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#BlackStorytelling celebrates diverse narratives, amplifies Black voices, shares rich cultural heritage, promotes understanding, fosters creativity, highlights history, empowers communities, encourages authenticity, and inspires connection through engaging, impactful storytelling on TikTok.
🎶This is the part that the thugs skip!🎶 Nah, but fr, this is where the rubber meets the road. If you want to work for yourself long-term, you’ll need a firm understanding of your overhead costs. I often see many creatives decide to be an agency, hire many people, and rent office space — that’s never been my goal. My goal is to continue living and eating indoors through my creative work. So, instead of upping my salary at every possible moment, I figured out my cost of living to enjoy life but be conscious of it and then built my pay around that. Even when times are slow, I still pay myself my salary because I prioritize consistent pay over high pay. There is no right or wrong way to do this; playing it safe is just my chosen method. I’d rather leave money in my business to utilize opportunities presented to me to pivot quickly or take on a creative project that I know won’t bring in income but will fuel me creatively. At the heart of this is a strong “why,” so I guess meditate on that. I’ll see you tomorrow to wrap this all up. #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
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🎶This is the part that the thugs skip!🎶 Nah, but fr, this is where the rubber meets the road. If you want to work for yourself long-term, you’ll need a firm understanding of your overhead costs. I often see many creatives decide to be an agency, hire many people, and rent office space — that’s never been my goal. My goal is to continue living and eating indoors through my creative work. So, instead of upping my salary at every possible moment, I figured out my cost of living to enjoy life but be conscious of it and then built my pay around that. Even when times are slow, I still pay myself my salary because I prioritize consistent pay over high pay. There is no right or wrong way to do this; playing it safe is just my chosen method. I’d rather leave money in my business to utilize opportunities presented to me to pivot quickly or take on a creative project that I know won’t bring in income but will fuel me creatively. At the heart of this is a strong “why,” so I guess meditate on that. I’ll see you tomorrow to wrap this all up. #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
I’ve been a registered user of YouTube since 2009 👀 My oldest (public) video on the channel is from 2011. It’s shot in my off-campus apartment and about my locs. You can see the K’nex set in the background. I WAS A BABY, BRO. This is relevant to the conversation of my income streams for this year (2024) because it gives context to the numbers you’ll begin to see in the next installments and the time it’s taken to get here. I’ve been doing this (gestures wildly at the internet) for a while and through multiple iterations. I went to school to study traditional film. My original goal was to become a feature film editor. Hence, me teaching y’all editing. As I worked as a producer/editor/director for video agencies, I always had my channel to keep my skills fresh and explore my creativity in other ways outside of corporate-adjacent video production. Around 2016-17 (age 26ish) I started *thinking* about leaving my agency job to do my own thing but not to become a content creator, to have my own traditional corporate clients and produce videos for them. Then, I got these grants, which sped up my timeline. After the grants ran out, I still did traditional corporate client work until 2020 (we all know why). I also did a creative residency with Adobe in 2021 for a salary! It was dope! Even now, what I create online is kinda corporate - tutorials,how-tos, edutainment - my likeness is involved now, and that’s the main difference, but the bulk of how I sustain my living is partnering with brands (corporate), leveraging the soft skills I learned early on in my career and marrying that with my creativity and hard skills (filmmaking, producing editing) to deliver value to you, the brand, and my soul — so I have some fun during the whole process. I’m still an artist, after all. So, knowing all that, we’ll get to the money in the next installment. #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
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I’ve been a registered user of YouTube since 2009 👀 My oldest (public) video on the channel is from 2011. It’s shot in my off-campus apartment and about my locs. You can see the K’nex set in the background. I WAS A BABY, BRO. This is relevant to the conversation of my income streams for this year (2024) because it gives context to the numbers you’ll begin to see in the next installments and the time it’s taken to get here. I’ve been doing this (gestures wildly at the internet) for a while and through multiple iterations. I went to school to study traditional film. My original goal was to become a feature film editor. Hence, me teaching y’all editing. As I worked as a producer/editor/director for video agencies, I always had my channel to keep my skills fresh and explore my creativity in other ways outside of corporate-adjacent video production. Around 2016-17 (age 26ish) I started *thinking* about leaving my agency job to do my own thing but not to become a content creator, to have my own traditional corporate clients and produce videos for them. Then, I got these grants, which sped up my timeline. After the grants ran out, I still did traditional corporate client work until 2020 (we all know why). I also did a creative residency with Adobe in 2021 for a salary! It was dope! Even now, what I create online is kinda corporate - tutorials,how-tos, edutainment - my likeness is involved now, and that’s the main difference, but the bulk of how I sustain my living is partnering with brands (corporate), leveraging the soft skills I learned early on in my career and marrying that with my creativity and hard skills (filmmaking, producing editing) to deliver value to you, the brand, and my soul — so I have some fun during the whole process. I’m still an artist, after all. So, knowing all that, we’ll get to the money in the next installment. #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
