Here’s Marks the Beginning of Me Learning How to Create Content

Let’s start with that fact that I have no idea what I am doing. I started getting into making reels on instagram in 2022/2023 and then stopped. Not like a train screeching to a halt, more like one that went off the rails and over a cliff and into nothing (insert looney tunes train here). Lol.

I was looking back at my old posts from when I was in my late teens and wondering why I got one hundred likes on a selfie that I posted. Oh yeah, because I used to have like 600 followers and then I removed them all because I got super paranoid. I was going to have a baby, and all the hormones inside of me must’ve driven me to believe I was protecting my unborn child. Really, I was removing our potential with each “remove follower” click. My intention was to remove all the people I did not feel comfortable having access to my private life, as if they could do anything over the internet omg. To be fair I did go to a very cultish church in my early teens up until I was 18 and was groomed in high school. So I had reason to be fearful and paranoid.

However, I have since learned that none of that matters. I guess I would not want any of those people following me in general. I don’t know. I could be wrong, they used to be very helpful with the views and likes lol. Maybe I should unblock my groomer too. Nah, I’m just kidding. Anyways, that is a story for another blog post. Sometimes I forget how much lore I have in my life. I am so used to being in the present now. My life has changed so much.

Okay back to the main story. I have been flirting with the idea of being a YouTuber, influencer, content creator, throughout my life, basically since I sat in my very small sun heated living room at the trailer park watching Fred and that talking orange with my friend Hannah on YT. However, I was missing one critical ingredient! And no it wasn’t sugar, spice, and everything nice. It was confidence. I really built confidence out of no where. Or at least that’s what it felt like, until I started examining the past and where it all started. Last year I started a small business page on Instagram. It is crazy, but that’s when I felt like everything change, and I still remember where I was and the moment it changed. I had no idea.

I created an instagram page to resell clothes and other items online so I would not have to deal with facebook marketplace and craigslist. Yes, I have since achieved that objective, but so much more came from that. Another small business owner messaged me, her name was Bridgette the owner of Awaken Cardio Kickboxing, Lompoc’s one and only women’s only gym. Two days into creating the page and she wanted to do a collaboration! She wants to host a clothing swap together. OMG! I was so excited, my heart was legitimately racing because that made me so nervous.

Fast forward from since connecting with Bridgette a whole new world cracked open for me. A world where women center themselves first, and because of it they perform better, care better, nurture better, work better, feel better. I met two of my four current closest friends through Awaken who have shown me what supportive friendship REALLY looks like. A type of friendship I had long given up on and did not realize existed outside of movies.

At the time I was semi-sorta in a five-year relationship with my daughter’s dad that I am no longer in. I have since learned so much about relationships and how to have high standards and be treated accordingly (another blog post on that later). I live independently, work a whole other job that I love so much, and have THE most amazing friend group. I could not gush about my close friends enough. I could go on and on and on. I have learned about manifestation and parenting and so much more. I am an amazing, wonderful, confident person compared to who I used to be! The whole world is opening itself up to me and for me. It’s time. It’s time to start creating and get creative.

Starting this project like every other project I have been relatively successful at executing.… at the LIBRARY. I want to do a special shoutout to the Lompoc Public Library who has always been there for me, seriously, ever since I can remember. They still have the cushioned (used to be carpeted) tub that you can read in and the secret mouse family hidden in the children’s section. This mouse family scene gets changed every so often and I have no idea how. This family is so tiny it is literally hidden in a mouse hole. It is just like looney tunes, just like Tom and Jerry. I am not kidding you. It is so small I have no idea how they change the scene and I do NOT want to know how. It’s a secret and that is part of what keeps the magic alive for me.

So far I have started reading two books: “Influencer: Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media” by Brittany Hennessy and “Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story” by Miri Rodriguez. Wish me luck, subscribe, bookmark this website, and follow along to more learn and see how I do on this journey. Starting with this blog post. I have dabbled here and there, but this blog post marks the beginning of me taking this more seriously, of me attempting this for real and not just making posts/reels aimlessly hoping I get lots of views. I am putting this post out as my first bid and something that I can keep going that brings value, entertainment, and captures your attention. Talk soon! Love ya!