Finding Meaning in the Repetition

Ever found yourself in a creative rut, questioning the very essence of your journey? Join me as I share my personal story of settling into a new creative space in North Carolina, where the mundane task of hanging curtains turned into a surprising mindset shift, all thanks to a little help from my wife. Experience the excitement as we bring Uploaded Unfiltered closer to its core mission: exploring the mindset of creators. Plus, get updates on the progress of my streaming room, and hear all about my new business venture, Radiant Reflection. And here's some thrilling news—I've just become a Govee affiliate! Prepare for upcoming YouTube content that will showcase these smart home products and offer insights for fellow streamers.

Chapters

• 0:06 Mental Blocks in Content Creation
• 12:35 Podcast Guest Outreach and Engagement

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:06

Welcome. Welcome back to another episode of Uploaded Unfiltered, the podcast in which I, your host Jermaine, interviews another content creator in regards to their journey thus far. If you follow the podcast since the beginning, you know I've been in somewhat of a travel mode. The family and I finally arrived in north carolina. My room, my area, is finally getting set up. I might set up for where I'm going to start doing my podcast, although I just remembered that I don't have a camera here, so I need to fix that. Also, the stream room is coming along quite nicely. I actually mounted my pcs on the bottom of my desk, but regardless, thank you for tuning in.

Speaker 1: 0:45

If this is the first time you've been to the show, hi, I like to talk about all things creative in regards to the mindset of creatives. There are tons of videos out there, tons of podcasts out there, talking about how to gain more viewers on Twitch or how to set up OBS or how to dual PC stream. Yes, those are all part of this thing we call content creation. But I have been hell-bent and more excited about the mental side of content creation. Why do we create content? Can we do anything beneficial from content creation? Also the act of just creating content itself, from being afraid to do something because you're scared of what other people are thinking, or those realizations you have when you can ultimately do whatever the fuck you want. Those are the things that keep me excited and those are the stories that I want to bring to you. I just wanted to reiterate that a little bit because it's been a while. I didn't want y'all to think that I was losing sight of the mission at hand. We're just going through some growing pains right now, and it's not painful, it's all good. So stick with me. I promise you exciting things are headed to this podcast in the future. Now I'm going to be honest with you. I'm not going to have this one be a super long podcast, because there is so many things that I want to knock out as far as getting the podcast into season two, getting my stream back up and running into a new vertical that I've created for myself, as well as getting my radiant reflection business up and running so I can start helping creators get past any weird or non-useful mindset mental blocks that might be stopping you from creating content.

Speaker 1: 2:35

So what did I do this last week? Well, as you guess, I'm still unpacking boxes, and you know what I want to shout out to my wife? She is a unboxing machine I don't like. If it wasn't for her, this house was probably still like somebody lived in it. But if you walk through this house, there are certain areas of the house that look like we've been here for years. I mean, it looks extremely clean, but it looks like we didn't just move in a couple weeks ago. But I've been hanging up curtains, I've been putting together furniture, I've been moving my desk around four or five times because I can't quite figure out where I want it.

Speaker 1: 3:14

But in all of this madness, I did become a little enlightened into a process that I want to share with you and that I'm definitely going to be taking into my YouTube video creating in the future. But before I get to that, I remember when I said this, I said it out loud, I said it to my family, I wrote it down that I was going to be a Govee affiliate before the end of the year. And guess what happened? That's right, I'm going to Govee affiliate, which is amazing because, moving into this house, I now realize how many Govee products that I have and how many more that I wanna get. So in the future maybe within a week or two 100% be checking out my YouTube channel. It's kryptonite K-R-Y-P-T-I-N-I-T-E on YouTube. That's where I'll be posting a lot of Govee videos. The first one's gonna be like a house tour, but also show off some of the products that I have placed throughout the house, because when it comes to electronic smart bulbs, for me it was either Hue or Govee, and unfortunately, hue was expensive as hell and Govee went out. Now that I'm in the Govee ecosystem, there are so many dope things that I can't wait to talk about. Things that are going to help out streamers as far as their presentation goes all that good stuff. So stay tuned for that.

Speaker 1: 4:31

Now to the lesson that I learned that was wrapped up in a task that I used to hate. Now, I've said this a bunch of times what we think, what we set our intention on, what we spend most of our time thinking about, is what's going to become our reality. What we think about past events, or we think about events in general, our first initial thoughts, will shape the way we interact with that thing. For example, for the longest time, I hated putting up curtains and I hated putting up ceiling fans in a house. I don't know what it was. Well, I, you know what. I broke this down with my daughter, my youngest daughter. We drove to get, uh, groceries, because we're gonna be cooking thanksgiving dinner on thursday, like a bunch of people out there. But I broke this down with her and not only for my own benefits so I can kind of piece together what I was feeling, but also for her so she can see hey, oh, this is what dad thinks about sometimes. So the event that rubbed me the wrong way. Let's just go with putting up curtains.

Speaker 1: 5:39

The reason why I didn't enjoy putting up curtains is because in the past I didn't have a ladder tall enough to make the process of putting up a curtain less painful. I guess is the best way to put it. It always hurt. I'd have to have my arms above my shoulders and you know what, after like 10 minutes that shit starts to burn. So I didn't like it and so I just made this mental note that putting up curtains equals pain. It wasn't a conscious effort, it wasn't something I did consciously, but it was definitely something that they had wrapped up into that database section in my brain that putting up curtains equals pain, and so my brain naturally wanted me to avoid it. So anytime anyone brought up putting up curtains, I would feel this physical no, don't do that, try to avoid it. And my initial thoughts would always say no or push it off or something like that. Thoughts would always to say no or push it off or something like that.

