prior and when all h*ll broke loose, it made me realize what truly matters in life. So here’s the recap of my year, sayonara 2020.

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Business Briana Summers Business Briana Summers

brighten made is two!

Two years (and a day) ago, I decided to launch Brighten Made. Unsure of what would come of it and a little nervous of what others would think, I did it anyways. And I’m so glad I did. Here are 3 lessons I’ve learned in the past two years!

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Business Briana Summers Business Briana Summers

3 changes I made to my ever-evolving design process

When I look back at where I was a year ago in my business - my process in particular was so very different. Process in general is such a broad term that I could probably write about FOR DAYS, but in this post I want to share a few major shifts that I made over the past year and how it’s impacted my clients and my work.

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