Collaboration: Another Key to Creative Success

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.

Transcript

Welcome to Uploaded and Unfiltered

Speaker 1 0:06

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 0:41

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

Content Pipeline and Growth Mindset

Speaker 1 1:50

, so I met the deadline .

Speaker 1 1:51

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 2:30

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 2:56

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

Stop Telling Yourself No

Speaker 1 3:06

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 3:29

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 3:56

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 4:46

Again , I am going to be circling the block and there are a certain amount of people who

Upcoming Episodes and Plans

Speaker 1 4:49

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 5:29

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 ,

Create Without Fear

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out loud .

Speaker 1 6:09

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 7:02

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 .