Speaker 1: 6:41

But being in the spirit of wanting to help out more around the house to make sure that we keep this mansion, that we basically have clean and running at its optimal settings, I knew I had to analyze all of the reasons why I say no to something and this was one of them. So, going into this, this, I asked my wife as many questions as I could. I wasn't trying to be annoying, but she's done this and she had a little process going where it's more beneficial for me to put up the curtains. As a I'm taller and b I feel like when it comes to precision and just being patient and making sure you don't make a hole too big, like I shine at that, because I wanted to be done once and done right and so I don't have to worry about it anymore.

Speaker 1: 7:24

So during this process, my wife showed me how she makes a little, basically a template, a guide to show you where you need to put your hose at. You drill the holes you put in the plastic. I don't even know what it's called. I put so many in so many walls this week and I don't know what it's called. I put so many in so many walls this weekend. I don't know what it's called. It's the plastic piece you put in before you put the screw in a pilot screw. I don't know. You might know what I'm talking about. Anyways, she showed me what the process was. I bought a dope ass leveler from tiktok shop. If you are on tiktok, go check out my showcase at kryptonite. I got a lot of dope stuff in there, useful stuff and food.

Speaker 1: 8:00

Anyways, after I had all this stuff, I went into the process and the first one we did. I learned a lot Like here's the crazy thing. Had this would have happened. If this would have happened years ago, I would be upset. But because I'm in this new mindset, all the things that came up that made me I think I did the first set of curtains. I think I had to do it over two or three times and each time I learned something new and I was looking at it as a lesson. I was like all right. So if I do this, this is what the result is. Oh, and before I even do anything, I need to make sure that this pole is long enough for these damn curtains. Okay, cool. So by the third and fourth I think I did four, I can't even remember with so many. And there's still more to put up. I'm not complaining, I'm just making mental Rolodex. Anyways, after the final one I put up, I was a damn expert. I knew exactly how to check if it's long enough. I knew exactly how to line up the drill perfectly so I get two perfect holes. I knew how to push in the plastic piece so it didn't hurt my thumb. I got a hammer for that. And then I learned how far I can drill in the drill bit or the screw before I had to put on the metal holder for the curtains, then put the rest on to get another tool twisting it. I say all that to say this Once I found a process for getting this task done, and once I showed some excitement and interest in the process, I no longer dreaded doing the process.

Speaker 1: 9:33

In fact, I was looking for another set of curtains to do, but the youngest and I had to go run out to the grocery store to get some groceries. So that lesson alone is what I will be taking into my YouTube, my TikTok, any piece of content that I make. I will be taking this specific lesson. If there's something that you're doing in your process that you don't enjoy, analyze it, figure out why you don't like doing it and, at the very least, figure out if there's something about the process that you can get yourself excited for. If you can do that, then doing some of these more mundane things in content creation become exciting, fun and less stressful and you'll be wanting to do it. You won't dread doing, you won't feel that sense of oh my God, I got to go do this thing, but ooh, I get to go do this and maybe I'll learn something. Or maybe I get to execute the idea that I was having for the longest time. Maybe I'll finally figure out how to get that into the real world.

Speaker 1: 10:32

It's all about enjoying the journey and knowing that nothing has meaning until we give it meaning. Like, for example, let's say, I put out a video today and I only get 20 views. What does that mean? It depends on who you are. For some people, that means that your content is trash and you should go get a job at McDonald's. For other people it's oh, maybe I uploaded at a wrong time and I need to pay attention to when I upload. Or I need to pay attention to the keywords I use, or I need to pay attention to the title I use, or I need to pay attention to how long the video was.

Speaker 1: 11:12

There's so many factors that don't involve a criticism or a description of you, especially in the negative. It has nothing to do with you as a person per se. It has more to do with other things. And again, what does that mean? You get to decide what the meaning of that 20 view video is. That's on you. So I highly encourage you to do something that not only serves you, but will also allow you to push forward in your content creation journey.

Speaker 1: 11:47

When a setback pops up, look at it, analyze it and see what can you do to move forward and gain some levels from this little snafu or, at the very least, how can you avoid doing this in the future. If you look at every situation, not only in content creation but in your life, like that, I promise you you will be 4,000 times happier, and that's it. That's all I wanted to get off my chest today. Like I said, it's going to be a short one. I hope that made a little bit of sense and if it didn't, don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to be making videos until I feel like the world isn't a place that I want it to be. That's how serious I am with this. So, again, thank you for listening. I appreciate all of you listeners out there.

Speaker 1: 12:35

And again, if you aren't afraid and you want to put a question up to me on a podcast, hit the description and hit the link and I believe you can send a text to the show. I will read it out loud in this voice and get your question answered. But other than that, this week my goal is to start ramping up some more guests. There are so many people that I met at TwitchCon that, unfortunately, it was like right butted up against the move. Everybody has some different schedules, so I didn't get to do exactly what I wanted to do, but I got all those contacts, got a bunch of yeses.

Speaker 1: 13:11

I just need to show my face again and let it be known. Go ahead and share this podcast with someone you know who is a content creator, who can benefit from information like this and more, and if you have a guest that you want to hear from, just go to the podcast. Okay, hit that link in the podcast, send me a question and be like yo, I think this person would be a good guest. Other than that, rate me on spotify apple, anywhere you listen to podcasts. And with that, I appreciate you for listening and, as always, protect your mental, keep creating content and I'll talk to you in the next one. Peace.