Uploaded and Unfiltered: Real Talk on Healing, Creativity, and Mindset for Black Creators
Creative journeys. Real struggles. Honest growth.
Hosted by Jermaine, Uploaded and Unfiltered is where Black creators talk real about what it takes to create in public—and stay sane doing it. You’ll hear from YouTubers, streamers, podcasters, musicians, and other digital creatives on how they built their platforms, overcame burnout, dealt with self-doubt, and found their voice.
This isn’t fluff or “how I got famous” talk. We dig into the messy middle—impostor syndrome, grief, perfectionism, procrastination, and the pressure to perform.
Every episode is packed with truth and tools to help you:
- Build your creative presence online (without faking it)
- Move through mental blocks that keep you stuck
- Learn from the wins and fails of other Black creators
🎧 This podcast is for you if:
- You’re a BIPOC content creator or want to be
- You’ve got ideas but keep overthinking or procrastinating
- You want honest convos, mindset shifts, and real strategies
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Uploaded and Unfiltered: Real Talk on Healing, Creativity, and Mindset for Black Creators
Collaboration: Another Key to Creative Success
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In this episode of Uploaded and Unfiltered, I talk about my journey with content creation — emphasizing the importance of collaboration, pushing past fear, and the power of writing ideas down. I encourage fellow Black content creators to recognize their value and push through self-doubt and procrastination. I share personal experiences and insights with the goal of inspiring others to embrace their creative journeys and connect with like-minded people.
Welcome. Welcome back to another episode of Uploaded and Unfiltered, the podcast in which I, your host, interviews another content creator in regards to their journey thus far. I really need to change that intro up. This podcast is more than just me interviewing other content creators. It is reminding us, as black content creators, that we have so much more to offer to this world that the world might let us think that we have. It's all about what you think and how you push yourself through. This journey will determine how you show up in this.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you heard that, but I'm also recording or editing a YouTube video and I have a DaVinci Resolve speed editor. If you touch the wheel on that, it's going to start scrubbing your audio. So maybe you heard some ghost noise there. That was my bad. But today's going to be a relatively short episode for two reasons. One, I really don't feel like getting into nitty gritty and editing a podcast. Two, I have a few things up in the air that I want to get knocked out, but the first and foremost is, while I still am on my streak of a episode a week, there went a almost an entire week where the last episode was just not live. It was uploaded. It was edited. The only thing that I was missing was a thumbnail, because for some reason, canva decided to shit itself and I could not save anything on any platform phone, browser, ipad, laptop None of them were working, so I guess I kind of just forgot to push the go live button on that. But it was live, it's been there, so you're going to get a twofer this week. It came out Monday, so I met the deadline.
Speaker 1:I'm still on my streak and today's is going to be a quick one because, like I said, I got a lot of shit to do. It is an awesome feeling and it's amazing and I'm saying this so when you get to this point, you will also enjoy it and recognize how amazing it is to have a bunch of content in the pipeline. I have two whole ass YouTube videos. I just need to do some thumbnail treatment for it and then we're good to go there. I have a silly amount of stuff that I need to shoot, that I am looking forward to shoot because it's pretty quick for me to knock it out. Shoot that I am looking forward to shoot because it's pretty quick for me to knock it out, and in that process, I'm having fun reliving memories of things that I've bought in the past.
Speaker 1:I'm saying all this to say this I can feel the uprise in my content creation. I can feel the next level just over the horizon and it's a dope feeling to have. There's no negativity towards it, like I'm looking forward with amazing enthusiasm. Like I don't know exactly what it's going to look like, but I know what's going to feel like and that's what I'm looking forward to the most. So, again, you know what I've been wanting to say this as well.
Speaker 1:If you know me and there's something that you want to work on together that is content related, don't hesitate to reach out to me. I love working with people. I feel like if I have a skill set that you can utilize, it is going to help you on your journey. Then let me know I have no qualms or no bad feelings about helping people. I like enjoy it, and I need to remember that as well that there are people who think just like me, who will enjoy working with me on a collab or getting on this podcast and actually doing an episode.
Speaker 1:Keep that in mind. Stop thinking that everybody doesn't want to help you out or everybody's too busy for you to inquire a question Like let them be the ones that tell you no. Stop telling yourself no. Let everybody else. I promise you there are people in this world who would love to tell you no. So let everybody else tell you no and stop telling yourself no. I swear to God, you're cutting off so many blessings, so many avenues of things that you could be doing, because you're so focused on no's.
Speaker 1:Fuck that I assume everybody's going to tell me yes, and when they do say no, I'm like, oh, alright, alright, then I move on to the next one. There's no time for me to get emotionally entangled with that. No. A no is just a no. Maybe they're busy, maybe they don't know how to fuck with me, maybe they got some shit they gotta do that does not involve me, or maybe the way that I get their bag. There's a lot of things to think about. That's all I'm saying. None of them include me being a shitty person. They just don't want to work with me. That's how I look at the world now, anyways. But yeah, let's see. What else do we have on the docket? Next week's podcast is going to be a dope one. We got Mrs Jamgood coming on, who is a certified. Well, I'll let her give her own spill, but it's going to be dope to have another content creator on here.
Speaker 1:Again, I am going to be circling the block and there are a certain amount of people who I would love to have on the podcast again. And old me, old thinking me was like, I don't want to ask people to be on. Like I asked boss because that's my dude. Like I know without a shadow of a doubt, if I ask boss to do something, he's gonna do it, and I need to keep that in mind. For most of the people that I rock with like, and if they don't want to do it, they just got. All they gotta do is say no, that's it. And I, I'm not. I'm not mad at hearing no, like no's are not end, all be all to me. So I will be spending the block and inviting some people back. It's going to be dope. It's going to be dope, but again, I didn't want to prolong this, so I'm actually going to cut this before we get to six minutes.
Speaker 1:So if you haven't already shared this podcast with friends, loved ones, anybody who you think get some beneficial information out of conversations like these and more, I am still tooling with what I want the format of this podcast to be. So stay tuned for that. And if you have been here since the beginning, or you've been here because you followed one of your favorite content creators, thank you. I appreciate you listening to me week in and week out, and I know that is making a difference. I need to keep in mind that the more I repeat the things that are in my head, the further and more palatable and like unescapable they become. I just got to keep saying it out loud, out loud.
Speaker 1:So guess what? You are able to create content, negativity free. You can make content without being a procrastinator. You can make content without imposter syndrome. I honestly feel the only reason why we stop ourselves from making content is fear. Once you recognize that, align yourself with it and if you're like me and you're like I'm not afraid of anything, I don't give a fuck what anybody says. I think that's going to make you more authentic in your content creation and help you push further faster, because there's literally no, there's no stopping you. That little voice in the back of your head is having you procrastinate or saying you don't know everything that you're talking about. It's all bullshit, it's all lies. We tell ourselves to slow ourselves down. Why the fuck would we do that? So take off the training guards, take off the brakes.
Speaker 1:Figure out what idea you want, push forward with that, and if you don't execute on it immediately, please, for the love of God, write that shit down, because ideas come and go. I've been telling my kids like when they tell me some dope idea, they have them. Like write it down. I don't care if you never do anything with it. Write it down. Writing it down is powerful because there's a laundry list of things that I've written down in the past and I stumble across them like, oh shit, I actually did this. Oh shit, I did this, but like 10 times better than what I wrote it down as. So again, write those ideas down. Execute on those ideas. Don't go for perfect, don't go for polish. Do whatever comes naturally to you and then move forward. After that. Okay, all right, talk to you in the next one. As always, protect your mental, keep creating content and I'll see y'all next week. Peace.