NO GOING BACK By Jessica Tomasin, founder of Connect Beyond Festival, co-founder of Asheville Music Professionals, owner of Jet Up Productions, studio manager of Echo Mountain Recording Studio
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s the world begins to open again, it presents a great opportunity to create new routines. 2020 was challenging in many ways, but I think one of the positive things to come from it, for me, was the chance to take a step back and evaluate how I was living my
life. As I was trying to navigate dealing with the unknowns of the pandemic, I started to question all my past decisions that led to me this moment. I was hard on myself, wishing I was in a better position, had saved more money, and made better decisions in the past. After 34