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Love Fiercely. Live Freely.
Dress Boldly. Dance Passionately.
Stella Guan is a serial entrepreneur and designer with a love of world travel, good storytelling, bachata dancing, independent fashion, Italian design, sunny weather with low humidity, learning languages, and being radically honest.
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About Stella
Stella Guan is a serial entrepreneur, award-winning multidisciplinary designer, educator, speaker, and content creator.
Stella is the Founder and CEO of This Uncommon Life, an ecosystem for launching and growing a profitable solo business you c
She is also the Founder and CEO of Path Unbound, a design school with university-level curriculum, 1:1 instructor-led learning experience, and intensive portfolio coaching. Additionally, Stella founded Top Immigrants, an O1-visa and EB-1 green card consultancy serving immigrants to the United States.
As a speaker, Stella has been invited to speak at international conferences on topics like bootstrapping startup building, and career development as a designer.
As an educator, she has worked as an adjunct faculty member at Fashion Institute of Technology and New York College of Technology and Lead Visual Design Instructor at General Assembly.
Stella is a multilingual immigrant to the United States, originally from China, since age 18. After spending a decade in New York and a few years in Los Angeles, she has adopted a location-flexible lifestyle where she splits her time between a few cities around the world.
In her free time, Stella is actively training as a bachata dancer and currently dances around the world as she travels.
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This Uncommon Life
Stella is the Founder and CEO of This Uncommon Life, an ecosystem for launching and growing a profitable solo business you can take anywhere.
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Content Creator
Stella is a content creator sharing her tips and tricks, the good and the bad of being a digital nomad entrepreneur. She talks about everything that has to do with leading a life of authenticity, vulnerability and flexibility on her channel.
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Other Ventures
Stella is the Founder and CEO of Path Unbound, an design school with university-level curriculum, 1:1 instructor-led learning experience and intensive portfolio coaching. Stella is also the founder and host of Top Immigrants, an O1-visa and EB-1 green card consultancy serving immigrants to the United States.
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Teaching
Stella is a passionate educator dedicated to sharing her professional and industry knowledge to the next generation of creative professionals. In addition to running her creative education company Path Unbound, she can be found lecturing as an Adjunct Professor at some of the world’s best universities, such as Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, City University of New York and as a Lead Instructor at global education institutions such as General Assembly.
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Speaking Engagements
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1:1 Coaching
Stella offers private, 1-on-1 customized coaching on 1) business & entrepreneurship; 2) US merit-based immigration; and 3) design career.
Testimonials
Stella was a truly exceptional design mentor. She was punctual with our meetings, personable and professional. I found it very easy to relate with and she even provided me with career advice to ensure my success.
Evan Gallo
Design Student
Stella is the best mentor a new designer can have! She’s highly responsive, always gives feedback on time, and her feedback is helpful and actionable.
Helena Wahlstro
Design Student
Excellent service. Fast, functional, great looking site. I’m getting tons of compliments on it already!
Fred Joyal
Co-Founder of 1-800-DENTIST
Super amazing class, I really enjoyed it! I looked forward to all the projects and spent a lot of time on them because I thought they were so fun!
Anonymous
Design Student
Professor Guan did an amazing job of teaching us this semester, especially during these times. She teaches very diligently and is very understanding about her students’ situations and experiences. Whoever has her class next semester will be glad they get to learn under her guidance.
ANONYMOUS
Design Student
Cannot say enough great things about Stella. All feedback I’ve received has been extremely constructive, and the time taken in each class to answer any miscellaneous questions that I or my classmates have is invaluable. Stella is an incredible instructor and I would definitely recommend her to anyone considering pursuing graphic design as a career.
Anonymous
Design Student
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Stay in Touch
Have a work-related inquiry? Interested in booking Stella to speak? She’d love to hear from you and promise to respond as humanly fast as possible.
stella@stellaguan.com
