Ann Rea is a successful artist, mentor, and CEO of her company, Making Art Making Money. She started her journey as an art graduate with a burden of student debt, quitting art-making for a decade to pay it off. She resumed her art in times of severe anxiety and depression but soon realized that selling art is as important as creating it. She moved to San Francisco, fired her representatives, and sold over a hundred thousand dollars of her art during the first year of being a full-time artist. Her success brought attention to her business, and she started helping artists to sell their art without feeling like sell-outs. Her education includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Product Design from Cleveland Institute of Art. She has become an inspiration to 23 different types of established and emerging artists, artisans, designers, and photographers from 20 countries and counting, helping them in a supportive community free of competition, jealousy, and snobbery.