We’ve concluded! Finance gurus, keep scrolling. You are beyond this content, and I love that for you. Everyone else TLDR - save your money. Look into a HYSA (High Yield Savings Account). Anyway, happy holidays y’all. #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
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We’ve concluded! Finance gurus, keep scrolling. You are beyond this content, and I love that for you. Everyone else TLDR - save your money. Look into a HYSA (High Yield Savings Account). Anyway, happy holidays y’all. #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
I hate the term passive income because there’s nothing passive about it. I prefer to use the term maintenance income. Case in point, you’ll notice that both my class income and my Patreon income went down this year from the last time I did this end-of-year round-up. That’s because, for 2024, I let the maintenance drop on both of them and focused on my effortful streams a bit more. I haven’t put out a new class in over a year teehee. Writing, producing, filming, editing, and launching a course takes me at least 2 months of dedicated work, which limits me from pursuing other things. That said, the content can be very evergreen, which is incredible! I’ve made over $65,000 from Skillshare alone on my courses since 2020. It’s also been a great discoverability tool too. Some of y’all met me through my teaching exclusively and then started following me here (or on other platforms). So, it can be an excellent engagement growth cycle, too. Tomorrow, I’ll cover the effortful streams, and just a heads up — I was efforting pretty hard this year so the numbers will reflect that. Toodles! #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
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I hate the term passive income because there’s nothing passive about it. I prefer to use the term maintenance income. Case in point, you’ll notice that both my class income and my Patreon income went down this year from the last time I did this end-of-year round-up. That’s because, for 2024, I let the maintenance drop on both of them and focused on my effortful streams a bit more. I haven’t put out a new class in over a year teehee. Writing, producing, filming, editing, and launching a course takes me at least 2 months of dedicated work, which limits me from pursuing other things. That said, the content can be very evergreen, which is incredible! I’ve made over $65,000 from Skillshare alone on my courses since 2020. It’s also been a great discoverability tool too. Some of y’all met me through my teaching exclusively and then started following me here (or on other platforms). So, it can be an excellent engagement growth cycle, too. Tomorrow, I’ll cover the effortful streams, and just a heads up — I was efforting pretty hard this year so the numbers will reflect that. Toodles! #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
The streams of effort were streaming in 2024. Much effort. Much stream. That being said, bust out your calculator and do the maths to see what I ✨grossed✨ in 2024 and feel whatever feelings you have about that so that way when you come back tomorrow, we can talk about how much I ✨netted✨ in 2024 AKA how much I paid myself. Spoilers - my salary is not as high as you probably think, and there’s a reason for that. Toodles! #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
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The streams of effort were streaming in 2024. Much effort. Much stream. That being said, bust out your calculator and do the maths to see what I ✨grossed✨ in 2024 and feel whatever feelings you have about that so that way when you come back tomorrow, we can talk about how much I ✨netted✨ in 2024 AKA how much I paid myself. Spoilers - my salary is not as high as you probably think, and there’s a reason for that. Toodles! #fulltimecontentcreator #atlanta #blackfilmmaker #blackstorytelling #mycareer #contentcreator #howIactuallygothere #fulltimeartist #fulltimecreative
Dante’s Starz is a journey through the unseen threads of identity and the quiet power of becoming. A story that doesn’t just ask who we are, but dares us to imagine what we could be. This 4 page comic is the beginning of a series exploring the ins and outs of the complex and curious nature Dante’ embodies. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ #micronpen #blackart #blackartist #nyc #comic #poetry #blackcomics #brooklyn #flatbush #blackstorytelling #portraiture
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Dante’s Starz is a journey through the unseen threads of identity and the quiet power of becoming. A story that doesn’t just ask who we are, but dares us to imagine what we could be. This 4 page comic is the beginning of a series exploring the ins and outs of the complex and curious nature Dante’ embodies. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ #micronpen #blackart #blackartist #nyc #comic #poetry #blackcomics #brooklyn #flatbush #blackstorytelling #portraiture

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