Maker Paths

How does making fit your life right now?

Choose the description that feels closest today. Paths are not ranks, and none is a required destination.

Hobby

Making is something you enjoy, explore, practice, or return to without needing it to become work.

Identity

Making is part of how you express yourself, carry a tradition, or understand who you are.

Side-Income

Making may support extra income, commissions, or occasional selling without becoming your whole livelihood.

Business Builder

You are building structure around your making so it can support a business or larger creative direction.

Makers with different directions

See how making fits different lives and goals.

Meet Makers whose work reflects different reasons for making and different ways of moving forward.

Tenneisha’s crochet creations are vibrant, wearable statements of strength. At ZenTenCreation, she transforms fiber into fashion, leading with bold colors, layered textures, and runway-ready care.

Tenneisha Levy, ZenTenCreations

Tenneisha turns crochet into bold wearable expression through color, texture, and fashion-forward handmade work.

Shared with the maker’s permission.

Your path can change

Life, priorities, confidence, and creative interests change. You can choose something different later without losing what you learned.

Selling is optional

You can make privately, share when you choose, earn from your work, stop selling, or never sell at all. Every path belongs.

Why Your Path Matters

The same question can mean something different depending on what you’re working toward. “Should I make more inventory?” can matter differently when you make for enjoyment, occasional income, or a sustained business.

Your Maker Path helps CLIMB understand what progress means for you.

Your Path shows what you’re working toward. Your Journey Stage shows where you are right now.

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