Meet Lyle Lopez

We were lucky to catch up with Lyle Lopez recently and have shared our conversation below.

Lyle, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

Early on in my career in my early 20s as an artist, I was based in mainland China as a product designer/artist for about 6 years, I had to learn their language, culture, and how to manage living the everyday life in China. In about 2-3 weeks, I was able to speak mandarin and get by independently on my own, and in 5 months I was offered a managerial role managing a handful of people and departments. So fast forward from being a Filipino, stationed in China, and now permanently based in the US, raising a family, and running a small business, using my diverse background, skills and creativity, plus strong faith in my creator is my concoction to being resilient.

Even though I don’t remember a lot of chinese words now, it had helped me a lot in having confidence in starting many things for me, I would tell myself ‘If I can learn mandarin in 2 weeks, then,,’ I can learn this software easily, or this machine, or this or that. As for my Filipino background, it was significant for me as it kept me grateful, knowing that I grew up not well off, it makes me strive to do extra, and always remember family and the people who helped you along the way. While with my Christian upbringing, it always helps me to be positive, hopeful, always looking at the bright side of things even in set backs, respectful of others, and that the ‘golden rule’ also applies in business, to nourish and grow your God given talent, and that faith, favor, and blessing supersedes luck, chance, and possibility.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

My personal site: https://www.lylelopezart.com/ is where people can view my art and portfolio, and my Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/lylelopezart/ where I post most of my previous events.
My art teaching and paint and sip page is:
https://www.palettecreations.com/
My cotton candy art page:
https://artsycottoncandy.com/
https://www.instagram.com/artsycottoncandy/

Whether I’m doing graphic designing, caricature, teaching art, or making kids smile with cotton candy art, I am grateful I get to do what I love and good at. I believe we have a duty to hone the talents we have and make it our purpose to give value to people and our community. I am always excited to meet new clients, collaborate with other vendors and planners, go to different venues, and start new projects. 2024 has been good and I am looking forward to the new year to grow my businesses even more!

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

The three qualities would be: being grateful, faithful, and having grit.
They say running a business is a cut-throat thing, you’ll run in to bad clients, prices continues to go up, competition, etcetera, etcetera. All these can take your joy away and discourage you, but what I experienced is that a positive outlook and always being grateful keeps you grounded, having faith in your creator gives you purpose, and having grit keeps you striving and fighting.
Somebody said that: at the cemetery, a lot of dreams are also buried.
I would rather while there is time and while I can, to fight for my dreams, to be unique, to matter and have fun doing it.

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?

If you have any event coming up, or if you are an event planner, or any vendor around the L.A. area, let’s connect!
Events company, party rentals, food caterers, artists, dads, moms, everybody!
My email is: lylelopezart@gmail.com
Let’s help and inspire each other!

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