Writing stories holds a special place in my heart.

This year I am exploring how to grow my stories from pen and paper into film and video.

The first time I finally sat down to sketch out a plan for my growth and success on YouTube I had to determine what was my niche?

This question is the single-handingly worst question one could possibly ask me (or that I could ask myself). This is because I am a plethora of different things and experiences.

I am a singer.

A writer.

An A + student.

A scientist.

A future Pediatric Neurosurgeon.

A girl with a passion for humanitarian movements within education…

The list doesn’t end. And it shouldn’t. Humans should always be growing and expanding their minds, but what I realized is that nothing happens within our lives - our projects do not grow - when we don’t dive 100% into them. Writing a novel takes a daily commitment. Saving the planet - a daily promise. Healing millions of lives - a daily sacrifice. Although I had an idea of who I was within my mind, writing down how the world perceives me became a powerful tool - one which YouTube introduced me to.

I learned that I can narrow down the experiences in my life into a niche that is easily understood and carefully crafted.

I learned that I don’t have to give up playing the guitar, singing, becoming a surgeon, just to grow a new part of my life.

I decided my YouTube niche will have 3 categories all intertwined into created the master story of my life.

Education. Nutrition. Fashion.

The first part? Easy.

The second part? Hard work.

The third part? Ambiguous.

Education is the most important thing in my life. It has been the key to opening doors that my family never would be able to open for me - or that I could open alone.

Nutrition is the most important aspect of my creating a happy and healthy life. But it is the hardest part for me. I have struggled since I was a kid in figuring out foods that worked for my body and fed my vaulting ambitions. I have a lot of ideas and tasks and plans pushed along by a drive from within that I can not pinpoint its origin. I can juggle a million things in my life but food and nutrition has always been the biggest obstacle in my way. Through making videos about my nutrition journey I hope to help others find their way within the daunting food world that helps them be fueled for success.

Fashion is ambiguous and daunting for me at this time. Only because I spent a few years trying to trash and back out of the trash my natural ability to buy too many hundred dollar shoes and jeans. My journey has gone from obsession over brand names and images, to wanting to wear my used goodwill green shirt every single day, to finally finding a healthy balance. I used to believe that fashion was the most important thing in the world. I also used to believe that I would go to hell for spending my money on a Prada bag and not food for a child. Today I have found balance.

The journey through YouTube and film has just begun, but at night I can sleep with the clarity that I have a plan, I know who I am and I know what I want out of it - which is all anyone really needs to believe in themselves, their work, and the potential of their future.