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.
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- 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
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- 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
The Episode That Didn’t Record… So I Recorded This Anyway
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I recorded an amazing 27-minute episode about clarity… and found out the audio didn’t record because of a random mute setting in my setup.
Instead of letting that throw me off (or breaking my 127/128-week streak), I hit record again and turned it into a real-time lesson: clarity is your mind responding to what’s happening right now, not old pictures from the past or scary movies about the future.
I also share a simple tool you can use the moment anxiety, anger, or doubt shows up out of nowhere:
Inhale deeply… exhale slowly… and think “release.”
Do it 2–3 times and watch your body come back to the present.
Next week, I’m going deeper on what life looks like when you’re truly free of anger, anxiety, and doubt—so tune in.
If you want help clearing what’s keeping you stuck and showing up as your authentic self, I’m offering Clear & Create (90-minute private session).
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So uh I just had an amazing 27-minute episode podcast where I was talking about clarity and how I feel like everyone needs to have clarity in their life. Let me go ahead and define what I mean by clarity. Clarity means your mind responds to what's happening and not old pictures, not future movies. It also means your mind entertains what has value and moves towards action that are possible to do and good to have done. Now, this entire time I was recording the podcast, there was no audio being recorded because my computer decided to mute one of my I can't even I can't even explain. And you know what? Yes, I can. So I use El Gato as my audio interface for everything. I think the Stream Deck and Wavelink are pretty powerful softwares, and I think Windows is the culprit of so many of my issues. The microphone was not muted in the software, and you can see the levels are moving, is which I usually use to make sure that my mic's not muted during a live stream. But it turns out in the sound panel, in the uh control panel, you can mute individual pieces of the wavelength software. Now, why it does this, I have no idea. It just randomly happens, and I thought I figured out, well, I did figure out why my streams were not getting audio, is because this thing was muted. I didn't realize it could mute this specific line that I have my microphone going through. I have a few effects going through the mic just to make my volume, my voice sound a little more richer, and all that shit was muted. Now I can look at the software I'm using to record this, and yeah, now it's moving. Now it's moving up and down. But before this, apparently it wasn't. So guess what? Today is going to be a lesson, and it's nine o'clock. Actually, I'm doing the podcast a little early. I knew I was gonna record another episode, but there was no doubt in my mind that I was gonna record another episode to get this up because I'm on a 127, 128 week freak. Why would I break that? Because I spent 30 minutes and recorded a whole session and none of it got recorded. But it felt good. I was saying, I was spitting fire too, but you're just gonna have to listen to next week. So the goal is this I'm gonna get this one up, and probably Wednesday or Thursday, I'm gonna record another episode and talk more about how I am now that I am free of things like anger, anxiety, and doubt. So this is like a teaser episode. Tune in next week if you want some juicy information on things that would uh benefit you and your loved ones if you knew and had this perspective in your life. I will do this. I will give you a tool that I gave in this episode that will never exist because it didn't record that you can use when you are feeling anxious or you're feeling a certain burst of anger, and there's nothing in happening in front of you. It just came out of nowhere and is brought on because of old thoughts, or maybe you're freaking out about the future. I want you to do this. I want you to inhale deeply and as slow as possible, exhale, and as you're exhaling, think the word release. So inhale deeply, exhale slowly, and think release. I recommend doing this two or three times when that onslaught of emotions show up, and watch your body respond in kind. You should feel more relaxed, you should feel more at ease, and most importantly, you should feel present. Present clarity, these are things that we're gonna talk about next week. I'm sorry that I'm not sorry. It's unfortunate that the audio didn't record, but that's only going to make my points next week even stronger. I will leave you with this, and I've said this before, and I'm gonna say it again. If you ever thought about creating content, don't let negative emotions stop you from doing so. Don't let what you think other people are thinking stop you from being you. Because that right there holds so many people back from achieving so many great things. It's sad. It's sad to see. So fuck all that noise. Do what you need to do to become authentic in your content, showing up for when you know you want to show up without feeling anxious, without feeling that self-doubt, because at the end of the day, that is how you reach your goal. I'm gonna go ahead and offer you a session. If you would like to talk about anything that is keeping you stuck, or you would like to live a life that is anger, anxiety, and doubt free. Promise you is a great place to be. Hit me up, rate and reflection. That's the business name. Clear and create is the 90-day sessions that I do, or the 90-minute sessions that I do help you clear anything that might be keep causing any type of stucknesses in you and keeping you from being authentic. Thank you for listening. I know this was a quick one, it's probably out of left field, but I'm a little distraught. Not like I'm not, I don't have any negative feelings for it. It's just like, dang, that was crazy. But nah, my goal was to get this thing uploaded by 10 so I can stream tonight, and I'm still doing that. Plan is still intact. This week we'll just record a nice lengthy episode, and uh, I can't wait to do it. I'm actually looking forward to it because now that I've said everything out loud, I feel even more excited to go into the new year and chasing down as many people who are telling themselves they're not worthy enough and getting them to realize that they are. Like I'm excited to get this done. So thank you for listening. I appreciate you. If you haven't already, share the podcast with someone who might benefit from content like this and more. Uploaded and unfiltered, I'm in your podcast, catcher of choice. And other than that, as always, protect your mental, keep creating content, and I'll see you in the next one. Peace.