[00:01] the girl who used to make videos like this. Or the girl who quit her corporate job to start a business, gave up, and started again. Or a mom who's now business. But regardless, I wanted to reintroduce myself. I grew up making [00:14] YouTube videos with my little brother, no strategy, just random videos purely for fun. About 3 years into college, I suffered a major injury, went through a surgery, lost my scholarship, and was left on crutches for 9 months and forced [00:26] to find a sit-down job in corporate. And by the time I was 25, I had become a project manager at a company I genuinely loved. But even though everything looked right on paper, [music] I would lie awake at night because I couldn't stop [00:38] thinking about the content I wanted to make. So I decided to start posting portrait content as an Instagram model. And in the first year, I got 10,000 pose, edit, and feel confident on camera. But the truth was I absolutely [00:53] hated where I was. I had $3 in my bank account, [music] no food in the fridge. income into my own hands, quit my 9-to-5, and pursue being a full-time content creator. 3 months later, I gave [01:06] >> got a new job in corporate, and then got laid off due to COVID. Came back to content creation, but this time focusing on building income streams. 6 years later, I now run a seven-figure creator business. I have over 1 million [01:19] followers across social media platforms and have helped hundreds of people become full-time content creators. Follow along for the ride.