Levellingup
By LevellingUpThe LU creative community we know and love didn’t start out exactly that way.
LU began primarily with Mike deBoer and his partner, Victor Lee, in 2018 as a company to train better leaders through online mentorship and supportive community.
“The vision for LevellingUp has always been centered on the concept that nobody who gets to where they want to go gets there alone. There’s really no such thing as the self-made man or woman.”
“There’s no totem pole. It’s a journey, and the journey is almost cyclical—we start as a beginner and we get better and better and we become a master. And then we realize how much we truly don’t know and we’re all really just beginners at heart anyways! This isn’t a single trajectory upwards; it’s not a judgment, it’s not a competition. It’s just a travelling—together.”
In 2020, the invitation came for the company to pivot to serving creatives and for Mike and Julie deBoer to use their individual talents to work together—embodying one of LU’s beliefs from its core: that we’re better together!
Since small groups of artists started gathering, mentored by a Master Artist of their choosing, the LU creative lifestyle has caught on like wildfire. LU has grown from two groups of artists to over 100 groups—full of over 300 artists from every habitable continent across the world!
“We go much farther together than in isolation. We hear stories like, ‘This is changing my life, I found my people, I have courage now I didn’t have before, I feel so well supported that I’m leaving my career and I’m doing art full time’! It’s changing people’s lives and getting people back into relationship. It’s like medicine!”
Date: February 16, 2022