14/04/2026
Everyone keeps asking me how I ended up here, and to be honest, I never know where to start because the answer is not simple and also not what people expect when they hear "oil engineering degree"
I left Venezuela 12 years ago, and I just kept going.
Continued in the Entertainment & events world, building, co-founding an animation studio, creating constantly, moving constantly, always something.
And I loved it, I genuinely love it probably too much, but I also burned out more times than I can count, and the strange thing is I didn't even realise it most of the time because I was still going, creating, still the one who shows up. That was just life…
But that was so wrong, and it took a long time to learn. That was me having zero space to just be.
I've worked in structured high-performance environments, and I've worked in fully creative ones, and both, in their own way, are a bit broken.
Because in both worlds, the people who care the most are the ones with the least space to breathe. And here's what I see now everywhere I look, in teams, in founders, in creative people, in people who are really good at what they do, that same thing.
Capable, smart, still delivering, but something's gone, and nobody's saying it out loud because everyone's too busy, and it doesn't look broken from the outside.
That's the thing nobody talks about, the burnout that functions perfectly.
ArtBond Hood came from that place. Not from "art is nice", not from wanting to run workshops, but from knowing what it feels like to need a real stop and never having one.
So I built that stop, properly, with physical kits, designed experiences, real intention behind every detail.
A space where people can put the performance down for a moment, use their hands, think from somewhere new, and every time I see it happen in a session, that shift, that moment where someone's face just changes… I think yes! This is exactly why. Not easy if I can be honest, but it's what keeps me going.
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PS: I'm Daniela Gali. I build creative reset experiences for teams through . If something in this post felt familiar, I would love to have a e-coffee with you, just DM!
