Hey, I'm Darnell. 🙋🏾‍♂️

I’m a community-building creative specializing in digital branding, marketing, and storytelling.

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I give time-pressed creative entrepreneurs the tools and clarity to do what moves them.

300+

Worldwide clients served across various industries and verticals

56

5-star ratings and reviews on everything from logos to consulting

17

Years in entrepreneurship as a creative fractional and freelancer

3

Certifications in entrepreneurship and workshop facilitation

A lil' more about me...

I’m a seasoned multidisciplinary creative + community builder specializing in digital branding, marketing, and storytelling.

During a two-week sprint in the summer of 2023, I launched Forge, a virtual mastermind ecosystem that enables creative entrepreneurs to grow their impact and income as coequals without sacrificing wellness.

Furthermore, I grew agitated that we creatives don't have as much leverage as we should in business relationships, even though nothing gets made or done without us.

Exclusively inside Forge, I share proven, empathetic insights and strategies from serving 300+ clients of all shapes and sizes since 2008, to help professionals fuse their creative identities into their entrepreneurial ones.

5 spicy things you might not know about me...

  1. I stuttered a ton as a kid, but it's now (mostly) under control.

  2. I love brownies so much; they make me get really stingy. 😜

  3. The boy's got insane beatboxing skills.

  4. I sold my first drawing to a classmate in grade school.

  5. I’m the clumsiest cat you’ll ever know, ha!

Anyway, helping creatives thrive within the jungle that is entrepreneurship is what excites me. I'd love to show you the way as well.

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Let's connect + cross-pollinate

We bring impact-driven creative business owners together to sprout as coequal masterminds within our thoughtfully curated, distraction-free growth lab. For those of us out here trying things, not settling, and defining what fulfillment means to us every day, it's a place unlike anywhere else on Earth. We lead with genuine curiosity, and we value actions over ideas.

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