Happy 1 Year To FTCG!

To my wonderful blog and my supporters,

Thank you. Thank you for being my outlet source for me to express my creativity, ideas, love, and support. I never knew what the journey of content creation/blogging would take me but I’m so grateful it has led me here. While I was still in high school, I started my journey of becoming an “influencer/ content creator”. My blog at the point in time was all about women empowerment and inspiring young girls my age to go after their dreams and be unapologetically themselves. The inspiration that I poured out into my platform wasn’t just a resource for my followers but also for me. I wanted to build a community of women wanting to achieve their goals and pushing each other to get them accomplished. And every single time I get discouraged I am reminded of how far I have come. I am truly thankful that I was able to grow that community to 2k followers. I know that may not seem like a lot because I sometimes was frustrated at that. I’ve seen countless people surpass me grow their accounts so fast, I was still supportive of them because we all supported each other. After a while I realized that this is where God wanted me to be right now and once, I accepted that, I grew to love my little community. I love it because it’s mine. Numbers may not show how far it has taken me, but I grew internally, and that growth has brought me to where I am now with FTCG.

Once I started college, I wanted to continue creating content but wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. Transforming my women empowerment brand into college lifestyle blog was a HUGE transition. I was completely changing my niche so you can imagine all the engagement I had before from various accounts decreased and followers as well. I began to doubt my decision but soon after, I’ve had many people tell me how much they love my blog and I soon saw that the same people that I walked past on campus start supporting me. In addition, I’ve had similar accounts making the same content follow me as well as random messages of people telling me how much they love my content. That was confirmation for me that I was doing the right thing. One thing I’ve learned on this content creator journey is that not everyone will understand. Some people may turn their nose up and say, “who does she think she is,” or ” she’s not going to get nowhere with that.” BLOCK ALL THAT OUT. They don’t have the final say. If God put in your heart, success will happen but not your timing, but in His. Continue the path, you will soon see the light.

I love all my genuine supporters, some of you I know, some I don’t. Either way I’m thankful and all the love and support you guys have me. It never goes unnoticed. If some of y’all are considering getting in your content creation bag, my advice would be to just…do it! Biggest thing you have to remember is that not only are you doing this to entertain, inspire, & make money, but also, you’re doing for yourself too! Don’t get so stressed out about not having enough followers, likes, views, etc., that you forget why you started. Keep the fun in it! Otherwise, you’ll lose the passion.

I can’t wait share you all that this year as to offer. Cheers to a wonderful first year and many more to come! 🥂